README.md

metadata

tags:
  - sparse-autoencoder
  - temporal-crosscoder
  - mechanistic-interpretability
  - gemma-2-2b
license: mit

Temporal Crosscoders — NLP (Gemma 2 2B)

Trained StackedSAE and TemporalCrosscoder dictionaries (expansion factor 8) on Gemma 2 2B activations extracted from FineWeb.

Architecture

• Base model: google/gemma-2-2b
• Dictionary size: 18432 (2304 x 8, expansion factor 8)
• Sparsity: TopK activation
• Loss: MSE reconstruction (no L1 penalty)

Results

Model	Layer	k	T	Loss	FVU
txcdr	final_attn	100	2	3.2184	0.2127
txcdr	final_attn	100	5	3.4018	0.224
stacked_sae	final_attn	100	2	3.4747	0.2308
stacked_sae	final_attn	100	5	3.4855	0.2358
txcdr	final_attn	50	2	4.3518	0.3051
stacked_sae	final_attn	50	2	4.4255	0.3044
txcdr	final_attn	50	5	4.5597	0.287
stacked_sae	final_attn	50	5	4.9816	0.3276
txcdr	mid_attn	100	2	5.7788	0.1555
txcdr	mid_attn	100	5	5.8233	0.1728
stacked_sae	mid_attn	100	2	6.8184	0.1985
stacked_sae	mid_attn	100	5	7.3851	0.2308
txcdr	mid_attn	50	5	7.8913	0.2313
txcdr	mid_attn	50	2	8.7045	0.2535
stacked_sae	mid_attn	50	2	9.4244	0.2551
stacked_sae	mid_attn	50	5	10.3315	0.3229
txcdr	mid_res	100	2	6360.9038	0.0537
stacked_sae	mid_res	100	2	6537.5220	0.0358
stacked_sae	mid_res	100	5	6742.7378	0.1235
txcdr	mid_res	100	5	7737.1909	0.0858
txcdr	mid_res	50	2	7841.6440	0.074
stacked_sae	mid_res	50	2	8230.1406	0.0448
txcdr	mid_res	50	5	8676.4756	0.0865
stacked_sae	mid_res	50	5	8857.8545	0.145
txcdr	final_res	100	2	98917.4219	0.1369
stacked_sae	final_res	100	5	105476.8281	0.1989
stacked_sae	final_res	100	2	106508.5625	0.1634
txcdr	final_res	50	2	115348.6406	0.1406
txcdr	final_res	100	5	118512.2266	0.2216
stacked_sae	final_res	50	2	126440.3750	0.2046
stacked_sae	final_res	50	5	127936.1641	0.2611
txcdr	final_res	50	5	135606.6094	0.2593

Usage

import torch
from temporal_crosscoders.models import StackedSAE, TemporalCrosscoder

# Load a checkpoint
state = torch.load("stacked_sae__mid_res__k50__T10.pt", weights_only=True)
model = StackedSAE(d_in=2304, d_sae=18432, T=10, k=50)
model.load_state_dict(state)