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 29

OverFlowLight: Real-Time Gridlock Prevention and Traffic Signal Optimization for Urban Intersections

arXiv:2606. 27381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Queue overflow, a severe consequence of urban traffic congestion, occurs when vehicle queues exceed intersection capacity, obstructing upstream traffic and triggering cascading gridlocks.

By Mingyuan Li, Boyang Huang, Tianqi Jiang, Chenpu Li, Chunyu Liu, Yang Li, Ruimin Li, Qiang Wu
arXiv AI
Jun 29

DMind Benchmark: Toward a Holistic Assessment of LLM Capabilities across the Web3 Domain

arXiv:2504. 16116v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Web3 ecosystem, underpinned by cryptographic primitives and decentralized consensus, represents a high-stakes environment where software vulnerabilities and incentive misalignments translate directly into financial loss.

By Enhao Huang, Pengyu Sun, Shuxun Wang, Zixin Lin, Alex Chen, Kaichun Hu, Joey Ouyang, Frank Li, Zhiyu Zhang, Haobo Wang, Yiming Li, Zhan Qin, James Yi, Gang Zhao, Ziang Ling, Lowes Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 29

Two-Stage Fine-Tuning for Protein Sequence Generation with Targeted Amino-Acid Composition

arXiv:2606. 27939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protein language models are standard priors for biological sequence generation, but steering them toward explicit distributional design targets remains largely unexplored.

By Violeta Basten-Romero, Rub\'en Mu\~noz-Tafalla, Anna Mar\'ia D\'iaz-Rovira, Bertran Miquel-Oliver, Isaac Filella-Merce, V\'ictor Guallar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29

PairSAE: Mechanistic Interpretability from Pair Representations in Protein Co-Folding

arXiv:2606. 27440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models for structural biology have achieved remarkable performance in predicting biomolecular structure and show promise for the design of proteins and small molecules.

By Giosue Migliorini, Aristofanis Rontogiannis, Grigori Guitchounts, Nicholas Franklin, Axel Elaldi, Olivia Viessmann