D-Scope: Decomposing and Steering Diffusion Transformers with Sparse Autoencoders
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arXiv:2609.39625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) reveal visual structure in diffusion transformers (DiTs), but interpreting a feature does not establish whether it can be used to control generation. We introduce D-Scope (Diffusion Scope), a framework that connects feature interpretation to generation control through shared visual evidence. D-Scope aggregates SigLIP~2 embeddings of highly activating image patches into visual centroids. Matching target text descriptions against these visual centroids in the shared image-text embedding space then enables retrieval of i
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.39625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) reveal visual structure in diffusion transformers (DiTs), but interpreting a feature does not establish whether it can be used to control generation.
- We introduce D-Scope (Diffusion Scope), a framework that connects feature interpretation to generation control through shared visual evidence.
- D-Scope aggregates SigLIP~2 embeddings of highly activating image patches into visual centroids.
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