GCAD reduces coherence drift from -18.6 to -1.9 and raises turn-10 trait expression from 78.0 to 93.1 in persona-steering tasks by using gated attention-delta interventions from system prompts.
Extending activation steering to broad skills and multiple behaviours.arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05767
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PSR models that estimate token-specific steering coefficients from activations outperform standard activation steering and compare favorably to prompting on steering benchmarks.
Systematic experiments reveal that activation steering trades fluency for concept control, is less effective on instruction-tuned models, and that prompting/SFT excel at injection but not removal, with textual metrics correlating to LLM judges.
CLAS dynamically adapts linear activation steering strengths to context, outperforming fixed-strength steering and matching or exceeding ReFT and LoRA on eleven benchmarks across four model families with limited labeled data.
The Master Key Hypothesis states that capabilities are low-dimensional directions transferable across models through linear subspace alignment, with UNLOCK demonstrating gains such as 12.1% accuracy improvement on MATH when transferring CoT from 14B to 7B models.
Introduces multitask RepE to improve readability of LLM-generated code while analyzing the tradeoff with correctness via theory and experiments.
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Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions
GCAD reduces coherence drift from -18.6 to -1.9 and raises turn-10 trait expression from 78.0 to 93.1 in persona-steering tasks by using gated attention-delta interventions from system prompts.
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Steer Like the LLM: Activation Steering that Mimics Prompting
PSR models that estimate token-specific steering coefficients from activations outperform standard activation steering and compare favorably to prompting on steering benchmarks.
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On The Effectiveness-Fluency Trade-Off In LLM Conditioning: A Systematic Study
Systematic experiments reveal that activation steering trades fluency for concept control, is less effective on instruction-tuned models, and that prompting/SFT excel at injection but not removal, with textual metrics correlating to LLM judges.
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Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models
CLAS dynamically adapts linear activation steering strengths to context, outperforming fixed-strength steering and matching or exceeding ReFT and LoRA on eleven benchmarks across four model families with limited labeled data.
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The Master Key Hypothesis: Unlocking Cross-Model Capability Transfer via Linear Subspace Alignment
The Master Key Hypothesis states that capabilities are low-dimensional directions transferable across models through linear subspace alignment, with UNLOCK demonstrating gains such as 12.1% accuracy improvement on MATH when transferring CoT from 14B to 7B models.
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Towards the Readability of LLM-Generated Codes through Multitask Representation Engineering
Introduces multitask RepE to improve readability of LLM-generated code while analyzing the tradeoff with correctness via theory and experiments.
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