PersonaDose steers LLM traits via calibrated activation dosing
Read original source →arxiv.orgPaper introduces persona dosing: a trait description plus a requested mean intensity controls a language model's persona expression. PersonaDose specializes a shared activation-steering setup to hit the requested intensity level.
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