Journal article
Dictionaries Without Ontologies: What a Sparse Autoencoder Latent Is Evidence For, Why Decodability, Use and Reproducibility Do Not Add Up to Canonicity, and the Identifiability Premise No Real-Model Result Has Checked
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Sparse autoencoders are now the default instrument for decomposing language model activations, and their latents are routinely reported as the model's features: units the network itself uses, which a wide enough dictionary has pulled out of…