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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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Recalibrating Many Questions with Few Labels: Minimax Rates and Identification Limits
This paper provides minimax rates and limits for recalibrating predictions across many binary questions when each question has few ground-truth labels.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Statistical recalibration rates, not AI safety or jailbreak defense.
Steering the Fidelity in State Preparation on Noisy Bosonic Systems with Risk-Seeking Optimization
This paper introduces a risk-seeking optimization method to prepare target quantum states with high fidelity on noisy bosonic quantum hardware.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Quantum physics state preparation, unrelated to AI deployment safety.
How Low Can You Go: Fine-Tuning LLMs with Bayesian Optimization (LlMBO)
This paper proposes LlMBO, applying Bayesian optimization to ultra-low-dimensional fine-tuning as an alternative to gradient-based policy optimization.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on parameter-efficient tuning, not safety or guardrails.
Approximating Optimal Policies in Heterogeneous Asynchronous Multi-player Bandits
This paper analyzes heterogeneous asynchronous multi-player bandits, proves the centralized allocation problem is NP-hard, and studies greedy approximation policies.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical bandit resource allocation, not AI safety guardrails.
Two For The Price Of One: Curvature-Aware Pruning Preserves Influence Functions Too
This paper introduces CACTUS, an ADMM-based optimizer that speeds up curvature-aware pruning and preserves influence functions in compressed language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on model compression speed and perplexity, not safety.
Euclidean Distance-Based Flow Matching
This paper replaces squared Euclidean distance with Euclidean distance in Flow Matching to improve distributional robustness against data contamination.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical robustness against distribution contamination, not AI deployment safety.
Understanding Circulant Permutation to Extend the CMinHash Estimator
The paper derives explicit variance approximations to extend circulant permutation techniques to different MinHash estimators.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on MinHash variance properties, not AI safety.
Last-Iterate Convergence of Clipped SGD with Linear Decay
The paper provides last-iterate convergence bounds for clipped stochastic gradient descent under heavy-tailed noise and causal adversarial perturbations.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on theoretical SGD convergence under noise, not safety.
Linear Last-Iterate Convergence Rates for Optimistic Learning in Harmonic Games
The paper establishes linear last-iterate convergence rates for optimistic learning algorithms in multiplayer harmonic games.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Deals with game-theoretic equilibria, not AI deployment safety.
Deterministic Prediction as Global Velocity: Flow Matching for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecast
The paper proposes a flow-matching model that integrates deterministic forecasting as a velocity component for stable probabilistic time-series predictions.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers forecasting uncertainty quantification, not deployment safety guardrails.
Minimax rates for pointwise CATE estimation: the role of design smoothness
The paper derives minimax risk bounds showing how covariate design smoothness affects pointwise conditional average treatment effect estimation.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical causal bounds, not deployment safety or robustness.
MultiAlloc: Budget-Aware Precision Allocation for KV Cache Quantization
The paper presents a profiling-guided framework to allocate precision budgets adaptively across layers and tokens during KV cache quantization.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on memory compression and quantization, not deployment safety or guardrails.
BridgeTwist: Twisting Schrödinger Bridges for Training-Free Conditional Sampling
The paper introduces a training-free conditional sampling method for pretrained Schrödinger bridge generative models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on stochastic transport sampling, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
A Refresh Interval Does Not Fully Specify a Refresh Schedule: Learning-Rate-Dependent Placement in Kronecker-Preconditioned Language Model Training
The paper demonstrates that the placement timing of curvature updates in Kronecker-preconditioned optimizers significantly affects language model training loss.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on pretraining optimizer schedules, not deployment safety or robustness.
On Collusion-Free Teaching in Planar Graphs
The paper proves theoretical teaching complexity bounds for closed neighborhoods in planar graphs without collusion.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical learning theory paper, not AI safety or deployment robustness.
Learning Source Structure: Bayesian Prediction with Transformers
The paper compares transformer sequence predictions against an optimal Bayesian predictor across structured Markov sources.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Theoretical study of synthetic sequence priors, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Learning When to Transfer: Reinforcement Learning for Carbon-Footprint Modeling in New Manufacturing Domains
The paper proposes a reinforcement learning method to selectively transfer data for carbon-footprint modeling in new manufacturing settings.
Peer-reviewed
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on tabular carbon footprint prediction, not AI safety or LLM guardrails.
SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
The paper presents an adaptive, training-free speculative decoding method to speed up inference for vision-language models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on decoding acceleration, not safety, jailbreaks, or robustness.
Enabling Token-wise Importance Sampling in Off-Policy RLVR with Proximal KL Regularization
The paper develops an off-policy reinforcement learning method with token-wise importance sampling and proximal KL regularization.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on reinforcement learning optimization algorithms rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Emergent Loop Geometry in Gauge-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
The paper analyzes how network depth influences the internal loop geometry and spatial reach of gauge-equivariant graph neural networks.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on lattice gauge theory, not AI safety or reliability.
