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 16

Decoupling Semantics from Distortions: Multi-Scale Two-Stream Vision-Language Alignment for AI-Generated Image Quality Assessment

arXiv:2606. 16799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing vision-language model (VLM)-based AI-generated image quality assessment (AIGIQA) methods suffer from a fundamental semantic-distortion dimensional conflict: monolithic representations optimized for semantic discrimination inherently entangle compositional understanding with low-level perceptual sensitivity, rendering them blind to fine-grained quality degradations.

By Zijie Meng
arXiv AI
Jun 16

CHILLGuard: Towards Fine-Grained Chinese LLM Safety Guardrail with Scalable Data Construction and Model-aware Preference Alignment

arXiv:2606. 15396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malicious content generated from large language models (LLMs) could pose severe safety risks and ethical concerns.

By Wenbo Yu, Bohua Wang, Hao Fang, Kuofeng Gao, Jingru Zeng, Xiaochen Yang, Tianyi Zhang, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jiawei Kong, Hao Wu, Bin Chen, Shu-Tao Xia, Min Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 16

LLMs on Tabular Data with Limited Semantics: Evidence from Industrial Car Retrofit Prediction

arXiv:2606. 15314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial retrofit planning depends on structured operational data rather than free text: planners must estimate whether a newly registered prototype will require a retrofit, which retrofit package it will need, and how long the work will take.

By Aina Vila Pons, Ioannis Tzachristas, Constantinos Antoniou
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Automating Low-Risk Code Review at Meta: RADAR, Risk Calibration, and Review Efficiency

arXiv:2605. 30208v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI-assisted coding tools have altered software production.

By Chris Adams, Arjun Singh Banga, Parveen Bansal, Souvik Bhattacharya, Payal Bhuptani, Rujin Cao, Pedro Canahuati, Nate Cook, Brian Ellis, Prabhakar Goyal, Gurinder Grewal, Tianyu He, Matt Labunka, Alex Manners, David Molnar, Ging Cee Ng, Vishal Parekh, Jiefu Pei, Frederic Sagnes, James Saindon, Will Shackleton, Sid Sidhu, Gursharan Singh, Karthik Chengayan Sridhar, Matt Steiner, Pratibha Udmalpet, Sean Xia, Stacey Yan, Audris Mockus, Peter Rigby, Nachiappan Nagappan
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Selective Synergistic Learning for Video Object-Centric Learning

arXiv:2606. 15527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typical video object-centric learning (VOCL) approaches employ slot-based frameworks that rely on reconstruction-driven encoder-decoder architectures, where learning is mediated by two spatial maps: attention maps from the encoder and object maps from the decoder.

By WonJun Moon, Jae-Pil Heo
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Optimal Transport for Machine Learners

arXiv:2505. 06589v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern machine learning repeatedly manipulates probability measures: empirical datasets, generated samples, latent distributions, class-conditional laws, particle systems, weights of wide networks and attention patterns.

By Gabriel Peyr\'e
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Machine Learning and the Random Walk Puzzle: Forecasting the CAD/USD Exchange Rate with Expanding Window Evaluation and SHAP Interpretability

arXiv:2606. 15058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines whether machine learning (ML) models can outperform the naive random walk benchmark in forecasting the monthly USD/CAD exchange rate.

By Louis Agyekum, Edmund Fosu Agyemang, Obu-Amoah Ampomah, Kofi Acheampong, Emmanuel Boadi, Priscilla Yaa Amakye, Fafa Shalom Tchorly, Enock Adu Bonsu, Eric Nyarko