@article{steermodelbeyondassistantcontrollingsyst,
  title = {Steer Model beyond Assistant: Controlling System Prompt Strength via Contrastive Decoding},
  author = {Yijiang River Dong and Tiancheng Hu and Zheng Hui and Nigel Collier},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.06403},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06403},
}