AI safety and alignment

Alignment, interpretability, red-teaming, bias and privacy: the research on what these systems do when they misbehave.

10,646 stories · RSS feed

arXiv AI
Jun 17

LegalHalluLens: Typed Hallucination Auditing and Calibrated Multi-Agent Debate for Trustworthy Legal AI

arXiv:2606. 18021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems deployed in legal workflows hallucinate at rates that aggregate metrics report at ~52%, but this average conceals where errors concentrate and in which direction they run, leaving compliance officers without an actionable signal for trustworthy deployment.

By Lalit Yadav, Akshaj Gurugubelli
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Exposing the Illusion of Fairness: Auditing Vulnerabilities to Distributional Manipulation Attacks

arXiv:2507. 20708v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid deployment of AI systems in high-stakes domains, including those classified as high-risk under the The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), has intensified the need for reliable compliance auditing.

By Valentin Lafargue, Adriana Laurindo Monteiro, Emmanuelle Claeys, Laurent Risser, Jean-Michel Loubes
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Tacit Coordination of Large Language Models

arXiv:2601. 22184v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent settings that require coordination without communication, from human-AI interaction to safety-critical scenarios.

By Ido Aharon, Emanuele La Malfa, Michael Wooldridge, Sarit Kraus
arXiv AI
Jun 17

EngTrace: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Process Supervision of Engineering Reasoning

arXiv:2511. 01650v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly entering specialized, safety-critical engineering workflows governed by strict quantitative standards and immutable physical laws, making rigorous evaluation of their reasoning capabilities imperative.

By Ayesha Gull, Muhammad Usman Safder, Rania Elbadry, Fan Zhang, Veselin Stoyanov, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Pulling The REINS: Training-Free Safety Alignment of Video Diffusion Models via Representation Steering

arXiv:2606. 17257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight video diffusion models can generate photorealistic unsafe content, from violence to misinformation, yet existing defenses either require expensive safety fine-tuning that degrades general capability, or apply external filters that are trivially bypassed by adversarial prompts.

By Rohit Kundu, Arindam Dutta, Sarosij Bose, Athula Balachandran, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Conservation Laws for Modern Neural Architectures

arXiv:2606. 17816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding gradient descent dynamics is key to explaining the success of over-parameterized models, where implicit bias manifests through conservation laws in gradient flow.

By Viet-Hoang Tran, Vinh Khanh Bui, Tan Lai Ngoc, Nam Nguyen, Tuan Dam, Tan M. Nguyen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 17846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models in language and multimodality achieve strong generalization by aligning heterogeneous data under a unified formulation and training at scale.

By Haoqi Yuan, Zhixuan Liang, Anzhe Chen, Ye Wang, Haoyang Li, Pei Lin, Yiyang Huang, Zixing Lei, Tong Zhang, Jiazhao Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jingyang Fan, Gengze Zhou, Qihang Peng, Chenxu Lv, Xiaoyue Chen, An Yang, Fei Huang, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Jingren Zhou, Chenfei Wu, Xiong-Hui Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Multimodal Graph Negative Learning

arXiv:2606. 12863v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal attributed graphs (MAGs) integrate graph topology with heterogeneous modality attributes, such as text and images, thereby enabling richer modeling of complex relational systems.

By Zhengyu Wu, Xu Wang, Hongchao Qin, Xunkai Li, Guang Zeng, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Surrogate Assisted Pedestrian Protection Design via a Foundation Model Orchestrated Workflow

arXiv:2606. 17577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-driven engineering workflows face particular challenges in crash safety design: unlike aerodynamics, crash events involve highly nonlinear contact dynamics, material nonlinearity, and discrete state transitions that are difficult to capture with data-driven surrogate models.

By Osamu Ito, Akihiko Katagiri, Yoshikazu Nakagawa, Shin Saeki, Jun Shiraishi, Masato Sasaki