feat: Topk SAE training

[chanind]

Description

This PR implements topk SAE training by adding the topk auxiliary loss. This PR makes several design choices:

• topk is specified as an architecture for training, so it's similar to gated and jumprelu SAEs. This seems fit the idea of an SAE architecture since it has its own custom training routine and losses, and it seems strange to call "jumprelu" and "gated" architectures, but not topk.
• This PR is based heavily on https://github.com/EleutherAI/sae/blob/main/sae/sae.py#L191 rather than the original topk SAEs paper. The Eleuther version requires no additional config options for the auxiliary loss, which means less changes to our existing config, while allowing us to add those config options later if we want. We may also want to refactor the way our config / SAE classes work now that we support so many different architectures anyway.
• This PR makes the following changes to Eleuther's topk aux loss:
  • Removes the variance normalization. Eleuther divides all their losses by variance, but we don't do that anywhere, so I removed this normalization to be consistent
  • Take the mean loss over batches. Eleuther takes the sum, but in our other losses we take a mean over batches rather than sum over batches, so I changed this to be consistent with that.

Our implementation of topk training is likely less efficient than Eleuther's as they use a custom sparse kernel for the SAE decoder (see https://github.com/EleutherAI/sae/blob/main/sae/kernels.py). We can try to support something like this in the future, but it will likely require a bit of refactoring before we can support a special decoder kernel just for topk.

I'm currently running some test training runs to make sure things look decent, and will upgrade this PR from draft when those are complete.

Fixes #202

training test run dashboard: https://api.wandb.ai/links/chanind/zju8dl70

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