arXiv:2608.28806v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) disentangle model activations into interpretable features and are widely used for steering large language models. Most exist...
By Yutian Liu, Xu Wang, Difan Zou
arXiv:2507. 23220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional topic models are effective at uncovering latent themes in large text collections.
By Carolina Zheng, Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Sweta Karlekar, Claudia Shi, Achille Nazaret, Asif Mallik, Amir Feder, David M. Blei
arXiv:2606. 30609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to interpret large language models by decomposing activations into sparse, human-understandable features, but scaling to large dictionaries exposes fundamental challenges.
By Haoran Jin, Xiting Wang, Shijie Ren, Hong Xie, Defu Lian
arXiv:2603. 04198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to extract human-interpretable features from neural network activations, but their learned features can vary substantially across random seeds and training choices.
By Piotr Jedryszek, Oliver M. Crook
arXiv:2609.07037v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Activation steering has emerged as a lightweight, inference-time approach to control the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, traditional...
By Takeru Hiramatsu, Kyohei Atarashi, Koh Takeuchi, Hisashi Kashima
SharedSAE demonstrates that a single sparse autoencoder can replace multiple model‑specific SAEs by using a shared dictionary with model‑specific encoder‑decoder pairs. It preserves activation magnitudes, normalizes only selection scores, and supports single‑model inference via model dropout. Trained on four 1B‑scale language models, SharedSAE retains 96.6% of the mean explained variance of dedicated SAEs, shows higher cross‑model latent correlations, and allows efficient adaptation of new models to the shared latent space.
By Daniil Ognev, C\'elian Vasson, Lijie Hu, Kentaro Inui, Benjamin Heinzerling
arXiv:2606. 08365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoder (SAE) features are increasingly used to steer language models, but feature steering is rarely clean: the same intervention can behave inconsistently across contexts and perturb unrelated features.
By Evan Duan
arXiv:2608. 05732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling the behavior of large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for AI alignment.
By Mehrshad Saadatinia, Parsa Razmara, Ardalan Aryashad, Ali Abbasi, Seyedarmin Azizi
arXiv:2609.07876v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent methods in language model interpretability employ techniques such as sparse autoencoders to decompose residual stream contributions into linea...
By Arjun Patrawala, Jiahai Feng, Erik Jones, Jacob Steinhardt
arXiv:2604. 03532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show strong multilingual capabilities, yet reliably controlling the language of their outputs remains difficult.
By Sing Hieng Wong, Hassan Sajjad, A. B. Siddique
arXiv:2608. 11197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shani et al.
By Nikolai Bolik, Lennart St\"opler, Artur Andrzejak
arXiv:2606. 14990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are standard tools for mechanistic interpretability, but current SAE families are constrained by fixed encoder nonlinearities such as ReLU, JumpReLU, and TopK.
By Naiyu Yin, Yue Yu