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pith:2025:XPATLXYNGQNJA2M7MSX7K5O5GW

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Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models

Bear H\"aon, Claire Tomlin, Ian Chuang, Kaylene Stocking

arxiv:2509.00328 v1 · 2025-08-30 · cs.RO · cs.LG

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arxiv: 2509.00328 · arxiv_version: 2509.00328v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.00328 · pith_short_12: XPATLXYNGQNJ · pith_short_16: XPATLXYNGQNJA2M7 · pith_short_8: XPATLXYN

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XPATLXYNGQNJA2M7MSX7K5O5GW \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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