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 Computation and Language
Oct 27

Do Language Models Understand Igbo Culture? Beyond Multiple Choice

arXiv:2610.35168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The value of language models for any community depends on whether a model actually understands the culture of the people it intends to serve. We use th...

By Blessing Ngozi Uzor, Valdini Douglace Lemofouet, Paula Chikaodinaka Anyanwu, Tassallah Abdullahi, Clemencia Siro, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 27

Evaluating DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 for loss of control and harmful manipulation risks

arXiv:2610.35671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As frontier language models grow increasingly capable and autonomous, independent third-party evaluations are critical for characterizing their systemi...

By Yao Huang, Zhiyuan Zeng, Yu Wang, Zhitong Zhu, Dingcheng Duan, Hao Li, Shangzhi Xu, Yifan Wang, Jinzhe Tu, Shukun Xiong, Yihe Zang, Han Yan, Hongchang Yang, Fuyu Gu, Wei Xu, Yinpeng Dong, Xiaojian Li
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 27

SEMA-Auto: Sighted and Efficient Multi-Turn Attack with Autonomy

arXiv:2610.35743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing jailbreak attackers fall into two classes: static planners fix their single- or multi-turn adversarial plans in advance, remaining simple but...

By Mingqian Feng, Xiaodong Liu, Weiwei Yang, Chenliang Xu, Jialin Song, Qiyao Ma, Chengquan Guo, Carolyn Buractaon, Christopher White, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 27

"I Strongly Suspect This Website Is a Scam": Benchmarking PII Leakage and Detection without Defense in Autonomous Web Agents

arXiv:2606.00497v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deceptive web content, widely instantiated across the internet and commonly known as \textit{social-engineering attacks}, manipulates autonom...

By Soham Roy, Sarthakbrata Halder, Arya Bharaty, Vaibhav Bhaskar, Yash Sinha, Dhruv Kumar, Srikant Panda, Murari Mandal
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 27

Rethinking Data Imbalance in Class Incremental Surgical Instrument Segmentation

arXiv:2610.34925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In surgical instrument segmentation, the increasing variety of instruments over time poses a significant challenge for existing neural networks, as the...

By Shifang Zhao, Long Bai, Kun Yuan, Feng Li, Jieming Yu, Wenzhen Dong, Guankun Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Nicolas Padoy, Nassir Navab, Hongliang Ren