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  1. LITERARYBIGFIVE: Author-Personalized Text Generation in a Unified Interpretable Space

    Aug 24, 2026Jinghui Zhang, Lang Gao, Ao Li +5Language Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    MBZUAI · Shandong University · Independent Researcher +2

  2. Dear Algo: A Precision-First Agentic Intent Layer for Unified Search and Recommendation

    Aug 16, 2026Rui Wang, Jiazhou Wang, Zheng Wei +16Language Model SteeringRecommender Systems

    Meta Platforms Inc. USA · Google DeepMind, USA

  3. Behavioral Reprogramming of Open-Weights Models: Cognitive Plasticity and Alignment Bounds

    Aug 13, 2026Lucia MalíčkováLLM AlignmentLanguage Model Steering

    National Supercomputing Centre, Slovakia.

  4. Semantic Lenia: Emergence of Homeostatic Solitons within the Semantic Space of Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Yoshihiko KayamaLanguage Model SteeringArtificial Life

    BAIKA Women’s University 2–19–5, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

  5. Deployable Per-Instance Multi-Layer Activation Steering for Large Language Models

    Aug 9, 2026Muhammad Faishal Adly Nelwan, Alfan Farizki WicaksonoLanguage Model SteeringControllable Text Generation

    Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Indonesia

  6. Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible

    Aug 9, 2026Yuxiao Li, Gjergji KasneciLanguage Model SteeringLLM Safety Alignment

    Technical University of Munich Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

  7. When Is a Steerable Concept Representation Real? Measurement Confounds in a Cross-Family Audit of Neuroscience Parallels in LLMs

    Aug 8, 2026Yuqi Wu, Shengming Zhao, Jie ChenLanguage Model SteeringLLM Auditing

    College of Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University

  8. From Behavior to Mechanism: Tracing Divergent Response Modes in Frontier Language Models

    Aug 6, 2026Ali Jalal-KamaliLanguage Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    USC Institute for Creative Technologies

  9. Training-Free Token-Level Steering for LLM Personalized Co-Writing

    Aug 6, 2026Wenhao Mao, Chengbin Hou, Weixiao Wang +4Language Model SteeringPersonalized Text Generation

    1Tsinghua University · Fuyao University of Science and Technology · 3Henan Provincial People’s Hospital

  10. Cautious Context Steering for Language Model Personalization

    Aug 6, 2026Gihoon Kim, Jeyoung Lee, Suhan Woo +4Language Model SteeringLLM Personalization

    Yonsei University · Hyundai Motors Company · Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  11. CircuitSteer: Geometrically Aligned Multi-Layer Steering via Sparse Autoencoder Circuits

    Aug 6, 2026Mehrshad Saadatinia, Parsa Razmara, Ardalan Aryashad +2LLM AlignmentLanguage Model Steering

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  12. FOCUS: Decoupling Expert Personas in LLMs to Enhance Domain Expert Capabilities

    Aug 6, 2026Guanyu Wang, Zidi Zhang, Xu ChuLanguage Model SteeringPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    Peking University, Beijing, China · The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  13. Scaling Inherently Interpretable Language Models

    Aug 6, 2026Guide Labs Team, Andreas Madsen, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail +7Language Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    Guide Labs Team

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

    Aug 5, 2026Hongsheng Wang, Philipp KoehnMultilingual Language ModelsLanguage Model Steering

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore / USA

  15. Intertemporal Preference Steering in Qwen3 via Contrastive Activation Addition

    Aug 4, 2026Michal Mráz, Justin ShenkLanguage Model SteeringSequential Decision Making

    1Independent

  16. Inverted Detection and Control in Steering Vectors

    Aug 3, 2026Max Torop, Aria Masoomi, Jennifer DyLanguage Model SteeringCausal Interventions in Language Models

    Northeastern University

  17. On the Generalization of Steering Vectors for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

    Jul 31, 2026Matthew Nguyen, Kyle Cox, Austin Meek +1CoT FaithfulnessLanguage Model Steering

    University of Virginia · Independent · University of Delaware +1

  18. Metaphor-Induced Algorithmic Steering: Cross-Domain Procedural Transfer in LLM Code Generation

    Jul 30, 2026Zhibo Hu, Chen Wang, Yanfeng Shu +3Language Model SteeringCode Generation

    The University of New South Wales · Australia · CSIRO

  19. Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs

    Jul 29, 2026Adar Avsian, Atahan Dokme, Tony Woo +1Language Model SteeringSpeech Language Models

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  20. Steering Instruction Hierarchies at Inference Time

    Jul 28, 2026Siqi Zeng, Sewoong Lee, Han Zhao +1Language Model SteeringLLM Safety Alignment

    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA

  21. Forecasting Side Effects of Activation Steering

    Jul 28, 2026Chong Yong Ong, Alson Wei Jie Sim, Peixin Zhang +1Language Model SteeringLLM Auditing

    Singapore Management University

  22. Where Steering Signals Come From: Activation Source Selection in Activation Steering

    Jul 28, 2026Jiaran Ye, Lingxu Ran, Zijun Yao +5Language Model SteeringActivation Steering

    1MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Peking University · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · 6YiXin-AILab, YIXIN, Beijing, China +3

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

    Jul 27, 2026Seoyeon Kim, Minjae Kang, Jaehyung KimLanguage Model DecodingLanguage Model Steering

    Yonsei University

  24. Auditing Alignment Controllability in LLMs via Political Axes

    Jul 26, 2026Bartol Bućan, Nikola Sočec, Sarah Isufi +5LLM AlignmentLanguage Model Steering

    Student at University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia · It From Bit d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia · University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia

  25. LoRA for Gender-Inclusive Rewriting and Activation Steering for Counter-Narrative Generation

    Jul 25, 2026Akhil Rajeev P, Manoj Balaji JGender Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Steering

    C-DAC, Bangalore · Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  26. The Geometry of Personality: Activation Steering with Jungian Cognitive Functions

    Jul 23, 2026Liu Zai, Yumeng Wang, Junchen Fu +1Language Model SteeringPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    University of Glasgow · Leiden University

  27. Inference-Time Steering for Cross-Lingual Factual Consistency in LLMs

    Jul 21, 2026Alexander ManevMultilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Alignment

    Technical University of Munich

  28. What Models Express, Suppress, and Resist: Auditing Open-Weight LLMs with Persona Vectors

    Jul 14, 2026Winston Zeng, Ali Emami, Jinho ChoiLanguage Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    Emory University

  29. Semantic Drift and the Stability of Operator Control in Reasoning-Class Decision Support Systems

    Jul 8, 2026M. L. Kaluzhsky, V. A. EfirovLanguage Model SteeringHuman-AI Interaction

    Expert Department, Regional Strategy Development Fund, Omsk, Russia · Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia · Expert Council, Interregional Public Fund “Regional Strategy Development Fund”, Omsk, Russia

  30. Distributed Sparse Interventions in Language Models

    Jul 8, 2026Maximilian S. Ernst, Lorenz Linhardt, Aaron Peikert +1Language Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    Max Planck School of Cognition · Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human Development · Machine Learning Group Technische Universität Berlin +5