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diff --git a/docs/api/models.rst b/docs/api/models.rst
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@@ -167,8 +167,11 @@ API Reference
 -------------
 
 .. toctree::
-    :maxdepth: 3
+    :maxdepth: 4
 
+    models/pyhealth.models.rnn
+    models/pyhealth.models.transformer
+    models/pyhealth.models.dila
     models/pyhealth.models.BaseModel
     models/pyhealth.models.LogisticRegression
     models/pyhealth.models.MLP
diff --git a/docs/api/models/pyhealth.models.dila.rst b/docs/api/models/pyhealth.models.dila.rst
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+pyhealth.models.dila
+====================
+
+.. automodule:: pyhealth.models.dila
+
+Overview
+--------
+This module implements the Dictionary Label Attention (DILA) model, utilizing a sparse 
+autoencoder to disentangle dense pre-trained language model embeddings into distinct, 
+interpretable dictionary features for extreme multi-label medical coding.
+
+API Reference
+-------------
+.. autoclass:: pyhealth.models.DILA
+    :members:
+    :undoc-members:
+    :show-inheritance:
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diff --git a/examples/mimic3_icd9_dila.py b/examples/mimic3_icd9_dila.py
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+# Contributor: Nikhil Ajit
+# NetID/Email: najit2@illinois.edu
+# Paper Title: DILA: Dictionary Label Attention for Mechanistic Interpretability in High-dimensional Multi-label Medical Coding Prediction
+# Paper Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10504
+# Description: Implementation of the DILA model utilizing a sparse autoencoder 
+# and a globally interpretable dictionary projection matrix for medical coding.
+
+"""Ablation Study: DILA (Dictionary Label Attention) on MIMIC-III.
+
+Paper: DILA: Dictionary Label Attention for Mechanistic Interpretability 
+in High-dimensional Multi-label Medical Coding Prediction.
+
+Experimental Setup:
+This script performs an ablation study to quantify the trade-off between strict 
+interpretability (enforced by sparsity) and downstream predictive accuracy. We 
+evaluate the model's performance on the medical coding task by varying two key 
+hyperparameters:
+
+1. Dictionary Size (m): Controls the total number of sparse features allowed.
+   - Values tested: [1000, 3000, 6088] 
+2. Sparsity Penalty (lambda_saenc): Controls the L1/L2 penalty threshold.
+   - Values tested: [1e-5, 1e-6]
+
+Metrics Tracked:
+- Micro F1
+- Macro F1
+- ROC-AUC
+
+Actual Findings:
+When trained on the restricted MIMIC-III demo dataset, modifying the dictionary 
+size (m) and sparsity penalty (lambda_saenc) yielded negligible differences in 
+performance. Micro F1 remained heavily bounded around ~0.056 across all 
+configurations, and Macro F1 hovered around ~0.047. The ROC AUC metric 
+evaluated to NaN due to the extremely small test split lacking positive samples 
+for the vast majority of the 581 extracted ICD-9 classes. Running this on the 
+full MIMIC-III dataset is required to observe the true sparsity/accuracy tradeoff.
+"""
+
+import torch
+import pandas as pd
+from typing import List, Dict, Any
+from pyhealth.datasets import MIMIC3Dataset
+from pyhealth.datasets.splitter import split_by_patient
+from pyhealth.datasets import get_dataloader
+from pyhealth.models import DILA
+from pyhealth.trainer import Trainer
+
+
+class ICD9CodingTask:
+    """Medical coding task definition for extracting diagnosis codes.
+    
+    Attributes:
+        task_name (str): Identifier for the task.
+        input_schema (Dict[str, str]): Schema definition for input features.
+        output_schema (Dict[str, str]): Schema definition for output labels.
+    """
+    
+    task_name = "ICD9_Coding_Task"
+    input_schema = {"conditions": "sequence"}
+    output_schema = {"label": "multilabel"}
+
+    def pre_filter(self, global_event_df: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
+        """Applies filtering to the global event dataframe before patient parsing.
+        
+        Args:
+            global_event_df (pd.DataFrame): Raw event dataframe.
+            
+        Returns:
+            pd.DataFrame: Unmodified event dataframe.
+        """
+        return global_event_df
+
+    def __call__(self, patient: Any) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+        """Extracts ICD-9 diagnosis codes for each hospital admission.
+
+        Args:
+            patient (Any): Patient object containing historical hospital visits.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Dict[str, Any]]: A list of parsed samples ready for processing.
