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

Rethinking Scientific Modeling: Toward Physically Consistent and Simulation-Executable Programmatic Generation

arXiv:2602. 07083v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structural modeling is a fundamental component of computational engineering science, in which even minor physical inconsistencies or specification violations may invalidate downstream simulations.

By Yongqing Jiang, Jianze Wang, Zhiqi Shen, Zhenghong Lin, Jiayuan Wang, Yijian Yang, Kaoshan Dai, Haoran Luo
arXiv AI
Jun 2

The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs

arXiv:2606. 00674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) aligned via outcome-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) frequently exhibit a critical failure mode: they achieve high performance on in-distribution benchmarks while demonstrating brittle reasoning capabilities on out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks.

By Zihan Chen, Yiming Zhang, Wenxiang Geng, Zenghui Ding, Yining Sun
arXiv AI
Jun 2

SORA: Free Second-Order Attacks in Fast Adversarial Training

arXiv:2606. 00738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial Training (AT) is a leading defense against adversarial examples but often suffers from Catastrophic Overfitting (CO) in efficient single-step variants, where robustness to multi-step attacks collapses despite high single-step performance.

By Mazdak Teymourian, Ramtin Moslemi, Farzan Rahmani, Mohammad Hossein Rohban
arXiv AI
Jun 2

AgentRedBench: Dynamic Redteaming and Integration-Aware Defense for LLM Agents over SaaS Integrations

arXiv:2606. 02240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indirect prompt injection in tool-use agents is a concrete production threat: LLM agents read from integrations (third-party services such as Gmail, Salesforce, or Jira accessed through tool calls) whose response content the user neither writes nor controls.

By Hiskias Dingeto, Will Leeney