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The Tilted Sampling Problem: Optimism, Posterior Sampling, and Logarithmic Regret
This paper formulates tilted sampling as an online learning problem for sampling from Gibbs distributions and establishes logarithmic regret bounds.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Analyzes sampling regret theory, not deployment safety or guardrails.
The Lagrangian Structure of Cost-Penalized Active Feature Acquisition
This paper analyzes the theoretical Lagrangian structure of cost-penalized heuristics in active feature acquisition under hard budget constraints.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Explores optimization theory for features, not deployment safety.
SelectPFN: Amortized Bayesian Variable Selection for Sparse Nonlinear Regression with Prior-Data Fitted Networks
This paper introduces a prior-data fitted network that performs simultaneous Bayesian variable selection and nonlinear prediction in a single forward pass.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers regression variable selection, not deployment safety risks.
ChronoSheaf: Joint Spatio-Temporal Spectral Filtering on Cellular Sheaves
This paper introduces a spatio-temporal spectral sheaf Laplacian and filter to jointly capture space and time dependencies on graphs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Presents graph neural network theory, not deployment safety.
Uncertainty-Aware Federated Learning for Joint Communication and Computation in XR Systems
This paper presents an uncertainty-aware federated learning method to manage power and computing allocation for extended reality devices under state uncertainties.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Investigates telecommunications latency under uncertainty, not AI safety guardrails.
Learn Only Where You Can't Compute: Structured Corrections to Gaussian Process Posteriors
This paper combines Gaussian process references with targeted diffusion model corrections to infer scientific physical fields from sparse data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on scientific inference methods, not deployment safety.
Deep Learning of Topological Equivalence Classes
This paper applies deep learning to classify topological equivalence classes of finite group actions on Riemann surfaces.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses pure mathematics, not safety or reliability in deployment.
Interfaces and Modules: A Scalable Representation for Weight-Space Learning across Architectures
This paper introduces an interface-based graph representation and encoder for scalable weight-space learning across diverse neural network architectures.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Covers neural architecture representations, not AI safety or guardrails.
Close Enough is Nowhere Near: Fidelity-Consumability Decoupling in KV Caches
This paper investigates direct key-value cache substitution between frozen language models and finds geometric similarity fails to ensure consumability.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Explores transformer representations rather than safety or reliability issues.
Not All Unlabeled Data Are Equal: Unlabeled Data Selection for Semi-Supervised QSAR Modeling with Large Chemical Repositories
This paper investigates unlabeled data selection strategies for semi-supervised QSAR modeling using large chemical repositories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses molecular property prediction, not deployment safety or robustness.
Augment the Cache, Replace the Activation: A 2x2 Study of Internal-State Sharing
This paper explores internal-state sharing in multi-agent language models through a central pool rather than pairwise transfer bridges.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Does not investigate model safety, guardrails, or hallucinations.
Designing Experiments for External Decision Makers
This paper introduces usage-aware Bayesian experimental design to minimize risk when experimental data is processed by unknown or external decision makers.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses Bayesian design risk, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
ETH: Data-Balanced Heterogeneous Pipeline Parallelism for Training Large Models
This paper presents a pipeline parallelism training system that balances data workloads across heterogeneous hardware while reducing communication overhead.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on system parallelism rather than safety or reliability.
Missed Detections and False Alarms in a CNN Technosignature Detector on Breakthrough Listen Data
This paper tests a convolutional neural network technosignature detector against synthetic injections in real radio data to reveal out-of-distribution failure modes.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Studies astronomy signal detection rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Rethinking Successive Rejects Algorithms
This paper optimizes the predefined phase-length schedules of Successive Rejects algorithms to improve error exponents in fixed-budget best-arm identification.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Analyzes best-arm bandit identification, not AI safety guardrails or reliability.