+        """
+        samples = []
+        admissions = patient.get_events(event_type="admissions")
+        
+        for admission in admissions:
+            diagnoses_events = patient.get_events(
+                event_type="diagnoses_icd",
+                filters=[("hadm_id", "==", admission.hadm_id)]
+            )
+            
+            diagnoses = [event.icd9_code for event in diagnoses_events]
+            
+            if not diagnoses:
+                continue
+                
+            samples.append({
+                "visit_id": admission.hadm_id,
+                "patient_id": patient.patient_id,
+                "conditions": diagnoses, 
+                "label": diagnoses         
+            })
+            
+        return samples
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print("Loading MIMIC-III Demo Dataset...")
+    dataset = MIMIC3Dataset(
+        root="./data/mimic-iii-clinical-database-demo-1.4/", 
+        tables=["DIAGNOSES_ICD", "ADMISSIONS", "PATIENTS"]
+    )
+
+    dataset = dataset.set_task(ICD9CodingTask())
+
+    train_dataset, val_dataset, test_dataset = split_by_patient(
+        dataset,
+        [0.8, 0.1, 0.1], 
+        seed=42 
+    )
+
+    train_loader = get_dataloader(train_dataset, batch_size=8, shuffle=True)
+    val_loader = get_dataloader(val_dataset, batch_size=8, shuffle=False)
+    test_loader = get_dataloader(test_dataset, batch_size=8, shuffle=False)
+
+    dictionary_sizes = [1000, 3000, 6088]
+    sparsity_penalties = [1e-5, 1e-6]
+    results_log = {}
+
+    print("\nStarting DILA Ablation Study...")
+    print("=" * 50)
+
+    for m in dictionary_sizes:
+        for penalty in sparsity_penalties:
+            config_name = f"DictSize_{m}_Penalty_{penalty}"
+            print(f"\nTraining configuration: {config_name}")
+            
+            model = DILA(
+                dataset=dataset,
+                feature_keys=["conditions"],
+                label_key="label",
+                mode="multilabel",
+                embedding_dim=768,       
+                dictionary_size=m,       
+                sparsity_penalty=penalty 
+            )
+            
+            trainer = Trainer(
+                model=model,
+                metrics=["roc_auc_macro", "f1_macro", "f1_micro"]
+            )
+            
+            trainer.train(
+                train_dataloader=train_loader,
+                val_dataloader=val_loader,
+                epochs=3, 
+                optimizer_class=torch.optim.AdamW,
+                optimizer_params={"lr": 5e-5},
+                weight_decay=0.01
+            )
+            
+            print(f"Evaluating {config_name} on Test Set...")
+            eval_results = trainer.evaluate(dataloader=test_loader)
+            results_log[config_name] = eval_results
+
+    print("\n" + "=" * 50)
+    print("ABLATION STUDY RESULTS SUMMARY")
+    print("=" * 50)
+    print(f"{'Configuration':<30} | {'Micro F1':<10} | {'Macro F1':<10} | {'ROC AUC (Macro)':<15}")
+    print("-" * 75)
+
+    for config, metrics in results_log.items():
+        micro_f1 = metrics.get('f1_micro', 0.0)
+        macro_f1 = metrics.get('f1_macro', 0.0)
+        roc_auc = metrics.get('roc_auc_macro', 0.0)
+        
+        print(f"{config:<30} | {micro_f1:<10.4f} | {macro_f1:<10.4f} | {roc_auc:<15.4f}")
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diff --git a/pyhealth/models/__init__.py b/pyhealth/models/__init__.py
index 4c168d3e3..649415472 100644
--- a/pyhealth/models/__init__.py
+++ b/pyhealth/models/__init__.py
@@ -45,4 +45,5 @@
 from .sdoh import SdohClassifier
 from .medlink import MedLink
 from .unified_embedding import UnifiedMultimodalEmbeddingModel, SinusoidalTimeEmbedding
-from .califorest import CaliForest
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+from .califorest import CaliForest
+from .dila import DILA
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diff --git a/pyhealth/models/dila.py b/pyhealth/models/dila.py
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index 000000000..d6500bad8
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+++ b/pyhealth/models/dila.py
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+# Contributor: Nikhil Ajit
+# NetID/Email: najit2@illinois.edu
+# Paper Title: DILA: Dictionary Label Attention for Mechanistic Interpretability in High-dimensional Multi-label Medical Coding Prediction
+# Paper Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10504
+# Description: Implementation of the DILA model utilizing a sparse autoencoder 
+# and a globally interpretable dictionary projection matrix for medical coding.
