arXiv:2606. 18383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable features from language models (LMs), yet a central question remains: when can an SAE-based explanation be treated as a faithful view of an underlying frozen LM We study this through a post-hoc generalization framework that certifies the LM via a sparse proxy, obtained by replacing a native hidden activation with its pretrained SAE reconstruction.
By Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay, Asif Ekbal
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:2604. 26866v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) acquire most of their factual knowledge during the pre-training stage, through next token prediction.
By Dimitris Dimakopoulos, Shay B. Cohen, Ioannis Konstas
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
arXiv:2607. 12094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable detection of out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is crucial for the safe deployment of machine learning models.
By Ayush Karmacharya (Purdue University), Luke Luschwitz (Purdue University), Lucia Romero (Purdue University), Yanan Niu (EPFL), Joseph Campbell (Purdue University)
arXiv:2607. 24645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The wide-scale use of sparse autoencoders (SAEs) as interpretability tools is limited by inconsistent links between SAE features and model behavior.
By Phu Gia Hoang, Anwoy Chatterjee, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Iryna Gurevych, Subhabrata Dutta