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 12

JEPA-DNA: Grounding Genomic Foundation Models through Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

arXiv:2602. 17162v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Genomic Foundation Models (GFMs) typically rely on Masked Language Modeling (MLM) or Next-Token Prediction (NTP) to learn the "Laws of Nature".

By Ariel Larey, Elay Dahan, Amit Bleiweiss, Raizy Kellerman, Guy Leib, Omri Nayshool, Dan Ofer, Tal Zinger, Dan Dominissini, Gideon Rechavi, Nicole Bussola, Simon Lee, Shane O'Connell, Dung Hoang, Marissa Wirth, Alexander W. Charney, Nati Daniel, Yoli Shavit
arXiv AI
Aug 12

When Does Critique Improve AI-Assisted Theoretical Physics? SCALAR: Structured Critic--Actor Loop for Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605. 06772v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) show increasing promise on research-level physics reasoning tasks and agentic AI becomes more common, a practical question emerges: How does the interaction between researchers and agents affect the results?

By Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Alexander G. Stapleton, Sokratis Trifinopoulos
arXiv AI
Aug 12

UPAIR: Diagnosing Reasoning States via Uncertainty-Progress Alignment for Selective Intervention

arXiv:2607. 17188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While test-time scaling improves the problem-solving ability of large reasoning models (LRMs) through additional inference-time computation, it can also exacerbate overthinking and underthinking, which we formulate as reasoning state--action mismatch.

By Cheng Yan, Zhijun Fan, Guangyang Ye, Fan Xu, Xiang Xia, Yawei Wang, Wuyang Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Proteo-R1: Reasoning Foundation Models for De Novo Protein Design

arXiv:2605. 02937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning in de novo protein design has achieved atomic-level fidelity.

By Fang Wu, Weihao Xuan, Heli Qi, Hanqun Cao, Heng-Jui Chang, Zeqi Zhou, Haokai Zhao, Ma Jian, Carl Ma, Yu-Chi Cheng, Kuan Pang, Xiangru Tang, Zehong Wang, Guanlue Li, Hanchen Wang, Kejun Ying, Pan Lu, Chiho Im, Seungju Han, Peng Xia, Tinson Xu, Yinxi Li, Deyao Zhu, Pheng-Ann Heng, Naoto Yokoya, Masashi Sugiyama, Li Erran Li, Jure Leskovec, Yejin Choi
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Infra-Bayesian Reinforcement Learning Agents Outperform Classical RL For Worst-Case Robustness

arXiv:2605. 23146v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical reinforcement learning assumes the agent interacts with a fixed environment whose behavior does not depend on the agent's policy.

By Manish Aryal, Faiyaz Azam, Agnivo Banerjee, Syed Mahir Ahamed, Sai Sidhanth Manoharan Jayanthi, Allegra Laro, Cl\'ement Legentilhomme, Andrew Lin, Florian Lorkowski, Marina P\'erez del Valle, Radman Rakhshandehroo, Patric Rommel, Emanuel Ruzak, Nathan Theng, Paul Yushin Rapoport
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

MARCO: Click-Intent Decomposition for Calibrated Ads Conversion Prediction

arXiv:2608. 10562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Not all clicks are equal.

By Shiwen Shen, Xiru Huang, Liang Luo, Jianbo Sun, He Lyu, Zihang Fu, Ivonne Xu, Zhizhuo Li, Zhengyu Zhang, Pei-Ju Sung, Yunmiao Wang, Zixuan Wang, Zhengli Zhao, Qiang Jin, Mike Jermann, Mingda Li, Yang Xiao, Bhavana Challa, Brooke Bian, Yang Li, Ashish Chamoli, Bibek Bhusal, Danning Di, Yuan Jin, Meet Raval, Zhiwen Chen, Boyao Sun, Shuguang Wang, Yunlong He, Yantao Yao, Sagar Chordia, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Qin Huang, Ellie Wen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

Hierarchical Empirical-Bayes Naive Bayes: Minimax Smoothing and Calibration with AODE Extension

arXiv:2608. 11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Naive Bayes (NB) classifier remains a standard choice for categorical data, yet its widely used smoothing rules, such as Laplace, Lidstone, Krichevsky-Trofimov, and the $m$-estimate, all prescribe a fixed smoothing strength that ignores feature cardinality, sample size, and class imbalance, inducing a non-vanishing bias on modern high-cardinality tabular data.

By Nguyen Thai Anh, Truong Viet Vu, Tran Thien Thanh, Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Ngo Hoang Tu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

On the Importance of Geometric Nonlinearity and Temperature-Dependent Properties in Multi-Material Thermo-Mechanical Topology Optimization

arXiv:2608. 10344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thermo-mechanical compliant devices are commonly designed with small-strain linear elasticity and temperature-independent material properties, even though they might operate hundreds of kelvin above ambient where both assumptions are questionable.

By Shirin Hosseinmardi, Xiangyu Sun, Ramin Bostanabad