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Discovering Undisclosed Concepts in LoRA Adapters for Diffusion-Based AIGC Models
Proposes an optimization method to discover undisclosed or harmful generation concepts embedded within diffusion model adaptation weights.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses content moderation and safety risks by discovering undisclosed harmful concepts in LoRA adapters.
Diagnosing Low-Confidence Patient Profiles via Localized Harmful Covariate Shift Detection
The paper introduces a diagnostic pipeline to identify low-confidence patient subgroups and detect harmful covariate shifts in clinical prediction models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Diagnoses localized distribution shift and reliability failure modes before real-world clinical deployment.
No Way To Steal My Face: Proactive Defense Against Identity-Preserving Personalized Generation
The authors present IDGuardian, an adversarial perturbation framework designed to defend facial images against unauthorized personalized diffusion models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Provides proactive adversarial defenses to protect user privacy against generative diffusion personalization.
Matoi: Selective Revalidation of Consequence Evidence for Agent Authorization
The paper introduces an authorization system that reuses validated consequence evidence across agent execution branches while maintaining separate live authority.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses secure authorization, safety policies, and attack prevention for deployed agents.
A Responsibility-Centered Coordination Mechanism for Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems
Proposes a decentralized coordination mechanism using commitment tracking to preserve clear accountability across multi-agent delegation chains.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Ensures accountability, liability, and failure recovery across multi-agent delegation chains.
FedSumUp: User-Auditable Privacy-Aware Representation Sharing for Resource-Constrained Federated Intelligence
Proposes a lossy compression framework for federated learning that balances user privacy against model utility on resource-constrained devices.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Mitigates privacy leakage and reconstruction attacks in federated deployments.
ZoomCap: Evidence-Routed Visual Zooming for Recoverable Visual Information Transfer
The paper introduces ZoomCap, an adaptive visual zooming and evidence-routing framework to improve fine-grained image captioning supervision.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Separates image fabrication and hallucination from true generator claims using verifiable grounding anchors.
When Rotation Bounds Nothing: Streaming Image Classifiers to Field Nodes Under Physical Capture
Evaluates the security of streaming image classifiers to edge devices against physical cold-boot memory extraction attacks.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies physical theft and cold-boot extraction of deployed vision models on field devices.
Lethe: Link Inference Attacks For Evaluation of Edge Unlearning Methods
This paper presents a benchmark and link inference attack framework to evaluate edge unlearning methods in graph neural networks.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Introduces a benchmark evaluating data unlearning and privacy leakage via link inference attacks.
Selection-Safe Conformal Early Exit: Distribution-Free Coverage under Adaptive Depth
This paper presents a pathwise conformal prediction method that guarantees valid coverage across adaptive early-exit stopping policies without multi-exit score inflation.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Provides distribution-free coverage guarantees to ensure reliable, calibrated early-exit predictions in deployment.
Behavioral Compositionality of Sparse Autoencoder Representations
Introduces a metric to measure how non-linearly features learned by sparse autoencoders interact during downstream model behaviors.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes mechanistic interpretability and steering reliability for safer model control.
Machine Unlearning for Federated Socially Fair k-Means Clustering
Presents an exact machine unlearning method for federated socially fair k-means clustering using separate group-level local summaries.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Investigates reliable data deletion and machine unlearning under fairness constraints for deployed systems.
CSF: Contextual Safety Filtering for Motion Generators
This paper introduces a training-free safety filter that evaluates scene context to constrain generated humanoid motion trajectories.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Introduces runtime safety filtering to prevent physical hazards and ensure reliable system behavior.
FAITH: Feasibility-Aware Safety-Filtered RL for High-Dimensional Systems
This paper presents a feasibility-aware safety filter that amortizes minimal-intervention constraints using a feedforward neural network in reinforcement learning.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Introduces safety filtering to enforce constraints and minimize harm in deployed control systems.
