arXiv Machine Learning By Nikolai Bolik, Lennart St\"opler, Artur Andrzejak

Beyond a Bag of Features: Set-Level Instability in Sparse Autoencoders

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LLM Layers Immediately Correct Each Other

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...

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