Search: “safety”

The Devil in the Details: Emergent Misalignment, Format and Coherence in Open-Weights LLMs

arXiv:2511.20104v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior work has shown that fine-tuning models on a narrow domain with misaligned data can lead to broad misalignment - a phenomenon termed 'emergent

29 Sept 2026

Content type

All Blog X Post Paper YouTube Reddit GitHub

Clear filters

Model Releases

VisionPsy-Nano: Improving Accuracy, Efficiency, and Reliability in On-Device Vision-Language Models

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.31746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sub-billion-parameter Vision-Language Models are increasingly viable for on-device deployment, yet compact model size alone does not guarantee usability

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

29 Sept 2026

When Keywords Drop but Classifiers Hold: Soft Refusals under KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2609.31678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV cache compression is widely used for long context LLM inference under memory constraints, while deployed systems typically score refusals after gener

29 Sept 2026

Cartograph: Federated Tool Discovery with Operator-Attested Retrieval for AI Agents

arXiv:2609.30293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI agents to discover and call tools, but loading every definition becomes expensive as connected catalogs gr

Guarded Gradient-Based Activation Steering of Shutdown Responses in Qwen3.5-0.8B: A Minimum-Step Policy

arXiv:2609.30326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering changes a model's internal activations during inference without updating its weights, but a useful intervention must determine both

Self-Supervised Perceptually Interpretable Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv:2609.30987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) enables depth prediction from monocular images without requiring ground-truth supervision, making it at

VLALight: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Models for Emergency-Aware Traffic Signal Control

arXiv:2609.30709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic signal control (TSC) is essential for mitigating urban congestion. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable richer interpretati

A Living Benchmark for Information Retrieval from Electronic Health Records

arXiv:2609.30205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based clinical assistants are increasingly being integrated into electronic health record (EHR) systems, transforming how cli

Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks

arXiv:2609.28673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as argumentative agents in persuasive dialogues, necessitating rigorous evaluation of their debat

Hallucination Neurons and Where to Find Them: An Investigation into the existence of Hallucination Neurons

arXiv:2609.29781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretable machine learning for Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly relies on sparse probing methods that identify small sets of neurons claime

MLPerf Automotive

arXiv:2510.27065v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present MLPerf Automotive, the first standardized public performance benchmark for evaluating Machine Learning systems that are deployed for AI a

PUBG Ally: A Conversational Embodied Agent as an AI Teammate

arXiv:2609.29837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce PUBG Ally, an embodied agent for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS that can reason, act autonomously, and play alongside players as a voice-enabled teamm

Safe Skill Retirement for Physical Agents

arXiv:2609.29543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills bundle procedural guidance with execution conditions governing authority, user consent, and live environment state. When model capabilities

Stale Does Not Mean Unsafe: Guard Precision for Tool-Using LLM Agents under Infrastructure State Races

arXiv:2609.29522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents increasingly mutate schedulers, data pipelines, object stores, and access-control systems. Between an agent's read and

StepCOPS: Closed-Testing Lower-Tail Certificates for Language-Model Policy Selection

arXiv:2609.29549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training pipelines must select one language-model policy from many checkpoints, prompts, and decoding rules. Mean evaluator scores can conceal rare

BronchoTop: Bronchoscopy Navigation via RGB-Only Topological Localization

arXiv:2609.28328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate localization of the bronchoscope within the bronchial tree is essential for clinicians to be able to reach target lesions, perform biopsies and

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

24 Sept 2026

DUGM-R: Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Grid Mapping and Risk-Triggered Recovery for Learned Local Navigation

arXiv:2609.27338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned local navigation in crowded indoor environments is sensitive to how dynamic obstacle motion is represented, while collision-prone behaviour may

24 Sept 2026

When Adaptation Hurts: Split Sensitivity and Person-Level Negative Transfer in Federated Wearable Onboarding

arXiv:2609.27819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated wearable models eventually serve people absent from source training, but favorable average accuracy does not establish that unlabeled onboardi

24 Sept 2026

APEXA: Execution-Integrity Enforcement for Multi-Agent LLM Automation of Synchrotron Data Reduction

arXiv:2609.24165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synchrotron data reduction, detector calibration followed by azimuthal integration of terabyte-scale diffraction series, is a multi-step, expert-bound b

Generalizing Manipulation Skills with a Local Coding Agent

arXiv:2609.26499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Today, progress in open-weight language models enables systems capable of writing, executing and debugging code while still running on a single workstat

local-aiarxiv-cs-ro

MATE: Policy-Aware Security Auditing for Mobile Agents via Synthesis-Driven Trajectory Learning

arXiv:2609.22724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile agents powered by foundation models now automate complex, multi-step workflows on real devices, but their trajectories can violate app-specific

Probabilistic Modeling of Jailbreak on Multimodal LLMs: From Quantification to Application

arXiv:2503.06989v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated their superior ability in understanding multimodal content. However, they

Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interaction

arXiv:2609.25176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time voice assistants must reason over evolving requests, execute actions, and follow conversational rules. Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime brings these

RankCert: When Can Simulated Learners Safely Select an AI Tutor? Robust Decision Certification Under Structural Uncertainty

arXiv:2609.26069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation-based tutor selection can be unstable when predictively adequate learner models imply different policy rankings. RankCert certifies one of

ufakzeka-1: Building and Evaluating a 151M-Parameter Turkish Language Model from Scratch

arXiv:2609.25081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe ufakzeka-1, a 151M-parameter (182M with embeddings) decoder-only Turkish language model pretrained from scratch on 13.5B tokens of openly li

