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Manifold geometry provides a practical steering blueprint in an image-action model predicting car position on a hill, extending results across modalities.

Cross-modality result from the full paper demonstrating that representation-behavior geometry alignment is not limited to language models.

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Steering Along Manifolds to Control Neural Networks

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Steering Along Manifolds to Control Neural Networks
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The alignment between representation geometry and behavior geometry is not limited to days of the week but extends to months, letters, ages, and synthetic in-context learning tasks.
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The paper's generalization claim, asserting that the days-of-week finding scales to other cyclic and structured concepts.

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Manifold geometry provides a practical blueprint for steering model behavior across diverse tasks and modalities.
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The generalizing predictive claim that manifold steering is a broadly applicable framework beyond the days-of-week case study.

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