INNSteer learns an invertible neural network to map LLM activations into a latent space where linear steering becomes more effective, then applies the inverse map to produce nonlinear interventions in the original space.
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A unified understanding and evaluation of steering methods.arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02716
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First systematic test shows activation steering robustness drops sharply (up to 64%) under adversarial input perturbations across multiple extraction methods, models, and personas.
A geometric decomposition framework shows that affine transformations best recover prompt-induced task geometry and behavior in language and vision models across multiple datasets.
FishBack derives a closed-form minimum-distortion steering direction from the pullback Fisher metric of the softmax layer, outperforming Euclidean baselines on GPT-2 verb-morphology tasks with lower off-target KL divergence.
Prompt-boundary directional alignment enables geometry-guided search that cuts trials to 95% best utility by 39.8% on average, while concept granularity predicts remaining difficulty via directional heterogeneity.
Activation steering produces synthetic safety-violating data that improves downstream classifiers over prompting on most tested concepts when a harmonic mean of alignment, coherence, and diversity is optimized.
VSPO samples rollouts at varying steering intensities to improve behavioral control in LLMs while preserving task accuracy.
Steer-to-Detect learns a steering vector injected into LLM hidden states to boost class separability and applies hypothesis testing with finite-sample Type I/II error guarantees for generated-text detection.
LLMs perform in-context learning as trajectories through a structured low-dimensional conceptual belief space, with the structure visible in both behavior and internal representations and causally manipulable via interventions.
K-Steering uses a non-linear multi-label classifier on activations to compute gradient-based intervention directions for unified multi-attribute control in LLMs, outperforming linear baselines on ToneBank and DebateMix benchmarks across three model families.
SALSA adapts speech-aware LLMs via supervised layer-wise steering vectors, reporting up to 46.8% relative gains over zero-shot on out-of-domain speech benchmarks.
Prototype-Based Sparse Steering decomposes query activations with SAEs and optimizes sparse features via gradients to steer LLM outputs toward specific behaviors.
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Beyond Linear Activation Steering: Invertible Latent Transformations for Controlling LLM Behavior
INNSteer learns an invertible neural network to map LLM activations into a latent space where linear steering becomes more effective, then applies the inverse map to produce nonlinear interventions in the original space.
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Adversarial Robustness of Activation Steering in Large Language Models
First systematic test shows activation steering robustness drops sharply (up to 64%) under adversarial input perturbations across multiple extraction methods, models, and personas.
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FishBack: Pullback Fisher Geometry for Optimal Activation Steering in Transformers
FishBack derives a closed-form minimum-distortion steering direction from the pullback Fisher metric of the softmax layer, outperforming Euclidean baselines on GPT-2 verb-morphology tasks with lower off-target KL divergence.
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When Is Rank-1 Steering Cheap? Geometry, Granularity, and Budgeted Search
Prompt-boundary directional alignment enables geometry-guided search that cuts trials to 95% best utility by 39.8% on average, while concept granularity predicts remaining difficulty via directional heterogeneity.
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Activation Steering for Synthetic Data Generation: The Role of Diversity in Downstream Safety Detection
Activation steering produces synthetic safety-violating data that improves downstream classifiers over prompting on most tested concepts when a harmonic mean of alignment, coherence, and diversity is optimized.
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VSPO: Vector-Steered Policy Optimization for Behavioral Control
VSPO samples rollouts at varying steering intensities to improve behavioral control in LLMs while preserving task accuracy.
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Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models
K-Steering uses a non-linear multi-label classifier on activations to compute gradient-based intervention directions for unified multi-attribute control in LLMs, outperforming linear baselines on ToneBank and DebateMix benchmarks across three model families.
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Steered Generation via Gradient-Based Optimization on Sparse Query Features
Prototype-Based Sparse Steering decomposes query activations with SAEs and optimizes sparse features via gradients to steer LLM outputs toward specific behaviors.