What is the Difference Between Me and You? Benchmarking the Quality Gap Between Human-Written and AI-Generated Code

arXiv:2609.12708v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI coding assistants are becoming co-authors of production software, yet their evaluation centers on functional correctness, leaving open whet

Authority-Preserving Evaluation of Medical Vision-Language Assistants

arXiv:2609.22302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models can propose how urgently a skin lesion should be reviewed, but the local service retains authority to accept or replace t

Beyond the Leaderboard: Counterfactual Diagnosis of End-to-End and VLA Driving Policies Under Domain Shift

arXiv:2609.22582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end and vision-language-action (VLA) driving policies are compared by leaderboard rank, but a rank reports an outcome, not the behaviour behind i

Counterfactual Tool Ranking under Utility, Cost, and Privilege Constraints

arXiv:2609.22819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual tool evaluation must distinguish authority, historical support, and what a comparison actually estimates. We study these distinctions wit

Dissecting Training-Free Uncertainty Estimation in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.22206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, yet understanding and quantifying

General Collaborative Intelligence: Architecting Cognition for Resilient Multi-Agent Ecosystems

arXiv:2609.22967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent unmanned systems are moving from isolated, ego-centric sensing toward collaborative intelligence, in which distributed agents exchange compa

Measuring the Assistant's Harmlessness Preferences on the User Turn

arXiv:2609.23935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training turns a general next-token predictor into a chat model with a persistent assistant persona. If that persona is a character the model plays

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

ORDER: A Fictitious-World Benchmark for Domain-Adaptive Embodied AI

arXiv:2609.22285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting language models to new domains via continual pre-training raises a basic evaluation problem: if the training corpus overlaps with what the mode

RiverVLN: Phase-Grounded Temporal Vision--Language Navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

arXiv:2609.23423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language navigation (VLN) has largely been developed for indoor and terrestrial robots, where language can often be treated as a static goal and

Transferring Visual Explanations: How Cross-Architecture Knowledge Distillation Affects Model Interpretability

arXiv:2609.23561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying efficient neural networks is essential in resource-constrained environments, yet compact models often sacrifice interpretability - a critical

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

Can Data Attribution Filter Out Subliminal Learning? Not Reliably

arXiv:2609.20027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subliminal learning allows language models to transmit behavioral traits through training data with no obvious semantic relationship to those traits, un

18 Sept 2026

Placement Is Free, Composition Is Not: The Latin Square as a Provably-Balanced Construction for Heterogeneous Sequence-Mixer Stacks

arXiv:2609.20269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since GPT, most Transformers have repeated the same attention mechanism at every layer. Yet this design is largely a convention rather than a tested con

18 Sept 2026

Structured Four-Stage Legal Translation: From Natural-Language Traffic Rules to PROLOG

arXiv:2609.20334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic regulations are written for human interpretation and therefore rely on shared background knowledge and flexible phrasing, which inherently intro

18 Sept 2026

A Benchmark Suite and Ground-Truth Methodology for Formal Verification of IEC 61131-3 Ladder Diagram Programs

arXiv:2609.18994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first benchmark suite for formal verification of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programs that combines controlled ground truth with

BLADE: ReliaBle Dynamic Hardware-Aware SNN-ANN Boundary SeLection for Event-BAseD Object DEtection

arXiv:2609.17562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architectures combine the energy efficiency of SNNs with the superior detection ac

EDCT-Bench: Uncovering Faithfulness Gaps in VLMs via Explanation-Driven Counterfactual Testing

arXiv:2609.17953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can produce Natural Language Explanations (NLEs) that sound plausible yet remain inconsistent with the visual evidence t

Making AI-Assisted Claims Independently Challengeable: Publication Authority and a Protocol for Falsifiable Publication Records

arXiv:2609.17631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-assisted claims can appear authoritative when evidence, analysis, human authorization, presentation, and correction history refer to different states

REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff

arXiv:2609.17745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. However, existing paradigms largely depend

RoboVAD: A Large Cross-Domain Evaluation Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Robotic Arm Manipulation Videos

arXiv:2609.17843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an actively studied task, having wide applications in typical scenarios such as public surveillance and road traffic

The Missing 'I Don't Know': Why Three Reasoning-Reliability Findings Converge on Calibrated Abstention

arXiv:2609.17686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Three recent results describe what look like unrelated LLM reliability problems. Yin et al. (2026) show reasoning RL collapses tool-reliability repres

TRACER: Adaptive Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Joint Human-Response Prediction and Interaction-Aware Replanning

arXiv:2609.18776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot navigation in human-shared spaces is inherently interactive: coordinated robot motions influence how nearby entities respond, while those re

VLA-ULAP: Interleaving Cloud VLA Calls with Ultra-Lightweight Local Action Prediction at the Edge

arXiv:2609.18663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Billion-parameter vision--language--action (VLA) policies demand substantial onboard power, while communication delays in remote inference hinder time

When Cognitive Graphs Meet LLMs: BDEI Cognitive Pathways for Panic Emotional Arousal Prediction

arXiv:2606.15121v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting the timing of individual and collective panic emotional arousal before manifestation is essential for timely emergency intervention. Exis