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An autoencoder encodes activations through a bottleneck layer and attempts to reconstruct the original activations.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“And this is an autoencoder. So what it does is it takes the activations and puts them into a bottleneck layer and tries to reconstruct the activations.”
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