Trenton Bricken; Adly Templeton; Joshua Batson; Brian Chen; Adam Jermyn; Tom Conerly; Nicholas L. Turner; Cem Anil; Carson Denison; Amanda Askell; et al. · Anthropic
The paper that made sparse autoencoders the field's dominant method, published with a browsable interface over every extracted feature so readers could check the monosemanticity claim themselves rather than take the authors' word for it.
Turned a contested claim (features are more interpretable than neurons) into something a reader could audit by clicking.
High · Read the article and its setup/interface section, 2026-08-06
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