Interpretability

Using dictionary learning features as classifiers

Oct 16, 2024

At the link above, we report some developing work from the Anthropic interpretability team on developing feature-based classifiers, which might be of interest to researchers working actively in this space. We'd ask you to treat these results like those of a colleague sharing some thoughts or preliminary experiments for a few minutes at a lab meeting, rather than a mature paper.

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