@article{dsteerpreferencealignmenttechniqueslearn, title = {D-STEER - Preference Alignment Techniques Learn to Behave, not to Believe -- Beneath the Surface, DPO as Steering Vector Perturbation in Activation Space}, author = {Samarth Raina and Saksham Aggarwal and Aman Chadha and Vinija Jain and Amitava Das}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2512.11838}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11838}, }