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Beyond Steering Vector: Flow-based Activation Steering for Inference-Time Intervention

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Main Authors:	Jin, Zehao, Deng, Ruixuan, Wang, Junran, Shen, Xinjie, Zhang, Chao
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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