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
Aug 21

SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects (Early Version)

arXiv:2607. 04234v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deformable object manipulation poses challenges beyond task completion: successful execution must also maintain safe physical interaction, holding the object stably without slip or drop while avoiding excessive deformation.

By Bowen Jing, Mingxin Wang, Ruiyang Hao, Chenchen Ge, Hanwen Shen, Junjie He, Yang Cui, Yiming Hou, Weitao Zhou, Jiawei Wang, Minglei Li, Dandan Zhang, Ding Zhao, Houde Liu, Xiaofan Li, Si Liu, Ping Luo, Haibao Yu
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

MOSAIC: Modality-agnostic Spectral Alignment for Federated Image-level Weakly Supervised Tumor Segmentation under Client-specific Missing Modalities

arXiv:2608. 19788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trustworthy multimodal fusion in clinical settings requires handling incomplete and heterogeneous modality subsets across institutions, where privacy constraints prohibit centralized data sharing.

By Tarun Kumar Garg, Vaanathi Sundaresan
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

PosterText: Towards Unified Visual Text Generation and Editing for E-commerce Poster

arXiv:2608. 16289v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated e-commerce poster design requires both high-quality poster generation and flexible editing of existing designs.

By Xiaoan Liu, Lichen Ma, Zipeng Guo, Yu He, Xiaoyan Su, Shaojie Guo, Jingling Fu, Xiaolong Fu, Hao Yang, Tongxuan Liu, Yu Guo, Fei Wang, Xinyi Liu, Yongjun Zhang, Junshi Huang
arXiv AI
Aug 21

ATBench: A Diverse and Realistic Agent Trajectory Benchmark for Safety Evaluation and Diagnosis

arXiv:2604. 02022v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating the safety of LLM-based agents is increasingly important because risks in realistic deployments often emerge over multi-step interactions rather than isolated prompts or final responses.

By Yu Li, Haoyu Luo, Yuejin Xie, Yuqian Fu, Zhonghao Yang, Shuai Shao, Qihan Ren, Wanying Qu, Yanwei Fu, Yujiu Yang, Jing Shao, Xia Hu, Dongrui Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 21

Auditing Cross-Lingual Fairness in Language Model Watermarking

arXiv:2608. 20047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking schemes for large language model output are evaluated almost exclusively on English text using each scheme's detection threshold and a narrow set of quality measurements.

By Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Vipin Chaudhary, Erman Ayday