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VIAS: Value-Isolating Activation Steering for Multi-Value Alignment and Compliance for Organisations
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers propose VIAS, a method to steer language models toward organizational values by adding vectors to internal activations, improving multi-value compliance beyond prompting alone.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying LLM agents in organizations where multiple compliance values must be satisfied simultaneously without retraining models.
- Watch out
- VIAS reduces vector overlap but does not achieve fully independent control over individual values; results vary across model sizes and architectures tested.
- agent
- language model
- prompt
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