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  1. Alleviating Hallucination in Reasoning Tasks with Training-Free Uncertainty-Guided Steering

    Sep 30, 2026Litian Liu, Qiqi Hou, Yubing Jian +5Large Language Model HallucinationLarge Language Model Uncertainty

    Qualcomm AI Research · UC Santa Barbara

  2. Alignment via Training Against Probes Without Losing Monitorability

    Sep 29, 2026Lena Libon, Alexander Panfilov, Ben Rank +3Safety AlignmentModel Activations

    ETH Zurich · ELLIS Institute Tübingen, MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen AI Center

  3. UNBIND: UNlearning By INference-time Directional Steering for Code LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Zhengyang Shan, Jiayun Xin, Yanjun Lin +7Large Language Model UnlearningExact Unlearning

    Department of Computer Science and Technology Shandong University Qingdao, China

  4. Steer2Grasp: Inference-Time Embodiment-Aware Steering for Diverse Physically Feasible Grasp Diffusion

    Sep 27, 2026Vignesh Vembar, Ayush Kaura, A Padmaprabhan +5Robotic GraspingInference-Time Steering

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad · Johns Hopkins University

  5. DetAug: Obstacle-Blind Trajectory Augmentation for Zero-shot Obstacle Avoidance

    Sep 16, 2026Reece O'Mahoney, Moritz Zoellner, Ioannis HavoutisObstacle AvoidanceRobotic Manipulation

    Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  6. Routing by Reasoning Need: Trajectory-Aware Decoding Control for Diffusion Vision-Language Models

    Sep 12, 2026Yixiang Liu, Zhongxing Xu, Zhonghua Wang +1Diffusion Language ModelsInference-Time Steering

    Southern University of Science and Technology · Monash University

  7. Instruction Duplication as an Inference-Time Control Primitive

    Sep 3, 2026Victor LavrenkoInstructionRepetition

    PeaceTech VC, Israel

  8. VGAS: Variance-Reduced Guidance and Adaptive Selection for Training-Free Reward Alignment in Discrete Diffusion

    Aug 27, 2026Kwanyoung KimDiffusion ModelsInference-Time Steering

    Department of AI, GIST

  9. A Mean-Field Framework for Inference-Time Distributional Control of Diffusion Models

    Aug 9, 2026Samuel Howard, Nikolas NüskenDiffusion SamplingInference-Time Steering

    Department of Statistics, University of Oxford · Department of Mathematics, King’s College London

  10. Strengthening Target-Language Features: SAE-Based Steering for Multilingual Inference

    Aug 5, 2026Hongsheng Wang, Philipp KoehnMultilingual Language ModelsSparse Autoencoder Features

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore / USA

  11. World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment

    Aug 3, 2026Motubrain TeamEfficient World-Action ModelAsynchronous Execution

  12. Inference-Time Policy Alignment for Fair Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Umer Siddique, Peilang Li, Conor Wallace +1Inference-Time SteeringOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

  13. Safe Vision Language Action Models via Barrier Enhanced Flow Matching

    Jul 31, 2026Kasra Sinaei, Hung-Chieh Wu, Donald EbeigbeControl Barrier FunctionsInference-Time Steering

    The authors are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

  14. RL2^2-VLA: Adaptive RL Latent Compositional Steering with Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jul 29, 2026Derek Ming Siang Tan, Shailesh Shailesh, Srikrishna Iyer +4Inference-Time SteeringVideo Latents

    1National University of Singapore · 3Singapore Technologies Engineering · University of Toronto

  15. Divergence Decoding: Training-Free Capability Fusion

    Jul 28, 2026Yimi Wang, Hao Li, Shuo Yang +6DivergenceInference-Time Steering

    Peking University · International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA) · The University of Hong Kong

  16. SyRuP: Enhancing System-Prompt Following via Reward-Guided Prediction in LLM Decoding

    Jul 27, 2026Seoyeon Kim, Minjae Kang, Jaehyung KimLarge Language Model DecodingInference-Time Steering

    Yonsei University

  17. Training Language Models to Cooperate with Inference-Time Controllers

    Jul 26, 2026Moumita Choudhury, Vanshaj Khattar, Jing Liu +4Inference-Time SteeringPost-Training

