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To Steer or Not to Steer? Mechanistic Error Reduction with Abstention for Language Models

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Main Authors:	Hedström, Anna, Amoukou, Salim I., Bewley, Tom, Mishra, Saumitra, Veloso, Manuela
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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