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 9

HA-VLN 2.0: An Open Benchmark and Leaderboard for Human-Aware Navigation in Discrete and Continuous Environments with Dynamic Multi-Human Interactions

arXiv:2503. 14229v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has been studied mainly in either discrete or continuous spaces, with little attention to dynamic, crowded environments.

By Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Qi He, Lingdong Kong, Heng Li, Minghan Li, Zebang Cheng, Yuxuan Zhou, Jingdong Sun, Qi Dai, Alexander G Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng
arXiv AI
Jun 9

TAME: A Trustworthy Test-Time Evolution of Agent Memory with Systematic Benchmarking

arXiv:2602. 03224v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time evolution of agent memory represents a pivotal paradigm for advancing AGI, as it strengthens complex reasoning through experience accumulation without requiring parameter updates.

By Yu Cheng, Yongkang Hu, Jiuan Zhou, Yushuo Zhang, Yihang Chen, Huichi Zhou, Mingang Chen, Zhizhong Zhang, Kun Shao, Yuan Xie, Zhaoxia Yin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Synthetic but Not Realistic: The Evaluation Challenge in Generative Modelling for Structured Electronic Medical Records

arXiv:2606. 08903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic healthcare data are widely proposed as privacy-preserving substitutes for real patient data, yet their evaluation remains dominated by statistical similarity and predictive performance that do not reflect clinical validity.

By Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo, Blanca Gallego, Louisa Jorm
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Generalized Rank-based Evaluation for Knowledge Graph Completion: Perspectives, Framework, and Analyses

arXiv:2606. 08921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph completion (KGC) aims to predict missing facts from an observed knowledge graph (KG), playing a crucial role in a wide range of real-world applications such as drug discovery, recommender systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

By Sooho Moon, Jian Kang, Yunyong Ko
arXiv AI
Jun 9

How Many Counterfactuals Does It Take? Probing VLM Hallucinations Through Circuits and Causal Effects

arXiv:2606. 08777v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Language Models (VLMs) are known to produce hallucinated predictions that are not grounded in visual evidence, yet existing approaches lack a principled understanding of how robust such predictions are under counterfactual perturbations.

By Abhivansh Gupta, Simardeep Singh, Advika Sinha, Shreyansh Modi, Akshat Tomar
arXiv AI
Jun 9

SHIELD-IDS: Structurally Heterogeneous Ensemble with Integrated Layered Defense for Intrusion Detection Systems

arXiv:2606. 07716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial attacks pose a serious and growing threat to Machine Learning (ML)-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), where imperceptible perturbations to network flow features can systematically mislead classifiers into accepting malicious traffic as benign.

By Maryam Zaman, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Constraint-Aware Optimization for Robust Protein Stability Prediction

arXiv:2606. 08100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal $\Delta\Delta G$ predictors integrating protein language models with inverse-folding representations achieve strong in-distribution accuracy on the Megascale dataset but exhibit limited robustness on out-of-distribution (OOD) proteins, persistent forward-reverse bias on paired-mutation benchmarks, and under-representation of rare stabilizing mutations.

By A Shivram, Aneesh S. Chivukula, Manik Gupta, Sourav Chowdhury
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

On solving symmetric multi-type orthogonal non-negative matrix tri-factorization problem

arXiv:2606. 08291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the symmetric multi-type orthogonal non-negative matrix tri-factorization problem, where several symmetric non-negative matrices are simultaneously approximated by factors of the form $GS_{i}G^{\top}$, with a shared non-negative and orthogonal factor $G$.

By Rok Hribar, Gregor Papa, Janez Povh, Andrej Kastrin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Few-step Cofolding with All-Atom Flow Maps

arXiv:2606. 08375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All-atom generative modeling of 3D biomolecular complexes has emerged as the dominant paradigm for predicting the structure of proteins and protein-ligand systems.

By Gianluca Scarpellini, Ron Shprints, Peter Holderrieth, Juno Nam, Pranav Murugan, Rafael G\'omez-Bombarelli, Tommi Jaakola, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Nicholas Matthew Boffi, Avishek Joey Bose
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Physically Consistent Null Space Alignment for Detection of Low-Magnitude False Data Injection Attacks

arXiv:2606. 08473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: False data injection attacks (FDIAs) introducing small measurement perturbations can still cause large deviations in power system state estimation when the injected signals align with the pseudo-null space of the system model.

By Xin Li, Chenhan Xiao, Jonathan Cohen, Aviad Elyashar, Yang Weng, Rami Puzis