{
  "id": 158357,
  "title": "Intertemporal Preference Steering in Qwen3 via Contrastive Activation Addition",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/intertemporal-preference-steering-in-qwen3-via-contrastive-activation",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-04T16:25:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03892v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "We study linear representations of temporal horizon in the large language model Qwen3-32B and use them to change the model's time-related preferences, recommendations, and capabilities. We train contrastive linear probes on teacher-forced temporal-choice answers to find a short-term versus long-term direction in the model's residual stream, and evaluate contrastive activation-addition steering on…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}