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nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

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nnsight v0.8.0 ships lazy-loaded model classes that take `import nnsight` from 7.6 seconds to 1.6, along with a left-padded position_ids fix and revised source-op iteration counting.

v0.8.0 ndif-team/nnsight

by JadenFiotto-Kaufman

The release notes describe the headline change as "perf: lazy-load model classes to cut import nnsight from 7.6s to 1.6s", which every script, notebook, and CLI wrapper that imports nnsight pays for. It also derives position_ids from the attention mask for left-padded batches, so batched traced runs with left padding should no longer see position errors, and counts source-op iterations per-fire...

Merge pull request #772 from ndif-team/dev ndif-team/nnsight

by Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman

The dev branch merged into main, carrying the work that became v0.8.0 upstream. If you pin to a branch rather than a tag, this is the point your checkout moves.

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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 17, 2026?
nnsight v0.8.0 ships lazy-loaded model classes that take `import nnsight` from 7.6 seconds to 1.6, along with a left-padded position_ids fix and revised source-op iteration counting. In total, 1 commits, 1 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Interpretability on October 17, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including JadenFiotto-Kaufman.
What were the notable Interpretability updates?
v0.8.0 and Merge pull request #772 from ndif-team/dev.
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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 TransformerLens 4.2.0 fixes Cohere bridge and optimizer parity 15 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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