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pith:STOKPVAD

pith:2025:STOKPVAD7EPF5LCG4CEXFEECQP

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Understanding (Un)Reliability of Steering Vectors in Language Models

Carsten Eickhoff, David Krueger, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Joschka Braun, Seyed Ali Bahrainian

arxiv:2505.22637 v1 · 2025-05-28 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:11:28.203783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

94dca7d403f91e5eac46e08972908283dc73010aff5e7c5182cc4c6351baf8df

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arxiv: 2505.22637 · arxiv_version: 2505.22637v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.22637 · pith_short_12: STOKPVAD7EPF · pith_short_16: STOKPVAD7EPF5LCG · pith_short_8: STOKPVAD

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/STOKPVAD7EPF5LCG4CEXFEECQP \
  | 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: 94dca7d403f91e5eac46e08972908283dc73010aff5e7c5182cc4c6351baf8df

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-28T17:53:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9c4670352a5b4ade7de80ff884fa804eb08622df06f11933389fb1ccca42837"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2505.22637",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}