arXiv, 2025
That's Deprecated! Understanding, Detecting, and Steering Knowledge Conflicts in Language Models for Code Generation
A study of how language models handle conflicts between learned programming knowledge and prompt-provided updates, with probes and activation steering for code generation.
LLM BehaviorCode GenerationKnowledge Conflicts
This work studies how language models respond when a prompt conflicts with their learned programming knowledge. It extends knowledge-conflict analysis to code generation and evaluates whether those conflicts can be detected and steered from model activations.