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
Aug 12

Stay or Stray - A Dynamical Systems Viewpoint of Popularity Bias

arXiv:2608. 10474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Popularity bias in recommendation systems arises when a majority user class generates disproportionate interaction data, causing the system to increasingly favour it while degrading recommendation quality for niche users.

By Sarvesh Shashidhar, Lankireddy Prabhat, Arpit Agarwal, D. Manjunath, Karan Bhukar, Tanmay Khandelwal
arXiv AI
Aug 12

From Interpretability to Control: Insights from Six Years of the TrustNLP Workshop

arXiv:2608. 11171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP), co-located with major ACL conferences since 2021, has grown from 8 proceedings papers to 41 over six editions, documenting a field-wide transition from post-hoc interpretability of static models to mechanistic understanding and proactive control of generative systems.

By Rahul Gupta, Abhinav Mohanty, Anaelia Ovalle, Anil Ramakrishna, Anubrata Das, Apurv Verma, Jwala Dhamala, Ninareh Mehrabi, Tharindu Kumarage, Yada Pruksachatkun, Yang Trista Cao, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan
arXiv AI
Aug 12

TransitReID: Transit OD Data Collection with Occlusion-Resistant Dynamic Passenger Re-Identification

arXiv:2504. 11500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transit Origin-Destination (OD) data are fundamental for optimizing public transit services, yet current collection methods, such as manual surveys, Bluetooth/WiFi tracking, and Automated Passenger Counters, are often costly, device-dependent, or unable to support individual-level matching.

By Kaicong Huang, Talha Azfar, Jack Reilly, Ruimin Ke
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Do AI weather models miss extremes?

arXiv:2608. 09972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: First-generation AI weather models are often reported to underperform at extremes, mostly in reanalysis-based evaluations of deterministic regression systems.

By Marvin Vincent Gabler, Roberto Molinaro, Niall Siegenheim, Henry Martin, Mark Frey, Niels Poulsen, Philipp Seitz, Olivier Lam
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Workflow Cards: Structured Summaries of Workflow Executions Using Provenance Data

arXiv:2608. 11022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model Cards and Data Cards have demonstrated the value of structured, human-readable documentation for machine learning artifacts, capturing their context, parameters, limitations, and intended use.

By Nicola Giuseppe Marchioro, Gabriele Padovani, Amal Gueroudji, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Wesley Brewer, Valentine Anantharaj, Sandro Fiore, Renan Souza
arXiv AI
Aug 12

UserToolBench: A User-Profile-Hidden Benchmark for Personalized Decision Making in Tool-Use LLMs

arXiv:2608. 10042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-use LLMs are increasingly asked to act on users' behalf, but existing benchmarks usually focus on profile recall, style imitation, generic tool use, or response-level personalization.

By Xuexiong Yin, Zechuan Chen, Yongsen Zheng, Yuxiang Zhang, Jingyuan Yang, Bin Wang, Yubin Wang, Keze Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Threat-guided Policy-aware Scene Perturbation for Safe Autonomous Driving with Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.

By Xincong Hu (Nanjing University), Lei Ou (Nanjing University), Maosen Li (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Jingtao Zhang (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Liguo Hou (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Zongzhang Zhang (Nanjing University)
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