LLMs prioritize task-appropriate reasoning over conflicting instructions, but reasoning types are linearly encoded in middle-to-late layers, allowing activation steering to raise instruction compliance by up to 29%.
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 16063– 16077
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Normalization plus deterministic parsing reduces content effects in LLM syllogistic reasoning and delivers top-5 performance on a multilingual SemEval benchmark.
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