How Far Can You Steer? Behavior-Capability Frontiers in Contrastive Activation Addition
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arXiv:2611.06001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering can modify language-model behavior without parameter updates, but behavioral efficacy alone does not determine whether an intervent...
arXiv:2610.35530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering offers training-free and dynamic control of target behaviors in large language models, but existing methods can impair general capa...
arXiv:2602.09870v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Steering methods influence Large Language Model behavior by identifying semantic directions in hidden representations, but are typically realized t...
RealControlBench is a new benchmark that evaluates fine‑grained steering of large language models and agents across diverse behavioral targets and interaction settings. It extends beyond isolated generation tasks to include complex, execution‑grounded, multi‑turn agent interactions, covering instruction‑following control, tool‑use decision control, reasoning performance, reasoning length, and safety awareness. The benchmark jointly measures target controllability and capability preservation, testing robustness across prompts, domains, and model architectures, and finds that current steering methods are often unreliable in realistic scenarios.
arXiv:2606. 08454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering provides a lightweight inference-time mechanism for controlling large language models (LLMs) by modifying their internal activation vectors toward desired behaviors.
arXiv:2610.07722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering provides a lightweight and flexible way to control large language model (LLM) behavior. However, effective steering requires more t...