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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have lately been used to uncover interpretable latent features in large language models. By projecting dense embeddings into a much higher-dimensional and sparse space, learned features become disentangled and…

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Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) has emerged as a powerful tool for mechanistic interpretability of large language models. Recent works apply SAE to protein language models (PLMs), aiming to extract and analyze biologically meaningful features from…

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This paper presents a novel approach to Chinese characters through the lens of physics, network analysis, and natural systems. Computational analysis of over 6,000 characters identified 422 elemental characters as fundamental building…

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Vision foundation models (FMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in medical imaging. However, they encode information in abstract latent representations that clinicians cannot interrogate or verify. The goal of this study is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Philipp Wesp , Robbie Holland , Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Sergios Gatidis

Learning hierarchical features in Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) is essential for capturing the structured nature of real-world data and mitigating issues like feature absorption or splitting. Existing works attempt to identify hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tue M. Cao , Hoang X. Nhat , Raed Alharbi , Phi Le Nguyen , My T. Thai

Masked Autoencoding (MAE) has emerged as an effective approach for pre-training representations across multiple domains. In contrast to discrete tokens in natural languages, the input for image MAE is continuous and subject to additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ronghang Hu , Shoubhik Debnath , Saining Xie , Xinlei Chen

In this paper, we address the problem of having characters with different scales in scene text recognition. We propose a novel scale aware feature encoder (SAFE) that is designed specifically for encoding characters with different scales.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Wei Liu , Chaofeng Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Unsupervised learning is becoming more and more important recently. As one of its key components, the autoencoder (AE) aims to learn a latent feature representation of data which is more robust and discriminative. However, most AE based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo

Sparse dictionary learning (and, in particular, sparse autoencoders) attempts to learn a set of human-understandable concepts that can explain variation on an abstract space. A basic limitation of this approach is that it neither exploits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mark Muchane , Sean Richardson , Kiho Park , Victor Veitch

Intent classification has been widely researched on English data with deep learning approaches that are based on neural networks and word embeddings. The challenge for Chinese intent classification stems from the fact that, unlike English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ruixi Lin , Charles Costello , Charles Jankowski

Steered-Mixtures-of-Experts (SMoE) models provide sparse, edge-aware representations, applicable to many use-cases in image processing. This includes denoising, super-resolution and compression of 2D- and higher dimensional pixel data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Elvira Fleig , Jonas Geistert , Erik Bochinski , Rolf Jongebloed , Thomas Sikora

In this paper, we investigate the Chinese calligraphy synthesis problem: synthesizing Chinese calligraphy images with specified style from standard font(eg. Hei font) images (Fig. 1(a)). Recent works mostly follow the stroke extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pengyuan Lyu , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao , Zhen Zhu , Tengteng Huang , Wenyu Liu

Scene text recognition (STR) on Latin datasets has been extensively studied in recent years, and state-of-the-art (SOTA) models often reach high accuracy. However, the performance on non-Latin transcripts, such as Chinese, is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Liu Yongbin , Liu Qingjie , Chen Jiaxin , Wang Yunhong

Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet their internal decision-making processes remain largely opaque, limiting our ability to inspect, control, and systematically improve them. This opacity…

We introduce a novel masked graph autoencoder (MGAE) framework to perform effective learning on graph structure data. Taking insights from self-supervised learning, we randomly mask a large proportion of edges and try to reconstruct these…

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Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a powerful framework for machine learning interpretability, enabling the unsupervised decomposition of model representations into a dictionary of abstract, human-interpretable concepts. However, we…

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The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zi'an Xu , Yin Dai , Fayu Liu , Weibing Chen , Yue Liu , Lifu Shi , Sheng Liu , Yuhang Zhou

Adapting foundation models for specific purposes has become a standard approach to build machine learning systems for downstream applications. Yet, it is an open question which mechanisms take place during adaptation. Here we develop a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Hyesu Lim , Jinho Choi , Jaegul Choo , Steffen Schneider

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have become the backbone of modern image editing, yet text prompts alone do not offer adequate control over the editing process. Two properties are especially desirable: disentanglement, where…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ronen Kamenetsky , Sara Dorfman , Daniel Garibi , Roni Paiss , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to extract interpretable features from neural network representations, often under the implicit assumption that concepts correspond to independent linear directions. However, a growing body of…