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Decomposing Earth Embeddings with Sparse Autoencoders

Vitus Benson, Fanny Yang, Markus Reichstein

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Dual-Contrastive Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Features of Musical Interpretation

Jan Chen, Manuel Cherep, Patricia Maes, Nikhil Singh

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Sanity Checks for Sparse Autoencoders: Do SAEs Beat Random Baselines?

Anton Korznikov, Andrey V Galichin, Alexey Dontsov, Oleg Rogov and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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A Curvature Phase Transition Governs Coherence Penalty Efficiency Against Feature Absorption in SAEs

Hak Hyun Kim, Yash Raj, Peter Chin, Soroush Vosoughi

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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Crosscoding Through Time: Sparse Feature Discovery Across Sequence Positions

Dmitry Manning-Coe, Han Xuanyuan, Aniket Deshpande, Andrii Shportko and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Diffusion-Time Concept Manifolds: Sparse Autoencoder Groups for Interpreting Denoising Language Models

Pawan Kumar

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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What Do SAE Features Encode? Evidence from Human Neural Activity

Yujin Kang, Hyojin Park, Yoon-Sik Cho

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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What Does a Sparse Autoencoder Feature Do? A Weight-Based Account

Yiting Liu, Zhihong Deng

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Local–Global Sparse Autoencoders for Multiscale Interpretability in Vision Models

Itay Benou, Tammy Riklin Raviv

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Beyond the Grid: Continuous Dictionary Pursuit for Interpretable Signal Decomposition

Nick Janssen, Melanie Schaller, Bodo Rosenhahn

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Cascaded Sparse Autoencoders LearnMulti-Level Visual Concepts in Multimodal LLMs

Yusong Zhao, Hengyi Wang, Tanuja Ganu, Akshay Nambi and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Do Sparse Autoencoders Learn Meaningful Concept Hierarchies?

Nils Grandien, David Steinmann, Felix Friedrich, Kristian Kersting

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Bypassing PC1 Makes SAEs More Reproducible

Nathan Delisle, Chenhao Tan

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs

Sparse autoencoders face a rate-distortion-polysemanticity tradeoff where monosemanticity raises reconstruction cost and data co-occurrence drives polysemanticity.

Tommaso Mencattini, Francesco Montagna, Francesco Locatello

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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From Isolated feature to Orbits:\\Discovering Music Concepts via Multi-SAE Alignment

Multi-SAE alignment with pitch-shifted pairs recovers structured feature orbits for chords, keys, and melodies in music models with minimal anchoring.

Liwei Lin, Gus Xia

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

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CASL: Concept-Aligned Sparse Latents for Interpreting Diffusion Models

CASL aligns diffusion model sparse latents with semantic concepts via supervised linear mapping, enabling precise concept-specific editing and causal interpretability.

Zhenghao He, Guangzhi Xiong, Boyang Wang, Sanchit Sinha and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

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The Geometric Wall: Manifold Structure Predicts Layerwise Sparse Autoencoder Scaling Laws

Sparse autoencoder scaling varies by layer because curved activation manifolds with varying intrinsic dimensions impose geometry-dependent reconstruction walls rather than universal linear scaling laws.

Eslam Zaher, Maciej Trzaskowski, Quan Nguyen, Fred Roosta

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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fmxcoders: Factorized Masked Crosscoders for Cross-Layer Feature Discovery

Standard crosscoders learn layer-localized features; fmxcoders use factorized weights and layer masking to recover cross-layer features, improving coherence and reconstruction across four LLMs.

Andreas D Demou, Panagiotis Koromilas, James Oldfield, Yannis Panagakis and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Incorporating Hierarchical Semantics in Sparse Autoencoder Architectures

A hierarchical sparse autoencoder architecture explicitly models semantic concept hierarchies, improving reconstruction, interpretability, and efficiency in language model representations.

Mark Muchane, Sean M Richardson, Kiho Park, Victor Veitch

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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