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 Machine Learning
Jun 11

Urban Heat MiniCubes: An AI-Ready dataset for urban heat research

arXiv:2606. 11534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban heat is amplified by impermeable surfaces and heterogeneous built environments, yet street-level variability remains difficult to quantify because multi-sensor observations are rarely available in consistent, analysis-ready form at the necessary spatiotemporal scales.

By Jonathan Starfeldt, Maria J. Molina, Alexander Kerr, Adam Yang, Thomas R. H. Holmes, Christopher R. Hain
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Privacy-Preserving Federated Autoencoder for ECG Anomaly Detection on Edge Devices

arXiv:2606. 11556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring could surface rhythm abnormalities before they escalate into cardiovascular events.

By Kaan Arda Akyol, Jakub Kacper Szel\k{a}g, Aydin Abadi, Maha Alghamdi, Ghadah Albalawi, Ghouse Ibrahim Kaleelullah, Hilal Tutus, Sarah Al Subaiei, Shardul Kapse, Syed Mohammed Raheeb, Mujeeb Ahmed, Rehmat Ullah
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Vision-Language-Action Jump-Starting for Reinforcement Learning Robotic Agents

arXiv:2604. 13733v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) enables high-frequency, closed-loop control for robotic manipulation, but scaling to long-horizon tasks with sparse or imperfect rewards remains difficult due to inefficient exploration and poor credit assignment.

By Angelo Moroncelli, Roberto Zanetti, Marco Maccarini, Loris Roveda
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Runtime Enforcement of Hybrid System Properties

arXiv:2606. 12022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime enforcement has emerged as a promising approach for ensuring the safety of autonomous and cyber-physical systems operating in uncertain and dynamic environments.

By Mir Md Sajid Sarwar, Srinivas Pinisetty, Rajarshi Ray, Thierry J\'eron
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

NetBurst: Event-Centric Forecasting of Bursty, Intermittent Time Series

arXiv:2510. 22397v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Network operators monitor their infrastructure by collecting telemetry data such as packet counts, byte rates, or flow volumes, yet answering the questions that effective operations demand -- forecasting future load, diagnosing and characterizing anomalies, and searching for and retrieving historical precedents -- requires more than raw measurements.

By Satyandra Guthula, Jaber Daneshamooz, Charles Fleming, Kesheng Wu, Walter Willinger, Arpit Gupta
arXiv AI
Jun 11

OpenVTON-Bench: A Large-Scale High-Resolution Benchmark for Controllable Virtual Try-On Evaluation

arXiv:2601. 22725v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly elevated the visual fidelity of Virtual Try-On (VTON) systems, yet reliable evaluation remains a persistent bottleneck.

By Jin Li, Tao Chen, Kai Wen, Siqi Yin, Shuai Jiang, Weijie Wang, Jingwen Luo, Chenhui Wu
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Self-Prompting Small Language Models for Privacy-Sensitive Clinical Information Extraction

arXiv:2605. 04221v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical named entity recognition from dental progress notes is challenging because documentation is highly unstructured, domain-specific, and often privacy-sensitive.

By Yao-Shun Chuang, Tushti Mody, Uday Pratap Singh, Shirindokht Shiraz, Chun-Teh Lee, Ryan Brandon, Muhammad F Walji, Xiaoqian Jiang, Bunmi Tokede