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 Computer Vision
Aug 25

Tumor-aware augmentation with task-guided attention analysis improves rectal cancer segmentation from magnetic resonance images

arXiv:2605.05522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although self-supervised pretraining is expected to learn broadly transferable representations, its effectiveness across imaging modalities s...

By Aneesh Rangnekar, Joao Miranda, Natally Horvat, Stephanie Chahwan, Samir Alrayess, Aditya Apte, Aditi Iyer, Eve LoCastro, Revathi Ravella, Marc J Gollub, Iva Petkovska, Jesse Joshua Smith, Paul Romesser, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Harini Veeraraghavan, Joseph O Deasy
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

FourierSampler: Unlocking Non-Autoregressive Potential in Diffusion Language Models via Frequency-Guided Generation

arXiv:2601.23182v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the non-autoregressive potential of diffusion language models (dLLMs), existing decoding strategies demonstrate positional bias, failing to...

By Siyang He, Qiqi Wang, Xiaoran Liu, Hongnan Ma, Yiwei Shi, Yuerong Song, Ying Zhu, Tianyi Liang, Zengfeng Huang, Ziwei He, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

Safety-Aligned Weights Are Not Enough: Refusal-Teacher-Guided Finetuning Enhances Safety and Downstream Performance under Harmful Finetuning Attacks

arXiv:2506.07356v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Finetuning-as-a-Service (FaaS) enables customization of Large Language Models (LLMs) using user data, this service is vulnerable to safety de...

By Seokil Ham, Yubin Choi, Yujin Yang, Seungju Cho, Younghun Kim, Changick Kim
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Vibe Coding on Trial: Operating Characteristics of Unanimous LLM Juries

The paper evaluates using large language model (LLM) juries to review code generated from natural language queries, focusing on MySQL text-to-SQL tasks. It benchmarks 15 open models, selects the top six, and constructs unanimous committees of varying sizes to accept a query only when all members agree. The study finds that single-model judges are inconsistent, while small unanimous committees of strong models can reduce false accepts without discarding many correct queries, and that committee composition significantly influences performance.

By Muhammad Aziz Ullah, Abdul Serwadda
arXiv AI
Aug 25

ONOTE: Hypergraph-Grounded Omnimodal Reasoning for Computational Music Science

ONOTE is a unified framework that treats music as a scientifically structured domain of measurable cross-representation correspondences, focusing on omnimodal notation processing centered on sheet music. It introduces a test-only benchmark drawing from diverse musical sources—including staff, Jianpu, and tablature—across varied genres, instruments, and structural conditions, with aligned multimodal derivatives. The framework supports four complementary tasks—score understanding, notation conversion, audio transcription, and symbolic generation—while constructing a provenance-bearing proposition hypergraph from external music-theory materials for evidence retrieval and deterministic validity checks.

By Menghe Ma, Siqing Wei, Yuecheng Xing, Ziyue Zhu, Zhenghong Lin, Yaheng Wang, Fanhong Meng, Peijun Han, Luu Anh Tuan, Haoran Luo