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Extracted sparse learned features from a one-layer Transformer's activations and evaluated their interpretability, interventions and feature-splitting behavior.
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Does not invent dictionary learning or sparse autoencoders. Interpretable features in a small model do not amount to complete model understanding or a safety guarantee.
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Trenton Bricken; Adly Templeton; Joshua Batson; Brian Chen; Adam Jermyn; Tom Conerly; Nicholas L Turner; Cem Anil; Carson Denison; Amanda Askell; Robert Lasenby; Yifan Wu; Shauna Kravec; Nicholas Schiefer; Tim Maxwell; Nicholas Joseph; Alex Tamkin; Karina Nguyen; Brayden McLean; Josiah E Burke; Tristan Hume; Shan Carter; Tom Henighan; Chris Olah
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Bricken and colleagues: sparse-autoencoder language-model feature decomposition
Extracted sparse learned features from a one-layer Transformer's activations and evaluated their interpretability, interventions and feature-splitting behavior.
Scientific scope
Does not invent dictionary learning or sparse autoencoders. Interpretable features in a small model do not amount to complete model understanding or a safety guarantee.
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People and systems
Trenton Bricken; Adly Templeton; Joshua Batson; Brian Chen; Adam Jermyn; Tom Conerly; Nicholas L Turner; Cem Anil; Carson Denison; Amanda Askell; Robert Lasenby; Yifan Wu; Shauna Kravec; Nicholas Schiefer; Tim Maxwell; Nicholas Joseph; Alex Tamkin; Karina Nguyen; Brayden McLean; Josiah E Burke; Tristan Hume; Shan Carter; Tom Henighan; Chris Olah
Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.