ABNAT: Attention-Based Noise-Aware Training for Robust Transformers on Analog Compute-in-Memory Systems
This paper proposes an attention-based noise-aware training method to improve the robustness of Transformer models deployed on analog compute-in-memory hardware.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Deals with analog hardware noise resilience, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Can AI Forecast the Extremes? Evaluating Probabilistic Weather Models on Tropical Cyclones
This paper evaluates probabilistic AI weather forecasting models against operational physics-based ensembles on tropical cyclone tracking, intensity, and structure.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Evaluates weather prediction accuracy, not AI deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Scene Reconstruction Using Ubiquitous Wireless Signals via Diffusion Posterior Inference Over physics-Grounded Representations
This paper presents a diffusion-based posterior inference framework to reconstruct physical scenes from ubiquitous wireless channel measurements.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on wireless channel sensing, not deployment safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Beyond Fixed Acquisition Functions: Temporal Difference Active Learning for Perturbation Discovery
This paper introduces a temporal difference active learning framework to adaptively learn experiment selection policies for budgeted perturbation discovery.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with experimental biological screening, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
The importance of tensor handling and implementation of physics-informed DeepONets
Reorganizes tensor operations in physics-informed DeepONet architectures to eliminate redundancy and reduce training costs for higher-dimensional problems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on solving differential equations, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
LCT: Losslessly Compressed Tensors with GPU friendly execution for Training
Provides a GPU-accelerated Huffman compression framework for tensors to lower memory overhead during model training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with training memory compression, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Attention over noisy examples: generalization and memorization in the exponential Hopfield network
Analyzes generalization and memorization dynamics in exponential Hopfield networks trained with softmax attention over noisy examples.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Studies associative memory theory rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Generalization Guarantees of Randomized Block Coordinate Descent for Nonconvex Learning
Derives theoretical high-probability generalization guarantees and early stopping bounds for randomized block coordinate descent on nonconvex problems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical optimization theory, not deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Architecting for Hardware Diversity: Meta's End-to-End Co-Design for High-Performance AI Training on AMD GPUs
Shares hardware-model co-design techniques and analytical kernel selection for training large recommendation models on AMD GPUs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses hardware optimization and porting, not AI safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
Query-Efficient Rejection Sampling for Parallel Masked Diffusion
Proposes a single-increment rejection sampling algorithm to correct token correlation bias efficiently in parallel masked diffusion.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Presents diffusion sampling theory, not AI guardrails, jailbreaks, or safety.
SurvICL: a Foundation Model for in-context Survival Analysis
Introduces a tabular foundation model pretrained on synthetic priors to predict survival curves in-context.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Studies clinical survival predictions rather than AI safety or reliability guardrails.
Explore Once, Evaluate Many: Multiple Policy Evaluation for Stochastic Linear Bandits
Introduces an algorithm to evaluate multiple target policies simultaneously in contextual linear bandits with shared sampling.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on bandit sample complexity bounds, not deployment safety or jailbreaks.
BitSparse: Compact Activation Storage for ReLU Feed-Forward Networks
Presents a GPU format that losslessly compresses sparse activations to reduce memory usage during neural network training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on memory reduction techniques, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Topology-Inspired Fine-Tuning for Wind-Field Super-Resolution
Applies topology-inspired loss functions to fine-tune super-resolution neural networks on scientific wind-field datasets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on weather super-resolution fine-tuning, not AI safety and reliability.
Baselines and Score Centering in Policy Gradient Estimation
Analyzes score centering and covariance estimands to maintain reward shift invariance under regularized importance sampling.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Discusses RL post-training optimization theory rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Learning Rational Strategies for Temporal Objectives in Multi-Agent Systems
Analyzes rational strategy synthesis and equilibrium guarantees for stochastic multi-agent systems with probabilistic temporal logic objectives.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on game-theoretic synthesis rather than AI safety guardrails or hallucinations.
Backward Compatibility in Zero-Bit Neural Audio Watermarking
Establishes a training approach to ensure backward compatibility and prevent false positives across versions of neural audio watermarking.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on audio watermarking compatibility instead of AI guardrails or jailbreaks.
Robust Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Model and Measurement Uncertainty
Develops a robust reinforcement learning framework for dynamic treatment policies under patient measurement and model uncertainty.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Concerns clinical RL robustness rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Lean Graph Search for Formal Theorem Proving
Introduces a graph-based retrieval method that traces multi-hop library dependencies to find lemmas for formal theorem proving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on mathematical lemma retrieval, not AI safety or deployment robustness.
PathFM: Fast Generative Forecasting of Multivariate Trajectories
Uses flow matching and distillation to generate full multivariate time-series trajectory forecasts rapidly.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with time series forecasting calibration rather than LLM safety or deployment guardrails.
Learning Topology-Aware Representations for Mechanics-Relevant TPMS Metamaterials
Applies persistent homology to encode global structural connectivity into learned representations of mechanical metamaterials.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with metamaterial structural connectivity, not AI safety or deployment robustness.
Purify Before You Align: Improving Representation Alignment for Diffusion Models
Introduces local appearance purification to filter alignment targets and improve representation learning during diffusion model training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Studies diffusion representation alignment, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Pixels to Tokens: Token Space Efficient Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
Selects maximally informative pixel tokens directly from vision transformers to train segmentation heads under tight annotation budgets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on active learning segmentation rather than AI safety or reliability.
Do As I Do, Not As I Say: On-Policy Distillation Inherits the Teacher in Vision-Language Models
Evaluates on-policy distillation versus supervised fine-tuning in vision-language models, analyzing how teacher reliability impacts student behavior.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on post-training distillation accuracy, not safety or guardrails.
Audio-Visual Dog Identification and Tracking in Real-World Videos
Combines visual tracking and vocal fingerprinting to identify and monitor individual dogs across real-world multi-dog video recordings.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Covers animal tracking, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Spectral-Spatial Interpretation
Introduces a Shapley-based attribution method that jointly explains spatial and spectral channel importance in multispectral imagery.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Studies post-hoc feature attribution rather than AI safety guardrails.
