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All quiet as TransformerLens trims slow tests

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Jonah Larson
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The only change to reach the wire in the last 24 hours is internal test work in TransformerLens, so nothing your code depends on has moved.

fixing slow tests (#1877) TransformerLensOrg/TransformerLens

by Jonah Larson

Jonah Larson's commit cuts test runtime with no change to the library's user-facing behavior, so no hook, config, or API you call is touched.

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the week in review TransformerLens 4.2.0 fixes Cohere bridge and optimizer parity
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What shipped in Interpretability on October 9, 2026?
The only change to reach the wire in the last 24 hours is internal test work in TransformerLens, so nothing your code depends on has moved. In total, 1 commits and 1 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Interpretability on October 9, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including Jonah Larson.
What were the notable Interpretability updates?
fixing slow tests (#1877).
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nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s 3 shipped nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time, adds a left-padding fix 7 shipped SAELens 6.54.5 fixes silent feature-density skips 6 shipped Gemma Scope 2 affine transcoders loaded wrongly, SAELens sparsity stats off by one 16 shipped

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Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Agent Security Approval digests get RFC 8785 float serialization; sandbox-runtime 0.0.80 kills a 300 ms path

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Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Alignment & Post-training

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