2 papers
cs.CL2026
Where Steering Signals Come From: Activation Source Selection in Activation Steering
Jiaran Ye, Lingxu Ran, Zijun Yao +5
Activation steering controls language models by adding vectors or features to hidden states at inference time, but the upstream source of these steering signals is often treated as…
cs.LG2025
How do Transformers Learn Implicit Reasoning?
Jiaran Ye, Zijun Yao, Zhidian Huang +8
Recent work suggests that large language models (LLMs) can perform multi-hop reasoning implicitly -- producing correct answers without explicitly verbalizing intermediate steps --…