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

Synthetic Persona Pretraining: Alignment from Token Zero

arXiv:2608. 13482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language-model-based AI is increasingly deployed in autonomous settings, aligning its goals and values with those of humans becomes critical.

By Julian Minder, Viktor Moskvoretskii, Raghav Singhal, Difan Jiao, Andy Arditi, Shaobo Cui, Yiderigun Borjigin, Kartik Bali, Stefan Krsteski, Harsh Raj, Huu Nguyen, Jannik Brinkmann, Ashton Anderson, Roland Aydin, Robert West
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 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
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

CoMedBench: A Multi-Source Benchmark of Synthetic Medical Data Fidelity and Downstream Utility

arXiv:2608. 12805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Access to clinical data is essential for developing reliable healthcare machine learning systems, but direct use of electronic health records is constrained by privacy regulation, institutional review, data-use agreements, and the risk of re-identification.

By Akanta Das, Al Amin Farhad, Mrinmoy Sarkar Anto, David Rehkopf, Ayin Vala, Tanmoy Sarkar Pias
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