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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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CLUE: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Unsupervised Event Type Induction and Annotation
Proposes an unsupervised framework using contrastive learning and clustering to induce, name, and annotate event types from text.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Does not focus on AI safety, alignment, robustness, or deployment guardrails.
One Model to Loop Them All: Elastic Latent Recurrence for Language Models
Presents a training method for latent recurrent language models that avoids performance penalties at single loops while scaling with compute.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on computational efficiency and architecture rather than safety or alignment.
Reflective Prompt Optimization of a Deep-Research Agent: A Topic-Disjoint, Multi-Seed Protocol for Measuring Transferable Gains and Prompt-Level Overfitting
Studies reflective prompt optimization in research agents, demonstrating that gains on held-out tasks can stem from prompt-level memorization.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses generalizability and overfitting rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
GeopoliticalQA: Benchmarking Retrieval and Generation over Intelligence Reports
Introduces a benchmark of 5,525 QA pairs from intelligence reports to evaluate RAG document- and chunk-level retrieval.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on question-answering accuracy over reports rather than alignment or guardrails.
U4RASD at KnowledgeGraphEval-2026: Ontology-Constrained Encoder and LLM Systems for Arabic Relation Extraction
Describes an ontology-constrained ensemble system of encoders and fine-tuned language models for directed Arabic relation extraction.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses purely on relation extraction accuracy without safety, jailbreak, or guardrail analyses.
Large Language Models, Machine-Assisted Cultural Analytics, and the Agentic Turn
Examines methodological and conceptual implications of using large language models and agentic workflows for machine-assisted cultural analytics.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Offers broad cultural perspectives rather than technical AI safety, jailbreak, or guardrail research.
People Making Conversation: Evaluating How Naturally Speech Models Converse
Evaluates whether real-time speech models decide to speak appropriately during natural pauses and turn ends in unscripted conversations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on conversational cadence and naturalness rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Fear Is Not Always Fear: Variation in Emotion Label Equivalence Across Datasets
Tests cross-corpus emotion classification transfer across three datasets, finding significant loss in discrimination and conceptual disagreement on labels.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on label variance in emotion datasets, not safety guardrails or security risks.
Unreliable Narrator Framing as a Cost-effective Mechanism for Satire Explanation of Australian and American Satirical News
Evaluates whether framing explanations around unreliable narrator theory enables open-weight models to explain satirical news cost-effectively.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Studies cultural satire understanding rather than safety guardrails, red-teaming, or jailbreak defenses.
Time Delay System for Sequence Modeling
Proposes a sequence modeling framework using dynamic nonlinear time delays based on semantic similarity between current and past inputs.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with architecture design rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Temporal Evidence Forests for Long-Horizon Multi-Party Conversational Memory
Presents a temporal memory architecture using hierarchical tree structures to trace evolving multi-party conversational histories for agents.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on conversational recall rather than safety or jailbreaks.
Rethinking the Roles of Diffusion and Decoding: Predictive-State Flows for Parallel Language Generation
Proposes separating continuous diffusion language generation into high-level flow-generated predictive states and block-level autoregressive token decoding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on generative decoding speed and modeling, not AI safety or red-teaming.
SEEDS: Preview-Guided Evidence Admission for Search Agents
Introduces a preview-guided admission framework allowing search agents to selectively incorporate retrieved candidates into the ongoing reasoning context.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on search reasoning efficiency and quality rather than safety risks.
MVGraph: Benchmarking LVLMs on Evidence Composition across Multi-View Visual Graph
Introduces a benchmark evaluating vision-language models on graph-theoretic reasoning where evidence is split across multiple visual graph views.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on multi-view reasoning capability rather than safety or reliability.
Forecasting Corpus-Sampling Disagreement in Masked Text Reconstruction
Derives a formula to forecast disagreement between masked text reconstruction models fitted on independent samples from the same population.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on statistical variance in text prediction, not AI safety or jailbreaks.
Language Models Have Interpretable Narrative Mechanisms
Identifies internal attention heads, neurons, and sparse autoencoder features that causally influence narrative representation in language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on narrative representations rather than deployment guardrails or safety risks.
Evaluating LLM Creativity through Long-Tail Performance
Formalizes language model creativity evaluation as long-tail input-output distribution performance and tests it across multiple benchmarks and models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Examines benchmark validity for creativity rather than system safety or red-teaming.
Evo$^2$: Evolving the Evolver through Weight-Harness Co-Evolution
Proposes a co-evolution framework that coordinates agent harness prompt modifications with model weight updates using self-generated experience.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on autonomous performance evolution rather than safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
RAMP: Recurrent Adaptive Mixed Precision for Efficient Prefill in Recurrent-Depth Language Models
Analyzes quantization error propagation in recurrent-depth language models and proposes adaptive mixed-precision schedules for faster prefill inference.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses numerical inference efficiency, not deployment safety or alignment.
