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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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EvoCowork: A Benchmark for Real-World Office Tasks
This paper introduces a 240-task benchmark to evaluate recursive self-improvement in agents across diverse real-world office workflows.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on benchmark performance rather than safety guardrails or risk mitigation.
Pre-Registered Genesis Accounting for Recursive Self-Improvement: First Audited Operator-Genesis Events in a Physics-Discovery Runtime
This paper introduces an accounting framework to measure recursive self-improvement and audits machine-authored operator generation in a physics runtime.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Not concerned with enterprise deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Getting Space Right: Agentic Rewards for Image Generation
This paper proposes a curriculum-guided reinforcement learning framework and an agentic reward model for spatial text-to-image generation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
PEAM: On-device Communication Agent for Personalized, Efficient and Autonomous Mobile Network Configuration
This paper presents an on-device communication agent that uses small language models to generate low-latency mobile network configuration rules.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on network configuration optimization rather than safety or jailbreak risks.
WeatherBridge: Forecast-Aware Multi-Source Input Adaptation for Pretrained Weather Forecasting Models
This paper introduces an adapter that aligns operational numerical weather prediction inputs with ERA5 reference states for pretrained forecasting models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Not related to AI safety, hallucination, or deployment guardrails.
Beyond Outcome Feedback: Trajectory-Quality-Guided Experience-based Learning
This paper presents an experience-based learning framework that uses trajectory quality signals rather than final task outcomes to guide agent improvement.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses learning from past executions rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
MARL-BattleGrounds: A Novel JAX-native Benchmark for Heterogeneous and Competitive Multi-agent RL
This paper introduces a JAX-native benchmark for evaluating heterogeneous and competitive multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies competitive game mechanics rather than enterprise AI safety or deployment robustness.
Bridging Risk Approximation Gaps in Model Predictive Task Sampling via In-Context Modeling
This paper addresses failure modes in model predictive task sampling for reinforcement learning by using in-context modeling.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on general RL task sampling rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
WorkBorne: Discovering Agentic Tasks from Real-World Artifact Transitions
This paper presents a framework for discovering and synthesizing terminal-based agent tasks grounded in real-world artifact transitions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on task synthesis rather than safety, guardrails, or hallucination mitigation.
VC-OPD: Visual Counterfactual On-Policy Distillation for Grounded Vision-Language Reasoning
This paper proposes visual counterfactual on-policy distillation to prioritize visually grounded tokens during vision-language reasoning training.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address deployment safety, guardrails, or red-teaming.
Probabilistic Multi-Source Data Selection via Learnable Categorical Priors: Variance Reduction and Guaranteed Derandomization
This paper introduces a probabilistic relaxation method with learnable categorical priors for bilevel multi-source data selection.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Deals with bilevel optimization rather than real-world AI deployment safety.
Counterfactual Rollouts for Offline Contrastive Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
This paper proposes a causal contrastive reinforcement learning method using counterfactual rollouts to handle unobserved confounding in offline demonstrations.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses confounded RL transitions rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or robustness.
MCPDisCo: Seesaw-Mitigated Tuning for MCP-Native Agents
This paper presents a reinforcement learning framework to train language model agents across tools and servers in the Model Context Protocol ecosystem.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on tool execution learning rather than deployment guardrails or safety risks.
AlphaRLM: Aligning Language Models for Literature-Grounded Symbolic Factor Discovery
This paper trains language models using reinforcement learning to construct executable financial trading formulas grounded in research literature.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses financial factor generation rather than AI safety or reliability risks.
Humans vs. Machines: A Comparison With AI Agents in Software Reverse Engineering
This paper benchmarks language model agents against skilled humans on binary software reverse engineering tasks using interactive tools.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes reverse engineering capability rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
SkillHorizon: Constructing Long-Horizon Agent Tasks through Skill Composition
This paper introduces an evaluation benchmark that generates complex, long-horizon agent workflows by composing verifiable business skills.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on task horizon benchmarking rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
FleetPilot: Fine-Grained Steering Empowers Real-World LLM Personalization
This paper proposes a steering framework that dynamically personalizes language model responses using low-overhead activation vectors.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses personalization adaptation rather than deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
Single-Sample Decoding of a Two-Layer Sound-Word Canvas Model for Thai Klon Pad
This paper introduces a two-layer masked language model approach to generate constrained Thai poetry in a single decoding pass.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Deals with poetic form enforcement rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Fitting Every Hint Is Not Enough: Premature Floods in Recurrent Algorithmic Reasoners
This paper investigates failure modes where recurrent algorithmic reasoning models jump ahead prematurely when generalizing to larger graphs.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on graph neural network generalization rather than LLM safety or deployment guardrails.
Too Late to Prune: Generative AI, the Screen, and Team Creative Decisions
This paper studies experimentally how the timing of generative AI access impacts team ideation and creative selection.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on team decision timing rather than technical AI safety or hallucination.
