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TimpaTeks: Automatic In-place Text Sequence Modification via Diffusion Language Model Steering

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arXiv:2606. 08408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We extend activation steering to diffusion language models (DLMs) and study a novel problem that arose due to the inference mechanism of DLMs: Modifying a text in-place to manifest a different concept.

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