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Alex Oesterling

6 accepted papers

2026

Temporal Sparse Autoencoders: Leveraging the Sequential Nature of Language for Interpretability

ICLR 2026oral

Translating the internal representations and computations of models into concepts that humans can understand is a key goal of interpretability. While recent dictionary learning methods such as Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) provide a promising route to discover human-interpretable features, they often o…

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2025

Inference-Time Reward Hacking in Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

A common paradigm to improve the performance of large language models is optimizing for a reward model. Reward models assign a numerical score to an LLM’s output that indicates, for example, how likely it is to align with user preferences or safety goals. However, reward models are never perfect. Th…

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2025

Multi-Group Proportional Representations for Text-to-Image Models

CVPR 2025poster

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models can create vivid, realistic images from textual descriptions. As these models proliferate, they expose new concerns about their ability to represent diverse demographic groups, propagate stereotypes, and efface minority populations. Despite growing attention to…

2024

Fair Machine Unlearning: Data Removal while Mitigating Disparities

AISTATS 2024poster

The Right to be Forgotten is a core principle outlined by regulatory frameworks such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This principle allows individuals to request that their personal data be deleted from deployed machine learning models. While "forgetting" can be naively achiev…

2024

Interpreting CLIP with Sparse Linear Concept Embeddings (SpLiCE)

NeurIPS 2024poster

CLIP embeddings have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal applications. However, these high-dimensional, dense vector representations are not easily interpretable, limiting our understanding of the rich structure of CLIP and its use in downstream applications that r…

2024

Multi-Group Proportional Representation in Retrieval

NeurIPS 2024poster

Image search and retrieval tasks can perpetuate harmful stereotypes, erase cultural identities, and amplify social disparities. Current approaches to mitigate these representational harms balance the number of retrieved items across population groups defined by a small number of (often binary) attri…