Simon Lacoste-Julien

Mila - Québec AI Institute & Université de Montréal

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Mar 30, 2026

Mila2d ago·also CSHL, Santa Clara University

Stop Probing, Start Coding: Why Linear Probes and Sparse Autoencoders Fail at Compositional Generalisation

Sparse autoencoders' failure to generalize compositionally isn't due to amortized inference, but because they learn lousy dictionaries in the first place.

Vitória Barin Pacela, Shruti Joshi, Isabela Camacho +2

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