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

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.

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