# The Independence Prior of SAEs Fragments Visual Concepts

**Published:** October 6, 2026
**Author:** Tommaso Mencattini, Giorgos Nikolaou, Donato Crisostomi, Thomas Fel, Francesco Montagna, Emanuele Rodol\`a, Francesco Locatello
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) decompose model activations into sparse combinations of interpretable dictionary atoms. Although SAEs are grounded in the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH), their objective smuggles in an additional prior: concepts across patches are treated as…

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