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

Semantic Quorum Assurance: Collective Certification for Non-Deterministic AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2606. 08021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents are integrated into autonomous cloud operations, distributed systems face a semantic reliability problem: proposer agents can generate production mutations, such as modifying IAM policies, opening firewall security groups, or executing data exports, that are syntactically valid and statically authorized but operationally unsafe.

By Jun He, Deying Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

IEA: Amateur-Friendly Conversational Image Editing Agent via Three Stages of Multitask Alignment

arXiv:2606. 08016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current image editing software often hinges on fixed filters or expert tuning, leaving a gap between amateur users' intent and outcomes.

By Zichen Zhu, Yuheng Sun, Mingxuan Zhu, Wenjie Ma, Situo Zhang, Zhexiang Wang, Ziyue Yang, Danyang Zhang, Kunyao Lan, Zihan Zhao, Dingye Liu, Siqi Xiang, Lu Chen, Kai Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles

arXiv:2606. 07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.

By Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Haonan Song, Dandan Tu, Qixun Zhang, Yuxiang He, Bibo Cai, Ting Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

NutriMLLM: Multimodal Large Language Models for Dietary Micronutrient Analysis

arXiv:2606. 08948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive estimation of dietary micronutrients from food images could improve clinical nutrition care, but training such models requires large multimodal datasets linking diverse foods to complete nutrient profiles.

By Runze Yan, Minxiao Wang, Jiaying Lu, Darren Liu, Xiao Hu, Hanqi Luo
arXiv AI
Jun 9

When Behavioral Safety Evaluation Fails: A Representation-Level Perspective

arXiv:2606. 08044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) safety has often been evaluated at the behavior level, which provides limited evidence of internal robustness, as these evaluations target outputs rather than representation-level vulnerability under intervention.

By Enyi Jiang, Anders Gj{\o}lbye, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo
arXiv AI
Jun 9

CARE: A Conformal Safety Layer for Medical Summarization

arXiv:2606. 08969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for medical summarization, but their outputs can omit medically important information and introduce unsupported claims.

By Suhana Bedi, Bridget Lin, Anson Y. Zhou, Chloe O. Stanwyck, Jenelle A. Jindal, Sanmi Koyejo, David Stutz, Nigam H. Shah
arXiv AI
Jun 9

PathoSage: Towards Multi-Source Evidence Adjudication in Pathology via Experience-Aware Agentic Workflow

arXiv:2606. 07549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and agent workflows have shown strong promise for computational pathology, yet reliable patch-level reasoning remains challenging.

By Chengyang Zhang, Wenchuan Zhang, Bo Li, Mengran Li, Bob Zhang, Yuhao Yi, Hong Bu, Jiancheng Lv
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Brain-Prompt Injection: A Route-Safety Audit for BCI-LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 09315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: BCI-to-agent pipelines turn decoded neural activity into an authorization channel for tool-use agents, exposing a new attack surface we call \emph{brain-prompt injection}: signal-side perturbations, context-only injections, and adaptive dual-decoder attacks can all change the routed action while EEG-side or text-side monitors remain blind.

By Jianwei Tai
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: Distinguishing How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Human-Like Conventions

arXiv:2606. 08081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repeated reference games test whether interlocutors replace their initially long descriptions with shorter, partner-specific conventions grounded in shared interaction history.

By Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Asl{\i} \"Ozy\"urek, Paula Rubio-Fern\'andez, Esam Ghaleb