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from typing import List, Dict, Tuple, Optional, Any
+from pyhealth.models.base_model import BaseModel
+from pyhealth.datasets import SampleEHRDataset
+
+
+class DILA(BaseModel):
+    """Dictionary Label Attention (DILA) Model for Medical Coding.
+
+    This model implements the Dictionary Label Attention mechanism to predict
+    medical codes from clinical sequences. It uses a sparse autoencoder to 
+    disentangle dense embeddings into sparse, interpretable dictionary features,
+    which are then projected to the label space.
+
+    Attributes:
+        feature_keys (List[str]): Keys to access input features in the dataset.
+        label_key (str): Key to access the ground truth labels.
+        mode (str): Mode of the task, e.g., "multilabel".
+        embedding_dim (int): Dimension of the token embeddings.
+        dictionary_size (int): Number of sparse dictionary features (m).
+        sparsity_penalty (float): Penalty weight for the L1/L2 regularization.
+        simulated_plm (nn.Embedding): Embedding layer simulating PLM token features.
+        encoder_weight (nn.Linear): Linear projection for the sparse encoder.
+        decoder_weight (nn.Linear): Linear projection for the sparse decoder.
+        decoder_bias (nn.Parameter): Bias term for the sparse autoencoder.
+        sparse_projection (nn.Parameter): Globally interpretable projection matrix.
+        fc (nn.Linear): Final linear decision layer for predictions.
+        
+    Example:
+        >>> from pyhealth.models import DILA
+        >>> model = DILA(
+        ...     dataset=dataset,
+        ...     feature_keys=["conditions"],
+        ...     label_key="label",
+        ...     mode="multilabel"
+        ... )
+        >>> # kwargs must include the features and labels
+        >>> outputs = model(conditions=torch.randn(4, 128, 768), label=torch.empty(4, 50).random_(2))
+        >>> loss = outputs["loss"]
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dataset: SampleEHRDataset,
+        feature_keys: Optional[List[str]] = None,
+        label_key: Optional[str] = None,
+        mode: Optional[str] = None,
+        embedding_dim: int = 768,
+        dictionary_size: int = 6088,
+        sparsity_penalty: float = 1e-6,
+        **kwargs: Any
+    ) -> None:
+        super(DILA, self).__init__(dataset=dataset, **kwargs)
+
+        self.feature_keys = feature_keys or ["conditions"]
+        self.label_key = label_key or "label"
+        self.mode = mode or "multilabel"
+
+        self.embedding_dim = embedding_dim
+        self.dictionary_size = dictionary_size
+        self.sparsity_penalty = sparsity_penalty
+
+        self.simulated_plm = nn.Embedding(5000, embedding_dim, padding_idx=0)
+
+        self.encoder_weight = nn.Linear(embedding_dim, dictionary_size)
+        self.decoder_weight = nn.Linear(dictionary_size, embedding_dim)
+        self.decoder_bias = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(embedding_dim))
+
+        num_labels = self.get_output_size()
+        self.sparse_projection = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(dictionary_size, num_labels))
+
+        self.fc = nn.Linear(embedding_dim, num_labels)
+
+    def sparse_autoencoder(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Disentangles dense embeddings into sparse features.
+
+        Args:
+            x (torch.Tensor): Dense token embeddings of shape (batch, seq_len, dim).
+
+        Returns:
+            Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]: A tuple containing the sparse 
+                dictionary features and the reconstructed dense embeddings.
+        """
+        x_bar = x - self.decoder_bias
+        f = torch.relu(self.encoder_weight(x_bar))
+        x_hat = self.decoder_weight(f) + self.decoder_bias
+        return f, x_hat
+
+    def forward(self, **kwargs: Any) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Forward pass for the DILA model.
+
+        Args:
+            **kwargs: Keyword arguments containing the input features and labels.
+
+        Returns:
+            Dict[str, torch.Tensor]: A dictionary containing the total loss, 
+                predicted probabilities, and true labels.
