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  1. Predicting Where Steering Vectors Succeed

    Apr 16, 2026Jayadev BillaLanguage Model SteeringRepresentation Steering

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

    Apr 16, 2026Zixuan Weng, Jinghuai Zhang, Kunlin Cai +3Language Model SteeringLLM Safety

    University of California, Los Angeles

  3. What Drives Representation Steering? A Mechanistic Case Study on Steering Refusal

    Apr 9, 2026Stephen Cheng, Sarah Wiegreffe, Dinesh ManochaLanguage Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    University of Maryland, College Park

  4. Persona Matters: Effects of Activation Steering on Short Answer Generation and Scoring

    Apr 8, 2026Yongchao Wu, Aron HenrikssonOpen-Ended GenerationLanguage Model Steering

    Stockholm University, NOD-huset, Borgarfjordsgatan 12, 16455 Stockholm, Sweden

  5. From Refusal Tokens to Refusal Control: Discovering and Steering Category-Specific Refusal Directions

    Mar 9, 2026Rishab Alagharu, Ishneet Sukhvinder Singh, Shaibi Shamsudeen +2Language Model SteeringLLM Refusal Behavior

    Algoverse AI Research · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Maryland

  6. Watch the Model Think: On-Policy Extraction of Activation Steering Vectors

    Feb 15, 2026Xuanbo Su, Yingfang Zhang, Hao Luo +3Language Model SteeringRepresentation Steering

    Bairong Inc., Beijing, China · School of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  7. Endogenous Resistance to Activation Steering in Language Models

    Feb 6, 2026Alex McKenzie, Keenan Pepper, Stijn Servaes +6Language Model SteeringLanguage Model Robustness

    AE Studio · Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

  8. Towards Understanding Steering Strength

    Feb 2, 2026Magamed Taimeskhanov, Samuel Vaiter, Damien GarreauLanguage Model SteeringActivation Steering

    University of Würzburg, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science · Universit´e Cˆote d’Azur - CNRS

  9. From Directions to Regions: Decomposing Activations in Language Models via Local Geometry

    Feb 2, 2026Or Shafran, Shaked Ronen, Omri Fahn +3Language Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI, Tel Aviv University, Israel · New York University, New York, NY, USA · Goodfire.

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

    Jan 29, 2026Eden Avrahami, Eliya NachmaniMasked Diffusion ModelsLanguage Model Steering

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

  11. Cross-Lingual Activation Steering for Multilingual Language Models

    Jan 23, 2026Rhitabrat Pokharel, Ameeta Agrawal, Tanay NagarMultilingual Language ModelsLanguage Model Steering

    Department of Computer Science, Portland State University, USA · Independent Researcher

  12. Bridging Mechanistic Interpretability and Prompt Engineering with Gradient Ascent for Interpretable Persona Control

    Jan 6, 2026Harshvardhan Saini, Yiming Tang, Dianbo LiuLanguage Model SteeringLLM Interpretability

    Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad · National University of Singapore

  13. Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

    Oct 6, 2025Amin Banayeeanzade, Ala N. Tak, Fatemeh Bahrani +5Language Model SteeringPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California · Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California · Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of California, Los Angeles

  14. Eyes-on-Me: Scalable RAG Poisoning through Transferable Attention-Steering Attractors

    Oct 1, 2025Yen-Shan Chen, Sian-Yao Huang, Cheng-Lin Yang +1Language Model SteeringRAG Poisoning Attacks

    CyCraft AI Lab, Taiwan · National Taiwan University

  15. VISOR++: Universal Visual Inputs based Steering for Large Vision Language Models

    Sep 29, 2025Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Mansi PhuteLanguage Model SteeringLarge Vision-Language Models

    HiddenLayer, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  16. EasySteer: A Unified Framework for High-Performance and Extensible LLM Steering

    Sep 29, 2025Haolei Xu, Xinyu Mei, Yuchen Yan +5Language Model SteeringActivation Steering

    1Zhejiang University

  17. Breaking the Mirror: Activation-Based Mitigation of Self-Preference in LLM Evaluators

    Sep 3, 2025Dani Roytburg, Matthew Bozoukov, Matthew Nguyen +3LLM-as-a-JudgeLanguage Model Steering

    School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 · Martian Research San Francisco, CA, 94105

  18. Adaptive Activation Steering for Efficient LLM Reasoning via Closed-Loop PID Control

    Jun 23, 2025Aryasomayajula Ram BharadwajLanguage Model SteeringEfficient Language Model Inference

    Independent Researcher

  19. REAL: Reading Out Transformer Activations for Precise Localization in Language Model Steering

    Jun 10, 2025Li-Ming Zhan, Bo Liu, Chengqiang Xie +2Transformer InterpretabilityLanguage Model Steering

    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong S.A.R.

  20. LiSeCo: Linear Semantic Control for Language Generation

    May 24, 2024Emily Cheng, Carmen Amo AlonsoLanguage Model SteeringControllable Text Generation

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · Stanford University, CA, USA

  21. SaFeR-Steer: Evolving Multi-Turn MLLMs via Synthetic Bootstrapping and Feedback Dynamics

    Date pendingHaolong Hu, Hanyu Li, Tiancheng He +6Language Model SteeringMultimodal Large Language Models

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · West China Biomedical Big Data Center, Sichuan University +2