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 Machine Learning
Jul 27

Cloud-Native Evaluation-as-a-Service: A Microservices Architecture for Scalable AI Monitoring with Conformal Guarantees

arXiv:2607. 21623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EaaS, a cloud-native reference architecture that operationalizes AI evaluation methods as six stateless Kubernetes microservices: conformal prediction with finite-sample-corrected Adaptive Prediction Sets, calibration assessment, drift detection via RFF-approximated Maximum Mean Discrepancy, fairness monitoring with bootstrap confidence intervals, a DAG-based pipeline orchestrator, and a result storage API.

By Lei Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Certified in Theory, Broken in Practice: Assumption Gaps in Cryptographic Model Certification

arXiv:2607. 21839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy-preserving machine learning auditing protocols allow auditors to assess models for properties such as accuracy or fairness, without revealing their internals or training data.

By Carter Luck, Olive Franzese-McLaughlin, Elisaweta Masserova, Akira Takahashi, Antigoni Polychroniadou, Nicolas Papernot
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Autoregressive EHR Foundation Models with Multimodal Inputs

arXiv:2607. 22264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive foundation models trained on tokenized electronic health records (EHRs) can support zero-shot clinical prediction, yet most operate on structured event codes alone, and do not incorporate multiple modalities in a principled way.

By Yuxuan Liu, Joshua Placidi, Jinpei Han, Alfred John Balston, Marek Rei, A. Aldo Faisal
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Interpretable EEG biomarkers with bag-of-waves: Spatial and temporal waveform dictionaries for low-data regimes

arXiv:2607. 22508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used to diagnose neurological conditions, but its analysis usually relies on either predefined spectral features or deep neural networks.

By Athanasios Papastathopoulos-Katsaros, Steven T. Lee, Lin Yao, Ajay Thomas, Junseok Park, Matthew J. McGinley, Zhandong Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Dysphagia Risk Stratification in Head and Neck Cancer via Two-Stage PRO-Clinical Stacking

arXiv:2607. 22514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dysphagia is a debilitating late effect of head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment, yet timely identification of at-risk patients remains challenging in survivorship care.

By Siyuan Zhao, Eric Ababio Anyimadu, Zachary G. Brumm, Yue Ma, Clifton David Fuller, Xinhua Zhang, G. Elisabeta Marai, Guadalupe Canahuate
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

PinEqualizer: Full Funnel Content Exploration and Debiasing System at Pinterest

arXiv:2607. 22518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new solution for addressing the content cold-start problem in industry-scale search and recommender systems.

By Olafur Gudmundsson, Bo Zhao, Huayi Liao, Anna Kiyantseva, Sai Xiao, Heath Vinicombe, Mostafa Keikha, Luke DeLuccia, Zihao Chen, Junpeng Hou, Weijie Jiang, Bhawna Juneja, Andreanne Lemay, Wei-Ting Lin, Keyvan Moghadam, Jiaxing Qu, Zhiqing Rao, Zhihua Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Adversarial Prompts for Acceptance Collapse in Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2607. 21804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lossless acceleration schemes, such as speculative decoding, promise significant inference speedups by relying on dynamic token-level alignment between a draft and a target model.

By Run Wang, Chaoyi Zhou, Xi Liu, Yi Zhu, Amir Salarpour, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Feng Luo, Siyu Huang, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Cross-reality location privacy protection in 6G-enabled vehicular metaverses: an LLM-enhanced hybrid generative diffusion model-based approach

arXiv:2601. 12311v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of 6G-enabled vehicular metaverses enables Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) to operate across physical and virtual spaces through space-air-ground-sea integrated networks.

By Xiaofeng Luo, Jiayi He, Jiawen Kang, Ruichen Zhang, Zhaoshui He, Ekram Hossain, Dong In Kim
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Generative and multimodal AI for materials prediction and design: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

arXiv:2607. 21660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating materials prediction and design by enabling efficient exploration of chemical and structural spaces, with particular promise for novel materials discovery.

By Xianyuan Liu, Charles Anjah, Benjamin E. Jolly, Jonathon F. S. Markanday, Joshua Berry, Haolin Wang, Nicola A. Morley, Robert D. J. Oliver, Alexandra J. Ramadan, Delvin Ce Zhang, Katerina A. Christofidou, Haiping Lu