Mixing Regularization for Average-Reward $Q$-Learning and $Q$-Planning
This paper provides theoretical convergence guarantees for average-reward reinforcement learning algorithms via mixing policy regularization.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses abstract RL convergence rather than real-world AI deployment safety.
Certify the Decision, Not Every Score: Exact Top-k Selection from Few Evaluations
This paper proposes an adaptive selection method that identifies the top candidates under uncertainty using minimal scenario evaluations.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on statistical selection guarantees rather than LLM safety or guardrails.
Recurrent In-Context Learning for Tabular Foundation Models
This paper introduces parameter-tied recurrent blocks to reduce model size in tabular foundation models without sacrificing performance.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on parameter sharing efficiency rather than safety or reliability.
On the Complexity Gap Between POMDPs and Multi-Environment POMDPs
This paper maps the computational complexity landscape of robust decision-making in multi-environment partially observable environments.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Pure theoretical analysis of robust reward maximization without deployment safety focus.
UltraBERT: Beyond the Limit of BERT Pre-Training
This paper analyzes pretraining factors such as masking ratios and token budgets to optimize bidirectional transformer encoders.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses pre-training optimizations rather than deployment safety, robustness, or jailbreaks.
Toward System One Clinical Intelligence: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Counterfactual Explainability of Decision Foundation Models
This paper fine-tunes a quantized decision model to classify diseases from patient symptom descriptions without free-form text generation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates explainability for a classifier rather than deployment safety guardrails or hallucinations.
InCLAD: A Continual Learning Benchmark for Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection
This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate continual learning in semi-supervised visual industrial anomaly detection across components.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address language model deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Belief Embedding Tree Search
This paper proposes a tree search method using belief embeddings for planning in partially observable environments.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination mitigation.
Trace Evolution Bench: Measuring Whether Agents Improve from Their Own Environment Traces
This paper introduces a benchmark to measure whether autonomous coding agents truly improve their policies from interaction traces.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates self-evolution measurement protocols rather than deployment guardrails or safety attacks.
Deep Learning-based Semantic Segmentation of Dental Radiographs: Comparative Evaluation of PSPNet, DeepLabv3, UNet, and UNet++
This paper compares four deep learning segmentation models for detecting structures in dental radiographs under controlled experimental settings.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Examines dental image segmentation, not deployment safety or alignment risks.
Exposing AI Inference as a Telco Network API over the 5G User Plane
This paper demonstrates an API and network framework to support split AI inference over 5G mobile networks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses edge tensor transport and split inference, not safety or alignment.
Knowledge transfer between simple discrete worlds
This paper examines how recurrent models generalize and transfer rule-based reasoning across discrete puzzle environments.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on abstract rule generalization rather than deployment safety and reliability.
Self-Evolving Visual Agent via Margin Reward
This paper introduces a self-evolution framework that trains visual agents to invoke tools using reinforcement learning and unlabeled images.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes a training scheme for tool use, not safety or guardrail mechanisms.
Have You Been Convinced? A Neuro-symbolic Argumentation Reasoning Approach to Detecting Persuasiveness in ChangeMyView Discussions
This paper presents a neuro-symbolic framework using language models and formal argumentation semantics to detect persuasiveness in online discussions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies persuasion modeling rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
VLCQ: Post-training quantization for deep neural networks using variable length coding
Introduces a variable-length coding method for post-training neural network quantization that maintains accuracy without retraining.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on inference bit-width reduction rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
TurnCost: Turns, Not Observations: Cache-Aware Loop Engineering for Coding Agents
Analyzes coding-agent trajectories to model execution costs under prompt caching, showing turn count matters far more than observation token length.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on agent runtime efficiency and costs, not safety guardrails or alignment.
scHFBiMamba: a bidirectional Mamba autoencoder for cardiac disease-state classification from single-nucleus RNA-seq data
Evaluates a compact bidirectional Mamba state-space autoencoder for classifying heart failure disease states from single-nucleus RNA sequencing data.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on heart failure genomics rather than deployment safety and reliability.
ShellElastic: Scalable Elastic Pretraining with Simultaneous Maximal Updates and Hyperparameter Transfer
Introduces an elastic transformer pretraining architecture enabling simultaneous hyperparameter transfer and subnetwork execution within a single model.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents pretraining scaling formulations without discussing safety or reliability guardrails.
RIECNN: Real-Time Image Enhanced CNN for Traffic Sign Recognition
Presents an enhanced convolutional neural network architecture for real-time traffic sign classification in autonomous driving applications.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on CNN classification speed and accuracy, not AI deployment safety.
GesBench: When and Where Do Multimodal Language Models Perceive Social Meaning?
Introduces a benchmark evaluating how and when multimodal language models perceive human social cues from partial audio and video snippets.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on conversational cue perception rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Single-step Retrosynthesis via Reinforcement Learning from Forward Feedback
Trains chemical retrosynthesis models via reinforcement learning using forward reaction model consistency to credit plausible alternative pathways.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on chemical synthesis accuracy, not deployment safety or alignment.
