2 papers
cs.AI2026
Arithmetic in the Wild: Llama uses Base-10 Addition to Reason About Cyclic Concepts
Sheridan Feucht, Tal Haklay, Usha Bhalla +9
Does structure in representations imply structure in computation? We study how Llama-3.1-8B reasons over cyclic concepts (e.g., "what month is six months after August?"). Even thou…
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…