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  1. Target-Language Generation in Multilingual Models: Activation Steering and Optimal Control

    Sep 15, 2026James A. Michaelov, Carmen Amo Alonso, Tyler A. Chang +1Multilingual Language ModelsLinear Activation Steering

  2. GEOSTEER: Geodesic Optimization for Activation Steering in Large Language Models

    Sep 11, 2026Xuan Cuong Ngo, Hao Vo, Ngan LeLinear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  3. GAPS: Dimension-Level Gates for Conditional Activation Steering

    Sep 1, 2026Moghis Fereidouni, Muhammad Umair Haider, Hassan Sajjad +1Linear Activation SteeringModel Activations

  4. Topological Steering

    Sep 1, 2026Benoît Guérand, Tan Minh NguyenLinear Activation SteeringSteering

  5. Attribute-Based Activation Steering of LLMs for Group-Specific Explanation Generation

    Aug 29, 2026Leandra Fichtel, Janek Prange, Henning WachsmuthExplanationsLinear Activation Steering

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

    Aug 9, 2026Muhammad Faishal Adly Nelwan, Alfan Farizki WicaksonoLinear Activation SteeringModel Activations

  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 ChenLarge Language Models FailLinear Activation Steering

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

    Aug 6, 2026Mehrshad Saadatinia, Parsa Razmara, Ardalan Aryashad +2Linear Activation SteeringSteering

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

    Aug 5, 2026Hongsheng Wang, Philipp KoehnMultilingual Language ModelsProtein Language Model

  10. Feed-Forward Steering in Transformer Residual Dynamics

    Aug 3, 2026Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Radu StateTransformer Residual StreamsSelf-Attention Mechanism

  11. Forecasting Side Effects of Activation Steering

    Jul 28, 2026Chong Yong Ong, Alson Wei Jie Sim, Peixin Zhang +1Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

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

    Jul 28, 2026Jiaran Ye, Lingxu Ran, Zijun Yao +5Linear Activation SteeringSteering

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

    Jul 25, 2026Akhil Rajeev P, Manoj Balaji JLinear Activation SteeringGender

  14. Steering Robustness into World Action Models via Mechanistic Interpretability and Optimal Control

    Jul 16, 2026Jihoon Hong, Julian Skifstad, Qiyue Dai +2Linear Activation SteeringWorld Models

  15. Conditional Optimal Bridge for Riemannian Activation Steering

    Jul 12, 2026Seyed Arshan Dalili, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan +1Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  16. Present but Rescaled: Chat-to-Agent Transfer of Additive Activation Steering

    Jul 10, 2026Lucas PintoLinear Activation SteeringModel Activations

  17. A Coin Flip Per Token: Bernoulli Sparse Steering of Large Language Models

    Jul 6, 2026Nima Eshraghi, Lovedeep Gondara, Yuqing Huang +5Linear Activation SteeringSteering

  18. A Geometric Perspective on Composable Emotion Steering in Text-to-Speech Models

    Jul 1, 2026Siyi Wang, James Bailey, Ting DangSpeech Language ModelsText-To-Speech

  19. Neural Procedural Memory: Empowering LLM Agents with Implicit Activation Steering

    Jun 29, 2026Chengfeng Zhao, Yuqiao Tan, Shizhu He +3Large Language Model AgentsAgent Memory

  20. SHIFT: Gate-Modulated Activation Steering for Knowledge Conflict Mitigation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Jun 26, 2026Ruochang Li, Pengcheng Huang, Zhenghao Liu +5Retrieval-Augmented GenerationKnowledge Conflicts

  21. Parallel Manifold Steering: Efficient Adaptation of Large Associative Memories via Residual Energy Shaping

    Jun 23, 2026Kanishk AwadhiyaSelf-Attention MechanismAssociative Memory

  22. The Topology of Ill-Posed Questions: Persistent Homology for Detection and Steering in LLMs

    Jun 22, 2026Guangyu Jiang, Sizhe Tang, Mahdi Imani +1Hidden StatesResponses

  23. GEMS: Geometric Constraints Enable Multi-Semantic Superposition in LLMs

    Jun 18, 2026Yu DengLinear Activation SteeringSteering

  24. Leverage Is Not Reach: A Control-Window Law for Single-Neuron Steering in Language Models

    Jun 18, 2026Hongliang LiuLinear Activation SteeringModel Activations

  25. 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 SteeringInference-Time Control

  26. High-Dimensional Random Projection for Activation Steering in Language Models

    Jun 13, 2026Minh-Hieu Pham, Bach Do, Laziz Abdullaev +2Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

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

    Jun 11, 2026Atharva Gupta, Dhruv Kumar, Murari Mandal +1Tabular Foundation ModelsLinear Activation Steering

  28. When is Your LLM Steerable?

    Jun 10, 2026Chenrui Fan, Yize Cheng, Ming Li +2Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  29. Activation Steering Induces Emergent Misalignment: A More Comprehensive Evaluation

    Jun 7, 2026Qi Cao, Jian Lou, Meiting Liu +4Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  30. Beyond Linear Activation Steering: Invertible Latent Transformations for Controlling LLM Behavior

