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 18

LandslideAgent with Multimodal LandslideBench: A Domain-Rule-Augmented Agent for Autonomous Landslide Identification and Analysis

arXiv:2606. 18661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intelligent landslide hazard interpretation is critical for disaster prevention, yet current paradigms struggle to simultaneously extract visual features and high-level geoscientific semantics, while general-purpose vision-language models (VLMs) suffer from perceptual limitations and domain hallucinations in complex geological scenarios.

By Chengfu Liu, Dongyang Hou, Junwu Xiang, Cheng Yang, Xuezhi Cui, Zeyuan Wang, Liangtian Liu, Zelang Miao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Learning from Your Own Mistakes: Constructing Learnable Micro-Reflective Trajectories for Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606. 18844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation improves reasoning in large language models by using the model's own rollouts as training signal, typically through implicit logit-level alignment that minimizes KL divergence toward a privileged target distribution.

By Zhilin Huang, Hang Gao, Ziqiang Dong, Yuan Chen, Yifeng Luo, Chujun Qin, Jingyi Wang, Yang Yang, Guanjun Jiang
arXiv AI
Jun 18

PSyGenTAB: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Synthetic Clinical Tabular Data Generation via Constrained Optimization

arXiv:2606. 18518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of medical AI is constrained by limited access to high-quality clinical data due to institutional silos and strict privacy regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR.

By Arshia Ilaty, Hossein Shirazi, Manasi Chitale, Kedar Hegde, Dhanalakshmi Ramesh, Rashmi S. Manjunath, Amir Rahmani, Hajar Homayouni
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

RNN(p) for Power Consumption Forecasting

arXiv:2209. 01378v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An elementary Recurrent Neural Network that operates on p time lags, called an RNN(p), is the natural generalisation of a linear autoregressive model ARX(p).

By Roberto Baviera, Pietro Manzoni
arXiv AI
Jun 18

PatchWorld: Gradient-Free Optimization of Executable World Models

arXiv:2605. 30880v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-agent environments are typically modeled as partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), assuming that the simulator's latent state and transition dynamics are hidden from the agent.

By Jiaxin Bai, Yue Guo, Yifei Dong, Jiaxuan Xiong, Tianshi Zheng, Yixia Li, Tianqing Fang, Yufei Li, Yisen Gao, Haoyu Huang, Zhongwei Xie, Hong Ting Tsang, Zihao Wang, Lihui Liu, Jeff Z. Pan, Yangqiu Song
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Self-Driving Datasets: From 20 Million Papers to Nuanced Biomedical Knowledge at Scale

arXiv:2605. 07022v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Manually curated biomedical repositories -- spanning bioactivity, genomics, and chemistry -- are expensive to maintain, lag behind primary literature, and discard experimental context, obscuring nuances needed to assess data correctness and coverage.

By Haydn Jones, Yimeng Zeng, Alden Rose, Li S. Yifei, Yining Huang, Kaiwen Wu, Jiaming Liang, Maggie Ziyu Huan, Yoseph Barash, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Osbert Bastani, Zachary Ives, Mark Yatskar, Jacob R. Gardner