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 1

Mechanistic Diagnostics of Spatial Lexical Bias in Multimodal Large Language Model Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2606.01914v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain unreliable on spatial multiple-choice questions, and their failures are often attributed to poorly...

By Chuang Ma, Qianying Liu, Tomoyuki Obuchi, Fei Cheng, Wang Yang, Sudong Cai, Shuyuan Zheng, Akiko Aizawa, Sadao Kurohashi
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Large Language Models and Evolutionary Computation: A Critical Review of Bidirectional Interaction, Automated Algorithm Design, and Co-Adaptive Systems

arXiv:2505.15741v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and Evolutionary Computation (EC) are increasingly being combined to support automated optimization, algorithm d...

By Dikshit Chauhan, Bapi Dutta, Indu Bala, Niki van Stein, Thomas B\"ack, Anupam Yadav
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Evaluating Perspectival Biases in Cross-Modal Retrieval

arXiv:2510.26861v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal retrieval systems are expected to operate in a semantic space, agnostic to the language or cultural origin of the query. In practi...

By Teerapol Saengsukhiran, Peerawat Chomphooyod, Narabodee Rodjananant, Chompakorn Chaksangchaichot, Patawee Prakrankamanant, Witthawin Sripheanpol, Pak Lovichit, Sarana Nutanong, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

NBS: No Bias Stereo

arXiv:2608.28933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stereo reconstruction is one of the last remaining Computer Vision tasks where all state-of-the-art methods employ a heavy architectural inductive bias...

By Vage Taamazyan, Zhuowen Shen, Stefan Hinterstoisser, Alberto Dall'Olio, Agastya Kalra, Aarrushi Shandilya, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, Kartik Venkataraman