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
Aug 13

Robust Multi-Tier Infant-Centered Audio Understanding with Whisper via Structured Speaker Conditioning

arXiv:2608. 11587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in model design and self-supervised audio representations have improved speech and audio understanding, yet infant-centered naturalistic recordings remain challenging due to limited labeled data, low signal-to-noise ratio, and cross-family domain shifts.

By Xulin Fan, Jialu Li, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Kexin Hu, Bashima Islam, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy L. McElwain
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Hallucination Mitigation with Agentic AI, Nested Learning, and AI Sustainability via Semantic Caching

arXiv:2605. 29055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper describes an approach to hallucination detection and mitigation using a HOPE-inspired Nested Learning architecture with Continuum Memory Systems (CMS) and semantic similarity caching, tested on a hybrid benchmark of 310 prompts (217 epistemic-uncertainty prompts, 93 fabrication-induction stress tests).

By Diego Gosmar, Deborah A. Dahl
arXiv AI
Aug 13

On the Definition of Intelligence

arXiv:2507. 22423v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To engineer AGI, we should first capture the essence of intelligence in a species-agnostic form that can be evaluated, while being sufficiently general to encompass diverse paradigms of intelligent behavior, including reinforcement learning, generative models, classification, analogical reasoning, and goal-directed decision-making.

By Kei-Sing Ng