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Subhash Kantamneni

3 accepted papers

2026

Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers

ICML 2026oral

Large language model (LLM) activations are notoriously difficult to understand, with most existing techniques using complex, specialized methods for interpreting them. Recent work has proposed a simpler approach known as LatentQA: training LLMs to directly accept LLM activations as inputs and answer…

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2025

Are Sparse Autoencoders Useful? A Case Study in Sparse Probing

ICML 2025poster

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular method for interpreting concepts represented in large language model (LLM) activations. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding the validity of their interpretations due to the lack of a ground truth for the concepts used by an LLM, and a growing numbe…