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Deep Noir: Autonomous Steering Discovery via Architectural Chronometry in Transformer Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Deep Noir automatically discovers where and how strongly to steer transformer model activations, improving spam detection by 16-42 percentage points across model sizes.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building LLM classifiers who currently tune steering parameters manually and need systematic, generalizable intervention discovery.
- Watch out
- Steering creates a prompt-injection attack surface that grows with steering magnitude, raising security concerns for deployed agent systems using steered classifiers.
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