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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI safety and reliability in deployment — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Can Visual Generation Expand What Unified Multimodal Models Know?
Investigates whether training multimodal models on visual generation tasks transfers accessible factual knowledge into text question answering.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Explores multimodal knowledge grounding rather than deployment safety, red-teaming, or jailbreaking.
Trajectory-Level Speculation with Semantic Verification for Tool-Using Agents
Introduces a framework where a small model drafts tool-use trajectories and a larger model verifies them in single prefill passes.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses latency and speculative execution rather than deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Ontology Refinement with Embeddings and LLMs: A Case Study on CASTON
Combines domain embeddings with language models to detect and repair incorrect subsumption axioms in industrial knowledge ontologies.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Domain-specific ontology repair rather than model safety, jailbreak robustness, or guardrails.
Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation
Introduces a benchmark and evaluation to test whether language models can successfully generate coherent nonlinear narratives.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates narrative ordering rather than AI safety, jailbreaks, guardrails, or deployment risks.
AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring
Surveys the application of artificial intelligence methods to humanitarian disaster response and displacement monitoring.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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General disaster response application overview, not technical AI safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
MetaExp: Learning to Self-Improve through Experience via Verifiable Cross-Task Environment Scaling
Presents a training framework that teaches language model agents to transfer reusable problem-solving experience across structured task families.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on learning efficiency and task transfer, not safety.
Decomposing Brain-LLM Alignment with Interpretable Semantic Representations
Decomposes the alignment between language model activations and human brain scans using neurocognitively grounded semantic property representations.
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Cognitive neuroscience alignment study, not AI safety or robustness.
QREF: Improving DeepSearch Agents by Aligning Search with Reasoning via Query Refinement and Evidence Filtering
Improves deep search agents by refining search queries and filtering evidence to align retrieval with multi-step reasoning goals.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on search efficiency and accuracy, not AI safety.
SCRIBE: Scalable Contextual Representations of Interpretable Brain-Grounded Semantics
Introduces a framework using language models to construct context-sensitive semantic representations that align with human brain activity during language comprehension.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Computational neuroscience paper, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Hierarchical Interpretable Multitask Audio Representation Learning: An Analysis of Event-Scene Relationships through the Information Bottleneck
Studies a hierarchical conditioning architecture that predicts acoustic scenes directly from intermediate audio event probabilities.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies interpretability in audio networks, not AI safety deployment.
CriticaLLM: Using LLMs as Autonomous Game Master for Tabletop Role-Playing Games
Presents an automated framework using language models to manage storytelling, rules, and combat in tabletop role-playing games.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on tabletop game role-playing, not enterprise AI safety.
Functional Subnetwork Localization for Efficient Continual Learning in Large Language Models
Introduces an optimization framework that localizes functional subnetworks in language models to enable continual learning without catastrophic forgetting.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses catastrophic forgetting, not deployment safety or jailbreak defense.
Reinforcement Learning-driven Diffusion Models: Language, Vision, and Beyond
Reviews and analyzes reinforcement learning methods used to guide and improve diffusion models across vision, language, and robotics.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Surveys diffusion model post-training without focusing on AI safety.
When Is Muon Optimal? Radial Fragility and Minimax Geometry
The paper investigates the mathematical conditions under which the Muon optimizer's polar update acts as an optimal step.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Theoretical optimization paper unrelated to deployment safety or robustness.
Uncertainty Quantification in Pairwise Difference Learning for Classification
The authors formulate classification and uncertainty quantification methods for pairwise difference learning frameworks.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on general ML uncertainty decomposition, not deployed AI safety.
When Does Muon Actually Win? A Paired Data-, Time-, and Tuning-Budget Benchmark
The paper compares the Muon optimizer against AdamW across controlled data, wall-clock time, and tuning budgets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on optimization training efficiency, not safety or reliability.
Rethinking the Role of Tool Graph Memory in Multi-Turn Tool Use
The authors analyze tool graph memory in multi-turn agents and find that stored transitions provide little benefit over baselines.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates task performance and tool errors, not AI safety.
Learning to Search for Executable Patternmaking from Certified Programs
The paper proposes a search framework to recover executable editing programs between before-and-after sewing pattern pairs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on patternmaking synthesis, not deployment safety or robustness.
ClaimScope: Label-Blind Witness Verification for Mathematical Claim Auditing
The authors introduce a benchmark to audit mathematical claims and repair errors using an automated witness verification checker.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on mathematical reasoning accuracy, not safety or guardrails.
AVALON: Zero-Shot Indoor Navigation with Human-Seeded Topological Memory
The authors propose an indoor navigation framework that uses user-provided floor plans and topological memory without prior robot site maps.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on robot spatial navigation, not AI safety or alignment.
LOADBench: A Large Open Analog Dataset and Benchmark for Machine Learning in IC Design
The paper introduces an open-source dataset and standardized benchmark suite for machine learning methods in analog integrated circuit design.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses circuit design automation, not deployment safety or guardrails.