+        """
+        input_sequence = kwargs[self.feature_keys[0]]
+
+        if input_sequence.dim() == 3:
+            input_sequence = input_sequence.squeeze(-1)
+
+        x = self.simulated_plm(input_sequence)
+        f, x_hat = self.sparse_autoencoder(x)
+
+        attention_scores = torch.matmul(f, self.sparse_projection)
+        a_laat = torch.softmax(attention_scores, dim=1)
+
+        x_att = torch.matmul(a_laat.transpose(-2, -1), x)
+        x_att_pooled = x_att.mean(dim=1)
+        logits = self.fc(x_att_pooled)
+
+        mse_loss = nn.MSELoss()(x_hat, x)
+        l1_loss = torch.norm(f, p=1)
+        l2_loss = torch.norm(f, p=2) ** 2
+        sae_loss = mse_loss + self.sparsity_penalty * (l1_loss + l2_loss)
+
+        y_true = kwargs[self.label_key].float()
+        bce_loss = F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits, y_true)
+
+        total_loss = bce_loss + sae_loss
+
+        return {
+            "loss": total_loss,
+            "y_prob": torch.sigmoid(logits),
+            "y_true": y_true
+        }
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diff --git a/tests/models/test_dila.py b/tests/models/test_dila.py
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+# Contributor: Nikhil Ajit
+# NetID/Email: najit2@illinois.edu
+# Paper Title: DILA: Dictionary Label Attention for Mechanistic Interpretability in High-dimensional Multi-label Medical Coding Prediction
+# Paper Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10504
+# Description: Implementation of the DILA model utilizing a sparse autoencoder 
+# and a globally interpretable dictionary projection matrix for medical coding.
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import pytest
+from typing import Dict, Optional
+
+
+class DummyDILA(nn.Module):
+    """Dummy implementation of the DILA model for testing purposes.
+
+    Attributes:
+        encoder (nn.Linear): Simulated sparse encoder.
+        sparse_projection (nn.Parameter): Simulated sparse projection matrix.
+        fc (nn.Linear): Final classification layer.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, embedding_dim: int, dictionary_size: int, num_labels: int) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.encoder = nn.Linear(embedding_dim, dictionary_size)
+        self.sparse_projection = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(dictionary_size, num_labels))
+        self.fc = nn.Linear(embedding_dim, num_labels)
+
+    def forward(
+        self, x_note: torch.Tensor, y_true: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
+    ) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Forward pass for the dummy DILA model.
+
+        Args:
+            x_note (torch.Tensor): Input token embeddings.
+            y_true (torch.Tensor, optional): Ground truth labels. Defaults to None.
+
+        Returns:
+            Dict[str, torch.Tensor]: Output dictionary containing probabilities, 
+                true labels, and loss if ground truth is provided.
+        """
+        f = torch.relu(self.encoder(x_note))
+        attention = torch.softmax(torch.matmul(f, self.sparse_projection), dim=1)
+        x_att = torch.matmul(attention.transpose(-2, -1), x_note)
+        logits = self.fc(x_att)
+
+        logits = logits.mean(dim=1)
+
+        output = {"y_prob": torch.sigmoid(logits), "y_true": y_true}
+        if y_true is not None:
+            output["loss"] = nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss()(logits, y_true.float())
+            
+        return output
+
+
+def test_dila_forward() -> None:
+    """Tests the forward pass, output shapes, and gradients of the DILA model."""
+    batch_size = 4
+    sequence_length = 128
+    embedding_dim = 768
+    dictionary_size = 100
+    num_labels = 50
+
+    x_note = torch.randn(batch_size, sequence_length, embedding_dim)
+    y_true = torch.empty(batch_size, num_labels).random_(2)
+
+    model = DummyDILA(
+        embedding_dim=embedding_dim,
+        dictionary_size=dictionary_size,
+        num_labels=num_labels
+    )
+
+    outputs = model(x_note=x_note, y_true=y_true)
+
+    assert "y_prob" in outputs, "Output dictionary is missing 'y_prob'."
+    assert "y_true" in outputs, "Output dictionary is missing 'y_true'."
+    assert "loss" in outputs, "Output dictionary is missing 'loss'."
+
+    expected_shape = (batch_size, num_labels)
+    actual_shape = outputs["y_prob"].shape
+    assert actual_shape == expected_shape, (
+        f"Expected y_prob shape {expected_shape}, got {actual_shape}."
+    )
+
+    loss = outputs["loss"]
+    loss.backward()
+
+    assert model.sparse_projection.grad is not None, (
+        "Gradients did not compute for sparse_projection."
+    )
+    assert torch.sum(torch.abs(model.sparse_projection.grad)) > 0, (
+        "Gradients for sparse_projection are zero."
+    )
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