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 2

Make Mechanistic Interpretability Auditable: A Call to Develop Guidelines via Continuous Collaborative Reviewing

arXiv:2606. 00033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While mechanistic interpretability (MI) has produced important insights into neural network internals, the field has yet to establish a standardized system to audit experiments.

By Michael Lan, Narmeen Fatimah Oozeer, Chaithanya Bandi, Philip Quirke, Austin Meek, Fazl Barez, Amirali Abdullah
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Real-Time Sensing of Inaccessible Physical Fields via an Edge-Deployable Hardware-Portable Graph Neural Operator

arXiv:2604. 01802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time inference of inaccessible interior physical fields from sparse boundary observations is a fundamental but unresolved problem in scientific machine learning, with direct relevance to safety-critical monitoring across many engineering applications.

By William Howes, Jason Yoo, Kazuma Kobayashi, Subhankar Sarkar, Farid Ahmed, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv AI
Jun 2

A Multi-Domain Red Teaming Framework for Safety, Robustness, and Fairness Evaluation of Medical Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 00027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across healthcare, yet existing benchmarks fail to capture model behavior under adversarial or ethically complex conditions common in clinical practice.

By Andrei Marian Feier, Veysel Kocaman, Yigit Gul, Ahmet Korkmaz, Alexander Thomas, Aleksei Zakharov, Jay Gil, Mehmet Butgul, David Talby
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Correcting Gradient-Based Circuit Localization via Interaction-Aware Backpropagation

arXiv:2505. 17630v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Circuit localization methods aim to identify the subset of model components responsible for specific behaviors in large language models, enabling detailed mechanistic analysis.

By Joakim Edin, Casper L. Christensen, R\'obert Csord\'as, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Zhengxuan Wu, Maria Maistro, Jing Huang, Lars Maal{\o}e
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Measuring Alignment-Induced Activation Shifts Correctly: A Template-Controlled Difference-in-Differences Protocol

arXiv:2605. 24583v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Comparing a model's internal activations before and after alignment is a natural way to ask what safety training changes: one forms the matrix of paired aligned-minus-base activations on safety-relevant inputs and reads off its effective rank or top direction.

By Yuki Nakamura
arXiv AI
Jun 2

CSRP: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Chinese Text Correction via Reinforcement Learning with Efficiency-Aware Rewards

arXiv:2606. 00020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) based Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) systems face two critical challenges: general-purpose models lack specialized linguistic priors for subtle grammatical distinctions, and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with Maximum Likelihood Estimation fails to optimize for precision-focused metrics, leading to systematic over-correction.

By Wei Tian, Yuhao Zhou, Man Lan