Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering

As of 19 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 15 of 15 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2505.03189.

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measured 15 of 15 reference resolution

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Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-16T00:00:08.687935Z

measured 16 of 16 standing notices

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Source: scholarly_work_events, retraction_status_cache, observed 2026-08-19T06:32:44.657259+00:00

measured 1 of 1 inbound itemization

Pith citing papers itemized under the disclosed page cap.

Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-05-13T19:38:18.674355Z

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Source: arxiv_reference, observed 2026-05-13T19:43:11.578855Z

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Outbound references

Observation 997387e0-15fc-43cc-80c4-f72d534c6612 · outbound

This paper cites Improving Steering Vectors by Targeting Sparse Autoencoder Features.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Improving Steering Vectors by Targeting Sparse Autoencoder Features

Reference 3

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Observation 9b179569-00f7-4d91-8225-f9c2edbef8f0 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Reference 4

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Observation cf655b6e-b938-4b78-9e70-46d02e354207 · outbound

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Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Unresolved cited work

Reference 5

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Observation a966a15a-a961-467a-a241-ba23fc24ae71 · outbound

This paper cites Gemma Scope: Open Sparse Autoencoders Everywhere All At Once on Gemma 2.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Gemma Scope: Open Sparse Autoencoders Everywhere All At Once on Gemma 2

Reference 7

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Observation fb68dae8-d0a3-4756-baf3-704f4a97a111 · outbound

This paper cites Steering Language Model Refusal with Sparse Autoencoders.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Steering Language Model Refusal with Sparse Autoencoders

Reference 8

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Observation 85449692-d98b-4319-89f7-f733607e8850 · outbound

This paper cites Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition

Reference 9

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Observation 6b08bfed-7aa8-43f9-a237-80e4e7a0f8a8 · outbound

This paper cites Quantifying Generalization Complexity for Large Language Models.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Quantifying Generalization Complexity for Large Language Models

Reference 10

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Observation 3ed4fff6-f51d-4079-a994-a5c57306a5d0 · outbound

This paper cites Analyzing the Generalization and Reliability of Steering Vectors.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Analyzing the Generalization and Reliability of Steering Vectors

Reference 11

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Observation 14d9e900-3aca-4d32-a24f-43834c8a4be0 · outbound

This paper cites Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Reference 12

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Observation 135aaedd-947f-40a1-b935-a90d200eb639 · outbound

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Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Unresolved cited work

Reference 13

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Observation ca8a3810-cb36-4ccc-a131-9682b1896ee1 · outbound

This paper cites Fluent dreaming for language models.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Fluent dreaming for language models

Reference 14

Resolution: metadata mismatch; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-16T00:00:08.754544Z

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Observation 2ede3572-477b-4799-a5db-3bce0d7121eb · outbound

This paper cites Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering

Reference 15

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Observation 99daa571-48d6-411e-a589-d9d855167f9c · outbound

This paper cites The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

Reference 2020

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Observation 910af266-d3ef-4788-97c6-e44e8c4e72fc · outbound

This paper cites LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks

Reference 2024

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Observation ab260ca0-4f6b-4c00-a14c-f59339a338c6 · outbound

This paper cites Sviatoslav Chalnev, Matthew Siu, and Arthur Conmy.

Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering Sviatoslav Chalnev, Matthew Siu, and Arthur Conmy

Reference 2025

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Pith citing papers

Observation 695e2302-695d-470f-841f-a69637ecdf11 · inbound

An Independent Safety Evaluation of Kimi K2.5 cites this paper.

An Independent Safety Evaluation of Kimi K2.5 Patterns and Mechanisms of Contrastive Activation Engineering

Reference 97

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-13T19:43:11.580188Z

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