{"state_type":"pith_open_graph_state","state_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2025:TXRRNTSF247DRIRMQRO7GFISBG","merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","event_count":2,"valid_event_count":2,"invalid_event_count":0,"equivocation_count":0,"current":{"canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"1f9021851d36b2eb11b44d2f703a106810aa38c4b4dcd5c74f38f0b675c6ff4a","cross_cats_sorted":[],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.LG","submitted_at":"2025-10-05T18:05:28Z","title_canon_sha256":"542d15aebd9189d6a042300fd20f16698f2f29d0b3080c6fb84e2ba13650f03d"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2510.04309","kind":"arxiv","version":3}},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2510.04309","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2510.04309v3","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2510.04309","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"TXRRNTSF247D","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"TXRRNTSF247DRIRM","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"TXRRNTSF","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z"}],"graph_snapshots":[{"event_id":"sha256:9be2d79a630dfdbae864d6a05702c2f5081308b1537ae3368e8e6dbc4c43930e","target":"graph","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"author_claims":{"count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","strong_count":0},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"integrity":{"available":true,"clean":true,"detectors_run":[],"endpoint":"/pith/2510.04309/integrity.json","findings":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938","summary":{"advisory":0,"by_detector":{},"critical":0,"informational":0}},"paper":{"abstract_excerpt":"Controlling the behaviors of large language models (LLM) is fundamental to their safety alignment and reliable deployment. However, existing steering methods are primarily driven by empirical insights and lack theoretical performance guarantees. In this work, we develop a control-theoretic foundation for activation steering by showing that popular steering methods correspond to the proportional (P) controllers, with the steering vector serving as the feedback signal. Building on this finding, we propose Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Steering, a principled framework that leverages the ","authors_text":"Dung V. Nguyen, Hieu M. Vu, Lei Zhang, Nhi Y. Pham, Tan M. Nguyen","cross_cats":[],"headline":"","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.LG","submitted_at":"2025-10-05T18:05:28Z","title":"Activation Steering with a Feedback Controller"},"references":{"count":0,"internal_anchors":0,"resolved_work":0,"sample":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2510.04309","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"created_at":null,"id":null,"model_set":{},"one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"pith_extraction_headline":"","strongest_claim":"","weakest_assumption":""}},"verdict_id":null}}],"author_attestations":[],"timestamp_anchors":[],"storage_attestations":[],"citation_signatures":[],"replication_records":[],"corrections":[],"mirror_hints":[],"record_created":{"event_id":"sha256:01015d4ba15a5c11956fc9870882580a0c787d52cca66a5ec5bd3a47e75bca54","target":"record","created_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"attestation_state":"computed","canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"1f9021851d36b2eb11b44d2f703a106810aa38c4b4dcd5c74f38f0b675c6ff4a","cross_cats_sorted":[],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.LG","submitted_at":"2025-10-05T18:05:28Z","title_canon_sha256":"542d15aebd9189d6a042300fd20f16698f2f29d0b3080c6fb84e2ba13650f03d"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2510.04309","kind":"arxiv","version":3}},"canonical_sha256":"9de316ce45d73e38a22c845df3151209b860727c2c1d4125a8cf9e8b7f0dba07","receipt":{"algorithm":"ed25519","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","canonical_sha256":"9de316ce45d73e38a22c845df3151209b860727c2c1d4125a8cf9e8b7f0dba07","first_computed_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56.530485Z","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","kind":"pith_receipt","last_reissued_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56.530485Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","receipt_version":"0.3","signature_b64":"YXigH1UC2H0RlJYOBAsskhBzxZcOxBVHjp02GrHvnuu7p1941KLjvBitZfhWXOjRNFYhCUVY/s6jf4E+KGePBg==","signature_status":"signed_v1","signed_at":"2026-05-20T00:02:56.531272Z","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes"},"source_id":"2510.04309","source_kind":"arxiv","source_version":3}}},"equivocations":[],"invalid_events":[],"applied_event_ids":["sha256:01015d4ba15a5c11956fc9870882580a0c787d52cca66a5ec5bd3a47e75bca54","sha256:9be2d79a630dfdbae864d6a05702c2f5081308b1537ae3368e8e6dbc4c43930e"],"state_sha256":"89636fa0487c1518c7fb0beaabc88516f35c6d499d7a7de4d0b215eec352ffb7"}