AI safety and alignment

Alignment, interpretability, red-teaming, bias and privacy: the research on what these systems do when they misbehave.

18,070 stories · RSS feed

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

GLAM-SLAM: Real-time Gaussian Large-scale Mapping via Flow Densification and Spatial Decomposition

Existing Gaussian-splatting-based monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are either tailored to short sequences, are not real-time, or suffer from prohibitive GPU memory requirements, limiting their applicability in realistic, long-horizon scenarios. To address this, we present GLAM-SLAM, a real-time, decoupled Gaussian-splatting SLAM system designed for large-scale outdoor scenes.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Euclid-MCP: A Model Context Protocol Server for Deterministic Logical Reasoning via Prolog

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at natural language understanding and generation but remain unreliable for multi-step logical reasoning, especially in safety-critical or compliance-sensitive domains. Recent neuro-symbolic approaches address this gap by coupling neural models with external symbolic engines, yet most integrations are bespoke and lack a standardized interface for tool-augmented agents.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

M$^3$-Gen: Interpretable Multimodal Generation of Gene Expression Profiles Using Clinical and Imaging Data

Integrating heterogeneous biomedical data, including clinical metadata, histopathology images, and molecular profiles, is crucial for comprehensive disease understanding. However, gene expression data acquisition remains constrained by high costs and privacy concerns, limiting its use in multimodal research and AI-driven applications.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

SlerpFlow: Spherical Trajectory Correction for Rectified Flow Inversion

Rectified-flow-based diffusion transformers, particularly FLUX, have demonstrated outstanding performance in high-quality image generation. However, achieving fast and accurate inversion--transforming images back to latent noise for faithful reconstruction and editing--remains a challenging bottleneck due to the discretization errors of linear solvers.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Automated Synthesis and Adversarial Validation of Executable Causal Research Pipelines

While automated research systems promise to accelerate empirical analysis, they are prone to silent failures: instances in which analysis code executes successfully yet relies on invalid causal assumptions. We present the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Epidemiology Research Assistant (ARA), a framework that makes these failures visible by explicitly encoding causal design principles, study-specific assumptions, and methodological constraints.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

DTIF: Robust Loop Closure Detection via Delaunay Triangle Topology in Complex Forests

Accurate forest inventory and large-scale mapping are essential for ecosystem monitoring and sustainable forest management. Multiple low-cost edge platforms enable efficient large-area data acquisition, but merging independently constructed local maps in GNSS-denied understory environments still requires initialization-free loop closure detection and global registration.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

GroupVideo: Multi-Identity Customized Text-to-Video Generation

Current identity customized video generation methodologies are predominantly limited to single-identity scenarios, as the lack of explicit identity separation mechanisms often leads to identity confusion in multi-identity settings. Existing multi-identity approaches, which directly extend single-identity frameworks by concatenating face images as input conditions, frequently result in unnatural facial expressions and motions, manifesting as the "copy-paste" phenomenon.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

ProCap: Prominence-guided Object Rectification for Faithful and Comprehensive Video Captioning

Improving video captioning quality typically demands retraining large vision-language models, an expensive and often impractical requirement. Existing training-free alternatives instead ground captions in detected objects to curb hallucination, but apply only a single, fixed correction pass without prioritizing which objects matter most, leaving semantically significant content omitted.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Distribution-Alignment Bridge for Uncertainty-Aware Text-to-Video Retrieval

This paper proposes the Distribution-Alignment Bridge (DAB), a framework that reconceptualizes text-to-video retrieval as a distribution alignment task rather than traditional deterministic point matching. By modeling both text and video embeddings as Gaussian distributions defined by mean and variance, DAB explicitly accounts for modality-specific uncertainty.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Three-Pronged Spectral Control for Federated Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning

Federated parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables communication-efficient adaptation of large pretrained models on decentralized edge data, but it remains fragile under non-IID client heterogeneity. In low-rank adaptation (LoRA), different clients may learn locally useful but spectrally misaligned update subspaces, causing high-variance aggregation and poor global transfer.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

TriAgent: Divergence-Aware Multi-Agent Committees for Cost-Efficient Financial Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2607. 19794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production LLM-based financial sentiment analysis faces a structural cost trap: most queries are trivially classifiable, yet expensive cloud reasoners process them all, and the bill scales linearly with user count.

By Isabel Xu (The Overlake School), Cynthia Xu (The Overlake School), Rachel Ren (Edwards Vacuum Inc.), Cong Guo (The University of Memphis), Jiacheng Ding (The University of Memphis)