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
Jul 1

TDGT: A Tabular Data Generation Toolkit supporting adaptive GPU-accelerated Bayesian mixture models, diffusion-based models, and latent-space generative modeling

arXiv:2606. 31268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing demand for privacy-preserving data sharing has positioned synthetic data generation as a critical component of responsible AI workflows.

By Vasileios C. Pezoulas, Nikolaos S. Tachos, Eleni Georga, Kostas Marias, Manolis Tsiknakis, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
arXiv AI
Jul 1

A Scalable Whole-body Motion Transfer via Implicit Kinodynamic Motion Retargeting

arXiv:2509. 15443v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human-to-humanoid imitation learning presents a promising pathway to address the severe data scarcity bottleneck in robotics by utilizing abundant, large-scale human motion collections.

By Xingyu Chen, Hanyu Wu, Sikai Wu, Mingliang Zhou, Diyun Xiang, Haodong Zhang, Yangchen Zhou, Yukang Gao, Yi Gu, Renjing Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Partition-Guided Distance Saliency: Bridging Decision and Objective Spaces in Many-Objective Optimization

arXiv:2606. 30836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainability in Many-Objective Optimization (MaO) is currently hindered by the escalating complexity of the Pareto front, which renders the relationship between high-dimensional decision variables and objective outcomes increasingly opaque.

By Cl\'audio L\'ucio do Val Lopes, Fl\'avio Vin\'icius Cruzeiro Martins, Elizabeth Fialho Wanner
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

From Failure to Alignment: A Requirements Engineering Framework for Machine Learning Systems

arXiv:2606. 31589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organisations designing, developing, and deploying machine learning systems (MLS) need to be able to check that these systems are trustworthy, and communicate this clearly to their stakeholders, be they different categories of users, engineers, or wider society.

By Amel Bennaceur, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Prince Mercy, Bashar Nuseibeh, Faeq Alrimawi
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Finite Difference Flow Optimization for RL Post-Training of Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2603. 12893v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard technique for post-training diffusion-based image synthesis models, as it enables learning from reward signals to explicitly improve desirable aspects such as image quality and prompt alignment.

By David McAllister, Miika Aittala, Tero Karras, Janne Hellsten, Angjoo Kanazawa, Timo Aila, Samuli Laine
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Quantitative Movement Testing: Measuring Chronic Pain Patient Movements from a Single Smartphone Video

arXiv:2606. 02301v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chronic pain diminishes quality of life by decreasing functional ability, yet objectively measuring this functional impact remains challenging in real-world settings.

By Pranav Mahajan, Amanda Wall, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Julie Stebbins, Eoin Kelleher, Shuangyi Tong, Annina Schmid, Katja Wiech, Anushka Irani, Ben Seymour