2 papers
cs.CL2026
The Answer-Basin Representation Hypothesis: We Are Not Probing or Steering Concepts
Manjiang Yu, Hongji Li, Zihan Wang +5
Linear probing and activation steering use linear directions to predict and control behavior-level concepts such as correctness, safety, and social bias in question answering. We c…
cs.AI2026
Multi-Adapter Representation Interventions via Energy Calibration
Manjiang Yu, Hongji Li, Junwei Chen +4
Representation intervention has emerged as a promising paradigm for aligning large language models toward desired behaviors without modifying model weights. Existing methods typica…