The paper presents a reinforcement learning approach to enhance large language model (LLM) auditors for alignment tasks. By training policies that investigate target models for hidden behaviors and using an LLM judge to compare investigations, the method improves audit realism and reduces false positives. Experiments show better performance on adversarially fine‑tuned targets and a low false‑positive rate below 1%.
By Paul Rosu, Rowan Wang
Safety tuning pipelines judge only the final answer, which makes it difficult to distinguish robust refusal from two undesirable shortcuts: blanket refusal on benign requests and polished but unfaithf...
arXiv:2606. 29713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hallucination is the reliability bottleneck for LLM-based agents, and fact attribution verifiers are the last line of defense -- yet today's verifiers emit only opaque binary labels, leaving agents unable to self-correct and operators unable to audit.
By Aojie Yuan, Yi Nian, Haiyue Zhang, Zijian Su, Yue Zhao
AUDITPLAN introduces a plan-then-answer method for safety alignment in language models, where the model first generates a compact structured safety plan before responding. The plan includes a threat label, intended action, and explicit constraints, allowing machine‑checkable auditing while remaining hidden from end users. Training combines supervised fine‑tuning with reinforcement learning using the FAITHGATE reward, which only rewards correct plans, thereby reducing unsafe shortcuts and improving robustness across Qwen model variants.
By Sai Sri Pushpa Jampani, Kshitij Mishra, Asif Ekbal
arXiv:2607. 22766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly bottlenecked by data quality.
By Yunting Song, Matthew Watson, Peter Grabowski, Jun Qin
arXiv:2602. 12124v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While most AI alignment research focuses on preventing models from generating explicitly harmful content, a more subtle risk arises from capability-seeking RL training in vulnerable environments.
By Yujun Zhou, Yue Huang, Han Bao, Kehan Guo, Zhenwen Liang, Pin-Yu Chen, Tian Gao, Werner Geyer, Nuno Moniz, Nitesh V Chawla, Xiangliang Zhang