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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Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 2

Profit-Based Counterfactual Explanations for Product Improvement: A Case Study of Manga Sales in Japan

Counterfactual explanation (CE) is widely used to enhance the interpretability of machine learning models and support data-driven decision-making based on model predictions. However, existing CE methods typically require two exogenously specified inputs: a desired output value (target) and a distance function that quantifies changes in explanatory variables.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 1

Exploring the Semantic Gap in Agentic Data Systems: A Formative Study of Operationalization Failures in Analytical Workflows

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate queries, invoke tools, and construct analytical workflows. Although recent advances have substantially improved workflow generation and execution, the semantic information required to operationalize analytical concepts often lies beyond what is explicitly represented in database schemas and data values.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 1

MedCAGD: Context-Aware Gated Decoder for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation

Medical image segmentation relies on the ability of encoder-decoder architectures to translate rich feature representations into accurate pixel-level predictions under challenging conditions such as low contrast, structural ambiguity, and scale variability. While recent advances in large-scale pretraining and transformer-based encoders have substantially improved feature extraction, segmentation accuracy remains constrained by decoder design, particularly in terms of cross-scale alignment, contextual integration, and boundary preservation.

arXiv AI
Jul 1

HistoriQA-ThirdRepublic: Multi-Hop Question Answering Corpus for Historical Research, Parliamentary Debates from the French Third Republic (1870-1940)

arXiv:2606. 31325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HistoriQA-ThirdRepublic: a French-language dataset of multi-hop historical questions derived from parliamentary debates and newspapers of the French Third Republic.

By Aur\'elien Pellet (LRE), Julien Perez (EPITA, LRE), Marie Puren (LRE, CJM)
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 AI
Jul 1

GR2 Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 31984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step disproportionately shapes user engagement and downstream performance, particularly for carousel and grid display formats.

By Yufei Li (Yongkang), Zaiwei Zhang (Yongkang), Mingfu Liang (Yongkang), Kavosh Asadi (Yongkang), Jay Xu (Yongkang), Jimmy Kim (Yongkang), Chongyang Bai (Yongkang), Jieyi Zhang (Yongkang), Hongye Xie (Yongkang), Prachi Agrawal (Yongkang), Dian Yu (Yongkang), Tianyi Chen (Yongkang), Jean-Pascal Billaud (Yongkang), Garret Buell (Yongkang), YK (Yongkang), Zhu (Yang), Sachin Patil (Yang), Brooke Bian (Yang), Zhou Fang (Yang), Kevin Huang (Yang), Shiva Sudanagunta (Yang), Yuzhen Huang (Yang), Emma Lu (Yang), Chris O'Brien (Yang), Yang Song (Yang), Lihong Li (Yang), Jacob Tao (Yang), Zhicheng Zhu (Yang), Chao Li (Yang), Gaoxiang Liu (Yang), Neil Wu (Yang), Zhongyin Hu (Yang), Li Han (Yang), Loki Chen (Yang), Ming Lei (Yang), Greg Rehm (Yang), Siyuan Song (Yang), Tianwei Zhang (Yang), Li Li (Yang), Ketan Singh (Yang), Yavuz Yetim (Yang), Ilyas Atishev (Yang), Satendra Gera (Yang), Ashkan Sadeghi (Yang), Rachel Yan (Yang), Nikko Mizutani (Yang), Shuaiwen Wang (Yang), Song Yang (Yang), Zhijing Li (Yang), Jiang Liu (Yang), Mengying Sun (Yang), Fei Tian (Yang), Xiaohan Wei (Yang), Chonglin Sun (Yang), Parish Aggarwal (Yang), Kaushik Rangadurai (Yang), Zhi Hua (Yang), Frank Shyu (Yang), Ruchit Sharma (Yang), Liyuan Li (Yang), Shike Mei (Yang), Wenlin Chen (Yang), Santanu Kolay (Yang), Ben Schulte (Yang), Deepak Chandra (Yang), Adam (Yang), Song, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon