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Does Fine-Tuning Undo Activation Steering? Behavioural Recovery Without Weight-Edit Reversal

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arXiv:2608.24988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering can be embedded directly into a language model's weights, shaping behaviour without inference-time intervention and offering a way to encode alignment prior to release. However, models are routinely fine-tuned after deployment, and…

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  1. 2026-08-27 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    Does Fine-Tuning Undo Activation Steering? Behavioural Recovery Without Weight-Edit Reversal

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