    Jun 7, 2026Tuc Nguyen, Thai LeLinear Activation SteeringSteering

  31. Pre-Intervention Prediction of Sparse Autoencoder Steering Side Effects

    Jun 6, 2026Evan DuanSparse AutoencodersLinear Activation Steering

  32. Adversarial Robustness of Activation Steering in Large Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Kien Le, Thai LeLinear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  33. A Geometric Account of Activation Steering through Angle-Norm Decomposition

    Jun 4, 2026Georgii Aparin, Tatiana GaintsevaLinear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  34. SALSA: Speech Aware LLM Adaptation via Learned Steering Activation Vectors

    May 30, 2026Yekaterina Yegorova, Argyrios Gerogiannis, Haolong Zheng +3Large Audio Language ModelsLarge Language Model Adaptation

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

    May 29, 2026Ioannis Prokopiou, Pantelis Vikatos, Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas +2Linear Activation SteeringModulation

  36. UniSteer: Text-Guided Flow Matching in Activation Space for Versatile LLM Steering

    May 28, 2026Yingdong Shi, Ruiming Zhang, Changming Li +4Linear Activation SteeringFlow-Matching Loss

  37. Riemannian-Manifold Steering: Geometry-Aware Generative Autoencoders for Label-Free Steering

    May 24, 2026Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval, Philip Quirke +4Linear Activation SteeringSteering

  38. Steered Generation via Gradient-Based Optimization on Sparse Query Features

    May 21, 2026Sumanta Bhattacharyya, Pedram RooshenasLinear Activation SteeringSteering

  39. Manifold-Guided Attention Steering

    May 20, 2026Ian Li, Kapilesh Guruprasad, Raunak Sengupta +3LLM Reasoning MethodsLinear Activation Steering

  40. FishBack: Pullback Fisher Geometry for Optimal Activation Steering in Transformers

    May 17, 2026Sihan Wang, Jiayi ZhaoLinear Activation SteeringSteering

  41. Contrastive Conceptor Activation Steering (COAST): Unlocking Vision-Language-Action Models through Hidden States

    May 16, 2026Miranda Muqing Miao, Subin Kim, Brandon Yang +1Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRecent Vision-Language Models

  42. Non-linear Interventions on Large Language Models

    May 14, 2026Sangwoo KimLinear Activation SteeringCausal Intervention

  43. Inference-Time Machine Unlearning via Gated Activation Redirection

    May 12, 2026Vinícius Conte Turani, Otávio Parraga, João Vitor Boer Abitante +7Machine UnlearningLinear Activation Steering

  44. Targeted Neuron Modulation via Contrastive Pair Search

    May 12, 2026Sam Herring, Jake Naviasky, Karan MalhotraLinear Activation SteeringInstruction Tuning

  45. Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions

    May 11, 2026Diancheng Kang, Zheyuan Liu, Ningshan Ma +3Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  46. When Is Rank-1 Steering Cheap? Geometry, Granularity, and Budgeted Search

    May 9, 2026John T. Robertson, Jianing Zhu, Haris Vikalo +1Linear Activation SteeringSteering

  47. HyperTransport: Amortized Conditioning of T2I Generative Models

    May 7, 2026Valentino Maiorca, Eleonora Gualdoni, Xavier Suau +3Linear Activation SteeringCloud-Style Transports

  48. Don't Lose Focus: Activation Steering via Key-Orthogonal Projections

    May 7, 2026Haoyan Luo, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Mateja JamnikLinear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  49. TACT: Mitigating Overthinking and Overacting in Coding Agents via Activation Steering

    May 7, 2026Yuan Sui, Yulin Chen, Yibo Li +6Coding AgentsLinear Activation Steering

  50. Beyond Steering Vector: Flow-based Activation Steering for Inference-Time Intervention

    May 7, 2026Zehao Jin, Ruixuan Deng, Junran Wang +2Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  51. Conceptors for Semantic Steering

    May 6, 2026Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Young-Min Cho, Ren Tao +6Linear Activation SteeringSteering

  52. Steer Like the LLM: Activation Steering that Mimics Prompting

    May 5, 2026Geert Heyman, Frederik VandeputteLinear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  53. The Cylindrical Representation Hypothesis for Language Model Steering

    May 3, 2026Lang Gao, Jinghui Zhang, Wei Liu +7Linear Activation SteeringSteering

  54. Minimizing Collateral Damage in Activation Steering

    May 1, 2026Tam Nguyen, Tu Anh Nguyen, Sina Alemohammad +1Linear Activation SteeringModel Activations

  55. Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models

    Apr 27, 2026Brandon Hsu, Daniel Beaglehole, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan +1Linear Activation SteeringActivation Functions

  56. Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control

    Apr 21, 2026Julian Skifstad, Xinyue Annie Yang, Glen ChouLinear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

  57. Endogenous Resistance to Activation Steering in Language Models

    Feb 6, 2026Alex McKenzie, Keenan Pepper, Stijn Servaes +6Linear Activation SteeringActivation Steering

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

    Jun 10, 2025Li-Ming Zhan, Bo Liu, Chengqiang Xie +2Linear Activation SteeringTruth