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
Jun 3

Building Better Activation Oracles

arXiv:2606. 02609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation Oracles (AOs) are promising methods for interpreting residual stream activations.

By Jan Bauer, Celeste De Schamphelaere, Adam Karvonen, Niclas Luick, Neel Nanda
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Synthetic Hallucinations, Real Gains: Hard Negatives from Frontier Models for FIM Hallucination Mitigation

arXiv:2606. 03130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small open-source code models that power IDE autocomplete still emit hallucinated Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) completions: syntactically natural calls to methods, parameters, variables, and imports that do not exist in the surrounding project.

By Mahdi Erfanian, Nelson Daniel Troncoso, Aashna Garg, Amabel Gale, Xiaoyu Liu, Pareesa Ameneh Golnari, Shengyu Fu
arXiv AI
Jun 3

CP-Agent: Context-Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations

arXiv:2606. 03435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cell Painting combines multiplexed fluorescent staining, high-content imaging, and quantitative analysis to generate high-dimensional phenotypic readouts to support diverse downstream tasks such as mechanism-of-action (MoA) inference, toxicity prediction, and construction of drug-disease atlases.

By Yuxin Zhang, Yiyao Li, Ping Shu Ho, Simon See, Zhenqin Wu, Kevin Tsia
arXiv AI
Jun 3

When Should the Teacher Move? Temporal Coupling and Stability in Self On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606. 03532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self on-policy distillation trains a student policy against a teacher derived from its own parameter history, yet the teacher's update schedule -- which governs the \emph{temporal coupling} between teacher and student -- has not been systematically studied as a stability variable.

By Haowei Guo, Baolong Bi, Ruicheng Zhang, Bingqian Sun, Wentao Zhang