A Unified Bellman Operator for Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning
This paper develops a unified Bellman operator to optimize task performance and enforce constraints within safety-critical reinforcement learning.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Develops a unified operator to strictly enforce safety constraints in safety-critical deployments.
Credal Machine Learning for Risk-Averse Decision Making
The paper proposes a credal machine learning framework that models epistemic uncertainty with probability distribution sets for risk-averse decision-making.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Addresses risk-averse decision making and avoiding catastrophic failures under distribution shift.
Actionable Meta-Requirements for AI Robustness Auditing
The paper establishes and validates a set of meta-requirements to guide the design of frameworks for auditing AI system robustness.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Consolidates meta-requirements for auditing AI robustness in operational deployments.
Acceptable Misalignment
The paper argues that full robotic value alignment is impossible and examines how to manage acceptable misalignment in autonomous systems.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes value alignment limitations and risks of unavoidable misalignment in deployment.
GENDIS: Gender-Related Discourse and Stance in Multilingual YouTube Comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria
The paper presents GENDIS, a multilingual dataset of YouTube comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria annotated for gender-related discourse and stance.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Develops datasets and classification methods for evaluating harmful and gender-related discourse to improve online content moderation.
Attention-Graph Curvature for the Verification of Mathematical Reasoning
This paper evaluates whether attention-graph curvature features can help verifiers detect errors in mathematical reasoning steps.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Improves early detection of erroneous reasoning steps to enhance model reliability.
Tokenization-Invariant Watermarking: A Byte-Local Method for LLM Text
The paper presents a byte-local text watermarking method that scores outputs without invoking tokenizers during detection.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Presents a text watermarking technique to monitor and trace deployments.
How Reliable are AMR Parser Outputs? Uncertainty Estimation for AMR Parsing
Studies uncertainty estimation for abstract meaning representation parsers using top-k beam candidates and prediction rejection ratios.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on output reliability and uncertainty estimation to prevent deployment errors.
Traceable World State: A Provenance-Aware State Representation and Deterministic Replay Framework for Robotic Systems
Introduces an immutable, provenance-aware state representation framework with deterministic replay and audit logging for robotic systems.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Provides auditability, deterministic replay, and tamper-evident logging for reliable deployment in autonomous robotic systems.
Stochastic Grouping Conformal Prediction for Effective Subgroup Reliability
Proposes a conformal prediction framework that learns stochastic groupings to improve subgroup coverage reliability without inflating overall prediction sets.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Provides formal coverage guarantees and reliable uncertainty quantification across subgroups for safe clinical deployment.
Activating the Annotator: Operationalising Lived Experience in Data Annotation
Tests whether priming annotators with scenario vignettes and micro-narratives improves the operationalization of lived experience in subjective annotation.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Examines annotation reliability and harm sensitivity for hate speech safety classification.
ML-Assisted Power Side-Channel Attacks on ML Accelerators in Shared FPGAs
The paper demonstrates an on-chip power side-channel attack reconstructing color ImageNet inputs from machine learning accelerators on shared multi-tenant FPGAs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Investigates power side-channel security vulnerabilities in shared FPGA hardware running ML accelerators.
Training-Data Extraction from Genomic Language Models
The paper introduces a black-box method to extract training sequences from genomic language models using output sampling and sequence alignment.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies training data extraction and privacy leakage risks from generative language models.
AIRRI: Towards a Human-Readable, Machine-Resistant Reading Interface
This paper presents an interface framework applying visual transformations and adversarial attacks to create assignment text resistant to machine extraction.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies techniques to prevent automated extraction of sensitive educational materials.
Watermarking for Byzantine Robust LLM Training
This paper proposes an aggregator-agnostic watermarking scheme to embed persistent watermarks into models during federated learning despite robust aggregators.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Designs robust watermarking to monitor and detect downstream LLM misuse under federated training.
Embedding Asymmetry as Attack Signal: Detecting and Defending Active Label Inference in Vertical Federated Learning
This paper introduces a server-side defense against active label inference attacks in vertical federated learning using embedding asymmetry signals.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Detects and defends against active label inference attacks in federated learning deployments.
