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Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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This paper cites An introduction to representation engineering: Activation steering.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression An introduction to representation engineering: Activation steering

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This paper cites Collective Thomson scattering in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma and the application to induced Compton scattering.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Collective Thomson scattering in magnetized electron and positron pair plasma and the application to induced Compton scattering

Reference 2

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This paper cites Mui, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, and Huan Wang.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Mui, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, and Huan Wang

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This paper cites Seal: Steer- able reasoning calibration of large language models for free.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Seal: Steer- able reasoning calibration of large language models for free

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This paper cites Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs

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This paper cites Compressed Chain of Thought: Efficient Reasoning Through Dense Representations.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Compressed Chain of Thought: Efficient Reasoning Through Dense Representations

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This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

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This paper cites Deepseek -r1-distill-qwen-7b.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Deepseek -r1-distill-qwen-7b

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This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites Scaling Reasoning, Losing Control: Evaluating Instruction Following in Large Reasoning Models.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Scaling Reasoning, Losing Control: Evaluating Instruction Following in Large Reasoning Models

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This paper cites Global solutions of the 3D incompressible inhomogeneous viscoelastic system.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Global solutions of the 3D incompressible inhomogeneous viscoelastic system

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This paper cites Measuring mathematical problem solving with the math dataset.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Measuring mathematical problem solving with the math dataset

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Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Measuring mathematical problem solving with the math dataset

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This paper cites ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites Uncovering Latent Chain of Thought Vectors in Language Models.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Uncovering Latent Chain of Thought Vectors in Language Models

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This paper cites Multivariate brain-cognition associations in euthymic bipolar disorder.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Multivariate brain-cognition associations in euthymic bipolar disorder

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This paper cites Locating and editing factual associa- tions in gpt.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Locating and editing factual associa- tions in gpt

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This paper cites s1: Simple test-time scaling.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression s1: Simple test-time scaling

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This paper cites Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Improving Instruction-Following in Language Models through Activation Steering

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This paper cites Energy and policy considerations for deep learning in nlp.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Energy and policy considerations for deep learning in nlp

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This paper cites Qwq -32b: A 32 b reasoning model from the qwen series.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Qwq -32b: A 32 b reasoning model from the qwen series

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This paper cites Steering language models with activation engineering.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Steering language models with activation engineering

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This paper cites Visualizing data using t-sne.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Visualizing data using t-sne

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This paper cites Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

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Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Self-consistency improves chain of thought reasoning in language models

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This paper cites Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of o1-Like LLMs.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of o1-Like LLMs

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This paper cites Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models

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This paper cites Tokenskip: Controllable chain-of-thought compression in llms.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Tokenskip: Controllable chain-of-thought compression in llms

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This paper cites Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less

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Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Dynamic early exit in reasoning models

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This paper cites Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models

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This paper cites Compressed chain of thought: Efficient reasoning through dense contemplation tokens.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Compressed chain of thought: Efficient reasoning through dense contemplation tokens

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This paper cites A.1.5 Putting the pieces together With ˜z − z = δ + r(γ) and the triangle inequality, ∥˜z − z∥2 2 ≤ ∥δ∥2 + ∥r(γ)∥2 2 (8) ≤ ∥δ∥2 2 + 2∥δ∥2∥r(γ)∥2 + ∥r(γ)∥2.

Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression A.1.5 Putting the pieces together With ˜z − z = δ + r(γ) and the triangle inequality, ∥˜z − z∥2 2 ≤ ∥δ∥2 + ∥r(γ)∥2 2 (8) ≤ ∥δ∥2 2 + 2∥δ∥2∥r(γ)∥2 + ∥r(γ)∥2

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Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression Alternatively,

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Pith citing papers

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Painless Activation Steering: An Automated, Lightweight Approach for Post-Training Large Language Models cites this paper.

Painless Activation Steering: An Automated, Lightweight Approach for Post-Training Large Language Models Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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Probing the Difficulty Perception Mechanism of Large Language Models cites this paper.

Probing the Difficulty Perception Mechanism of Large Language Models Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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Video Reasoning without Training cites this paper.

Video Reasoning without Training Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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The Master Key Hypothesis: Unlocking Cross-Model Capability Transfer via Linear Subspace Alignment cites this paper.

The Master Key Hypothesis: Unlocking Cross-Model Capability Transfer via Linear Subspace Alignment Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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How Do Answer Tokens Read Reasoning Traces? Self-Reading Patterns in Thinking LLMs for Quantitative Reasoning cites this paper.

How Do Answer Tokens Read Reasoning Traces? Self-Reading Patterns in Thinking LLMs for Quantitative Reasoning Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models cites this paper.

Contextual Linear Activation Steering of Language Models Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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The Hidden Signal of Verifier Strictness: Controlling and Improving Step-Wise Verification via Selective Latent Steering cites this paper.

The Hidden Signal of Verifier Strictness: Controlling and Improving Step-Wise Verification via Selective Latent Steering Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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When is Your LLM Steerable? cites this paper.

When is Your LLM Steerable? Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression

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