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 3

A robust association between LLM use and scientific productivity: Assessing stopping-time selection

arXiv:2607. 28968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Renault, Bergeaud, and Bosquet (hereafter RBB) argue that dating LLM adoption as the first month in which an author's abstract is flagged induces a stopping-time selection that can produce a positive event-study path even when there is no causal effect.

By Keigo Kusumegi, Xinyu Yang, Paul Ginsparg, Mathijs de Vaan, Toby Stuart, Yian Yin
arXiv AI
Aug 3

RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2602. 07339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denoising process introduces a latency bottleneck for real-time closed-loop deployment.

By Ruturaj Reddy, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Junn Yong Loo, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Ganesh Krishnasamy
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

A Fully Convolutional Approach to Denoising 2D Correlation Spectra

arXiv:2605. 29975v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a fully convolutional denoising autoencoder (FC-DAE) tailored for two-dimensional representations of dynamic correlations that is applicable to many experimental techniques.

By Nisar Nellikunnummel, Andi M Barbour, Lutz Wiegart, Tatiana Konstantinova, Anthony M DeGennaro
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Compiled AI: Deterministic Code Generation for LLM-Based Workflow Automation

arXiv:2604. 05150v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study compiled AI, a paradigm in which large language models generate executable code artifacts during a compilation phase, after which workflows execute deterministically without further model invocation.

By Geert Trooskens (XY.AI Labs, Palo Alto, CA), Aaron Karlsberg (XY.AI Labs, Palo Alto, CA), Anmol Sharma (XY.AI Labs, Palo Alto, CA), Lamara De Brouwer (XY.AI Labs, Palo Alto, CA), Max Van Puyvelde (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA), Matthew Young (XY.AI Labs, Palo Alto, CA), John Thickstun (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Gil Alterovitz (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), Walter A. De Brouwer (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA)
arXiv AI
Aug 3

OpenClaw and Ollama in Agentic AI: Toward Fully Autonomous and Scalable AI Agent Systems

arXiv:2607. 28629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid transition from reactive large language models (LLMs) to persistent, action-capable systems has exposed critical gaps in the architectural understanding of Agentic AI, particularly in separating inference, orchestration, and execution layers for autonomous AI agents.

By Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Ranjan Sapkota
arXiv AI
Aug 3

LAWFUL: Law-Aligned Witness for Faithful Use of Latents

arXiv:2607. 28672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a neural network predicts a physical system accurately, has it learned the governing law as formal, structured knowledge, and if so, does the network's internal computation actually use that representation throughout the law's domain of validity?

By Kevin Chen, Kenneth W. Parker, Anish Arora