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cs.LGcs.AIcs.CLRecentApr 20, 2026

Towards Understanding the Robustness of Sparse Autoencoders

Ahson Saiyed, Sabrina Sadiekh, Chirag Agarwal

The paper demonstrates that integrating Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) into transformer residual streams significantly enhances the robustness of Large Language Models against various jailbreak attacks by…

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cs.CVcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 27, 2026

Residualized Temporal Sparse Autoencoders for Interpreting Diffusion Models

Calvin Yeung, Prathyush Poduval, Ali Zakeri, Zhuowen Zou +1 more

The paper introduces residualized temporal Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to analyze the full spatiotemporal structure of activations generated during the iterative denoising process of diffusion models,…

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q-bio.NCcs.LGRecentJun 1, 2026

How Optimality Structures Sparse Dictionaries: A Theory for Understanding SAE Representations

William Dorrell

The paper theoretically analyzes the properties that optimal sparse autoencoder (SAE) dictionaries must satisfy, deriving constraints that explain observed SAE behaviors like hierarchical splitting an…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 30, 2026

Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Dynamic Sparsity: From Stability to Practical Scaling

Qiao Xiao, Boqian Wu, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal +5 more

The paper introduces Sparse Memory-Efficient Training (SMET), a method that stabilizes and optimizes Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) for large language models, enabling stable and memory-efficient spars…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Semantic Optimal Transport for Sparse Autoencoder Feature Matching and Circuit Compression

Tue M. Cao, Nguyen Do, My T. Thai

The paper introduces a distributional framework using Wasserstein distance to unify the semantic comparison of sparse autoencoder features across different layers and to automatically compress large f…

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cs.CLcs.AIRecentJun 1, 2026

From Layers to Submodules: Rethinking Granularity in Replacement-Based LLM Compression

Elia Cunegatti, Marcus Vukojevic, Erik Nielsen, Giovanni Iacca

The paper proposes SubFit, a novel compression technique that achieves superior LLM compression by replacing non-contiguous, submodule-level components (Attention and FeedForward) with lightweight res…

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 29, 2026

Steering LLMs? Actually, Sparse Autoencoders can outperform simple baselines

Mikkel Godsk Jørgensen, Lars Kai Hansen

This paper demonstrates that Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) can effectively steer Large Language Models (LLMs) on the AxBench benchmark, achieving performance comparable to LoRA baselines when combined wi…

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGRecentJun 4, 2026

You Only Index Once: Cross-Layer Sparse Attention with Shared Routing

Yutao Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Li Dong, Jianyong Wang +1 more

The paper proposes Cross-Layer Sparse Attention (CLSA) to significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of long-context LLMs by jointly optimizing KV-cache sharing and the routing index across dec…

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cs.CLcs.LGRecentJun 1, 2026

Resonant Context Anchoring: Decoupling Attention Routing and Signal Gain at Inference Time

Mingkuan Zhao, Yide Gao, Wentao Hu, Suquan Chen +5 more

The paper proposes Resonant Context Anchoring (RCA), a lightweight, training-free method that enhances factual faithfulness in LLMs by dynamically amplifying the signal of external context evidence du…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Locality-Aware Redundancy Pruning for LLM Depth Compression

Vincent-Daniel Yun, Youngrae Kim, Woosang Lim, YoungJin Heo +2 more

The paper proposes Locality-Aware Redundancy Pruning (LoRP), a training-free method that prunes LLM layers by exploiting localized inter-layer redundancy, leading to improved efficiency while maintain…

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cs.CLRecentMay 31, 2026

Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretable Emotion Control in Text-to-Speech

Hongfei Du, Jiacheng Shi, Sidi Lu, Gang Zhou +1 more

The paper uses sparse autoencoders to identify specific latent features within LLM-based TTS models, enabling interpretable and fine-grained control over emotional expression by intervening in small s…

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cs.LGcs.CLRecentJun 3, 2026

STRIDE: Training Data Attribution via Sparse Recovery from Subset Perturbations

Rishit Dagli, Abir Harrasse, Luke Zhang, Florent Draye +3 more

This paper proposes a new framework called STRIDE for training data attribution in Large Language Models.

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.CRRecentMay 8, 2026

Activation Differences Reveal Backdoors: A Comparison of SAE Architectures

Sachin Kumar

The paper compares two sparse autoencoder architectures, finding that Differential SAEs (Diff-SAE) significantly outperform Crosscoders in isolating backdoor-related features in language models.

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cs.IRcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 28, 2026

No More K-means: Single-Stage Sparse Coding for Efficient Multi-Vector Retrieval

Lixuan Guo, Yifei Wang, Tiansheng Wen, Aosong Feng +2 more

The paper introduces Single-stage Sparse Retrieval (SSR), a method that replaces computationally expensive vector clustering with sparse autoencoding to achieve highly efficient multi-vector retrieval…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 31, 2026

When Data Is Scarce: Scaling Sparse Language Models with Repeated Training

Boqian Wu, Qiao Xiao, Patrik Okanovic, Tomasz Sternal +5 more

This paper introduces a new scaling law for sparse language models trained with limited data, demonstrating that sparsity can significantly improve performance and delay data saturation during multi-e…

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cs.LGcs.CLRecentMay 28, 2026

MAAT: Multi-phase Adapter-Aware Targeted Unlearning

Suryash Yagnik, Shubham Gaur, Saksham Thakur, Vinija Jain +2 more

The paper introduces 5WBENCH, a new benchmark for causal unlearning, and proposes MAAT, a novel three-phase framework that achieves high forgetting and high retention specifically on complex 'Why'-typ…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

IRDS: Interpretable RLVR Data Selection via Verifier-Coupled Sparse Autoencoder Coverage

Yuhan Li, Mingxu Zhang, Dazhong Shen, Ying Sun

IRDS introduces a novel data selection method that uses a verifier-coupled sparse autoencoder framework to efficiently select high-quality Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) trainin…

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cs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet

Adly Templeton, Tom Conerly, Jonathan Marcus, Jack Lindsey +22 more

The paper demonstrates that sparse autoencoders can successfully extract a large set of interpretable, causally influential features from the production-scale Claude 3 Sonnet language model.

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