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adamkarvonen

sae-bench

A framework for evaluating sparse autoencoders
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Download Stats
Verified repo
Monthly downloads
604
Weekly downloads
245
GitHub stars
186

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.6.0
Requires Python
<4.0,>=3.10
Licence
Unknown
Last Release
5 months ago
Author
Adam Karvonen
First Release
January 9, 2025
Total Releases
10
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
48
Adoption
27
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
167 days ago
Monthly downloads
604
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
604
Stars
186
Stars per 1k downloads
307.95
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
• Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
Needs at least 1,000 monthly downloads to classify popularity.
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
35
Month daily avg
20
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Not specified
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
• Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
167 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
5.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
15
Monthly downloads
604
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
54
 
Issue Burden
43.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 5

Python Versions

3.12
100.0% 5

Top Countries

1. US US
8
2. DE DE
2
3. GB GB
1

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

20

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Repository details

Forks
45
Issues
8
Last Commit
5 months ago
Contributors
15
Open PRs
2
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
sparse-autoencoders mechanistic-interpretability PyTorch
Sources and methodology