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  1. Closed-Loop Refinement and Execution for Learned Driving Planners

    Oct 1, 2026Huaijin Hu, Shanting Wang, Zhongyu Mo +1Autonomous Driving SimulationClosed Loop

    Systems Engineering Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

  2. STEER: Reducing Inference Cost in Relational Foundation Models through Semantically Informed Sampling

    Oct 1, 2026Abdalla Mohamed, Ashraf AboulnagaRelational DatabasesInference Cost

    University of Texas at Arlington

  3. PrefPI: Preference-Guided Steering into Out-of-Distribution Behaviors

    Sep 30, 2026Seungeun Rho, Wontaek Kim, Danfei Xu +1Robot PoliciesSteering

    School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology

  4. Coverage Before Control: Route-Instruction Grounding and Steering for Controllable Retrosynthesis

    Sep 30, 2026Xuemin Chen, Xiaozhuang Song, Xinjian Zhao +2InstructionInstruction-Tuned Models

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  5. Steering Fields: Adaptive Vector Fields for Safe Image Generation and Beyond

    Sep 30, 2026Simone Facchiano, Jan Eric Lenssen, Bernt Schiele +3Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsSteering

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics · Sapienza University of Rome

  6. SteerQuant: Steering Quantization Error with Action-Guided Scaling in World-Action Models

    Sep 30, 2026Yunhan Wang, Haodong Wang, Zhiming Liu +7SteeringSequential Scaling

    Tongji · HKUST · HIT +1

  7. Cue the Flow: Steering Flow-Matching Policies for Open-World Delivery Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxuan Wang, Griffin Galimi, Junhua Huang +4Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionSteering

    University of Illinois Chicago · University of California, Los Angeles

  8. 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

  9. EvoSteer: Online Self-Evolving Graph Orchestration via Reference-Anchored Credit Assignment

    Sep 29, 2026Mingda Zhang, Hanwen Zhang, Qiang Huang +5Self-EvolutionOrchestration

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · Dalian University of Technology, China · Fudan University, China +3

  10. Observability Analysis and Online Calibration of Visual-Inertial-Wheel Odometry for 4WIS4WID Mobile Robots

    Sep 29, 2026Branimir Ćaran, Vladimir Milić, Bojan Šekoranja +1OdometryWheel

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia · Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia

  11. EmoRES-TTS: Residual-Enhanced Vector Steering for Emotional Speech Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Kuan-Po Huang, Haohe Liu, Puyuan Peng +5Emotion RecognitionSinging Voice Conversion

    Reality Labs at Meta · National Taiwan University · FAIR at Meta

  12. Devils in Question Relay: Source-Conditioned Relay Steering to Mitigate Hallucinations in Audio-visual Large Language Models

    Sep 29, 2026Yu Zhang, Pingrui Zhang, Xuefeng Bai +3Large Language Model HallucinationMultimodal Large Language Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

  13. JudgeProfile: Understanding and Steering Subjectivity in LLM Judges

    Sep 29, 2026Qi Cao, Kangning Liu, Xuan Kan +10Large Language Model JudgesJudgement

    Meta · University of California San Diego · The University of Hong Kong +1

  14. CounterSteer: Suppressing Indirect Prompt Injection with Activation Steering

    Sep 29, 2026Mark RussinovichIndirect Prompt InjectionInference-Time Defense

    Microsoft Azure

  15. Commutator Memory: Sparse, Path-Local Reading and Steering in Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026John SweeneyModel WeightsParametric Memory

    Sideplane AI

  16. Learning to Steer, Steering to See: Unveiling the Geometry of RLVR in Large Language Models via Trainable Vectors

    Sep 28, 2026Yuchen Cai, Ding Cao, Qixiang Yin +10Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Training

    USTC · Tencent Hunyuan · BUPT

  17. Steering Language Model Goals with Value Transplant

    Sep 28, 2026Pengcheng Jiang, Fabien RogerLatent Feature InterventionsLarge Reasoning Models

    Anthropic Fellows Program · Anthropic

  18. Controlling Speaking Rate in Autoregressive TTS via Activation Steering

    Sep 27, 2026Francesco Verdini, Antonis Asonitis, Aref Farhadipour +4Autoregressive Text-To-SpeechSeed-Tts-Eval Benchmark

    AGIGO · Sapienza University of Rome · ETH Zurich +1

  19. BOReFT: Manifold Steering of Language Models for Black-box Optimization

    Sep 27, 2026Dhruv Agarwal, Rico Angell, Kavitha Srinivas +4Bayesian OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · New York University · IBM Research +1

  20. Minimally Invasive Steering of Language Models

    Sep 24, 2026Taha Entesari, Jingyu Zhang, Daniel Khashabi +1SteeringFrozen Language Model

