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 11

SafeSceneReason: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark Connecting Industrial Hazards with Accident Knowledge

arXiv:2608. 09230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial-safety understanding requires more than detecting workers, equipment, and personal protective equipment.

By Yuanchi Zhu, Kang An, Tengyue Wang, Zhongyu Yang, Chenxu Du, Xinqi Yang, Hebao Zhu, Bokai Zhao, Tianyu Liang, Ziliang Wang, Faqiang Qian, Yunli Yang, Weiyang Shi, Qibing Ren
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Large Multimodal Agents for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Architectures, Evidence, and Deployment Challenges

arXiv:2608. 08184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal agents (LMAs) are increasingly proposed for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), but existing studies often conflate multimodality, agency, empirical performance, and deployment readiness.

By Muhammad Ayub Sabir, Shaohong Zheng, Zhiyu Qu, Fatima Ashraf, Junbiao Pang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

MMArch: Benchmarking Multimodal Reasoning Grounded in Architectural Evidence

arXiv:2608. 09281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) perform strongly on engineering imagery, yet existing benchmarks mostly test drawing recognition, information extraction, or compliance checking, leaving open whether models can combine distributed visual evidence with engineering principles to reach a conclusion.

By Chenxu Du, Kang An, Tengyue Wang, Zhongyu Yang, Xinqi Yang, Yuanchi Zhu, Hebao Zhu, Ziliang Wang, Faqiang Qian, Yunli Yang, Qibing Ren
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Yesterday's Shield, Today's Spear: A Self-Evolving Safety Guardrail in Production

arXiv:2608. 08471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed LLM safety guardrails are predominantly static: trained once and frozen at release, while new jailbreak techniques and previously un-addressed harmful categories emerge within days, leaving the defense perpetually a step behind.

By Cong Ming, Jingyi Chen, Bin Liu, Qi Chu, Tao Gong, Nenghai Yu, Yingfei Xiang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

CPDA: Class-Conditional Path Distribution Alignment for Unsupervised Time-Series Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2608. 09193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised time-series domain adaptation (DA) addresses the challenge of transferring a classifier from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain under distribution shifts induced by different users, sensors, devices, acquisition conditions, or temporal dynamics.

By Felix Ott, Christopher Mutschler
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Integrated Multimodal AI System for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning, Object Sensing, and Damage Analysis

arXiv:2608. 08935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a unified multimodal AI system for damage assessment that integrates retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models, thermal spectrum perception, vision foundation model pipelines, and exploratory wireless signal sensing.

By Kalelo Dukuray, Israel Pina, Evan Perez, Erika Ardiles-Cruz, Jie Wei
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Dynamic Distribution-Aware Uncertainty Tracking in Vision-Language Representation Learning

arXiv:2608. 09011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) aims to measure the reliability of model predictions, serving as a critical safeguard for deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in safety-critical scenarios.

By Ao Zhou, Zhiwei Jiang, Zifeng Cheng, Cong Wang, Shufan Yang, Haoru Chen, Qing Gu