Publications

2025

1. NeurIPS MI

   The Anatomy of Alignment: Decomposing Preference Optimization by Steering Sparse Features

   Jeremias Ferrao, Matthijs van der Lende, Ilija Lichkovski, and Clement Neo

   In NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop, 2025

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   @inproceedings{ferrao2025anatomy,
     title = {The Anatomy of Alignment: Decomposing Preference Optimization by Steering Sparse Features},
     author = {Ferrao, Jeremias and {van der Lende}, Matthijs and Lichkovski, Ilija and Neo, Clement},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. NLDL

   Interpretable Function Approximation with Gaussian Processes in Value-Based Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

   Matthijs van der Lende, Matthia Sabatelli, and Juan Cardenas-Cartagena

   In Proceedings of the 6th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL), 2025

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   @inproceedings{pmlr-v265-lende25a,
     title = {Interpretable Function Approximation with Gaussian Processes in Value-Based Model-Free Reinforcement Learning},
     author = {{van der Lende}, Matthijs and Sabatelli, Matthia and Cardenas-Cartagena, Juan},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL)},
     pages = {141--154},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {265},
     series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
     publisher = {PMLR},
     url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v265/lende25a.html},
   }