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The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs

As of 6 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 19 of 19 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2605.14694.

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This paper cites Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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This paper cites Christopher P.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Christopher P

Reference 2

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This paper cites Understanding disentangling in $\beta$-VAE.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Understanding disentangling in $\beta$-VAE

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This paper cites BatchTopK Sparse Autoencoders.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs BatchTopK Sparse Autoencoders

Reference 4

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Observation d94daa48-28f1-402c-bbaa-fe58c648ac45 · outbound

This paper cites Learning Multi-Level Features with Matryoshka Sparse Autoencoders.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Learning Multi-Level Features with Matryoshka Sparse Autoencoders

Reference 5

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Observation 5399ee43-9e5e-4812-9be5-8786f43b1300 · outbound

This paper cites SynthSAEBench: Evaluating Sparse Autoencoders on Scalable Realistic Synthetic Data.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs SynthSAEBench: Evaluating Sparse Autoencoders on Scalable Realistic Synthetic Data

Reference 6

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This paper cites A is for Absorption: Studying Feature Splitting and Absorption in Sparse Autoencoders , journal =.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs A is for Absorption: Studying Feature Splitting and Absorption in Sparse Autoencoders , journal =

Reference 7

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Observation c4a4a032-e9fd-46d2-8f49-b278c3b4c292 · outbound

This paper cites Feature hedging: Correlated features break narrow sparse autoencoders.arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11756, 2025.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Feature hedging: Correlated features break narrow sparse autoencoders.arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11756, 2025

Reference 8

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Observation c8aa4768-0d4b-4541-aa9d-0df141e55446 · outbound

This paper cites Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models

Reference 9

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Observation 9476d8d2-d7cc-4a53-ba68-aeea2daff8d0 · outbound

This paper cites Toy Models of Superposition.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Toy Models of Superposition

Reference 10

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Observation 0ebf0a66-c510-4fc7-acb8-e5580bc1d132 · outbound

This paper cites Projecting assumptions: The duality between sparse autoencoders and concept geometry.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Projecting assumptions: The duality between sparse autoencoders and concept geometry

Reference 11

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Observation 77fa3917-5a51-404d-a2af-bb338a0d669a · outbound

This paper cites Rethinking Evaluation of Sparse Autoencoders through the Representation of Polysemous Words.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Rethinking Evaluation of Sparse Autoencoders through the Representation of Polysemous Words

Reference 12

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Observation 0e6e8af4-a401-42e6-be51-e1276d0e6f63 · outbound

This paper cites Distill , year =.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Distill , year =

Reference 13

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Observation d8e9d419-4a36-4703-b04e-0132ba5e24e8 · outbound

This paper cites Compute Optimal Inference and Provable Amortisation Gap in Sparse Autoencoders.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Compute Optimal Inference and Provable Amortisation Gap in Sparse Autoencoders

Reference 14

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Observation 4472d2ca-8d2f-417b-ba76-a821d63b5696 · outbound

This paper cites Automatically Interpreting Millions of Features in Large Language Models.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Automatically Interpreting Millions of Features in Large Language Models

Reference 15

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This paper cites URL https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/ 2024/file/b76a9959151d377ddd2c77a275a97475-Paper-Conference.pdf.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs URL https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/ 2024/file/b76a9959151d377ddd2c77a275a97475-Paper-Conference.pdf

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Observation 4d44ca5d-c05e-45c3-b196-ede4913bfd1d · outbound

This paper cites Recent Advances in Autoencoder-Based Representation Learning.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Recent Advances in Autoencoder-Based Representation Learning

Reference 17

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This paper cites ReLU or TopK θ= (W enc, Wdec,b enc,b dec)parameter tuple of an SAE Θclass of SAEs under consideration Data generating process V= (v 1,.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs ReLU or TopK θ= (W enc, Wdec,b enc,b dec)parameter tuple of an SAE Θclass of SAEs under consideration Data generating process V= (v 1,

Reference 18

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Observation 54d1e07c-e3a3-498d-91b1-a4b6190dffeb · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Unresolved cited work

Reference 19

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Pith citing papers

Observation f95d9cae-5bc6-408d-add2-257c6b55aac0 · inbound

Sparse Autoencoders Encode Both Concepts and Functions: The Downstream Geometry of Feature Effects cites this paper.

Sparse Autoencoders Encode Both Concepts and Functions: The Downstream Geometry of Feature Effects The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs

Reference 34

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