    Johns Hopkins University

  21. Looks the Same, Answers Differently: Flip-Direction Steering for Robust Vision-Language Reasoning

    Sep 23, 2026Yeonsung Jung, Joonhyun Jeong, Hoang Pham +4Visual ReasoningSteering

    Graduate School of AI, KAIST · NAVER Cloud · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University +3

  22. CAVEAT: Towards Robust Computer-Use Agents in Incentive-Misaligned Environments

    Sep 23, 2026Yuxuan Li, Will Epperson, Wesley Deng +1Computer-Use AgentsIncentives

    Carnegie Mellon University · Microsoft Research

  23. Which Objectives Need a Dial? Predicting Objective Conflict and Covering Trade-offs in Steerable Pluralistic Alignment

    Sep 22, 2026David Tsoi, Esra DönmezPluralistic AlignmentTrade-Off

    Department of Computer Science, University of Stuttgart · Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart · Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems, University of Stuttgart

  24. Steerable and Reactive Grasping Through Modular Design with a Three-Point Interface

    Sep 21, 2026Andrew Nguyen, Yonghyeon Lee, Sangbae KimRobotic GraspingProprioception

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. · Department of AI, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

  25. Minimum Time Trajectories for a Car-Like Mobile Robot Moving with Rigid Wheels Under Non-Sliding Constraints

    Sep 21, 2026Joseph Ben-Asher, Elon Rimon, Leeor RavinaWheelMobile Robots

    Dept. of AE, Technion, Israel. · Dept. of ME, Technion, Israel.

  26. The Answer-Basin Representation Hypothesis: We Are Not Probing or Steering Concepts

    Sep 21, 2026Manjiang Yu, Hongji Li, Zihan Wang +5HypothesisBasin

    The University of Queensland · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Institute of Science Tokyo

  27. What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior

    Sep 21, 2026Débora Oliveira Makowski, Samiran Gode, Abhijeet Nayak +4Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Foundation Models

    University of Technology Nuremberg. · ETH Zürich. · Inria, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, CNRS, PSL Research University.

  28. SPeaR: Test-Time Adaptation with Steering Primitives for Realigning Representations

    Sep 21, 2026Muhammad Sudipto Siam Dip, Ali EtemadStable Test-Time AdaptationTest-Time Adaptation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Queen’s University, Canada

  29. Same Outcome, Different Readout: What Does a Steerable Valence Direction in LLMs Represent?

    Sep 19, 2026Weihan Li, Xinlei Chen, Yuhan Song +2ReadoutLinear Activation Steering

    The University of Tokyo · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  30. A Novel Path-Tracking Algorithm for Automated Tractor-Trailer Forward and Backward Maneuvers

    Sep 18, 2026Alexandre Lombard, Florent Perronnet, Nicolas Gaud +1Advanced Jet TrainerSteering

    UTBM, CIAD, F-90010 Belfort cedex, France

  31. Deep Noir: Autonomous Steering Discovery via Architectural Chronometry in Transformer Models

    Sep 17, 2026Frank E. Bobe, Gregory D. Vetaw, Darshan W. Bryner +2Linear Activation SteeringSteering

    Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division

  32. Steering Equilibrium Selection in Regularized Self-Play via the Reference Policy

    Sep 17, 2026Luis LealNash EquilibriumSelf-Play

  33. Label-free steering: Compressing test-time reinforcement learning into bias-only subspaces

    Sep 16, 2026Naveen Vakada, Mingyuan Li, Shaoxiong JiStable Test-Time AdaptationTest-Time Adaptation

    University of Turku, Finland · ELLIS Institute Finland

  34. MAxBench: A Multinomial Concept Recovery Benchmark

    Sep 14, 2026Divya Appapogu, Freya Behrens, Yonatan Belinkov +1InterpretabilitySteering

    Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA · Department of Computer Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel · Department of Computer Science, Kempner Institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA

  35. Testing Between the Test Cases: Proving End-to-End Steering in Conditions You Never Drove

    Sep 10, 2026Menuka Ghalan, Charles Rodgers, Zachary D. AsherFormal VerificationSteering

    Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

  36. DiSCo: A Distribution-First Steering and Cultural Prior Evaluation Framework for Measuring Cultural Preference Bias in LLMs

    Sep 9, 2026Bhuvan Arora, Devesh Saraogi, Sravya Varada +1Large Language Model BiasMulti-Dimensional Evaluation

    BITS Pilani, Pilani, India.