CliQ-RRG: Clinical-Knowledge Guided Disease-aware Visual-Textual Alignment for QA-Style Radiology Report Generation
Presents a two-stage visual-textual alignment and retrieval-augmented framework for generating structured radiology reports from medical scans.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Targets medical report generation quality rather than AI safety or guardrails.
KV-Repurpose: A Testbed for Evaluating Non-Prefix KV-Cache Reuse
Develops an open-source testbed to evaluate segment-wise key-value cache reuse beyond exact prompt prefixes during language model serving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses latency and caching efficiency, not AI safety or alignment.
From 2.1M Hours of Raw Broadcast Audio to Finnish Speech SSL: Confidence Filtering and Architectural Analysis at Scale
Evaluates speech self-supervised learning models on Finnish broadcast audio using ASR confidence filtering and controlled architectural comparisons.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with speech SSL data quality, not deployment safety or jailbreaks.
BenCoDiC: A Large-Scale Contextual Cyberbullying Corpus for Bengali Political News Discourse FULL VERSION
Presents a multi-dimensional annotated corpus of Bengali political YouTube discussions to support research on contextual cyberbullying detection.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Presents a detection dataset rather than LLM safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Neurograf v1: An End-to-End Romanian-First Language Model Family
Introduces an end-to-end open pipeline, pretraining corpus, and family of decoder-only models trained from scratch for Romanian.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on low-resource language pretraining rather than safety or reliability.
Les Misérables Dialogue: A film-based network representation of social communication
Constructs a temporal and multilayer social dialogue network dataset based on the film adaptation of Les Misérables.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses social dialogue graphs rather than AI deployment safety or jailbreaks.
Scaling Agentic Data for Long-Horizon Terminal Intelligence
Introduces a synthetic data generation framework to produce long-horizon task trajectories for terminal agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on long-horizon agent capabilities rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
PreSTO: Predictive Subtree Prefetching for Fast LLM Power Sampling
Presents a predictive subtree prefetching method to accelerate power sampling for test-time language model reasoning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on sampling runtime acceleration, not safety, guardrails, or robustness.
S$^3$R: Fast and Faithful RL Rollouts via Self-Sparse Speculative Decoding
Introduces speculative decoding using self-sparse attention to speed up rollout generation during reinforcement learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on rollout efficiency, not AI safety, alignment risks, or guardrails.
SharP: Soft and Hard Prompt-Guided Augmentation with LLM for Low Resource Fake News Detection
Proposes a prompt-guided text augmentation framework to assist fake news detection in low-resource settings.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Targets fake news classification, not LLM safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
What Do Audio-Language Judges of Generated Music Listen For? Four Probes with Controls from Expert Ratings
Designs diagnostic probes to determine whether audio-language evaluation models judge music based on audio or prompt content.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on evaluation bias rather than safety risks, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Vision Transformers Learn Word Meaning from Images Alone
Tests whether self-supervised vision transformers represent semantic meanings of rendered words without paired text data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
CAST: Credit Alignment for Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation
Proposes a chunk-level credit assignment method for on-policy distillation across language models with different tokenizers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Beyond the Final Embedding: Retrieving Memories from Token-Level Evidence
Introduces a retrieval method combining token-level matching and document-level embeddings for memory-augmented language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not investigate safety risks, prompt injections, or red-teaming.
Host-Aware Web Crawling for LLM Pretraining Data
Studies host-level budget allocation and crawling policies to collect pretraining web data for language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate model safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
Taking Tokenization off the Host for Agentic LLM Serving
Develops a GPU-accelerated tokenizer using CUDA graphs to reduce time-to-first-token in agentic language model serving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on serving throughput, not safety or guardrails.
Exploring Attention Sinks in Text-to-Image Transformers from Diffusion and Autoregressive Models
Analyzes the emergence and behavior of attention sinks in text-to-image diffusion and autoregressive Transformers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Does not address deployment safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Test-Time Memory Construction
Presents a framework that defers memory construction to test time to answer queries across long interaction histories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses memory retrieval, not deployment safety or adversarial robustness.
Overcoming Data Imbalances with Expert Selection Biases
Proposes category-conditioned expert routing biases to mitigate data imbalance in mixture-of-experts language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Does not study deployment safety, jailbreaks, or alignment.
From Structure to Validity: Mechanism-Guided Generation and Refinement of LLM Rubrics
Analyzes rubric construction mechanisms and introduces a tree-search method to refine rubrics for evaluating language model outputs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on evaluation rubric structures rather than safety risks or guardrails.
MoPrO-SD: Modular Prompt Optimization for Stance Detection
Presents a modular prompt optimization framework and benchmark targeting stance detection in text.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Targets stance detection classification, not safety guardrails or red-teaming.
