AI safety and alignment

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

9,648 stories · RSS feed

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

PoseVLA: Universal Pose Pretraining for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2602. 19710v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often suffer from feature collapse and low training efficiency because they entangle high-level perception with sparse, embodiment-specific action supervision.

By Haitao Lin, Hanyang Yu, Jingshun Huang, He Zhang, Yonggen Ling, Ping Tan, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
arXiv AI
Jul 8

MambaGaze: Bidirectional Mamba with Explicit Missing Data Modeling for Cognitive Load Assessment from Eye-Gaze Tracking Data

arXiv:2605. 22775v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time cognitive load assessment from eye-tracking signals could enable adaptive human-centered AI in safety-critical applications such as driver vigilance monitoring or automated flight deck assistance, yet two challenges persist: handling frequent data missingness from blinks and tracking failures, and efficiently modeling long-range temporal dependencies.

By Amir Mousavi, Mohammad Sadegh Sirjani, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Mimi Xie, Rocky Slavin, Leslie Neely, John Davis, John Quarles
arXiv AI
Jul 8

SpatialFly: Implicit 3D Prior-Guided Visual Reparameterization for Continuous UAV Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2603. 21046v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: UAVs play an important role in applications such as autonomous exploration, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection.

By Wen Jiang, Kangyao Huang, Li Wang, Wang Xu, Wei Fan, Jinyuan Liu, Shaoyu Liu, Hanfang Liang, Hongwei Duan, Bin Xu, Xiangyang Ji, Huaping Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Imbalance-Robust and Sampling-Efficient Continuous Conditional GANs via Adaptive Vicinal Learning and Auxiliary Regularization

arXiv:2508. 01725v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in continuous conditional generative modeling, including Continuous conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CcGAN) and Continuous Conditional Diffusion Model (CCDM), estimate high-dimensional data distributions conditioned on scalar regression labels such as angles, ages, or temperatures.

By Xin Ding, Yun Chen, Yongwei Wang, Kao Zhang, Sen Zhang, Peibei Cao, Xiangxue Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Platonic Representations for Poverty Mapping: Unified Vision-Language Codes or Agent-Induced Novelty?

arXiv:2508. 01109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate whether socioeconomic indicators, like household wealth, leave recoverable informational imprints in both satellite imagery (capturing features like buildings and roads) and Internet-sourced text (reflecting historical, cultural, and narratives of neighborhoods).

By Satiyabooshan Murugaboopathy, Connor T. Jerzak, Adel Daoud
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Prompt-Adapter Context Routing for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Shot Long Video Extrapolation

arXiv:2607. 06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present PACR-Video, a parameter-efficient framework for multi-shot long video extrapolation that preserves recurring entities, scene structure, visual style, and causal progression without full generator fine-tuning.

By Anna C\'ordoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo, Mar Linares Tercero, Julia Barrientos, Ainhoa Miranda, Jes\'us Olivera
arXiv AI
Jul 8

AirflowAttack: Thermal-Airflow Adversarial Perturbations against Infrared Remote-Sensing Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 06485v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed on infrared (IR) remote sensing imagery in security-critical settings, yet their adversarial robustness remains unexamined.

By Cong Su, Jiaju Han, Xuemeng Sun, Chengyin Hu, Qike Zhang, Jiujiang Guo, Yiwei Wei, Jiahuan Long
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Assessing the Operational Impact of Poisoning Attacks over Augmented 3D Point Cloud Public Datasets for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2607. 06484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Poisoning attacks against public datasets lead to major concerns, such as (i) misclassification of perceived objects when the poisoned data is used for training and (ii) embedding of backdoors that may eventually be triggered later on, when specific conditions in the system apply over the learned models.

By Marwan Lazrag, Badis Hammi, Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro