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by yorwba 307 days ago
> if those multiple neurons perfectly describe the feature, then all of them are important to describe the feature.

You could remove any one of those neurons before retraining the model from scratch and polysemanticity would slightly increase while perfomance slightly decreases, but really only slightly. There are no hard size thresholds, just a spectrum of more or less accurate approximations.