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 AI
Aug 3

Monotone and Separable Set Functions: Characterizations and Neural Models

arXiv:2510. 23634v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motivated by applications for set containment problems, we consider the following fundamental problem: can we design set-to-vector functions so that the natural partial order on sets is preserved, namely $S\subseteq T \text{ if and only if } F(S)\leq F(T) $.

By Soutrik Sarangi, Yonatan Sverdlov, Nadav Dym, Abir De
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

CRAFT: Compression via Recursive Adaptive Fusion of Video Tokens for Vision-Language Models

In video understanding, vision-language models (VLMs) must ingest massive numbers of visual tokens, causing the computational and memory cost of the prefill stage to rise sharply. Such visual sequences are highly redundant along the spatio-temporal dimension, yet a high compression ratio is often accompanied by the loss of critical details.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Human-LLM Alignment in Language Attitudes Toward Non-Native Japanese

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly evaluate human writing in high-stakes domains such as hiring and academic assessment, putting non-native speakers at particular risk. Drawing on the language attitudes framework, we compared human and LLM evaluations of parallel L1- and L2-written Japanese emails on three dimensions: fluency, status, and solidarity.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 2

RH-RAG: Trustworthy Long-Form Generation for Privacy-Constrained Settings

Generating long-form content from extensive internal reports remains challenging for organizations operating under strict privacy and security constraints, where proprietary cloud-based LLM APIs are often not viable. While locally deployed open-weight models offer a privacy-preserving alternative, existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches on smaller models frequently lack effective global planning and accumulate factual inconsistencies over long outputs.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 2

Perspectives on Tsallis Statistics for Artificial Intelligence

Tsallis statistics generalizes Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics through a single real parameter $q$ that controls the weight assigned to rare and frequent events. Originally proposed to describe physical systems with long-range correlations, multifractal geometry, and heavy-tailed fluctuations, the framework has become a recurring ingredient in modern artificial intelligence (AI): it underlies sparse attention mechanisms (\textsc{sparsemax} and $α$-\textsc{entmax}), maximum-entropy reinforcement learning with controllable exploration, robust and heavy-tailed probabilistic models, and a family of generalized loss functions and regularizers.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 2

VLAGuard: A Framework for Evaluating and Mitigating Physical Attention Hijacking in Vision-Language-Action Robots within Wireless Sensor Networks

Deploying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) robots as mobile edge nodes within wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires robust protection against physical adversarial threats. We present VLAGuard, a framework to assess and mitigate a critical vulnerability: policy-critical action-to-vision attention hijacking.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 2

TrajWiki: Source-Grounded Memory Trajectories for Long-Horizon Dialogue Agents

Large language model agents have shown strong capabilities in generating coherent and contextually appropriate responses, yet robust long-horizon dialogue remains limited by the lack of external memory that is traceable, updatable, and diagnostically transparent. Existing memory-augmented agents often store memories as isolated records or overwritable states, making it difficult to preserve how information originates, evolves, conflicts, or becomes obsolete over time.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering

arXiv:2512. 03661v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Activation steering has emerged as a powerful method for guiding the behavior of generative models towards desired outcomes such as toxicity mitigation.

By Alex Ferrando, Xavier Suau, Jordi Gonz\`alez, Pau Rodriguez
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Procedural Fairness in Multi-Agent Bandits

arXiv:2601. 10600v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the context of multi-agent multi-armed bandits (MA-MAB), fairness is often reduced to outcomes: maximizing welfare, reducing inequality, or balancing utilities.

By Joshua Caiata, Carter Blair, Kate Larson
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Zero-Fi: Zero-Shot Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition via Contrastive Signal-Language Alignment

arXiv:2607. 26381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition has advanced substantially, but most existing methods assume a closed set of activities and require labeled Wi-Fi samples for every target class, limiting their ability to recognize unseen activities.

By Yitong Shen, Cheng Guo, Peiliang Wang, Jingzhe Zhang, Yi Sheng, Haopeng Zhang, Hongfei Xue, Yili Ren