Adaptive Multi-Value Control in LLMs via Causal Activation Steering

arXiv:2609.30405 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• Steering — 209× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 24× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Alignment — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Moral Foundations Theory — 13× in this paper
• Transformer — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Steering — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Addition — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptive Intervention for Multi-Value Evaluation and Steering — 2× in this paper
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Alignment Methods — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Closed-Loop Control — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• PID Controller — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Adaptive Activation Steering for Efficient LLM Reasoning via Closed-Loop PID Control
• Predicting Where Steering Vectors Succeed
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• ORBIT: Training-Free Multi-Attribute Behavioral Steering via Orthogonal Subspace Rotation
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Non-Linear Inference Time Intervention: Improving LLM Truthfulness
• Adaptive Multi-Subspace Representation Steering for Attribute Alignment in Large Language Models
• LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions
• Steerable but Not Decodable: Function Vectors Operate Beyond the Logit Lens
• Activation Steering with a Feedback Controller
• Closing the Loop: PID Feedback Control for Interpretable Activation Steering in Symbolic Music Generation
• Towards Scientific Intelligence: A Survey of LLM-based Scientific Agents
• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms
• Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control
• Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering
• Extending Activation Steering to Broad Skills and Multiple Behaviours
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Tracing Moral Foundations in Large Language Models
• ODESteer: A Unified ODE-Based Steering Framework for LLM Alignment

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