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SAELens grows a transformer-lens 4.x path but keeps the 3.x pin
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SAELens 6.55.0 makes the library import and run against transformer-lens 4.x, yet the default loader, the eval CLI, HookedSAETransformer and most tutorials still depend on the HookedTransformer API that 4.0 removed, so anyone on 4.x has to opt in explicitly.
v6.55.0 jbloomAus/SAELens
Beyond the 4.x support, this release fixes the skip connection being dropped when HookedSAETransformer splices in a skip transcoder, so splice-based runs on the affected path now actually apply it. The package still pins transformer-lens below 4.0.0.
feat: support transformer-lens 4.x (requires transformer-lens 3.0+) jbloomAus/SAELens
Because transformer-lens 4.0 dropped HookedTransformer, transformer_lens.utils and transformer_lens.components, a plain `import sae_lens` failed against it; the PR gets imports and CI working on 4.x but, in the author's words, "keeps the `transformer-lens<4.0.0` pin" while the default model_class_name, the eval CLI, HookedSAETransformer and 7 of 13 tutorials are migrated. Until that lands, expe...
6.55.0 jbloomAus/SAELens
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The tagged release cut by python-semantic-release is the artifact to install from; there is no separate changelog entry to read beyond the 6.55.0 notes.
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