@article{zheng-etal-2026-model,
    title = "Model Directions, Not Words: Mechanistic Topic Models Using Sparse Autoencoders",
    author = "Zheng, Carolina  and
      Beltran-Velez, Nicolas  and
      Karlekar, Sweta  and
      Shi, Claudia  and
      Nazaret, Achille  and
      Mallik, Asif  and
      Feder, Amir  and
      Blei, David M.",
    journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    volume = "14",
    year = "2026",
    address = "Cambridge, MA",
    publisher = "MIT Press",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.tacl-1.99/",
    doi = "10.1162/tacl.a.797",
    pages = "2187--2212"
}