Local Sparsity Enables Unsupervised LLM Safety Detection
Proposes locally masked sparse-autoencoder anomaly detection that flags unsafe LLM outputs unsupervised, using only 1-2% of SAE neurons.
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Proposes locally masked sparse-autoencoder anomaly detection that flags unsafe LLM outputs unsupervised, using only 1-2% of SAE neurons.

KAIST and Naver AI Lab researchers show LLM reasoning steps like extraction and computation map to distinct activation patterns, strongest in middle layers.
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