Semantic Latent Alignment for Flow Matching with Invertible Bi-Lipschitz Adapters
Proposes invertible bi-Lipschitz adapters to align pretrained latent spaces with semantic representations for flow matching without retraining encoders.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on generative coordinate alignment, not AI deployment safety.
When Should a Low-Light Pipeline Generate? Auditable Risk Control for Selective Generative Enhancement
Presents an auditable framework that uses risk budgeting to selectively deploy generative enhancers over base restoration models in low-light images.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses low-light image routing, not deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
L2GSSL: Label-Efficient Local-to-Global Self-Supervised Learning for Volumetric Healthcare Data
Introduces a label-efficient self-supervised learning framework that splits volumetric CT scans into local slice and global context representations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Covers medical image pretraining, not AI safety or guardrails.
ManiFusion: Unlocking the High-Throughput Generation via Superposition in Manifold Space
Proposes a framework that increases image diffusion throughput by fusing and processing multiple generation samples simultaneously in manifold space.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses diffusion sampling acceleration, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for TI2I Flow Matching
Identifies early-stage issues with classifier-free guidance in flow matching models and proposes a correction for controllable image editing.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Studies generative controllability in flow matching, not AI deployment safety.
International Multi-Centre Validation of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Precise Discrimination between Normal and Abnormal Retinal Development
Validates an unsupervised domain adaptation model to classify normal and abnormal retinal development across diverse optical coherence tomography systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Focuses on clinical domain adaptation, not LLM deployment safety.
Single-stage joint diffusion of sky images and clear-sky index for ultra-short-term irradiance forecasting: what the frame-to-irradiance stage discards
Proposes a single-stage joint diffusion method to forecast solar irradiance directly from sky images without requiring a separate regression model.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Weather prediction, not LLM safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Temporal Periodic Image Registration with Implicit Neural Representations
The paper applies implicit neural representations with temporal consistency constraints to register periodic medical image sequences across time.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Not about LLM safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Beyond the Dominant Label: Recovering Coexisting Lesion Evidence with Multiple Instance Learning
The paper introduces a multiple instance learning method to recover coexisting secondary lesions from whole-slide pathology images labeled only by dominant severity.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Does not address LLM safety, prompt injection, or deployment guardrails.
REKI: Registering Knowledge in VLAs
The paper introduces a compact vision-language-action model using register tokens as persistent memory to reduce control oscillations in robotics.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Does not focus on LLM safety, guardrails, or red-teaming deployment risks.
FutureLift: Lifting Trajectory Proposals into Bidirectional Future Graphs for Motion Forecasting
The paper presents a refiner that models motion proposals as heterogeneous temporal graphs to improve trajectory forecasting for autonomous vehicles.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Covers autonomous vehicle trajectory forecasting, not LLM deployment safety.
How Much Physics Can Vision Learn from Audio? Probing and Distilling Damping Structure
The paper investigates learning physical damping properties from impact audio and distills this knowledge into vision models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
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Does not address deployment safety, hallucination, red teaming, or guardrails.
Empirical Evaluation of Machine Learning for Cloud Cryptojacking Detection: Effects of Preprocessing and Evaluation Protocols
Evaluates classical machine learning models and preprocessing choices for detecting cryptojacking attacks across two benchmark proxy datasets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates classical ML models for cloud cryptojacking detection, not AI safety.
Hybrid DeepXAI Fusion Network for Interpretable Big Data Analytics and Secure Cloud Decision-Making Systems
Introduces a hybrid neural network fusing temporal, contextual, and relational features with explainable mechanisms for secure cloud decision systems.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Proposes explainable deep fusion for analytics, not LLM safety or deployment guardrails.
Foundations of Hardware-Software Leakage Contracts
Presents a hardware-software contract framework to characterize microarchitectural side-channel leakage at the instruction set architecture level.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on microarchitectural side-channel leakage contracts, not AI deployment safety.
Performance Characterization of Pulsar's Software-defined Watermark Verifier
Evaluates a software-defined radio implementation for verifying combinatorial watermarks in satellite positioning, navigation, and timing signals.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers satellite watermark verification in radio hardware, not AI safety.
GhostLock: Learning-Assisted Blind GPS Signal Nullification Without Victim-Side Information
Presents a machine-learning-assisted physical-layer attack that nullifies authentic GPS signals without requiring victim-side channel information.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on physical-layer GPS signal nullification attacks, not AI safety.
Does Client Diversity Protect the Lightning Network? Evidence from the 2026 Core Lightning Shutdown
Studies the resilience of the Lightning Network during a client node shutdown to measure the practical value of client diversity.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes cryptocurrency Lightning Network node diversity and availability, not AI safety.
PAGE404: Breaking GPU Isolation Through Hardware-assisted Page Migration
Demonstrates side-channel and covert-channel security risks in hardware-assisted page migration on unified CPU-GPU superchips.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on hardware and driver side channels in GPU memory architecture, not AI safety.
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