arXiv:2511. 09432v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning (ML) models achieve remarkable performance but remain hard to interpret due to their scale and complexity.
By Ege Erdogan, Ana Lucic
arXiv:2605. 18629v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are one of the main methods to interpret the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs), decomposing activations into higher-dimensional features.
By Micha{\l} Brzozowski, Neo Christopher Chung
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. 18538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One of the major difficulties in the mechanistic interpretability of neural networks is the occurrence of polysemanticity, which suggests that each neuron is typically responsible for multiple different tasks, impeding a clean interpretation of their function.
By Mriganka Basu Roy Chowdhury, Eric McLaughlin Weiner
arXiv:2607. 04800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks are thought to represent concepts as directions in their activation space, and superposition lets them encode more concepts than they have dimensions.
By Francisco Ferreira da Silva, Stefan Heimersheim
arXiv:2311. 02960v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Over the past decade, deep learning has proven to be a highly effective tool for learning meaningful features from raw data.
By Peng Wang, Xiao Li, Can Yaras, Zhihui Zhu, Laura Balzano, Wei Hu, Qing Qu
arXiv:2606. 12138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to interpret neural network representations, but their utility depends on whether the learned features are reproducible across training runs.
By Gleb Gerasimov, Timofei Rusalev, Nikita Balagansky, Daniil Laptev, Vadim Kurochkin, Daniil Gavrilov
arXiv:2608. 15632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural representations have become a central tool for studying the internal mechanisms of modern AI models, yet their complex high-dimensional structure makes them difficult to interpret.
By Yehonatan Avidan, Daniel D. Lee, Haim Sompolinsky
arXiv:2606. 27941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) provide useful decompositions of Transformer residual streams, but their learned features are usually named post hoc rather than directly connected to the Transformer's token vocabulary.
By Kairui Zhang, Ziwen Yu, Zahraa S. Abdallah, Martha Lewis
arXiv:2605. 30556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: CORRECTION (August 2026): the central finding of this paper is not supported.
By Nils Leutenegger
arXiv:2606. 31394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming our capability to solve biological challenges.
By Jisung Park, Seohyeon Kang, Daeun Yoo, Eunsu Lee, Seoin Cho, Wooyeop Choi, Ian Choi, James R. Evan, Daesoo Kim, Sonia Gandhi, Minee L. Choi
arXiv:2607. 12166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are the standard for decomposing superposed neural representations into interpretable features, and evaluation relies predominantly on correlational recovery metrics -- cosine similarity between ground-truth directions and decoder atoms.
By Mohamed Abdessalem Bal