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
6d ago

Research Assistant: AstraZeneca's Agentic System for R&D

arXiv:2608. 12395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe Research Assistant, an internal LLM-based system developed at AstraZeneca to help scientists and clinicians explore biomedical questions across a broad range of data sources.

By Piotr Grabowski, Mohamed Alameen, Jorge Bretones, Sabina Cardell, Miguel Carmona, Gavin Edwards, Ben Grainger, Sameh Hassan, Erik Jansson, Artur Kuziakhmetov, Albert Maristany, Hebatallah Mohamed, Andriy Nikolov, Sebastian Nilsson, Mark O'Donoghue, James Pacileo, Ashiq Sultan, Alex Voegele, Michael Ughetto
arXiv AI
6d ago

TsuGO: Probing Search Efficiency in LLM Reasoning via Go Life-and-Death Problems

arXiv:2608. 13221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of LLM reasoning is moving from final-answer accuracy to process-level assessment, yet existing methods still fail to capture how models plan reasoning paths and allocate reasoning resources--that is, how they organize search.

By Shunwen Bai, Ziping Ma, Chaoyang Zhang, Yarong Wang, Jiale Liu, Zhen Qin, Qingpei Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

In Silico Study for Optimizing Intensity and Focality Electrode Configurations for Directional DBS Under Uncertainty Using Metaheuristic L1L1 Method

arXiv:2506. 13452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background and Objective: As Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) advances toward directional leads and optimization-based current steering, selecting electrode contact configurations becomes complex.

By Fernando Galaz Prieto, Antti Lassila, Maryam Samavaki, Sampsa Pursiainen
arXiv AI
6d ago

MatchMiner-AI: Open-source, Privacy-preserving Cancer Clinical Trial Matching using Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2412. 17228v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Clinical trials are essential to advancing cancer treatments, but fewer than 10% of adults with cancer enroll in therapeutic trials.

By Jennifer Altreuter, Pavel Trukhanov, Morgan A. Paul, Michael J. Hassett, Irbaz B. Riaz, Muhammad Umar Afzal, Arshad A. Mohammed, Ayub Umair, Huan He, Chueh Husan Hsu, Sarah Sammons, James Lindsay, Emily Mallaber, Harry R. Klein, Gufran Gungor, Matthew Galvin, Michael Deletto, Sabrina Y. Camp, Stephen C. Van Nostrand, James Provencher, Joyce Yu, Naeem Tahir, Jonathan Wischhusen, Olga Kozyreva, Taylor Ortiz, Hande Tuncer, Jad El Masri, Alys Malcolm, Tali Mazor, Ethan Cerami, Kenneth L. Kehl
arXiv AI
6d ago

How Do VLMs Behave When Blind or Misled? Behavioral Evaluation of VLMs on Scientific Figures

arXiv:2608. 13267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks emphasize perception and reasoning accuracy (how well VLMs describe and reason about what they see in an image), with limited attention to behavioral reliability under uncertainty (how they behave when visual evidence is missing or misleading).

By Paul Osemudiame Oamen, Owusu-Banahene Osei, Ananya Mukherjee, Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger, Pius Onobhayedo, Wei Zhao
arXiv AI
6d ago

Reasoning Jury: Multi-Model Consensus for Evaluating Reasoning Traces

arXiv:2608. 12585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving reasoning LLMs requires the ability to judge the quality of long reasoning traces for effective reasoning data curation, strong training signals during reinforcement learning, and an in-depth understanding of reasoning behaviors during model performance evaluation.

By Congchao Wang, Diwakar Singh, Qiaozi Gao, Spyros Matsoukas, Yang Liu, Mahdi Namazifar