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Saurav Bhandari

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Steering Under Compression: Dose-Response, Capability Cost, and Failure Asymmetry in Quantized LLMs

This work systematically study activation steering under weight-only quantization (INT8 and NF4) across four open-weight 7-9B models and two behavioral targets: judged sentiment and judge-free reasoning length, finding that sentiment steering survives quantization intact.

Saurav Bhandari, Benjamin Wade · 0 citations