AI safety and alignment

Alignment, interpretability, red-teaming, bias and privacy: the research on what these systems do when they misbehave.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 15

Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Robust Planetary Landing

The paper presents a method for improving the robustness of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies used in planetary landing by employing adversarial reinforcement learning. A secondary agent generates physically constrained perturbations that challenge the landing controller, creating an asymmetric zero‑sum game. Training is conducted in three stages—baseline learning, stochastic robustness enhancement, and iterative adversarial optimization—showing that adversarial disturbances uncover vulnerabilities missed by conventional randomization and hint at better generalization to unseen perturbations.

By Miguel Leiva-V\'elez, Nicolas Gaston-Rozado, Andrea Scorsoglio, Hodei Urrutxua, V\'ictor Rodr\'iguez-Fern\'andez
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Hidden in Plain Sight: Advancing Harmful Content Understanding via Perception-Aware Adversarial Self-Play

arXiv:2610.15449v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite significant advances in language understanding, Large Language Models (LLMs) can still miss meaning hidden in plain sight, failing to identify...

By Yisong Xiao, Benlei Cui, Haiwen Hong, Shiji Zhao, Zonghao Ying, Yaoyuan Zhang, Longtao Huang, Aishan Liu, Hui Xue, Ting Ma, Xianglong Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 15

GUIDE: Computationally Augmented Consensus for Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines

arXiv:2610.16108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining up-to-date clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is essential for evidence-based medicine, but rapid evidence growth and complex expert conse...

By Yuanfan Lin, Jie Di, Xujin He, Zhenzhe Lin, Jialing Chen, Ruiyang Li, Changyu Zheng, Yuanrui Shang, Weiqin Peng, Jingxi Qin, Xiong Wang, Dongxin Ye, Yining Huang, Guoqiang Li, Andi Xu, Sijia Yu, Ruixin Wang, Yahan Yang, Xiaohang Wu, Duoru Lin, Jingjing Chen, Zhenzhen Liu, Wenben Chen, Haotian Lin
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Who Improves the Robot? Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2610.18842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are increasingly autonomous in task execution, yet their improvement remains largely human-driven. This study investigates Physical Recursive Se...

By Hai Zhou, Fan Yang, Zeyi Chen, Lejun Zhang, Chenyang Fu, Jianping Li, Jiayi Zhu, Xianyang Liu, Yingxuan Yang, Lili Meng, Lu Wang, Xinyang Han, Jiankai Sun, Weirui Ye, Guanchu Wang, Wanhua Li, Ming Zhou, Boyi Li, Ming Jin, Kun Shao, Muhao Chen, Guang Chen, Lei Ma, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Costas Spanos, Xia Hu, Mac Schwager, Weinan Zhang, Qian Feng, Shangding Gu