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PublishedOctober 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering
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arXiv:2610.16084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering adds a vector to a language model's internal representations at inference time. It is a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for behavioral control. The standard construction, contrastive activation addition (CAA), is fragile, as
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