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Language models (LMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes, multi-agent settings, where following instructions and maintaining value alignment are critical. Most alignment research focuses on interactions between a single LM and a single…

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Computational Music Generation is evolving towards non-conventional styles, demanding methods that enable precise and controllable blending of diverse music elements. In this work, we present a method for fine grained control using…

Generating human motion guided by conditions such as textual descriptions is challenging due to the need for datasets with pairs of high-quality motion and their corresponding conditions. The difficulty increases when aiming for finer…

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Activation steering promises to be an extremely parameter-efficient form of adaptation, but its effectiveness depends on critical design choices -- such as intervention location and parameterization -- that currently rely on empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Dyah Adila , John Cooper , Alexander Yun , Avi Trost , Frederic Sala

In this work, we systematically investigate the efficacy of dynamic activation mechanisms within the LLaMA family of language models. Despite the potential of dynamic activation methods to reduce computation and increase speed in models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Chi Ma , Mincong Huang , Chao Wang , Yujie Wang , Lei Yu

Many variability management techniques rely on sophisticated language extension or tools to support it. While this can provide dedicated syntax and operational mechanism but it struggling practical adaptation for the cost of adapting new…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hiun Kim

Dynamic activation (DA) techniques, such as DejaVu and MoEfication, have demonstrated their potential to significantly enhance the inference efficiency of large language models (LLMs). However, these techniques often rely on ReLU activation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Chi Ma , Mincong Huang , Ying Zhang , Chao Wang , Yujie Wang , Lei Yu , Chuan Liu , Wei Lin

Improving performance in multiple domains is a challenging task, and often requires significant amounts of data to train and test models. Active learning techniques provide a promising solution by enabling models to select the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Anand Gokul Mahalingam , Aayush Shah , Akshay Gulati , Royston Mascarenhas , Rakshitha Panduranga

Large language models have simplified the production of personalized translations reflecting predefined stylistic constraints. However, these systems still struggle when stylistic requirements are implicitly represented by a set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Scalena , Gabriele Sarti , Arianna Bisazza , Elisabetta Fersini , Malvina Nissim

Despite impressive breadth, LLMs still rely on explicit reasoning instructions or static, one-fits-all steering methods, leaving a gap for adaptive, instruction-free reasoning amplification. We present Prototype-Based Dynamic Steering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ceyhun Efe Kayan , Li Zhang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of thinking language models that generate extensive internal reasoning chains before producing responses. While these models achieve improved performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Constantin Venhoff , Iván Arcuschin , Philip Torr , Arthur Conmy , Neel Nanda

This work introduces SteerVLM, a lightweight steering module designed to guide Vision-Language Models (VLMs) towards outputs that better adhere to desired instructions. Our approach learns from the latent embeddings of paired prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Anushka Sivakumar , Andrew Zhang , Zaber Hakim , Chris Thomas

Steering vectors offer a training-free mechanism for controlling reasoning behaviors in large language models, but constructing effective vectors requires identifying genuine behavioral signals in the model's hidden states. For behaviors…

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This survey discusses how recent developments in multimodal processing facilitate conceptual grounding of language. We categorize the information flow in multimodal processing with respect to cognitive models of human information processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Lisa Beinborn , Teresa Botschen , Iryna Gurevych

Controlling the behavior of text-to-image generative models is critical for safe and practical deployment. Existing safety approaches typically rely on model fine-tuning or curated datasets, which can degrade generation quality or limit…

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Composing simple elements into complex concepts is crucial yet challenging, especially for 3D action generation. Existing methods largely rely on extensive neural language annotations to discern composable latent semantics, a process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xiao Liu , Guangyi Chen , Yansong Tang , Guangrun Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Ser-Nam Lim

By capturing statistical patterns in large corpora, machine learning has enabled significant advances in natural language processing, including in machine translation, question answering, and sentiment analysis. However, for agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Igor Mordatch , Pieter Abbeel

Token prediction stability remains a challenge in autoregressive generative models, where minor variations in early inference steps often lead to significant semantic drift over extended sequences. A structured modulation mechanism was…

In this paper we propose a novel approach to identify dynamical systems. The method estimates the model structure and the parameters of the model simultaneously, automating the critical decisions involved in identification such as model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Dhruv Khandelwal , Maarten Schoukens , Roland Tóth

Structure-preserving approaches to dynamics discovery have demonstrated great potential for modeling physical systems due to their use of strong inductive biases, which enforce key features such as conservation laws and dissipative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Cheng Jing , Uvini Balasuriya Mudiyanselage , Woojin Cho , Minju Jo , Anthony Gruber , Kookjin Lee