aniket deshpande

I study physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

I'm joining Q Labs in SF this fall.

My research spans information and representation in language models, alongside learning problems in quantum many-body physics. More broadly, I study how intelligent and physical systems compute.

I also maintain a blog with longer thoughts.

I'm applying to PhD programs to study the physics of learning and mechanistic interpretability. If my interests align with your group, please reach out!

aniket4 [at] illinois [dot] edu

research

Decoder-Preserving Sparse Autoencoders: Which Readouts Survive Sparse Compression?
A. Deshpande
Preprint. Paper Code
Fermionic Shadow Regression: Amortized Learning of Molecular Electron Dynamics
A. Deshpande, L. Mantilla Calderón, K. Panicker, M. Bagherimehrab, A. Aspuru-Guzik
Quantum Machine Learning at IEEE Quantum Week 2026 .
Feature-Resolved Attention
D. Manning-Coe, N. Aljaafari, J. Stephenson, K. Kapre, H. Jain, A. Deshpande
ICML Mechanistic Interpretability 2026.
Crosscoding Through Time: Sparse Feature Discovery Across Sequence Positions
D. Manning-Coe, H. Xuanyuan, A. Deshpande, A. Shportko, W. Fei
ICML Mechanistic Interpretability 2026. Paper Code