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
Jun 5

Causal Modeling of Selection in Evolution

arXiv:2606. 05689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding potential selection in data is crucial for causal discovery; we argue that "selection" in common narratives takes two forms, which we term static and evolutionary selection, respectively.

By Haoyue Dai, Zeyu Tang, Peter Spirtes, Kun Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Vision Hopfield Memory Networks

arXiv:2603. 25157v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision and multimodal foundation backbones, such as Transformer families and state-space models like Mamba, have achieved remarkable progress, enabling unified modeling across images, text, and beyond.

By Jianfeng Wang, Amine M'Charrak, Luk Koska, Xiangtao Wang, Daniel Petriceanu, Ruizhi Wang, Michael Bumbar, Luca Pinchetti, Thomas Lukasiewicz
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

GenAutoML: An Agentic Framework for Dynamic Architecture Generation and Optimization in Time-Series Analysis

arXiv:2606. 05860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing neural architectures for time-series forecasting and anomaly detection remains a resource-intensive task that often requires substantial domain expertise.

By Oleeviya Babu Poikarayil, C\'edric Schockaert, Abdulrahman Nahhas, Christian Daase, Mursal Dawodi, Jawid Ahmad Baktash
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Alignment Risks from Capability-Seeking RL Training

arXiv:2602. 12124v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While most AI alignment research focuses on preventing models from generating explicitly harmful content, a more subtle risk arises from capability-seeking RL training in vulnerable environments.

By Yujun Zhou, Yue Huang, Han Bao, Kehan Guo, Zhenwen Liang, Pin-Yu Chen, Tian Gao, Werner Geyer, Nuno Moniz, Nitesh V Chawla, Xiangliang Zhang