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PublishedSeptember 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Read-Best Is Not Steer-Best: A Probing--Steering Layer Dissociation in Omni-Modal Large Language Models
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arXiv:2609.22135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal large language models integrate text, audio, and image signals into a shared residual stream, where concepts such as emotion can be linearly decoded and causally modified by activation steering. A common but rarely tested assumption is that
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