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 10

Deployment-Time Memorization in Foundation-Model Agents

arXiv:2606. 10062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation-model agents are increasingly long-lived systems that remember users across interactions, making memorization an explicit deployment-time function rather than solely a property of model weights.

By Lei (Rachel), Chen, Guilin Zhang, Kai Zhao, Dalmo Cirne, Andy Olsen, Xu Chu, Zeke Miller, Alet Blanken, Amine Anoun, Jerry Ting
arXiv AI
Jun 10

TruthRL: Incentivizing Truthful LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2509. 25760v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on factoid question answering, they are still prone to hallucination and untruthful responses, particularly when tasks demand information outside their parametric knowledge.

By Zhepei Wei, Xiao Yang, Kai Sun, Jiaqi Wang, Rulin Shao, Jingxiang Chen, Mohammad Kachuee, Teja Gollapudi, Yiwei Liao, Nicolas Scheffer, Rakesh Wanga, Anuj Kumar, Yu Meng, Wen-tau Yih, Xin Luna Dong
arXiv AI
Jun 10

IDP-Bench: Benchmarking ability of LLMs to protect personal information in interdependent privacy contexts

arXiv:2606. 09908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are becoming widely deployed as personal AI assistants with access to sensitive user data, making privacy a major challenge for their design and evaluation.

By Ayana Hussain, Soumya Sharma, Golnoosh Farnadi, Nicholas Vincent, H\'eber Hwang Arcolezi, Ulrich A\"ivodji
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Hidden Consensus:Preference-Validity Compression in Human Feedback

arXiv:2606. 10569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard RLHF pipelines often reduce heterogeneous human judgments into a single scalar reward target.

By Dorcas Chia Ern Chua, Karen Myn Hui Lee, Jia Yue Tan, Zhen Xue Gue, Norzalena Abdul Hamid, Azima Binti Azmi, Keat Mei Yeong, Aizat Izyani binti Mujab, Hafsah Noor Azam, Chee Guo Khoo, Han Ying Lim, Chee Seng Chan
arXiv AI
Jun 10

HiGR: Industrial-Scale Hierarchical Generative Slate Recommendation Framework in Tencent

arXiv:2512. 24787v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Slate recommendation, which presents users with a ranked item list in a single display, is ubiquitous across mainstream online platforms.

By Yunsheng Pang, Zijian Liu, Yudong Li, Shaojie Zhu, Zijian Luo, Chenyun Yu, Sikai Wu, Shichen Shen, Cong Xu, Bin Wang, Kai Jiang, Chengxiang Zhuo, Zang Li