Harnessing the Latent Space: From Steering Vectors to Model Calibrators for Control and Trust
A research paper presented at ACL 2026 BigPicture Workshop introduces techniques to harness language model latent spaces for better control and trust, including steering vectors and model calibrators.
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[Submitted on 30 Jun 2026]
Title:Harnessing the Latent Space: From Steering Vectors to Model Calibrators for Control and Trust
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Abstract:Language models have changed from unreliable text generators to highly-capable large models with trillions of parameters. Capability increases come hand-in-hand with increases in scale, making understanding the internal representations of models more challenging. Since millions of users increasing rely on language models to interact with external tools or make decisions in medium or high-stakes scenarios, we need to establish control over model behavior and know when to trust model outputs. In this paper, we discuss our contributions on harnessing the latent spaces by proposing steering vectors for control and developing latent space-based model calibrators for trust. Together, our contributions help demystify the latent spaces of language models and offer new insights into how to harness model internals to build more trustworthy language technology.
Comments: ACL 2026 (BigPicture Workshop)
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2607.00083 [cs.CL]
(or arXiv:2607.00083v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.00083
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From: Nishant Subramani [view email] [v1] Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:21:46 UTC (14,778 KB)
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