aniket deshpande

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

My current 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 this fall to study the physics of learning and mechanistic interpretability. If my interests align with your group, please reach out!

aniket4 [at] illinois [dot] edu

[06.2026] — Two papers accepted at ICML Mech Interp 2026!

[06.2026] — Joining the Scalable Solvers Group at Lawrence Berkeley Lab this summer.

[02.2026] — Working on mechanistic interpretability as a SPAR research fellow.

[02.2026] — Started my research internship at the Matter Lab.

[08.2025] — Presented some research at QSim 2025 at IBM, New York City.

research

Decoder-Preserving Sparse Autoencoders: Which Readouts Survive Sparse Compression?
Aniket Deshpande
Preprint. Paper Code
Fermionic Shadow Regression: Amortized Learning of Molecular Electron Dynamics
Aniket Deshpande, L. Mantilla Calderón, K. Panicker, M. Bagherimehrab, A. Aspuru-Guzik
Under Review.
Feature-Resolved Attention
D. Manning-Coe, N. Aljaafari, J. Stephenson, K. Kapre, H. Jain, Aniket Deshpande
ICML Mech Interp 2026.
Crosscoding Through Time: Sparse Feature Discovery Across Sequence Positions
Dmitry Manning-Coe, Han Xuanyuan, Aniket Deshpande, Andrii Shportko, William Fei
ICML Mech Interp 2026. Paper Code