Parallel Manifold Steering: Efficient Adaptation of Large Associative Memories via Residual Energy Shaping
The authors propose H-Res (Hierarchical Residual Steering), a mechanism that adapts large Transformer models by modulating their effective energy landscape without altering global equilibrium or expanding sequence length. This approach formulates adaptation as a control problem on the activation manifold to steer token trajectories into task-specific basins of attraction.