  37. Active Adaptation, Not Static Defense: Temporal Dynamics of Preventative Steering in Adversarial Fine-Tuning

    Sep 9, 2026Jing Guan, Yachao Yang, Zhaoliang Liu +3Model-Agnostic DefenseLLM Defense Mechanisms

    JIUTIAN Research, Beijing, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  38. Proxy Policy Steering

    Sep 8, 2026Chuanruo Ning, Tianrui Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma +1Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

    Cornell University

  39. Compositional Multilingual and Behavioral Attribute Steering

    Sep 8, 2026Hyun Gu Kang, Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Baeumel +2Linear Activation SteeringSteering

    1German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) · 2Saarland University · Centre for European Research in Trusted AI (CERTAIN)

  40. Key Path Identification for Resolving Knowledge Conflicts via SAE-based Steering

    Sep 8, 2026Wenbo Zhang, Zhongxiang Sun, Zhiguang Han +1Sparse Autoencoder FeaturesSteering

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Nanyang Technological University

  41. Steering Interference Reflects the Model's Defaults, Not the Behavior Directions

    Sep 7, 2026Srikanth Malla, Chiho Choi, Joon Hee ChoiSteeringInterference

    Samsung Semiconductor US

  42. Beyond Shallow Alignment: How Post-Training Methods Determine Refusal Circuits And Steering Robustness

    Sep 3, 2026Hoang Cuong Nguyen, Mark Dras, Usman NaseemRefusalsLarge Language Model Alignment

    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  43. A Multi-Vine Soft Robot Enabling Accessible Working Channel and Steering

    Sep 3, 2026Reza Kashef, Cem Suulker, Mohammad Sheikh Sofla +1Soft RoboticsCatheters

    School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.

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

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

    University of Kentucky · Dalhousie University

  45. Topological Steering

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

    Department of Mathematics · National University of Singapore (NUS) · Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543

  46. Potential-Guided Particle Steering for Negation-Constrained Dexterous Grasping

    Sep 1, 2026Geonho Kim, SooGon Kim, Jongmin LeeRobotic GraspingGeometric Guidance

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chung-Ang University

  47. Controlling Refusal Behavior of LLMs via Stiefel-Constrained Rotation Steering

    Aug 31, 2026Kirill Bunin, Dmitry Bylinkin, Vladimir Aletov +3Linear Activation SteeringSteering

    1Basic Research of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (BRAIn Lab) · 2Kandinsky Lab · 3Innopolis University

  48. ALTSTEER: Selective Safety Steering for Moving Beyond Hard Refusals to Constructive Alternatives

    Aug 31, 2026Hoejoon Kwon, Byeonggeuk Lim, Kahyeon Kim +1SteeringRefusals

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University · Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University

  49. Interpreting and Steering for Safe and Correct Code Generation

    Aug 30, 2026Hao Yan, Ziyu YaoLarge Language Model SafetyVulnerable Code

    Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

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

    Aug 29, 2026Leandra Fichtel, Janek Prange, Henning WachsmuthExplainable AI MethodsLinear Activation Steering

    Leibniz University Hannover · Leibniz University Hannover, L3S Research Center

  51. SteerBench-Work: A Benchmark for Agent Steering at Action Boundaries

    Aug 12, 2026Oguz Serdar, Cuneyt MertayakLarge Language Model AgentsCommits

    AgentDock

  52. Forward Trajectory Steering for Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis

    Aug 11, 2026Sungje Park, Stephen TuHamilton-Jacobi ReachabilityReachability

    with the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

  53. Probing and steering biology across Boltz-1s trunk-diffusion boundary

    Aug 11, 2026Piotr Jedryszek, Tongmeng Xie, Adam Winnifrith +5Protein Structure PredictionModel Activations

    Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Evolvere Biosciences, London, UK · Independent Researcher +4

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

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

    Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Indonesia

  55. Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible

    Aug 9, 2026Yuxiao Li, Gjergji KasneciSteeringVectors

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

  56. Online Monitoring and Corrective Steering of Programming Agents

    Aug 7, 2026Shuyang Liu, Saman Dehghan, Ji Young Kim +3Automated Program RepairExacerbate Systemic Inefficiencies

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA · IBM, USA

  57. MI-MIDI: Mechanistic Interpretability of Text-to-MIDI Generation Models via Probing, Lenses and Steering

    Aug 6, 2026Jakub Poćwiardowski, Mateusz ModrzejewskiText-To-MusicText Generation

    Institute of Computer Science Warsaw University of Technology Warsaw, Poland

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

    Aug 6, 2026Ali Jalal-KamaliFrontier ModelsSteering

    USC Institute for Creative Technologies

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

    Aug 6, 2026Wenhao Mao, Chengbin Hou, Weixiao Wang +4Large Language Model PersonalizationAi-Assisted Writing

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

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

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

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA