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MetaSAEs: Joint Training with a Decomposability Penalty Produces More Atomic Sparse Autoencoder Latents

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used for safety-relevant applications including alignment detection and model steering. These use cases require SAE latents to be as atomic as possible. Each latent should represent a single coherent concept drawn from a single underlying representational subspace. In practice, SAE latents blend representational subspaces together. A single feature can activate across semantically distinct contexts that share no true common representation, muddying an

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Published: 3 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (3 April 2026), “MetaSAEs: Joint Training with a Decomposability Penalty Produces More Atomic Sparse Autoencoder Latents,” evidence record 6380, https://ethics.ai/record/6380 (originally published by arXiv).

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