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Internal-state feedback steering is applicable to protein design and drug discovery beyond materials.

Generalizes the mechanism to other molecular design domains.

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Using Self-Correcting Search to Accelerate Materials Discovery

(2026) · Dron Hazra · Adeesh Kolluru · Mark Bissell · Delia McGrath +2

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Self-correcting search yields ~+30% improvement in viable candidates within target bandgap range.
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Main empirical result: interpretability-driven feedback increases discovery efficiency significantly.

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Manifold-aware concept steering in neural representations
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Explores geometry of activation/behavior manifolds to enable selective, non-destructive concept interventions.
Self-correcting search in generative design
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Iterative feedback steering that improves candidate success rates across materials, proteins, and drugs through internal-state control, achieving 4-6x empirical gains.

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Intentional control of internal representations likely piggybacks on existing mechanisms for talking about a topicclaim0.769
Mechanism speculation for the intentional control experiment.
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Kimi denial of tool availability mid-experiment, illustrating variability in self-evaluation reliability
Linear steering is often mismatched with a model's internal representation geometry, producing noisy, off-target effects.claim0.754
The paper's critique of the standard linear steering baseline, supported by the days-of-week demo.
Steering vectors capture latent dimensions of reflective behavior more faithfully than surface-level embedding similarity.claim0.752
Supported by the instruction discovery experiments comparing steering vs. embedding baselines.
Models are not merely tracking dialogue context features; same-concept steering shows privileged internal access is necessary to explain self-report shiftsclaim0.747
Addresses skeptical alternative that reports reflect only conversational content
Activation steering effectively biases latent representations but does not fully replicate the mechanisms triggered by explicit instruction.claim0.740
Nuanced interpretive claim about the limits of steering as a mechanism for reflection enhancement.
Internal states significantly predicted motion of external subsystems; best prediction for the farthest subsystem (magenta circle, Fig 4d).finding0.739
Result of canonical variates analysis showing statistical dependency between internal states and external motion.