Depth Memory
The paper formalizes layer-to-layer representation sharing as a memory storage and retrieval framework for deep transformer networks.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on internal layer representation mixing, not safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
Statistical Vignettes on the Grokking Phenomenon
The paper analytically characterizes the mechanisms and conditions behind the grokking phenomenon in a simplified learning setup.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies theoretical generalization dynamics, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Joint Neural Posterior Estimation and Model Selection for Chemical Reaction Networks
The paper presents a neural network architecture for simultaneous model selection and parameter posterior estimation in chemical reaction networks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on chemical parameter estimation, not AI safety or deployment reliability.
Exact Topological Compliance: Generating Persistence-Equivalent Graphs
The paper introduces methods to generate graphs whose topological persistence diagrams match target descriptors exactly rather than approximately.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on topological graph theory, not deployment safety or reliability guardrails.
Data Free Training of Diffusion Models for Lattice Field Theories
The paper presents a method for training diffusion models in lattice field theory directly from their own generated samples.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on physics simulation methods, not AI safety, jailbreaks, or alignment.
MoSAIC: Learning DAG Scheduling Heuristics from Optimal Schedules through Motif-Aware Recovery and LLM-Guided Reasoning
The paper introduces a framework that uses language models to extract task-scheduling priority functions from optimal solver solutions on directed acyclic graphs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on task scheduling, not deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
From a Large-Scale Teacher to Efficient Multimodal Students for Search Relevance Prediction
The paper distills an LLM-based search relevance judge into smaller multimodal student models for efficient e-commerce search evaluation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on model distillation for relevance prediction, not AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Human Pose Estimation by Probabilistic Mixtures of Gaussian and Uniform Distributions
The paper proposes a continuous probabilistic Gaussian mixture framework to improve human pose estimation under dense occlusions without retraining models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers pose estimation robustness rather than LLM deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
Token-Budgeted Candidate Retrieval for 3D Scene-Grounded VLMs: Category Names vs. Pairwise Geometry
This paper evaluates category name matching versus pairwise geometry metrics for candidate retrieval in context-constrained 3D vision-language models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on candidate retrieval efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
Agreement versus Softmax under Spatial Disambiguation
This paper evaluates calibration differences between object-level softmax and agreement metrics when resolving ambiguous 3D referring queries.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies metric calibration in 3D referring, not AI safety or jailbreaks.
BigCell: Generating Gigapixel Whole-Slide Images
This paper presents a flow-matching transformer pipeline to generate full gigapixel histopathology whole-slide images.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on medical image generation rather than deployment safety or jailbreaks.
Design Choices for Multimodal Transformer Learning with Missing and Longitudinal Healthcare Data
This paper studies transformer architectural choices for handling missing modalities and longitudinal observations in multimodal healthcare datasets.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies multimodal data fusion, not AI safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
TartanMatch: Towards Universal Dense Correspondence Across Modalities
This paper presents a unified model for dense visual correspondence across 25 pairs of multi-modal sensor inputs.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on cross-modal correspondence, not AI safety, alignment, or guardrails.
CIViC: Evidence Gates for Audio-Conditioned Visual Prediction on Proxy Tasks
The paper presents a four-gate verification protocol to evaluate whether audio-conditioned visual prediction models genuinely rely on input audio signals.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Analyzes feature attribution in audio-visual tasks, not LLM safety guardrails.
Harnessing SPAD Noise: Test-Time Gated Attention for Indoor Depth Estimation
The paper introduces a lightweight test-time attention framework that leverages single-photon sensor noise as an informative prior for indoor depth estimation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies sensor-based depth estimation, not deployment AI safety or guardrails.
Truncation Samplers Are Nested: Comparing Decoding Rules Is a Measurement Problem
The paper presents a theoretical framework using nesting properties to calculate distance bounds and compare language model truncation sampling algorithms efficiently.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on sampling divergence measurement rather than AI safety or guardrails.
ProtoPur: Prototype-Purity Pseudo-Labeling for Weakly Supervised Instance Learning in Pathology
This paper introduces prototype-purity pseudo-labeling to extract accurate instance-level annotations from weakly supervised whole-slide pathology images.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies weakly supervised pathology learning, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Frequency-Step Cache: Separating Synchronization and Repair for Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion
This paper introduces a training-free caching method that separates cache synchronization and computation repair to accelerate autoregressive video diffusion generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on caching performance rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
Representational Difference Distillation
Proposes a knowledge distillation method that focuses learning signals on specific structural disagreements between teacher and student representations.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Does not address model safety, alignment, or deployment guardrails.
Regime-Aware Router Learning for Multi-Domain Medical Image Generation with Diffusion Experts
Evaluates router-learning strategies for combining domain-specialized diffusion experts in multi-domain medical image generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Does not address deployment safety, hallucination, or adversarial robustness.
Elephant in the Fridge: Constant-Memory Frame Packing for Long Video Understanding
Proposes a training-free frame packing method enabling vision-language models to process long videos with constant memory consumption.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses compute efficiency rather than safety, alignment, or hallucination guardrails.