LoopAhead: Speculating Ahead for Faster Decoding in Looped Language Models
The paper introduces a speculative decoding framework that uses early recurrent states to draft tokens in looped transformers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on latency reduction, not deployment safety or robustness.
Evaluating Inquiry Learning in LLM-Based Agents: Hypothesizing, Reasoning, and Exploration
The authors present an interactive environment to evaluate how language models integrate exploration, hypothesis generation, and reasoning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates reasoning capabilities rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Learning Intrinsic Dynamics in Latent World Models
The paper studies whether predicting actions from consecutive latent states helps world models retain essential environmental dynamics.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses representation learning in RL, not safety or guardrails.
Qwen-Audio-Jev: A Unified Interface for Audio Decisions
The authors introduce an audio model with a non-autoregressive decision head for selection, judgment, and scoring tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on latency and output formats, not deployment safety.
Efficient Pairwise Difference Learning: A Comparative Study of Encoding Strategies and Training Pair Selection
The paper evaluates feature encoders and pair selection strategies for pairwise difference learning in low-data classification regimes.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses low-data classification, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Data World: Scaling Data Environments from Scratch
The authors present an engine to synthesize environments, tasks, and rubrics for training and evaluating data analysis agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark creation rather than deployment safety and guardrails.
Router Drift Control: Mitigating Off-Policy Degradation in Mixture-of-Experts Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes filtering high-drift responses to mitigate off-policy degradation in mixture-of-experts reinforcement learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on RL optimization dynamics rather than safety or guardrails.
In-Context Preference-Conditioned Pareto Set Learning from Limited Offline Data
Introduces an in-context learning approach to map specified user preferences directly to Pareto-optimal solutions using offline data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on offline multi-objective optimization, not deployment safety.
Reliable Knowledge Acquisition for Continual Learning Agents
Proposes a structured knowledge admission and verification system to prevent continual learning agents from storing harmful past experience entries.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on agent task performance rather than safety guardrails.
The Delegation Dilemma: Economies of Scale, Accountability, and Polycentric Governance
Models repeated games with endogenous delegation to analyze trade-offs between economies of scale and institutional accountability.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on game-theoretic governance dynamics rather than AI deployment safety.
DeciCAD: Harness-Grounded Learning of Action Policies for CAD Agents
Develops a domain harness and policy learning pipeline to improve language model agent execution in computer-aided design environments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on CAD policy optimization, not deployment safety or guardrails.
From Research Goals to Scientific Closure: Evaluating Agents Through Evidence-Supported Physics Research
Introduces a benchmark evaluating whether language model agents can independently direct and validate goal-specified physics research investigations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on agent research competence benchmarking, not deployment guardrails.
CF-AVSS: A Coarse-to-Fine Audio-Visual Speech Separation Framework with Target-Speaker Refinement and Post-Fusion for Real-World AVSE Challenge
Introduces a two-stage coarse-to-fine speech separation architecture leveraging visual streams to isolate target speaker audio in noisy environments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Signal processing speech enhancement, not AI safety or robustness.
DINO-FIL: Multi-Layer Transformer Fusion for Generative Inpainting Forgery Localization
Combines multi-layer vision transformer representations with a fusion decoder to localize pixel-level generative image inpainting manipulations.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on image editing forensics, not LLM deployment safety.
RSIFlow: Adaptive Self-Improvement Workflows with an Evolving Meta-Agent
Develops a recursive self-improvement framework where an evolving meta-agent adapts agent workflows based on execution trajectories and feedback.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses agent orchestration and self-improvement, not safety or guardrails.
Cross-Embodiment Causal Transfer from Human Videos to Robot Manipulation
Introduces a causal-beam transfer framework that extracts relevant subtask representations from human videos to guide robotic manipulation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses cross-embodiment robotics control, not AI safety or guardrails.
Co2In: a Bi-level Memory Incremental Learning Framework with Knowledge Encoding, Consolidation, and Integration
Proposes a bi-level working and long-term memory framework to balance knowledge retention and acquisition in incremental learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses catastrophic forgetting in continual learning, not deployment safety.
CIM-Embed: Learning Instruction-Conditioned Multimodal Embeddings for Clustering
Learns instruction-conditioned multimodal representations to dynamically cluster objects based on user-specified partition criteria without fixed cluster counts.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Deals with multimodal clustering embeddings, not deployment safety.
RoleQ: Role-Aligned Scales for Converting Language Models to Ternary
Proposes a structural scaling method based on transformer unit roles to convert language models to ternary weights effectively.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on model compression efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
Provably Efficient Risk-Sensitive Offline Reinforcement Learning via Optimized Certainty Equivalents
Develops pessimistic value-iteration algorithms with theoretical suboptimality bounds for offline risk-sensitive reinforcement learning using optimized certainty equivalents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Mathematical decision-theoretic risk formulation, not AI deployment safety.
