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

An Improved Generative Adversarial Network for Micro-Resistivity Imaging Logging Restoration

arXiv:2606. 10200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An improved GAN-based imaging logging image restoration method is presented in this paper for solving the problem of partially missing micro-resistivity imaging logging images.

By Ahmed Faizul Haque, S. M. Riaz Rahman Antu, Saif Ahmed, Asadullah Hil Galib, Souvik Pramanik, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Mohammad Abdul Qayum, Mohsin Sajjad
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

XtrAIn: Training-Guided Occlusion for Feature Attribution

arXiv:2606. 10877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Occlusion-based attribution methods provide an intuitive way to estimate feature importance by perturbing input features and measuring the resulting change in model output.

By Thodoris Lymperopoulos, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Denia Kanellopoulou
arXiv AI
Jun 10

PromptEmbedder: Efficient and Transferable Text Embedding via Dual-LLM Soft Prompting

arXiv:2605. 28066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in text embedding, yet current adaptation methods like LoRA face significant bottlenecks in computational efficiency and cross-architecture transferability.

By Yu-Che Tsai, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yuan-Hao Chen, Yu-Han Chang, Ching-Yu Tsai, Yu-Hsiang Chuang, Shou-De Lin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Encoding the Euler Characteristic Transform

arXiv:2606. 10824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Euler Characteristic Curve (ECC) records the Euler characteristic of a linearly embedded cell complex as a function of filtration height in a given direction, and the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is the injective shape descriptor obtained by collecting ECCs over many directions.

By Nello Blaser, Odin Hoff Gardaa, Lars M. Salbu, Elena Xinyi Wang, Bastian Rieck
arXiv AI
Jun 10

A Comprehensive Survey of Direct Preference Optimization: Datasets, Theories, Variants, and Applications

arXiv:2410. 15595v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), aligning policy models with human preferences has become increasingly critical.

By Wenyi Xiao, Zechuan Wang, Leilei Gan, Shuai Zhao, Zongrui Li, Ruirui Lei, Wanggui He, Luu Anh Tuan, Long Chen, Hao Jiang, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Robust Regression of General ReLUs with Queries

arXiv:2606. 11130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the task of agnostically learning general (as opposed to homogeneous) ReLUs under the Gaussian distribution with respect to the squared loss.

By Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Mingchen Ma
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Provenance-Grounded Gating and Adaptive Recovery in Synthetic Post-Training Data Curation

arXiv:2606. 11127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic post-training pipelines commonly filter generated samples with reward models or holistic LLM judges, yet two practices remain rarely examined together: whether the filtering signal is grounded in the source evidence that induced each generation, and whether rejected samples can be systematically recovered rather than permanently discarded.

By Soham Bhattacharjee, Karun Sharma, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu, Pratinav Seth