Learning $ω$-Powered Conditional Distributions with Importance-Weighted Flow Matching
The paper introduces an importance-weighted flow matching approach to explicitly learn powered conditional distributions without standard classifier-free guidance.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Not about AI safety, hallucination, or deployment guardrails.
KARAMEL: Knowledge-Aware Ranking for Multimodal Entity Linking in the Arts via Heterogeneous Graphs
The paper introduces a multimodal entity linking method that combines vision-language models with heterogeneous graph networks for cultural heritage data.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Not focused on deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Variational Filtering for Bayesian Last Layers with an Independent Binary Probit Surrogate
The paper proposes a closed-form variational filtering algorithm for the last layer of deep classifiers to improve uncertainty calibration.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Not about deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination mitigation.
Code-Interactive Visual Reasoning for Financial Candlestick Understanding
The paper introduces a model and dataset for financial candlestick reasoning by generating and executing code to gather visual evidence.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Examines visual financial reasoning, not deployment safety or jailbreak guardrails.
JtT: Rethinking Point Trajectory Diffusion for Diverse and Rigid Motion from an Image
The paper presents a diffusion transformer operating on per-frame velocities to generate rigid point trajectories from a single image.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Not related to AI safety, hallucinations, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Carve VFM: Carving Specialists out of Generalists, Automatic Task-Specific Compression of Vision Foundation Models
The paper proposes a structured pruning method to compress vision foundation models into compact task-specific models under parameter budgets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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About model compression efficiency, not AI safety, hallucination, or alignment.
Barycentric Guidance: Turning Foundation Image Editors into Continuous Affective Controllers
The paper proposes a training-free guidance method enabling continuous valence-arousal emotional control in foundation image editors.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies affective image generation control, not deployment safety or robustness.
HybridDualPathNet: Cross-Fusion Attention of EfficientNetV2 and Swin Transformer for Brain MRI Classification of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
The authors introduce a hybrid architecture combining EfficientNetV2 and Swin Transformer to classify Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease from brain MRI.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies medical diagnostic prediction rather than generative AI deployment safety.
Efficient Fréchet Distributional Decoder Alignment for Latent Generative Models
Proposes a post-training decoder alignment method for latent generative models to resolve distribution mismatches between training and generation latents.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies distribution alignment in image generation, not deployment guardrails or safety.
CÆNL: Collapse-Based Active Neural Learning with Objective-Aligned Representation Control
Investigates active learning dynamics by regularizing representation collapse and managing sample acquisition across training iterations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies active learning optimization rather than AI deployment safety or robustness.
Calibrated Disambiguation for Partial Multi-label Learning
Proposes a calibrated disambiguation model to optimize sample weighting when training classifiers on datasets with noisy or excessive labels.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on partial-label classification, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Deficit-Driven Stratified Acquisition for Building STRATA-S12: An Open SAR-Optical Corpus for Self-Supervised Learning
Introduces a deficit-driven stratified acquisition algorithm to create a balanced, co-registered satellite imagery corpus for self-supervised Earth observation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on satellite data collection rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
A Differentiable 3D Scene Graph Metric via Contextual Hellinger Triplet Geometry
Proposes a differentiable graph-level loss function to measure semantic and structural discrepancies between predicted 3D scene graphs and ground truth.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Proposes a geometric training loss rather than AI deployment safety, hallucination, or alignment.
DT-LoRA: Reaching Beyond the Tangent Space of Low-Rank Adaptation
Introduces a low-rank adaptation method that splits rank budgets into stable and dynamic branches to capture residual gradients outside the tangent space.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies parameter-efficient fine-tuning optimization rather than AI safety, guardrails, or hallucination prevention.
Beyond the End-Effector: Learning Whole-Arm Contact Manipulation from Human Demonstrations
This paper proposes a hierarchical framework for learning whole-arm robot contact manipulation tasks from human demonstrations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses physical manipulator safety constraints rather than AI deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
SPARCL: Spatially Adaptive Regional Coverage for Active Learning in Chest X-ray Analysis
This paper introduces an active learning framework balancing uncertainty with submodular spatial coverage for chest X-ray lesion segmentation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Examines active learning coverage in medical imaging rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Sea-Net: A Small and Inherently Interpretable Neural Network for Time Series Classification
This paper presents a lightweight, interpretable neural network architecture for resource-constrained time-series classification on microcontrollers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on architectural interpretability, not AI deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
SYNPRED: A Synergistic Approach to Multimodal Learning for Clinical Prediction
This paper proposes a multimodal variational autoencoder framework that separates task-relevant information to improve clinical predictions even with missing modalities.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, hallucinations, or deployment guardrails.
Robust Logical Anomaly Detection under Capture Shifts via Synthetic Anomalies
Examines industrial logical anomaly detection under capture shifts and proposes a reference-free classifier trained on synthetic anomalies.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Addresses computer vision robustness to image capture shifts, not LLM deployment safety.
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