    College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA · Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  18. Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation

    Jul 20, 2026Yancheng Zhu, Wanli Ma, Chen Han +3Legged RobotsObstacle Avoidance

    Anker Spatial Perception Lab

  19. EHR-MPC: Inference-Time Control for Sepsis Treatment with Generative Patient Digital Twins

    Jul 7, 2026Joshua Pickard, Wei Qi, Na Li +4SepsisPatients

    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard · Harvard University · Brigham and Women’s Hospital +2

  20. A Mathematical Introduction to Diffusion Models

    Jul 2, 2026Jianfeng LuDiffusion SamplingDiffusion Models

  21. Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering

    Jun 28, 2026Hao Wang, Jiuzhou Lei, Dayou Li +5Behavior CloningRobot Policies

    Texas A&M University · University of Wisconsin · Northwestern University +1

  22. Inference-Time Robot Behavior Steering through Physically-Aware Reconfiguration of Task-Structure

    Jun 25, 2026Yiyuan Pan, Hanjiang Hu, Shangtao Li +2Robot PoliciesInference-Time Steering

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  23. Closing the Loop: PID Feedback Control for Interpretable Activation Steering in Symbolic Music Generation

    Jun 17, 2026Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +2Linear Activation SteeringSymbolic Music Generation

    Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece · Orfium Research, Athens, Greece · Hellenic Mediterranean University, Chania, Greece +2

  24. Visual Verification Enables Inference-time Steering and Autonomous Policy Improvement

    Jun 16, 2026Mingtong Zhang, Dhruv ShahRobot PoliciesInference-Time Steering

    Princeton University

  25. Pulling The REINS: Training-Free Safety Alignment of Video Diffusion Models via Representation Steering

    Jun 15, 2026Rohit Kundu, Arindam Dutta, Sarosij Bose +2Video Diffusion ModelsInference-Time Defense

    University of California, Riverside · YouTube (Google)

  26. Inference-time Policy Steering via Vision and Touch

    Jun 12, 2026Yilin Wu, Zilin Si, Zeynep Temel +2Robot PoliciesTactile World Model

    Carnegie Mellon University

  27. Where Computation Lives Inside TabPFN: Causal Localisation of Attention Head Function

    Jun 11, 2026Atharva Gupta, Dhruv Kumar, Murari Mandal +1Tabular Foundation ModelsTabpfn

    Department of Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India · School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India · Birla AI Labs, Office of Ananya Birla, Aditya Birla Group, India

  28. Itô maps for any-step SDEs

    Jun 9, 2026Zhengkai Pan, Peter Potaptchik, Wenxi Yao +2Stochastic Differential EquationsInvertible Flows

    Harvard University · University of Oxford · Kempner Institute

  29. On-Device Robotic Planning: Eliminating Inference Redundancy for Efficient Decision-Making

    May 29, 2026Joonhee Lee, Hyunseung Shin, Hyunmi Kim +2Robot PlanningClassical Planning

    School of Integrated Technology, College of Computing, Yonsei University · Department of Hyperscale AI SoC Research Section, ETRI · 3EECS - Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

  30. Latent Space Disentanglement via Activation Steering for Interpretable Attribute Control in Symbolic Music Generation

    May 29, 2026Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +2Symbolic Music GenerationAcoustic Latent Space

    Athens University of Economics and Business Orfium Athens, Greece · Innovation Lab Orfium Athens, Greece · Department of Music Technology and Acoustics Hellenic Mediterranean University Rethymno, Greece +2

  31. SafeCtrl-RL: Inference-Time Adaptive Behaviour Control for LLM Dialogue via RL-Driven Prompt Optimisation

    May 25, 2026Michael Orme, Yanchao Yu, Zhiyuan TanLarge Language Model SafetyInference-Time Steering

    School of Computing, Engineering and Building Environment. Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, UK

  32. TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation

    May 25, 2026Sizhe Zhao, Shengping Zhang, Shuo Yang +3Robotic ManipulationInference-Time Steering