Memory-Coupled Unlearning for Data-Absent Identity Forgetting
This paper proposes an external memory-based framework to unlearn specific identities from trained models when training data is absent.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Presents machine unlearning techniques to safely remove target identity data from models.
Adversarial Detection for Pre-trained Classifiers via Lipschitz-Margin Analysis with Certification
The paper proposes certified adversarial detection using Lipschitz-margin analysis to detect perturbations rather than forcing invariant predictions.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Develops certified adversarial attack detection mechanisms to improve classifier robustness in safety-critical deployments.
Counterfactual Certification for Sequential Unlearning with Long-Run Performance Guarantees
This paper proposes a counterfactual certification framework to bound performance loss during sequential machine unlearning requests.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Develops certified machine unlearning methods to ensure reliable data deletion in deployed models.
Robustly Reliable Learning for Regression
The authors analyze robustly reliable learning for regression under data corruptions and propose an algorithm to compute optimal prediction intervals for Lipschitz predictors.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Provides certified optimal prediction bounds for regression models under adversarial data corruptions.
Is the Platform Part of the Measurement? A Protocol and Simulation Study for Cross-Platform Equivalence of Machine-Labelled Policy Sentiment
This paper presents a psychometric framework to test whether automated sentiment classification remains equivalent across different social media platforms.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Examines measurement reliability and validity risks when deploying classifiers across platforms.
Beyond the greenwash: do LLMs' ecologically sound decisions hold up under pressure?
This paper measures whether ecological alignment in large language models survives under pressure using a calibrated pretraining ladder.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Assesses whether safety and alignment dispositions persist reliably under operational pressure.
Grounding Deep Learning Framework Testing in Data Flow
This paper introduces a data-flow graph representation and mutation testing technique to uncover bugs in deep learning frameworks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Proposes data-flow testing to find runtime bugs in deep learning execution frameworks.
Certified Robustness via Sparse Second-Order Cone Relaxations
This paper proposes a hierarchy of sparse second-order cone programming relaxations for certified neural network robustness.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Develops certified robustness verification techniques to guarantee neural network safety and reliability.
Robust Detection of Directional Adversarial Attacks in Deep Neural Networks for Radiological Imaging
The paper presents a framework using random noise and Sigmoid function analysis to detect directional adversarial attacks on medical imaging models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Develops a defense framework to detect adversarial attacks and ensure reliability in deployed imaging networks.
Noisy-Label Calibration with Multiple Unreliable Labels
The paper develops methods to evaluate and recalibrate binary predictors using noisy, multi-annotator labels without requiring clean ground truth.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies prediction calibration and reliability when evaluating systems on noisy annotation data.
State-Matched Sequence Conformal Prediction
The paper proposes a sequential conformal prediction algorithm that groups calibration scores by state similarity rather than pure temporal recency.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies conformal prediction calibration to ensure reliable uncertainty estimation in sequential deployments.
Addressing Overcommitment in the Reasoning of Gendered Economic Memes under Multimodal Ambiguity
Proposes a multimodal reasoning framework to avoid biased role attributions in underspecified or ambiguous social memes.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Focuses on preventing epistemic overcommitment, hallucinations, and social stereotyping via principled abstention mechanisms.
Who Improves the Robot? Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement
The paper analyzes physical recursive self-improvement in robotics, proposing a multi-level evaluation framework and reviewing existing adaptation methods.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes safety preservation and execution control for physical recursive self-improvement systems.
Readout Scaling Shapes Sparse Feature Recovery
The authors analyze readout scaling in sparse autoencoders and propose canonicalized coordinates to improve the recovery of underlying generative factors.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates internal representation interpretability relevant to model safety and auditing.
Certifying Almost-Sure Reachability in Unknown MDPs
This paper investigates theoretical limits and conditions for verifying reachability policies in unknown Markov decision processes using sample access.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proves theoretical guarantees for formally verifying safety specifications in unknown reinforcement learning systems.
