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 9

TriHead-GAN: A Generative Adversarial Network with Triple-Head Discriminator for Carbon Emission Time Series Generation

arXiv:2606. 07569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate carbon emission monitoring is critical for climate policy and emerging regulatory mechanisms such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, yet city-level high-frequency monitoring data remain extremely scarce, severely limiting data-hungry deep learning models.

By Zesen Wang, Lijuan Lan, Yonggang Li, Chunhua Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Unification of Closed-Open Industrial Detection Scenarios: New Large-Scale Benchmarks,Challenges and Baselines

arXiv:2606. 07953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural visual tasks, yet their application to industrial defect detection remains challenging due to two fundamental limitations: (i) the scarcity of large-scale industrial datasets that cover diverse defect categories across multiple domains, and (ii) the reliance on manual prompts (points, boxes, masks) that introduce subjective noise and lack text-visual interaction for fine-grained understanding.

By Zekai Zhang, Jinglin Zhang, Qinghui Chen, Gang Li, Da Chen, Shuainan Jing, He Wang, Dagang Li, Cong Liu, Cong Bai, Shengyong Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Multi-Scale Feature Attention Network for Polymer Classification Using Terahertz Spectroscopy

arXiv:2606. 06554v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable polymer identification is essential for ensuring the quality and safety of recycled plastics, yet conventional sorting and spectroscopic techniques often struggle to deliver robust discrimination.

By Roshni Mahtani, Il\'an Carretero, Laura Monroy, Aldo Moreno-Oyervides, Oscar El\'ias Bonilla-Manrique, Roc\'io del Amor
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Robust-U1: Can MLLMs Self-Recover Corrupted Visual Content for Robust Understanding?

arXiv:2606. 08063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in visual understanding, yet their performance degrades significantly under real-world visual corruptions.

By Jiaqi Tang, Jianmin Chen, Youyang Zhai, Wei Wei, Runtao Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Xiangyu Wu, Qingfa Xiao, Qifeng Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509. 12760v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax activation function, adding Similarity (i.

By Allen Schmaltz