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Alan Chen 0008

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 23% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 23% Language models and text generation · 23%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation › feature-based transfer learning
feature transfer
0.912025
Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
model stitching
0.912025
Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability › mechanistic interpretability
sparse autoencoder
0.912025
Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching · NeurIPS 2025
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
text representation
0.912025
Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

steering vector transfer · 0.9model stitching · 0.9affine mapping · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Transferring Linear Features Across Language Models With Model Stitching
abstract
In this work, we demonstrate that affine mappings between residual streams of language models is a cheap way to effectively transfer represented features between models. We apply this technique to transfer the \textit{weights} of Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) between models of different sizes to compare their representations. We find that small and large models learn highly similar representation spaces, which motivates training expensive components like SAEs on a smaller model and transferring to a larger model at a FLOPs savings. For example, using a small-to-large transferred SAE as initialization can lead to 50% cheaper training runs when training SAEs on larger models. Next, we show that transferred probes and steering vectors can effectively recover ground truth performance. Finally, we dive deeper into feature-level transferability, finding that semantic and structural features transfer noticeably differently while specific classes of functional features have their roles faithfully mapped. Overall, our findings illustrate similarities and differences in the linear representation spaces of small and large models and demonstrate a method for improving the training efficiency of SAEs.
Alan Chen 0008, Jack Merullo, Alessandro Stolfo, Ellie Pavlick
NeurIPS1