Jia-Yi Li

When Does Correction Become Repair? Mechanistic Auditing of Internal Interventions in Tool-Using LLMs

Before invoking external tools, an agentic LLM must select among a K-way action space: executing a call, seeking clarification, answering directly, or declining. While internal activation steering can alter these pre-execution decisions, conventional aggregate metrics obscure where altered states land and what collater...