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

Layout-Conditioned Autoregressive Text-to-Image Generation via Structured Masking

arXiv:2509. 12046v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated remarkable success in image generation, extending these models to layout-conditioned generation remains challenging due to the sparse nature of layout conditions and the risk of feature entanglement.

By Zirui Zheng, Takashi Isobe, Tong Shen, Xu Jia, Jianbin Zhao, Xiaomin Li, Mengmeng Ge, Baolu Li, Qinghe Wang, Dong Li, Dong Zhou, Yunzhi Zhuge, Huchuan Lu, Emad Barsoum
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

FedLAB: Traceable Semantic Codebooks for Federated Multimodal Graph Foundation Learning

arXiv:2606. 32016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal graph foundation models aim to learn reusable knowledge from graphs enriched with text, images, attributes, and relational topology, thereby supporting diverse graph-centric and modality-centric tasks.

By Zekai Chen, Kairui Yang, Xuaner Chen, Xunkai Li, Xun Wu, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Surrogate Fidelity: When Can Open LLMs Explain Closed Ones?

arXiv:2606. 32008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability (MI) requires full access to model internals, yet the APIs for most widely deployed language models at best expose log-probabilities over output tokens.

By Philippe Chlenski, Zachariah Carmichael, Ayush Warikoo, Chia-Tse Shao, Yingxiao Ye, Aobo Yang, Vivek Miglani, Nehal Bandi
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Training Therapeutic Judges and Multi-Agent Systems for Human-Aligned Mental Health Support

arXiv:2606. 30887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models show promise for mental health support, yet therapeutic quality improves only when evaluation functions as an actionable control signal rather than a passive metric.

By Mizanur Rahman, Abeer Badawi, Elahe Rahimi, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Frank Rudzicz, Enamul Hoque, Elham Dolatabadi
arXiv AI
Jul 1

FLARE-AI: Flaw Reporting for AI

arXiv:2606. 31567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flaw reporting for deployed AI systems is fundamental to identifying system failures and improving AI safety.

By Shayne Longpre, Elaine Zhu, Carson Ezell, Avijit Ghosh, Sean McGregor, Kevin Paeth, Kevin Klyman, Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Ruth Appel, Gregory Strom, Lauren McIlvenny, Mark M. Jaycox, Peter Slattery, Nathan Butters, Arvind Narayanan, Percy Liang, Alex Pentland