Decomposing The Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders

Kavli Affiliate: Max Tegmark | First 5 Authors: Joshua Engels, Logan Riggs, Max Tegmark, , | Summary: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a promising technique for decomposing language model activations into interpretable linear features. However, current SAEs fall short of completely explaining model performance, resulting in "dark matter": unexplained variance in activations. This work investigates dark […]


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A diverse, overlooked population of Type Ia supernovae exhibiting mid-infrared signatures of delayed circumstellar interaction

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston, Nayana A. J., Raffaella Margutti | Summary: Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints […]


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A diverse, overlooked population of Type Ia supernovae exhibiting mid-infrared signatures of delayed circumstellar interaction

Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston, Nayana A. J., Raffaella Margutti | Summary: Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM), allowing for direct constraints […]


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Black Holes Inside and Out 2024: visions for the future of black hole physics

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki | First 5 Authors: Niayesh Afshordi, Abhay Ashtekar, Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Richard Brito | Summary: The gravitational physics landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by our ability to study strong-field regions, in particular black holes. Black Holes Inside and Out gathered world experts to discuss the status of the field and […]


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HD 28185 Revisited: An Outer Planet, Instead of a Brown Dwarf, On a Saturn-like Orbit

Kavli Affiliate: Andrew Vanderburg | First 5 Authors: Alexander Venner, Qier An, Chelsea X. Huang, Timothy D. Brandt, Robert A. Wittenmyer | Summary: As exoplanet surveys reach ever-higher sensitivities and durations, planets analogous to the solar system giant planets are increasingly within reach. HD 28185 is a Sun-like star known to host a $msin i=6 […]


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GRB Redshift Estimation using Machine Learning and the Associated Web-App

Kavli Affiliate: Vahe Petrosian | First 5 Authors: Aditya Narendra, Maria Dainotti, Milind Sarkar, Aleksander Lenart, Malgorzata Bogdan | Summary: Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), observed at redshifts as high as 9.4, could serve as valuable probes for investigating the distant Universe. However, this necessitates an increase in the number of GRBs with determined redshifts, as […]


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The Affleck-Dine Curvaton

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Aurora Ireland, Gordan Krnjaic, Takuya Okawa, , | Summary: The Standard Model of particle physics does not explain the origin of the universe’s baryon asymmetry or its primordial fluctuations. The Affleck-Dine mechanism is a well-motivated scenario for generating the baryon asymmetry through the post-inflationary dynamics of a […]


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ORCHID: A Chinese Debate Corpus for Target-Independent Stance Detection and Argumentative Dialogue Summarization

Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Xiutian Zhao, Ke Wang, Wei Peng, , | Summary: Dialogue agents have been receiving increasing attention for years, and this trend has been further boosted by the recent progress of large language models (LLMs). Stance detection and dialogue summarization are two core tasks of dialogue agents in […]


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Connection between Non-Axisymmetric Structures and Neutral Gas Distribution in Disk Galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Luis C. Ho | First 5 Authors: Ze-Zhong Liang, Jing Wang, Hua Gao, Luis C. Ho, E. Athanassoula | Summary: Non-axisymmetric structures, such as bars and spiral arms, are known to concentrate molecular gas and star formation in galaxy centers, actively building up the pseudo-bulges. However, a direct link between the neutral (i.e., […]


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Connection between Non-Axisymmetric Structures and Neutral Gas Distribution in Disk Galaxies

Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: Ze-Zhong Liang, Jing Wang, Hua Gao, Luis C. Ho, E. Athanassoula | Summary: Non-axisymmetric structures, such as bars and spiral arms, are known to concentrate molecular gas and star formation in galaxy centers, actively building up the pseudo-bulges. However, a direct link between the neutral (i.e., molecular […]


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