Steering vectors for refusal primarily modify the OV circuit in attention, ignore most of the QK circuit, and can be sparsified to 1-10% of dimensions while retaining performance.
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The survey organizes mechanistic interpretability techniques into a Locate-Steer-Improve framework to enable actionable improvements in LLM alignment, capability, and efficiency.
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What Drives Representation Steering? A Mechanistic Case Study on Steering Refusal
Steering vectors for refusal primarily modify the OV circuit in attention, ignore most of the QK circuit, and can be sparsified to 1-10% of dimensions while retaining performance.
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Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models
The survey organizes mechanistic interpretability techniques into a Locate-Steer-Improve framework to enable actionable improvements in LLM alignment, capability, and efficiency.