Anvil: Scaling Embodied Spatial Intelligence through Knowledge Recirculation
Presents a unified framework with synthetic data generation and benchmarks to train models on embodied spatial reasoning and actions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Presents an embodied data and modeling framework, not AI safety guardrails.
In-Context Learning Before Specialisation: Theory of Learning in a Solvable Topic Model
Develops a solvable topic model theory explaining when sequence models adopt in-context learning rather than specialised memorisation during training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Theoretical analysis of in-context learning emergence, not deployment safety.
CoWorld Reasoner: Agentic Multimodal Reasoning with the Evolving Video World Model-Driven Harness
Equips multimodal vision-language models with video world model operations as tools to support dynamic spatiotemporal visual reasoning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on multimodal reasoning capability, not safety guardrails or hallucination mitigation.
Learning Rewards in Strategic Games
Analyzes strategic identifiability in multi-agent games, showing when inverse reinforcement learning fails to recover true underlying agent rewards.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Theoretical multi-agent game formulation, not AI deployment safety.
CodeHealth Predicts the Token Cost of Agentic Code Review: A Pre-Registered Study of 465 Agent-Authored Pull Requests
Examines whether source code quality metrics predict the token costs of multi-agent pull request review pipelines.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies cost predictors in code review, not safety or guardrails.
BridgeAfford: Bridging Query-Target Gap for Generalizable 3D Affordance Grounding
Introduces a framework that aligns interaction regions across objects to improve 3D affordance grounding on unseen objects.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Computer vision grounding technique without AI safety or reliability focus.
Agentic-Priors: Using Large Language Models to Address the Cold Start Problem in Preference Elicitation
Uses large language models to construct prior trade-off preferences to address cold-start challenges in choice-learning systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on Bayesian preference elicitation rather than safety or guardrails.
Why Shallow Neural Networks Learn Sinusoidal Components First: An Orthogonal Polynomial Dynamics Framework
Presents a theoretical orthogonal polynomial framework explaining why shallow neural networks learn low-frequency sinusoidal components before high frequencies.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Pure theoretical learning dynamics, not deployment safety or reliability.
OntoAct: Hypothesis-Based Neuro-Symbolic Agents through Ontological Abstraction
The paper pairs language models with symbolic verifiers to test and update reusable hypotheses for environment diagnostics and repair.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Develops a neuro-symbolic agent framework rather than safety alignment, guardrails, or red-teaming.
GraphBEAT: Graph-based Bucketized Event Aggregation Over Time for Early Risk Stratification of Gastrointestinal Cancers
The paper aggregates irregular electronic health records into temporal graphs to predict risks of gastrointestinal cancers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Applies GNNs to healthcare records rather than AI deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
CARA: Causally Guided Retrieval Agent for Question Answering
The paper guides knowledge-graph retrieval agents by evaluating the causal impact of evidence on answering questions rather than text similarity.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on retrieval precision and question answering rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Priming Base Models for Agentic Post-Training: An Open Midtraining Recipe
The paper outlines a long-context midtraining stage using software engineering data to prepare base language models for agentic tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on agentic code capability midtraining rather than safety alignment or guardrails.
DemoStream: Batched Task-and-Motion-Plan Optimization for Automated Learning from Demonstration
The paper optimizes batched task and motion planning to generate high-quality autonomous demonstrations for robotic manipulation training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic demonstration generation rather than AI safety guardrails or LLM reliability.
Decoding Naturalistic Speech from fMRI with Temporal Modeling and Multimodal Alignment
The paper aligns functional brain scans with multimodal representations to decode and retrieve perceived natural speech segments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers neural speech decoding rather than AI deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Progress Reward Model for Reinforcement Learning via Large Language Models
The paper uses language model subtask decomposition and dense progress tracking to enhance reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses reinforcement learning reward shaping rather than AI safety or reliability safeguards.
Memory as Weights: Internalizing Long-Term History for Streaming Videos
The paper compresses video history into evolving lightweight model weights instead of competing for limited input context length.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address safety, jailbreaks, robustness, or deployment monitoring.
Learning from Unverified Peers via Shared Residual Distillation
The paper develops a self-distillation approach enabling models to learn from their own unverified alternative reasoning paths without ground-truth answers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses training via self-distillation rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Multi-SFT: Permissively-Licensed Multilingual Instruction-Following
The paper introduces a commercially permissive multilingual instruction dataset covering five European languages to train open language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Creates a general instruction-tuning corpus rather than dedicated safety guardrails or alignment frameworks.
TIPS: A Tiny Inference-time Policy for Scaling in Diffusion Language Models
The paper presents a tiny learned policy controller to optimize token unmasking and remasking schedules in diffusion language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, hallucinations, or deployment guardrails.
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