arXiv:2512. 07355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Two traditions of interpretability have evolved side by side but seldom spoken to each other: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), which prescribe what a concept should be, and Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs), which discover what concepts emerge.
By Alexandre Rocchi, Thomas Fel, Gianni Franchi
arXiv:2607. 08605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising technique for mechanistic interpretability by learning a set of sparse latent features in large models, each of which encodes a distinct concept.
By Weiduo Liao, Yunqiao Yang, Ying Wei
arXiv:2606. 31699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently been proposed as interpretable tools for concept-level manipulation, under the assumption that isolated features can serve as controllable intervention points.
By Enrico Cassano, Riccardo Renzulli, Rayyan Ahmed, Marco Grangetto, Stephan Alaniz
arXiv:2606. 16193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on vision-language tasks, yet their internal visual representations remain difficult to interpret.
By Yusong Zhao, Hengyi Wang, Tanuja Ganu, Akshay Nambi, Hao Wang
arXiv:2606. 24716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy metrics or qualitative inspection rather than measuring semantic correspondence.
By Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain, Diego Marcos, Beg\"um Demir
arXiv:2512. 10092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Analyzing large-scale text corpora is a core challenge in machine learning, crucial for tasks like identifying undesirable model behaviors or biases in training data.
By Nick Jiang, Xiaoqing Sun, Lisa Dunlap, Lewis Smith, Neel Nanda
arXiv:2607. 04548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Novel category discovery aims to identify unseen classes from unlabeled data by transferring knowledge from labeled categories, but most existing methods perform discovery in opaque latent feature spaces.
By Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Yang Zhou, KC Santosh, Longwei Wang
arXiv:2606. 09653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned representations across models and modalities often exhibit striking structural similarities, suggesting shared underlying concept decompositions.
By Gr\'egoire Dhimo\"ila, Victor Boutin, Agustin Martin Picard, Thomas Fel, Thomas Serre
arXiv:2510. 15770v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although deep neural networks achieve strong predictive performance, their internal reasoning often remains difficult to inspect and control.
By Gaoxiang Huang, Songning Lai, Yutao Yue
arXiv:2607. 17770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Within Explainable Artificial Intelligence, mechanistic interpretability uses Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to extract more interpretable features from neural representations.
By Katarzyna Filus, Sebastian Pokuci\'nski
arXiv:2608. 09928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual understanding, yet the internal features that cause these behaviors remain difficult to identify, audit, or control.
By Hunar Batra, Lachin Naghashyar, Ashkan Khakzar, Philip Torr, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Constantin Venhoff, Ronald Clark
arXiv:2506. 20040v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interpreting language models remains challenging due to the existence of residual stream, which linearly mixes and duplicates features across adjacent layers, causing single-layer analyses to miss this cross-layer structure.
By Ankur Garg, Xuemin Yu, Hassan Sajjad, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou