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Qwen-Scope (sparse autoencoders for Qwen3 and Qwen3.5)

Alibaba (Qwen) · 29 April 2026

Open suite of sparse autoencoders for Qwen3 and Qwen3.5 (14 SAE groups, 7 model variants), used for steering, evaluation analysis and data work.

Covers dense and MoE models. The paper shows SAE features steering language, concepts and preferences at inference without touching weights, probing benchmark redundancy and guiding data decisions, in addition to post-hoc analysis.

Date
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Lab
Alibaba (Qwen)
Kind
open-weights
Access
open weights

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
SAE groups / model variants14 / 7
Qwen3 and Qwen3.5, dense and MoE
company

Blog dated 2026-04-29 per Releasebot; SAE repos created on Hugging Face 2026-04-27; paper arXiv 2605.11887 submitted 2026-05-12. Claims are the authors' own.

Sources

  1. releasebot.io/updates/qwen
  2. huggingface.co/api/models?author=Qwen&sort=createdAt&direction=-1&limit=60
  3. arxiv.org/abs/2605.11887

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