There’s some work on transferring steering vecs, e.g. the Llama-2 steering paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06681) shows that you can transfer steering vecs from base to chat model, and I saw results at a Hackathon once that suggested you can train resid stream SAEs on early layers and transfer them to some later layers, too. But retraining is likely what our follow up work will do (this post only used two different SAEs)
Yes, pretty much.
There’s some work on transferring steering vecs, e.g. the Llama-2 steering paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06681) shows that you can transfer steering vecs from base to chat model, and I saw results at a Hackathon once that suggested you can train resid stream SAEs on early layers and transfer them to some later layers, too. But retraining is likely what our follow up work will do (this post only used two different SAEs)