Spillover-Aware Multi-Value Steering for Pluralistic LLM Alignment
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The paper introduces AIMES, a framework for adaptive multi-value activation steering in large language models. AIMES builds layer‑specific bipolar directions for moral‑foundation values and uses intermediate‑layer vocabulary readouts as online observers to guide a controller that adjusts intervention strengths at each decoding step. Experiments across instruction‑tuned model families show that AIMES achieves depth‑dependent advantages over fixed joint steering and prompt‑based steering, with smaller activation‑space interventions and comparable response quality.
arXiv:2502. 12446v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference-time intervention (ITI) has emerged as a promising method for steering large language model (LLM) behavior in a particular direction (e.
arXiv:2602. 03160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with the diverse spectrum of human values remains a central challenge: preference-based methods often fail to capture deeper motivational principles.
arXiv:2602.01654v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Steering vectors (SVs) offer a lightweight way to control large language models (LLMs) at inference time by shifting hidden activations, providing...
arXiv:2608. 02957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering vectors (SVs) are widely used to influence the expression of concepts (e.
The paper investigates whether large language models (LLMs) possess intrinsic value systems and how to quantify and align them. By projecting responses from 106 LLMs and 95,000 human survey profiles into a shared sociological space, the authors confirm that LLMs do have values, though these values form a concentrated, idealized core rather than mirroring human diversity. They introduce the Prior-Environment-Cognition (PEC) framework to mathematically define value expression and propose an adaptive Alignment Prescription that identifies minimal interventions—ranging from prompts to targeted parameter updates—to steer LLM values efficiently without harming general performance.