The Steering Budget: Examples beat Knobs

arXiv:2607.14246 · cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-15

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Steering — 37× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Models — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mode Collapse — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Diffusion Model — 6× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Alignment Tax — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 5× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fidelity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 3× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Compositional Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Frustration — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
• IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
• Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences

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