arXiv:2606. 31591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergent misalignment (EM) is a recently discovered phenomenon in LLMs where fine-tuning on a narrow misaligned task, such as writing insecure code, leads to broadly misaligned behaviour on unrelated prompts.
By Jason R. Brown, Patrick Leask, Lev McKinney
arXiv:2608. 14929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight language models are fine-tuned, quantized, pruned, and merged, yet their provenance is often undocumented.
By Aman Singh Thakur, Rayan Khoury
The paper introduces a leakage‑free 3×3 spatio‑temporal partition for evaluating inductive kriging, ensuring training, validation, and testing occur on distinct spatial and temporal domains. It proposes DRIK, a framework that includes Spatial Continuity Regularization, Masked Flow Disambiguation, and Structural Domain Expansion to mitigate structural shifts from unseen nodes. Experiments on six datasets show DRIK outperforms existing baselines, reducing MAE by up to 12.48% and achieving lower test‑to‑validation MAE ratios under the stricter evaluation protocol.
By Chen Yang, Changhao Zhao, Haoyang Zhao, Youquan He, Chen Wang, Jiansheng Fan
arXiv:2606. 20502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether LLMs scoring well on vulnerability benchmarks genuinely reason about security or merely pattern-match on contaminated data remains unresolved.
By Arastoo Zibaeirad, Marco Vieira
arXiv:2606. 28525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning on harmless data can partially undo behaviors acquired earlier in training.
By Samuele Poppi, Nils Lukas
This paper presents a reproducibility audit of frozen‑encoder anomaly detection experiments originally reported on arXiv. The authors confirm that the numerical discrimination results can be reproduced from the preserved artifacts, but they find that the claimed causal link to interferometric pretraining is unsupported. They show that near‑zero embeddings and architectural choices, rather than a morphological prior from gravitational‑wave instrumentation, explain the observed anomaly‑detection performance.
By Jose S\'anchez Andreu