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Yaroslav Aksenov

4 accepted papers

2025

Analyze Feature Flow to Enhance Interpretation and Steering in Language Models

ICML 2025poster

We introduce a new approach to systematically map features discovered by sparse autoencoder across consecutive layers of large language models, extending earlier work that examined inter-layer feature links. By using a data-free cosine similarity technique, we trace how specific features persist, tr…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2025

Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Despite the fact that offline methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) alignment do not require a direct reward model, they remain susceptible to overoptimization. This issue arises when the trained model deviates excessively from the reference policy, leading to a decrease in sample quality. We pro…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2025

Train One Sparse Autoencoder Across Multiple Sparsity Budgets to Preserve Interpretability and Accuracy

EMNLP 2025

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have proven to be powerful tools for interpreting neural networks by decomposing hidden representations into disentangled, interpretable features via sparsity constraints. However, conventional SAEs are constrained by the fixed sparsity level chosen during training; meetin

2024

Linear Transformers with Learnable Kernel Functions are Better In-Context Models

ACL 2024long

Advancing the frontier of subquadratic architectures for Language Models (LMs) is crucial in the rapidly evolving field of natural language processing. Current innovations, including State Space Models, were initially celebrated for surpassing Transformer performance on language modeling tasks. Howe…