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 Machine Learning
Jul 3

Quantifying the Uncertainty of Blindly Estimated Room Embeddings Using a Dispersion-Calibrated Score

arXiv:2607. 01527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Room embeddings derived from reverberant speech are often unreliable: speech content and recording degradation can alter the representation even when speaker, room, and source-receiver geometry remain unchanged, degrading downstream task performance.

By Yang Xiang, Philipp G\"otz, Emanu\"el A. P. Habets, Andreas Walther, Wenwu Wang, Philip J. B. Jackson
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

arXiv:2510. 04484v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to control LLMs' emulated emotional states and personality traits is an essential step in enabling rich, human-centered interactions in socially interactive settings.

By Amin Banayeeanzade, Ala N. Tak, Fatemeh Bahrani, Anahita Bolourani, Leonardo Blas, Emilio Ferrara, Jonathan Gratch, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Rethinking Post-Hoc Calibration in Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2607. 01902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable confidence estimates are essential in semantic segmentation, especially in safety-critical settings where overconfident errors can mislead downstream decisions.

By Tristan Kirscher (ICube), Kim-Celine Kahl (DKFZ), Balint Kovacs (DKFZ), Maximilian R. Rokuss (DKFZ), Klaus Maier-Hein (DKFZ), Xavier Coubez (ICube), Philippe Meyer (ICube), Sylvain Faisan (ICube)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

IonSense-QKG: A Quantum-Readiness Metadata Framework for Lithium-Ion Battery Dataset Discovery

arXiv:2607. 01286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public lithium-ion battery datasets are increasingly used for state-of-health estimation, remaining-useful-life prediction, anomaly detection, electrochemical diagnostics, second-life analytics, and battery safety research.

By Sakthi Prabhu Gunasekar, Prasanna Kumar Rangarajan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Class-Grouped Normalized Momentum and Faster Hyperparameter Exploration to Tackle Class Imbalance in Federated Learning

arXiv:2607. 01474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance poses a critical challenge in federated learning (FL), where underrepresented classes suffer from poor predictive performance yet cannot be addressed by standard centralized techniques due to privacy and heterogeneity constraints.

By Haemin Park, Diego Klabjan, Martin W. Braun, Xiuqi Li, Balakrishnan Ananthanarayanan
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Towards Cellular-Scale Interpretability in Pathology Foundation Models for Biomarker Assessment

arXiv:2511. 05150v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular biomarker testing in pathology is often costly and tissue-consuming, limiting scalable clinical deployment.

By Jingsong Liu, Han Li, Zhengyang Xu, Franz-Leonard Klaus, Fabian St\"ogbauer, Shihui Zu, Weiwei Zhou, Atsuko Kasajima, Felix Schicktanz, Alexander Muckenhuber, Julius Shakhtour, Jiale Yu, Tiannan Zheng, Xun Ma, Maggie Wang, Christian Grashei, Bao Li, Guiyang Jiang, Hongming Xu, Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Nassir Navab, Peter J. Sch\"uffler