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.

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