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 26

The Best of the Two Worlds: Harmonizing Semantic and Hash IDs for Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2512. 10388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) typically assign unique hash IDs (HID) to construct item embeddings, which mainly capture collaborative signals from historical user-item interactions.

By Ziwei Liu, Yejing Wang, Wanyu Wang, Wang Zejian, Qidong Liu, Zijian Zhang, Chong Chen, Wei Huang, Xiangyu Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Escaping Iterative Parameter-Space Noise: Differentially Private Learning with a Hypernetwork

arXiv:2606. 26772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differentially private (DP) training of neural networks is often hindered by the large amount of noise required by gradient-based methods such as DP-SGD, which repeatedly inject high-dimensional noise in parameter space throughout training.

By Naoki Nishikawa, Shokichi Takakura, Satoshi Hasegawa
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Limited Reference, Reliable Generation: A Two-Component Framework for Tabular Data Generation in Low-Data Regimes

arXiv:2509. 09960v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic tabular data generation is increasingly essential in machine learning, supporting downstream applications when real-world, high-quality tabular data is insufficient.

By Mingxuan Jiang, Keyang Chen, Yongxin Wang, Yongsheng Zhao, Ziyue Dai, Yicun Liu, Zeping Li, Qiuyang Zhang, Hongyi Nie, Hongbin Zhu, Sen Liu, Guangnan Ye, Hongfeng Chai
arXiv AI
Jun 26

AgentX: Towards Agent-Driven Self-Iteration of Industrial Recommender Systems

arXiv:2606. 26859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recommendation algorithm iteration is moving from an artisanal, engineer-bound process toward an industrialized research loop, but this transition remains blocked by a structural execution bottleneck: the idea-to-launch cycle still depends on human engineers to generate hypotheses, modify production code, launch A/B experiments, and attribute online results.

By Changxin Lao, Fei Pan, Guozhuang Ma, Han Li, Huihuang Lin, Jijun Shi, Kangzhi Zhao, Kun Gai, Mo Zhou, Qinqin Zhou, Quan Chen, Ruochen Yang, Shifu Bie, Shuang Yang, Shuo Yang, Wenhao Li, Wentao Xie, Xiao Lv, Xuming Wang, Yijun Wang, Yiming Chen, Yusheng Huang, Zhongyuan Wang, Zibo Zhao, Zijie Zhuang, Baoning Xia, Chao Liu, Chaoyi Ma, Chubo He, Dawei Cong, Feng Jiang, Gang Wang, Guilin Xia, Hanwen Xu, Jiahong Xie, Jiahui Qiao, Jian Liang, Jiangfan Yue, Jing Wang, Jinghan Yang, Jinghui Jia, Kan Qin, Lei Wang, Ming Li, Peilin Song, Pengbo Xu, Qiang Luo, Ruiming Tang, Shiyang Liu, Shuxian Jin, Tao Wang, Tao Zhang, Xiang Gao, Xianghan Li, Yingsong Luo, Yiwen Ning, Yongcheng Liu, Yuan Guo, Zhaojie Liu, Zhenkai Cui
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Rotary Position Encodings for Graphs

arXiv:2509. 22259v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the extent to which rotary position encodings (RoPE), a recent transformer position encoding algorithm broadly adopted in large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers (ViTs), can be applied to graph-structured data.

By Isaac Reid, Arijit Sehanobish, Cederik H\"ofs, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Leonhard Vulpius, Federico Barbero, Adrian Weller, Krzysztof Choromanski, Richard E. Turner, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c