    Harbin Institute of Technology, China · Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai) Qingdao Research Institute, China · Iray Technology co., Ltd., Shandong, China +1

  33. Palette: A Modular, Controllable, and Efficient Framework for On-demand Authorized Safety Alignment Relaxation in LLMs

    May 22, 2026Qitao Tan, Xiaoying Song, Arman Akbari +7Safety AlignmentRefusals

    University of Georgia · University of North Texas · 3Northeastern University

  34. Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment

    May 13, 2026Ye Wang, Jing Liu, Toshiaki Koike-AkinoInference-Time Steering

    Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) · Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  35. Inference-Time Machine Unlearning via Gated Activation Redirection

    May 12, 2026Vinícius Conte Turani, Otávio Parraga, João Vitor Boer Abitante +7Machine UnlearningInference-Time Steering

    MALTA, Machine Learning Theory and Applications Lab, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil · Harvard University · Kunumi Institute, Brazil

  36. Plan Before You Trade: Inference-Time Optimization for RL Trading Agents

    May 12, 2026Eun Go, Rohan Deb, Arindam BanerjeePortfolio ConstructionInference-Time Steering

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  37. EPIC: Efficient Predicate-Guided Inference-Time Control for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation

    May 12, 2026Sunung Mun, Sunghyun Cho, Jungseul OkStrongest Prior Asynchronous BaselineInference-Time Steering

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, POSTECH

  38. LPDP: Inference-Time Reward Control for Variable-Length DNA Generation with Edit Flows

    May 12, 2026Jeongchan Kim, Yunkyung Ko, Jong Chul YeMessenger RnaSequence Modeling

    KAIST AI

  39. Metis: Learning to Jailbreak LLMs via Self-Evolving Metacognitive Policy Optimization

    May 11, 2026Huilin Zhou, Jian Zhao, Yilu Zhong +7Large Language Model JailbreaksOn-Policy Self-Evolution

    University of Science and Technology of China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom

  40. Persona Without Substrate: Regime-Dependence and the LLM Individuation Problem

    May 1, 2026Shuaizhi ChengArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    Harbin Institute of Technology

  41. Reinforced Agent: Inference-Time Feedback for Tool-Calling Agents

    Apr 29, 2026Anh Ta, Junjie Zhu, Shahin ShayandehAgentic EvaluationsReviewer

    Apple

  42. CogniConsole: Externalizing Inference-Time Control as a Formal Abstraction for Reliable LLM Interactions

    Apr 21, 2026Vanessa Figueiredo, Wilter FranceschiInference-Time SteeringCogadapt

    Orbital Sea Regina, SK, Canada

  43. FineSteer: A Unified Framework for Fine-Grained Inference-Time Steering in Large Language Models

    Apr 16, 2026Zixuan Weng, Jinghuai Zhang, Kunlin Cai +3Inference-Time SteeringSteering

    University of California, Los Angeles

  44. CC-ΔΘΔΘ: Circuit-Restricted Weight Arithmetic for Selective Refusal

    Feb 4, 2026Aditya Kasliwal, Pratinav Seth, Vinay Kumar SankarapuRefusalsInference-Time Steering

    Lexsi Labs

  45. ILRR: Inference-Time Steering Method for Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Jan 29, 2026Eden Avrahami, Eliya NachmaniDiffusion Language ModelsMasked Diffusion Language Models

    School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.

  46. Posterior-driven Heuristic Support Adaptation in a Probabilistic Treatment of Real2Sim2Real for Vision-Driven Deformable Linear Object Manipulation

    Oct 30, 2025Georgios Kamaras, Craig Innes, Subramanian RamamoorthyDeformable Linear ObjectsInference-Time Steering

    School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK. · Heriot-Watt University · UKRI Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship on AI for Person-Centred and Teachable Autonomy

  47. A memory-based active inference model of DishBrain-like adaptive behaviour

    Aug 9, 2025Aswin Paul, Moein Khajehnejad, Forough Habibollahi +2Brain-Inspired Synergistic FrameworkInference-Time Steering

    Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia · VERSES, Los Angeles, California, USA · Cortical Labs Pty Ltd, Melbourne 3056, Australia +1