Towards the Roof of the World: NLP Progress in Tibetan Languages
Surveys twenty-two years of Tibetan natural language processing literature across corpora, speech processing, and language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Does not focus on deployment safety, jailbreaks, or reliability.
Does Financial Speech Need Continual Learning Regularization? A Study of EWC and mini-KFAC on Earnings Call ASR
Investigates continual learning regularization techniques for speech recognition during domain adaptation on financial earnings calls.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Studies continual learning adaptation, not AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Revisiting Accent Classification with DistilHuBERT: Speaker-Disjoint Evaluation and Cross-Corpus Generalization
Evaluates DistilHuBERT-based accent classification under speaker-disjoint and cross-corpus conditions to measure generalization to unseen speakers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety risks, hallucination, or prompt injection.
Oído: Open-Vocabulary Speech Recognition on a $5 Microcontroller without a Neural Accelerator
Implements open-vocabulary speech recognition on a low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller without dedicated neural accelerators.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Towards Enriching Design-Time Models with Evidence from Simulation and Operational Activities
Proposes a workflow to enrich design-time cyber-physical system models using empirical evidence collected from simulations and operational runs.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Pertains to physical systems design rather than LLM safety or deployment guardrails.
A Better Metric Will Not Save You: What You Compare Beats How You Compare It
Analyzes representational similarity metrics and demonstrates that input category selection has a larger impact on comparisons than the choice of metric.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate safety, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability risks.
Proactive Agentic Orchestration
Introduces POrchestra, an agentic orchestration framework enabling sub-agents to proactively communicate with the orchestrator during dynamic execution.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on agent task orchestration, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
S-Space: Exploring Spatial Workspace in Multimodal Language Models
The paper identifies a linear spatial workspace subspace in multimodal language models that encodes continuous 3D coordinate representations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on internal representations of spatial reasoning rather than safety risks or guardrails.
Not All Correct Fixes Run Alike: An Empirical Study of Patch Performance in Repository-Level Issue Resolution
The paper analyzes the runtime performance differences of test-passing issue resolution patches generated by language models on SWE-bench.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes code execution runtime efficiency rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
zip2zip++: Towards Inference-Time Token Compression with Minimal Quality Loss
The paper proposes compression-layer modifications to reduce accuracy loss when using dynamic LZW vocabularies during language model inference.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses inference efficiency and token compression rather than AI safety or reliability risks.
BLiMPPI: Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for Polarity Items
The paper presents a multilingual benchmark of minimal pairs to evaluate language model sensitivity to negative polarity items across 33 languages.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses linguistic grammaticality evaluation rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Training User Simulators with Latent Intrinsic Feedback
The paper trains conversational user simulators equipped with latent evaluation thoughts and scalar ratings to provide intrinsic feedback.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Studies simulator feedback for training conversational assistants rather than safety or guardrails.
AMLworld-Compact: Importance-Weighted Downsampling for Cost-Effective LLM Evaluation and Error Diagnosis
The paper presents an importance-weighted downsampling protocol to lower evaluation costs on transaction graph datasets without distorting precision metrics.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses benchmark sampling techniques rather than AI safety risks, guardrails, or alignment.
Multi-Stream Attention Residuals
The paper extends attention residuals across model depth by introducing multi-stream depth attention with causal convolutions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on network layer architecture rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Retractions Revisited: A Replication, Extension, and Mechanistic Evaluation of Linguistic Obfuscation Effects in Fraudulent Science
The paper evaluates linguistic obfuscation patterns and reality-monitoring mechanisms across fraudulent and genuine scientific publications.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes human fraudulent science texts, not AI deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Verifiable Retrieval for Legal Reasoning through Structure-driven Knowledge Graph
The paper evaluates knowledge-graph-informed chunking and retrieval strategies over German legal code to support verifiable retrieval-augmented generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses citation accuracy in legal RAG, not jailbreaks, guardrails, or safety deployment.
Enhancing Legal Reasoning in Pre-trained Language Models via Knowledge Graph-Guided Multi-Task Pre-training
The paper proposes multi-task pre-training guided by knowledge graphs to improve zero-shot legal reasoning in language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on domain QA accuracy in legal text rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
OccludeBench: Can VLMs Find What's Missing?
The paper presents a benchmark evaluating how effectively vision-language models recover fully occluded objects using remaining visual cues.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Examines benchmark visual failures rather than AI safety risks, alignment, or guardrails.
Not Just an Evaluation: A Case Study of Discourse Particle Sensitivity in Language Models
The paper studies language model sensitivity to discourse particles such as 'just' and 'only' in natural conversations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on linguistics of discourse particles, not deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
REFLECT: Role-Aware Detection of Sentiment, Emotion, Politeness, and Formality
The paper introduces a transformer architecture incorporating semantic role labeling into attention mechanisms to detect sentiment, emotion, politeness, and formality.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on sentiment and formality detection rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
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