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pith:2024:KGFX5ELAWOIBHEOQWRHBX5CTJR

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Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

Alessandro Stolfo, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Safoora Yousefi, Vidhisha Balachandran

arxiv:2410.12877 v2 · 2024-10-15 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:48:20.457294Z
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518b7e9160b3901391d0b44e1bf4534c7de77dc7c2b2160c698df47dc0fadc3a

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arxiv: 2410.12877 · arxiv_version: 2410.12877v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.12877 · pith_short_12: KGFX5ELAWOIB · pith_short_16: KGFX5ELAWOIBHEOQ · pith_short_8: KGFX5ELA

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KGFX5ELAWOIBHEOQWRHBX5CTJR \
  | 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())"
# expect: 518b7e9160b3901391d0b44e1bf4534c7de77dc7c2b2160c698df47dc0fadc3a

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