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
Jun 30

ARKD: Adaptive Reinforcement Learning-Guided Bidirectional KL Divergence Distillation for Text Generation

arXiv:2606. 29869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a key technique for compressing Large Language Models (LLMs), yet methods relying on a single KL objective often fail to balance primary distribution fitting with long-tail probability modeling, limiting both generation quality and generalization.

By Zilong Liu, Xuewen Zhang, Jinrui Xing, Juyi Qiao, Huiyong Wang, Junming Jiao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Federated Graph Learning for EV Charging Demand Forecasting with Personalization Against Cyberattacks

arXiv:2405. 00742v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mitigating cybersecurity risk in electric vehicle (EV) charging demand forecasting plays a crucial role in the safe operation of collective EV chargings, the stability of the power grid, and the cost-effective infrastructure expansion.

By Yi Li, Renyou Xie, Chaojie Li, Yi Wang, Zhaoyang Dong
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

MOSAIC: Orchestrating Collaborative Knowledge Tracing with Hierarchical Semantic Alignment

arXiv:2606. 29049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Tracing (KT) is important for personalized education but traditionally suffers from two key limitations: a reliance on shallow ID-based representations that neglect semantic depth and a restriction to single-granularity mastery estimation that overlooks hierarchical knowledge dependencies.

By Xinjin Li, Mengyue Wang, Yuzhen Lin, Pengbin Feng, Ziqi Sha, Yeyang Zhou, Yu Ma
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Deterministic Decisions for High-Stakes AI. A Zero-Egress Pipeline with the Deployability of RAG and the Accuracy of Machine Learning

arXiv:2606. 29280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We identify intervention bias as a previously unquantified failure mode of zero-shot large-language-model (LLM) educational advisory agents: without task-specific training, they recommend action when a hindsight-optimal oracle policy mandates inaction.

By Craig Atkinson