Harmony Harness: Multi-Objective Self-Evolution of Agent Harnesses
Uses multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to optimize agent execution harnesses across competing metrics like accuracy and operating cost.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address safety, guardrails, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability risks.
Continuous Risk-Based Scheduling for Food Safety Inspection: Integrating Historical Decay with Event-Driven Consumer Review Signals
Combines historical violation decay with language-model triage of online consumer reviews to dynamically schedule restaurant health inspections.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Applies review classification to municipal inspections, not AI model safety.
SocraticRepair: Planning-Guided Socratic Tutoring for Program Debugging and Misconception Repair
Fine-tunes a coding model using synthetic tutoring dialogues to provide step-by-step guidance without revealing program fixes prematurely.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses tutoring and debugging pedagogy, not deployment safety or attacks.
PANINI-DR: Controlled Deep Research through Generative Semantic Workspaces
Presents a multi-agent framework that decouples research planning, subquestion investigation, and factual verification via a shared semantic workspace.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on research coordination rather than deployment safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
HarnessNet: Feedback-driven Hierarchical Joint Harness Evolution for Multi-agent Systems
Proposes a hierarchical evolution framework that allows individual agent software harnesses in multi-agent systems to adapt using feedback.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on multi-agent performance optimization rather than deployment safety guardrails.
Understanding Unified VLMs: From Attention Probing to Guidance Tuning for Multimodal Generation
Probes attention heads in unified vision-language models to study condition processing and introduces an inference-time guidance tuning method.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies classifier-free guidance mechanisms, not deployment safety or alignment.
Words to World: Benchmarking LLMs in Interactive Physical Environments
Introduces a closed-loop benchmark testing language models controlling physical robotic hardware and reacting to real sensor feedback.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on physical action capabilities rather than safety alignment or attacks.
Using Evidence-Centered Design to Guide Prompt Engineering in Measurement: An Illustration with Automated Essay Scoring
Applies an educational measurement framework to prompt engineering to improve the validity and reproducibility of automated essay scoring systems.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses educational prompt design validity, not safety guardrails or red-teaming.
MoMaTune: Model, Match, Then Tune Language Models for Numerical Records
Presents a two-stage post-training strategy that improves language model handling of tabular numerical records using auxiliary pretraining and token matching.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses numerical representation accuracy rather than safety risks or alignment.
Framework for an AI-Ready ARPES Community Database
Proposes a data-sharing ecosystem and framework to make angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy data organized and accessible for AI research.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Covers spectroscopy data curation, not deployment safety or jailbreak defense.
ClinEdge: An Expert-Graded Benchmark of Real Patient Edge Cases Where Frontier Multimodal Models Fail
Introduces a medical benchmark of real de-identified patient edge cases pairing imaging with clinical vignettes to test multimodal language models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on diagnostic benchmark failure rates rather than safety guardrails.
Sequent-Prover: Training Agents for Formal, Checkable SMT-based Reasoning
The paper introduces Sequent-Prover, training language model agents to perform multi-turn formal reasoning using an external SMT solver scratchpad.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on formal mathematical reasoning, not safety guardrails or alignment.
RECAP: Calibrating Low-Bit Reasoning Models on the History They Read
The paper presents RECAP, a post-training quantization method that calibrates reasoning models using dynamic prefixes to reduce error accumulation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses quantization accuracy degradation rather than safety or jailbreak risks.
LeHami: Symplectic Latent Dynamics for World Models
The paper proposes LeHami, incorporating symplectic Hamiltonian dynamics into latent predictive architectures to prevent representation collapse over long rollouts.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses representation drift in world models, not deployment safety guardrails.
GeoBridge: Evolving Transferable Decoder Topologies for Geometric Vision
The paper presents GeoBridge, an evolutionary framework that searches for reusable, transferable decoder topologies across geometric vision tasks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies geometric vision architectures, not AI safety or reliability.
North or South? Diagnosing LLMs' Understanding of North Korean Language, Society, and Knowledge
The paper presents LENS, a benchmark evaluating language models on North Korean linguistic nuances, sociocultural perspectives, and domain knowledge.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Benchmarks linguistic and cultural understanding rather than safety guardrails or attacks.
Protein Crystallization Segmentation and Classification Using Subordinate Color Channel in Fluorescence Microscopy Images
The paper proposes using subordinate color channel intensities in fluorescence microscopy to improve protein crystallization segmentation and classification.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies biological crystal detection, not AI safety or deployment reliability.
Co-DSL: Human-LLM Co-design of Reusable Spatial Concepts for Layout Generation
The paper presents Co-DSL, enabling users and language models to co-design reusable spatial concepts to guide layout generation solvers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses spatial layout synthesis, not safety guardrails or reliability risks.
OntoAR-HAR: Ontology-Guided Agentic RAG with Personalized Memory for Human Activity Recognition
The paper presents an ontology-guided retrieval framework combining population and personalized memory for wearable sensor human activity recognition.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on personalized sensor classification, not AI safety or jailbreaks.
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