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Anatomy of Post-Training: Using Interpretability to Characterize Data and Shape the Learning Signal

Leon Bergen, Usha Bhalla, Sidharth Baskaran +14

Language-model post-training is the main stage at which model behavior is shaped, yet it still largely involves optimization of scalar rewards that summarize diverse desiderata. Th…

cs.LG2026

Manifold Steering Reveals the Shared Geometry of Neural Network Representation and Behavior

Daniel Wurgaft, Can Rager, Matthew Kowal +13

Neural representations carry rich geometric structure; but does that structure causally shape behavior? To address this question, we intervene along paths through activation space…

cs.LG2026

Do Sparse Autoencoders Capture Concept Manifolds?

Usha Bhalla, Thomas Fel, Can Rager +9

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to extract interpretable features from neural network representations, often under the implicit assumption that concepts correspond to in…

cs.LG2026

Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Concept Representations in Sparse Autoencoders

Aaron J. Li, Suraj Srinivas, Usha Bhalla +1

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are commonly used to interpret the internal activations of large language models (LLMs) by mapping them to human-interpretable concept representations. W…

cs.LG2025

Towards Unified Attribution in Explainable AI, Data-Centric AI, and Mechanistic Interpretability

Shichang Zhang, Tessa Han, Usha Bhalla +1

The increasing complexity of AI systems has made understanding their behavior critical. Numerous interpretability methods have been developed to attribute model behavior to three k…

cs.LG2025

Towards Unifying Interpretability and Control: Evaluation via Intervention

Usha Bhalla, Suraj Srinivas, Asma Ghandeharioun +1

With the growing complexity and capability of large language models, a need to understand model reasoning has emerged, often motivated by an underlying goal of controlling and alig…