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SNIP Scope

SNIP Scope trains a top-k sparse autoencoder on final-layer hidden activations from the pretrained SNIP-0.4M transformer. A 96-dimensional activation is encoded into a 384-feature overcomplete dictionary, but only the 16 largest positive features may fire for each token.

The benchmark measures held-out reconstruction, explained variance, active-feature count, dead-feature rate, and token exemplars for each learned feature. A 16-component PCA reconstruction is retained as a dense low-rank control. Feature exemplars are descriptive clues, not proof that a neuron represents one human concept.

Verified results

The SAE trained on 180,000 final-layer token activations and was measured on 40,000 held-out activations.

Metric Top-k SAE PCA-16 control
Reconstruction MSE 0.02585 0.29824
Explained variance 97.41% 70.11%
Active features per token 16.00 16 dense components
Dead dictionary features 3.39% not applicable

The learned dictionary contains 384 features and the SAE has 74,112 parameters. The Space exposes each feature's five highest-activating held-out BPE tokens and firing rate. Those exemplars may reflect token identity, syntax, position, or mixed causes; the project does not assign automatic human-readable concepts.

Reproduce

uv run python projects/snip-scope/train.py
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