2 papers
cs.LG2026
First-Order Steering: Translating Weight Adaptation into Activation Steering
Sri Pranav Kunda, Alexander Kurz, Tomas Dominik +1
Activation steering exploits interpretable directions in the residual stream to enable inference-time manipulation of model behavior. Composing steering vectors to apply multiple t…
cs.CL2026
The Hypocrisy Gap: Quantifying Divergence Between Internal Belief and Chain-of-Thought Explanation via Sparse Autoencoders
Shikhar Shiromani, Archie Chaudhury, Sri Pranav Kunda
Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit unfaithful behavior, producing a final answer that differs significantly from their internal chain of thought (CoT) reasoning in ord…