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Painless Activation Steering: An Automated, Lightweight Approach for Post-Training Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Cui, Sasha, Chen, Zhongren
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning I.2.6; I.2.7
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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