Embedding Information in Policy Randomness: Distribution-Preserving Implicit Communication in MDPs
The paper presents a coding method that embeds hidden communication into an agent's policy randomness without altering its observable action distribution.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Develops distribution-preserving policy watermarking and provenance tracking methods for AI policy monitoring.
Can You Trust Your Preference Models? Stackelberg Games for Alignment
This paper models preference model alignment as a Stackelberg game to identify comparisons where evaluators are prone to error.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses alignment vulnerabilities and evaluator exploitation in human preference optimization.
Limitations on Autoregressive Token Generation via Sequential Sampling
The paper analyzes theoretical computational limits of sequential sampling circuits in autoregressive language model token generation.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Provides theoretical limits preventing covert cryptographic communication channels between LLMs.
ScienceBuddy-PV: A Verifier-Governed Recursive Improvement Protocol for Panvascular Intervention Research
The paper specifies a verifier-governed protocol for panvascular research and benchmarks a baseline model on intervention imaging tasks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates abstention contracts and gating mechanisms to prevent unsafe automated decisions.
Rarity Determines Minimax Rates of Semantic Entropy From Weak Pairwise Judgments With a Known Channel
This paper establishes minimax rates for estimating language model semantic entropy using verdicts from weak pairwise equivalence judges.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Provides mathematical foundations for estimating semantic entropy to detect language model hallucination and uncertainty.
Neurosymbolic Learning of Interpretable World Models
The paper introduces a neurosymbolic world model that learns interpretable concepts from temporal logic constraints for agent planning.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Improves planning robustness out-of-distribution using verified logic rules.
Loss Curvature as a Sampling-Free Proxy for Memorization in Diffusion Models
Proposes input loss curvature as a sampling-free metric to detect the onset of training data memorization in diffusion models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Analyzes data memorization and regurgitation risks in generative diffusion models.
Who Should We Listen to More? Welfare-Aware Preference Acquisition for Pluralistic Alignment
Introduces a welfare-aware objective to allocate limited human feedback across diverse individuals when training pluralistic alignment models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Develops a preference acquisition strategy to improve fair representation and reliability in model alignment.
From Triage to Impact: A Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark for Explainable Persian Hate Speech
This paper introduces a multi-hop reasoning benchmark to evaluate fine-grained, explainable hate speech analysis in Persian.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Assesses hate speech detection, harmful narrative inference, and severity analysis for content moderation.
Robust Explanatory Analysis for Structured Optimization Networks (REASON) in Learning
The paper proposes a hierarchical two-loop optimization framework that uses residual errors to trigger active evidence acquisition during inference.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Designs a two-loop inference mechanism to improve model robustness under distribution shift.
Bayesian Learning to Select Fair Classifiers
The paper presents an online Thompson Sampling bandit policy to select classifiers that balance predictive accuracy and subgroup fairness under delayed feedback.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses fairness and reliability in deployed online decision-making systems.
What Does Disagreement Mean? A Semantic Identifiability Frontier for Pairwise Preference Learning
This paper establishes theoretical limits on what forms of annotator disagreement can be identified from pairwise preference feedback data.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Examines ambiguous feedback signals in preference learning that affect reliable alignment for deployed models.
Rubric Judgments Lack Uncertainty: Conformal Weighting for LLM Evaluation
Proposes conformal calibration to weight criterion-level uncertainty when using rubric-based language model judges for reinforcement learning.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Provides reliability and coverage guarantees for LLM verifiers used in alignment.
Interpreting Language Model Parameters
The paper introduces a parameter decomposition method to interpret the mechanistic subcomponents of language model weights.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Develops mechanistic interpretability methods to uncover internal parameter algorithms relevant for safety audits.
Multimodal AI Detection for Math-Heavy Scientific Text
The paper examines AI-generated text detection in scientific papers by combining visual formatting, PDF text, and LaTeX representations.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses reliability and detection of AI-generated content in scientific publishing.
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