Steering by Influence: Curvature Aware Data Weighting for Activation Steering

arXiv:2610.06383 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-05

Updated: 2026-10-05

Terminology

• Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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