SAE probes
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2026 by Myra Deng · across every show →
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Feb 5, 2026 negative
Deng: Raw Activation Probes Often Outperform Sparse Autoencoder Probes
“And we've seen in many cases that probes just trained on raw activations seem to perform better than SAE probes, which is a bit surprising if you think that SAEs are actually also capturing the concepts that you would want to capture cleanly and more surgicall…”