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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Improving Robustness In Sparse Autoencoders via Masked Regularization

Vivek Narayanaswamy, Kowshik Thopalli, Bhavya Kailkhura +1

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used in mechanistic interpretability to project LLM activations onto sparse latent spaces. However, sparsity alone is an imperfect proxy for i…

cs.LG2026

Interpretable and Steerable Concept Bottleneck Sparse Autoencoders

Akshay Kulkarni, Tsui-Wei Weng, Vivek Narayanaswamy +3

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) promise a unified approach for mechanistic interpretability, concept discovery, and model steering in LLMs and LVLMs. However, realizing this potential r…

cs.LG2026

ProtAlign: Contrastive learning paradigm for Sequence and structure alignment

Aditya Ranganath, Hasin Us Sami, Kowshik Thopalli +2

Protein language models often take into consideration the alignment between a protein sequence and its textual description. However, they do not take structural information into co…

cs.IR2025

VERIRAG: A Post-Retrieval Auditing of Scientific Study Summaries

Shubham Mohole, Hongjun Choi, Shusen Liu +6

Can democratized information gatekeepers and community note writers effectively decide what scientific information to amplify? Lacking domain expertise, such gatekeepers rely on au…

cs.CV2025

Leveraging Registers in Vision Transformers for Robust Adaptation

Srikar Yellapragada, Kowshik Thopalli, Vivek Narayanaswamy +5

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown success across a variety of tasks due to their ability to capture global image representations. Recent studies have identified the existence o…