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 23

SwiftRepertoire: Few-Shot Immune-Signature Synthesis via Dynamic Kernel Codes

arXiv:2602. 01051v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Repertoire-level analysis of T cell receptors offers a biologically grounded signal for disease detection and immune monitoring, yet practical deployment is impeded by label sparsity, cohort heterogeneity, and the computational burden of adapting large encoders to new tasks.

By Rong Fu, Muge Qi, Yang Li, Yabin Jin, Jiekai Wu, Chunlei Meng, Juntao Gao, Li Bao, Qi Zhao, Wei Luo, Youjin Wang, Simon Fong
arXiv AI
Jul 23

When Does Knowledge Distillation Hurt? Reliability-Aware Distillation for Low-Resource Language Summarization

arXiv:2607. 19956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a standard approach for compressing sequence-to-sequence models, but its per-sample effects are rarely examined.

By Dipto Sumit, Ankan Kumar Roy Srizon, Sadia Khair Rodela, Atia Haque Asha, Mourchona Afrin, Niloy Farhan, Farig Sadeque
arXiv AI
Jul 23

The Chronos Vulnerability: A Taxonomy of Temporal Persistence and Memory-Based Deception in Agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 19433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from stateless generative models in artificial intelligence to stateful, autonomous agents represents an architectural evolution that, while providing the capabilities of long-term planning and the automation of enterprise workflows, also represents the introduction of a new form of security threat, the Chronos Vulnerability.

By Om Narayan, Ramkinker Singh, Praveen Baskar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

CityGuard: Graph-Aware Private Descriptors for Bias-Resilient Identity Search Across Urban Cameras

arXiv:2602. 18047v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: City-scale person re-identification across distributed cameras must handle severe appearance changes from viewpoint, occlusion, and domain shift while complying with data protection rules that prevent sharing raw imagery.

By Rong Fu, Yibo Meng, Jia Yee Tan, Rui Lu, Jiekai Wu, Simon Fong
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)
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids

arXiv:2607. 20345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closing the gap between benchmark performance and reliable real-world operation remains a central challenge for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) humanoid robots, which must handle execution errors, distribution shifts, and environmental variability.

By Roger Sala Sis\'o, Tiago Silv\'erio, Jakob Sand, Tran Nguyen Le