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Closed-Loop Affine Activation Editing (CLAE)

Techniqueadvanced

Trains a sparse autoencoder over a frozen policy's activations to identify behavior-relevant latent features via post-hoc probing, then trains a lightweight RL steering policy that applies state-dependent affine edits (scale and shift, not just addition) to selected SAE latents at every inference step, closing the loop between the edit and the policy's own changing state.

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structure: Linear Direction · models: Custom frozen multi-quadrotor navigation policy · paper: Steering Multirobot Behavior via Closed-Loop Affine Activation Editing