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
3d ago

Federated Prompt Learning: A Unified Framework, Empirical Analysis, and Future Directions

arXiv:2608. 13844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become core components of cloud-based intelligent services in academia and industry, yet their training and deployment are hindered by high computational costs, data centralization, and privacy concerns.

By Qinglin Yang, Chen Qiu, Hongyuan Zhang, Pengdeng Li, Yuan Liu, Zhihong Tian
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

MedMix: Specialization-Consistent Federated Sparse MoEs under Modality Heterogeneity

arXiv:2608. 13911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated multimodal medical AI faces modality heterogeneity at both the client and sample levels: clients may systematically lack access to specific modality types, while individual records within the same client may contain different partial modality subsets.

By Adiba Orzikulova, Dong Min Kim, Jaehong Yoon, Sung-Ju Lee
arXiv AI
3d ago

Decoding the Past: An Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Sex Attribution in Prehistoric Hand Stencils

arXiv:2608. 14539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Determining the biological sex of the individuals who created Upper Paleolithic hand stencils remains a challenging problem due to the absence of ground truth, population differences between contemporary and prehistoric groups, and the uncertainty introduced by image degradation.

By Karel Becerra, Boris Mederos, Dean Snow, Ram\'on A. Mollineda
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

CORAL: Curriculum-Optimized Reward Adaptation for LiDAR-Based Goal-Directed Urban Driving

arXiv:2608. 14332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is promising for autonomous urban driving, but long-horizon goal-directed navigation asks a policy to acquire several competing behaviors at once--reaching a distant goal, tracking a route, avoiding obstacles, obeying signals--and a fixed objective gives no order in which to learn them.

By Anisa Saleem, Duksu Kim
arXiv AI
3d ago

Hybrid Quantum-inspired Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Privacy-Aware Federated Biosignal Learning

arXiv:2608. 13914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings are sensitive biomedical data, limiting the ability of hospitals and wearable devices to share raw signals for centralized model training.

By Chun-Hua Lin, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Yu-Chao Hsu, Kuo-Chung Peng, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Chi-Sheng Chen, Tai-Yue Li, Nan-Yow Chen, En-Jui Kuo, Hsi-Sheng Goan
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

Consistent Model Chasing Is Minimax Optimal: The Exact Value of Scalar Adversarial Adaptive Control under Large Parametric Uncertainty

arXiv:2608. 13651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We solve exactly a fundamental problem of adaptive control against adversarial disturbances: regulate the scalar system $x_{t+1} = ax_t + u_t + w_t$, $x_0=0$, $\|w\|_\infty \le 1$, where the constant pole $a \in [-\Delta, \Delta]$ is unknown in sign and magnitude and $\Delta$ is arbitrarily large.

By Dimitar Ho
arXiv AI
3d ago

CMCNet: Aligning Ultrasound Image Embeddings with Textual TI-RADS Representations for Fine-Grained Thyroid Classification

arXiv:2608. 13939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are aggregated into five risk levels (TR1-TR5).

By Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou, Wenyan Wang, Li Wen, Lan Huang, Xin Feng, Fengfeng Zhou, Kewei Li
arXiv AI
3d ago

Training Fair Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608. 14211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) have emerged as leading methods for tabular predictive tasks, leveraging in-context learning to predict on new data without task-specific training.

By Patrik Kenfack, Jesse C. Cresswell, Anthony L. Caterini, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Ulrich A\"ivodji
arXiv AI
3d ago

AdvDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Joint-Aligned Actions and Adversarial Learning

arXiv:2608. 14028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, but scaling it remains difficult because robot demonstrations are expensive to collect and action spaces vary across embodiments.

By Zhiyue Zhao, Jingyi Wu, Hairuo Liu, Mingyu Liu, Liyang Li, Hengdi Zhang, Tong He, Zhengxue Cheng
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

Sequence prediction under a lying oracle

arXiv:2608. 14102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the problem of sequential prediction of an $m$-ary sequence, where at each epoch, (i) the environment selects an outcome from an $m$-ary alphabet, (ii) the learner selects a probability distribution over the same alphabet (unaware of the outcome generated by the environment), and finally, (iii) the learner incurs a cost that depends on the probability assigned to the outcome.

By Puspabeethi Samanta, Nikhil Karamchandani, Jayakrishnan Nair