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
Jul 24

The Storyteller in the Model: Narrative Pattern Inheritance, Escalation Dynamics, and Alignment Governance in LLMs

arXiv:2607. 20449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are trained predominantly on human-authored text, yet the structural and narrative conventions embedded in that text are rarely examined as a source of systematic behavioral influence, or as a governance risk in deployed systems.

By Adam Rigby, Raz Saremi, Azadeh Sohrabinejad, Mehdi Rahimi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Climate-resilient electric vehicle charging infrastructure for sustainable cities: An interpretable causal-ensemble framework for preventive maintenance and low-carbon mobility

arXiv:2607. 21444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is a cornerstone of sustainable, low-carbon cities, yet urban climate stress such as extreme heat, heavy precipitation, and humidity increasingly raises equipment fault risk and undermines the resilience of urban energy and mobility services.

By Cande Lian (School of Management, Foshan University, Foshan, China), Wentao Zeng (School of Management, Foshan University, Foshan, China), Jiabin Wu (School of Management, Foshan University, Foshan, China), Yiming Bie (School of Transportation, Jilin University, Changchun, China), Wei Zhou (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Counterfactual Explainability Framework With CycleGAN And Counterfactual-Classifier Alignnment Score for Retinal Disease Classification

arXiv:2607. 21068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated detection of vision impairing retina-based ocular conditions from fundus images is important for early screening, timely referral and reducing dependency on specialist-only assessment, for which neural network-based deep learning (DL) models have been widely utilized.

By Kritanu Chattopadhyay, Sayanjit Singha Roy, Soumya Chatterjee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

Safety-oriented sidewalk and road segmentation for smartphone-based assistive navigation

arXiv:2607. 21137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Independent sidewalk mobility is essential for blind and visually impaired pedestrians (BVIPs), yet smartphone-based assistive navigation requires perception models that distinguish walkable sidewalks from adjacent unsafe regions.

By Hakan Calim, Anamaria Dumitrescu, Adarsh Bhandary Panambur, Huzaifa Asif, Andreas Maier