Xi Chen PhD candidate Name X. Chen Telephone 071 5272727 E-mail x.chen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl ORCID iD null PhD candidate LIACS Systems & Security Work address Gorlaeus Building Einsteinweg 55 2333 CC Leiden Contact 071 5272727 x.chen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl JavaScript is required to view this content. Chen X., Plaat A. & Stein N. van (2026), How does chain of thought think? : Mechanistic interpretability of chain-of-thought reasoning with sparse autoencoding. Koenig S., Jenkins C. & Taylor M.E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) 20 January 2026 - 27 January 2026. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence no. 40. Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 30297-30305. 'Refereed' congrespublicatie No relevant ancillary activities Share on Facebook Share by Bluesky Share on LinkedIn Share by WhatsApp Share by Mastodon