q-bio.NC · 2026-06-02 · No. 13

Neurons and Cognition, 2026-06-02.

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01 — The papers

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

    William Dorrell

    q-bio.NC · cs.LG

    Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have found success parsing neural representations into interpretable concepts, providing a basis for understanding and control. However, what exactly SAEs extract, and, correspondingly, the scientific conclusions we can draw from them, are not obvious. Empirically, the proof is in the pudding: SAEs learn interpretable features. Theoretically, we lack a clear account of what properties a 'concept' must satisfy for an...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.02385 · PDF

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