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 Computation and Language
Sep 10

False positive bias in AI-powered speech-based cognitive screening for multilingual English speakers in the UK

arXiv:2602.13047v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conversational speech reveals early signs of cognitive decline, including dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). AI models show promise for...

By Madhurananda Pahar, Caitlin Illingworth, Dorota Braun, Bahman Mirheidari, Lise Sproson, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

Can Artificial Intelligence Support Healthcare and Mental Health Through Early Cyberbullying Detection ? The Impact of Emotion-Aware AI on Proactive Online Safety

arXiv:2609.09735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Healthcare systems, mental health, and public well-being are increasingly affected by cyberbullying and harmful online interactions. This paper prese...

By Hamed Jelodar, Amir Firouzi, Yen-Wu Lo, Maryam Tanha, Sajjad Dadkhah
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

BTBR: A Bayesian-Theory-Driven Probabilistic-Fuzzy Framework for Implicit Bias Removal in Large Language Models

arXiv:2408.10608v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) may encode biased associations from heterogeneous training corpora that are not immediately visible under ordinary pro...

By Yongxin Deng (University of Technology Sydney), Xiaoyu Tan (National University of Singapore), Jing Pan (Monash University), Ling Chen (University of Technology Sydney), Zhen Fang (University of Technology Sydney), Xihe Qiu (National University of Singapore)
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

A Patient Simulation Framework for Risk Assessment of Conversational Healthcare AI: Evaluation of an Antidepressant Decision Aid

arXiv:2602.11391v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Objective: This study develops and validates a patient simulation framework that aligns with the National Institute of Standards and Technology AI...

By Md Tanvir Rouf Shawon, Mohammad Sabik Irbaz, Hadeel R. A. Elyazori, Keerti Reddy Resapu, Yili Lin, Vladimir Franzuela Cardenas, K. Pierre Eklou, Farrokh Alemi, Kevin Lybarger
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

VANTAGE-Bench: Evaluating the Infrastructure AI Gap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) advance toward physical deployment, the focus has remained on action-oriented Embodied AI evaluated on subject-centric...

By Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Nimra Nayyar, Arihant Jain, Lap Fung Chan, John Suchanek, Yu Wang, Varun Praveen, Tomasz Kornuta, Vidya Nariyambut Murali
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

ROVR-Open-Dataset: A Large-Scale Depth Dataset for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2508.13977v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Depth estimation is a fundamental component of spatial perception for autonomous driving and other unmanned systems operating in open urban environ...

By Xianda Guo, Ruijun Zhang, Yiqun Duan, Ruilin Wang, Matteo Poggi, Keyuan Zhou, Wenzhao Zheng, Wenke Huang, Gangwei Xu, Yanlun Peng, Yuan Si, Qin Zou
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

Advanced Brain Tissue Imaging with Data-Consistent Diffusion Priors in Laminographic X-Ray Nanoimaging

arXiv:2609.10456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nanoscale imaging of mammalian brains is critical for connectomics. X-ray laminography enables high-throughput imaging of extended, plate-like biologic...

By Wenxuan Fang, Abraham L. Levitan, Ana Diaz, Carles Bosch, Adrian Wanner, Andreas T. Schaefer, Mirko Holler, Tomas Aidukas, Nicholas W. Phillips, Yuxin Zhang, Alexandra Pacureanu, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Luis Barba