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Model releases, architecture work and prompting research on large language models — from frontier-lab announcements to the arXiv papers behind them.

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arXiv AI
Jul 23

OPIUM: Mitigating Steering Externalities and Over-Refusal via Dual Objective Latent Optimization

arXiv:2607. 19806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering provides a lightweight mechanism for controlling large language models at inference time, but steering vectors can have unintended externalities: utility vectors may weaken safety behavior, while refusal vectors may induce over-refusal on benign prompts.

By Kavin Aravindan, Arihant Rastogi, Aadi Prasad, Krishak Aneja, Saiyam Jain, Vaishnavi Shivkumar, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Statistically Grounded Sparse-Feature Interventions for Activation-Space Control in Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 19364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering offers a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for behavioral control of large language models, but SAE-based steering methods often rely on learned steering objectives or single-criterion feature selection.

By Oshayer Siddique, J. M Areeb Uzair Alam, Md Jobayer Rahman Rafy, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Model Gateway: Management Platform for Model-Driven Drug Discovery

arXiv:2512. 05462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pharmaceutical drug discovery demands machine learning (ML) infrastructure that goes beyond general-purpose Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): inference-time composition of multiple models for multi-parameter optimization (MPO), version management for physics-based models without serialized ML artifacts, enterprise compound library precomputation, and governance structured around scientific organizational units rather than generic access controls.

By Yan-Shiun Wu, Sai Mahit Vaddadi, Zachary A. Rollins, Nathan A. Morin
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Adaptive Capitulation: A Structural Failure Mode of LLM Responses in Vulnerability Contexts

arXiv:2607. 19629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models operating in emotionally sensitive contexts face a structural trilemma: when users in vulnerable states request information that may reinforce maladaptive attribution, current response architectures resolve the tension through protective restriction, uninflected facilitation, or unintegrated co-presence of both imperatives -- each preserving one objective at the cost of the other.

By Eunna Lee
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Will the Agent Recuse, and Will It Stop? Measuring LLM-Agent Compliance with In-Band Governance Signals at the Access Door and Mid-Flight

arXiv:2606. 06460v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents increasingly hold real credentials and operate infrastructure with no human in the loop, yet operators have no standard way to tell an agent a resource is off-limits, or to ask a running agent to stand down: access controls either admit it or hard-fail it.

By Thamilvendhan Munirathinam