@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-steering, title = "Why Steering Works: Toward a Unified View of Language Model Parameter Dynamics", author = "Xu, Ziwen and WU, Chenyan and Sun, Hengyu and Hong, Haiwen and Wang, Mengru and Yao, Yunzhi and Huang, Longtao and Xue, Hui and Deng, Shumin and Chu, Zhixuan and Chen, Huajun and Zhang, Ningyu", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1463/", pages = "31719--31736", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }