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[Proposal] Do SAEs capture simplicial structure? Investigating SAE representations of known case studies
It's an open question whether SAEs capture underlying properties of feature geometry. Fortunately, careful research has elucidated a few examples of nonlinear geometry already. It would be useful to think about whether SAEs recover these geometries.
The proposal here is: look at the SAE activations for the tetrahedron, identify a relevant cluster, and then evaluate whether this matches the ground-truth.