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pith:2023:CG2QVDPKJ4T3LFO4E3NSS7H5C2

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Improving Activation Steering in Language Models with Mean-Centring

Dylan Cope, Murray Shanahan, Nandi Schoots, Ole Jorgensen

arxiv:2312.03813 v1 · 2023-12-06 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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Canonical hash

11b50a8dea4f27b595dc26db297cfd16be9bc8e9ab7e02ac304e1e9126f11b75

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arxiv: 2312.03813 · arxiv_version: 2312.03813v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.03813 · pith_short_12: CG2QVDPKJ4T3 · pith_short_16: CG2QVDPKJ4T3LFO4 · pith_short_8: CG2QVDPK

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CG2QVDPKJ4T3LFO4E3NSS7H5C2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
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