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Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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ReGA: Model-Based Safeguard for LLMs via Representation-Guided Abstraction cites this paper.

ReGA: Model-Based Safeguard for LLMs via Representation-Guided Abstraction Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 64

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Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following cites this paper.

Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System cites this paper.

MemOS: A Memory OS for AI System Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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RACC: Representation-Aware Coverage Criteria for LLM Safety Testing cites this paper.

RACC: Representation-Aware Coverage Criteria for LLM Safety Testing Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 44

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Causal Evidence that Language Models use Confidence to Drive Behavior cites this paper.

Causal Evidence that Language Models use Confidence to Drive Behavior Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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How LLMs Detect and Correct Their Own Errors: The Role of Internal Confidence Signals cites this paper.

How LLMs Detect and Correct Their Own Errors: The Role of Internal Confidence Signals Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Do Large Language Models Plan Answer Positions? Position Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Generation cites this paper.

Do Large Language Models Plan Answer Positions? Position Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Generation Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Instruction Tuning Changes How Upstream State Conditions Late Readout: A Cross-Patching Diagnostic cites this paper.

Instruction Tuning Changes How Upstream State Conditions Late Readout: A Cross-Patching Diagnostic Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions cites this paper.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions cites this paper.

Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 13

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Enabling Performant and Flexible Model-Internal Observability for LLM Inference cites this paper.

Enabling Performant and Flexible Model-Internal Observability for LLM Inference Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 37

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Residual Paving: Diagnosing the Routing Bottleneck in Selective Refusal Editing cites this paper.

Residual Paving: Diagnosing the Routing Bottleneck in Selective Refusal Editing Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 14

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Steered Generation via Gradient-Based Optimization on Sparse Query Features cites this paper.

Steered Generation via Gradient-Based Optimization on Sparse Query Features Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 39

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When Correct Beliefs Collapse: Epistemic Resilience of LLMs under Clinical Pressure cites this paper.

When Correct Beliefs Collapse: Epistemic Resilience of LLMs under Clinical Pressure Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Activation Steering for Synthetic Data Generation: The Role of Diversity in Downstream Safety Detection cites this paper.

Activation Steering for Synthetic Data Generation: The Role of Diversity in Downstream Safety Detection Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 47

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Steer Where It Matters: Token-Level Visual-Sensitivity Steering for LVLMs Hallucination Mitigation cites this paper.

Steer Where It Matters: Token-Level Visual-Sensitivity Steering for LVLMs Hallucination Mitigation Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Answer Engineering: Local Trajectory Editing for Protocol-Constrained Decision Making in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Answer Engineering: Local Trajectory Editing for Protocol-Constrained Decision Making in Large Language Models Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 76

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Plans Don't Persist: Why Context Management Is Load Bearing for LLM Agents cites this paper.

Plans Don't Persist: Why Context Management Is Load Bearing for LLM Agents Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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The Computational Basis of Confidence in Large Language Models cites this paper.

The Computational Basis of Confidence in Large Language Models Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models cites this paper.

Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Reference 144

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