Alternating context edits and logit steering boosts frozen LLM accuracy

EMO closes the loop between feedback-driven context revision and decoding-time distribution correction, improving zero-shot performance across eight models and six benchmarks.

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Wei Xia · Yehui Tang · Zhi-Hong Deng

Peking University · Samsung Research

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The authors propose EMO, a training-free framework that alternates question-specific context optimization (E-step) with confidence-constrained logits steering (M-step) while model weights stay frozen.

EMO alternates two steps per question.

Why this paper

From Samsung Research and Peking University · Part of Hidden-State Steering, now 20 papers

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EMO improves frozen language-model reasoning by alternating judge-guided context revision with confidence-constrained steering derived from context-induced logit changes.

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