refactor: integrate local/HF/SAELens loading into from_pretrained#159
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This PR implements
AbstractSparseAutoEncoder.from_pretrained, providing a unified interface to load pretrained SAEs from local directories (path/to/sae), the HuggingFace Hub (org/repo_id:name), or SAELens (release:sae_id).Consequently, the legacy
sae_from_pretrained_pathandstrict_loadinginBaseSAEConfigand the corresponding initializer logic have been removed. Runners have also been refactored to support passing a string argument tofrom_pretrainedin place of a full SAE config.