Open tom-pollak opened 3 weeks ago
I would personally view this as out-of-scope of this library, since there's nothing SAE-specific about training a linear probe. Curious to hear others' thoughts though!
I would personally view this as out-of-scope of this library, since there's nothing SAE-specific about training a linear probe. Curious to hear others' thoughts though!
FWIW, I'm a +1 to including this in SAELens, and/or some repo similarly easily accessible. possibly the scope of SAELens should be widened. I would prefer not to have a separate library for TranscoderLens, CrosscoderLens, ProbeLens etc. Though I defer to you, @curt-tigges, etc.
We've had some discussion internally about creating and maintaining a probe-specific library, which I think would be a better fit than SAELens for this. I think one of the main benefits of having a library is having common code etc. but probing is rather independent and there isn't really anything shared with the rest of the code. There's not really a specific reason to have it in SAELens.
Proposal: I'm inclined to just go ahead and create a sketch for an initial probing library and ask @tom-pollak to resubmit this code to that. @jbloomAus any thoughts?
Description
@chanind @jbloomAus
Created linear probe trainer which can take a hf dataset (created like in #321) and train a linear probe (provided we have labels for the activations)
This can make a pretty wandb run with all your stats by default. similar to training the SAE.
(Training run is clearly very bad)
So far just tried to keep the code simple, don't know if there's any interest in a probe trainer like this.
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Checklist:
You have tested formatting, typing and unit tests (acceptance tests not currently in use)
make check-ci
to check format and linting. (you can runmake format
to format code if needed.)