As more responsibility is placed upon AI systems, it becomes increasingly important to guarantee that these systems are aligned with humanity. A common fear in AI safety is that human value is fragile -- that is, optimizing too heavily for an imperfect proxy to human values will lead to a catastrophic outcome. In this paper, we present a model of the alignment problem where an agent undergoes idealized alignment training that guarantees its value function satisfies a proxy condition before optimizing the world. Our primary results identify conditions on the human value function and the accuracy of several proxy conditions under which an agent with an $\eta$-catastrophic value function, one that is guaranteed to take the expectation of human value below $\eta$ in the limit of optimizing power, would be deployed. Our results highlight the danger of overoptimization and motivate AI designs that limit optimization pressure, such as quantilizers, rather than relying solely on pre-deployment training.
Investigating how experienced developers use agents in building software, including their motivations, strategies, task suitability, and sentiments finds that while experienced developers value agents as a productivity boost, they retain their agency in software design and implementation out of insistence on fundamental software quality attributes.
This systematic review evaluates 55 studies from 2017 to 2023 on the application of machine learning techniques to ASD, highlighting key challenges and opportunities, particularly the need for models that can integrate complex data to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes.
Rafael Muñoz-Terol, Jesús Peral, Sandra Amador et al.· Heliyon· 4 citations· ⚡1
This paper identifies two different routes through which models can acquire geometrically separable features: they can learn them from complementary co-occurrence signals in general language data, including text-number co-occurrence and cross-number interaction, or from multi-token addition problems.
This work explores image generation using flow matching using flow matching and proposes an iterative process that can be integrated into virtually any generative modeling technique, thereby enhancing the performance and robustness of image synthesis systems.
Eldad Haber, Shadab Ahamed, Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui et al.· SIAM Journal on Scientific C...· 3 citations
This work presents AutoOR, a scalable synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning pipeline that trains LLMs to autoformulate optimization problems specified in natural language across linear, mixed-integer, and non-linear categories and introduces a curriculum RL strategy that bootstraps from limited initial training data to make this class tractable for post-training.
S. Motwani, Chuan Du, A. Petrov et al.· 2 citations
A benchmark built on the Speech Accessibility Project (SAP) dataset is introduced that tests whether diagnosis labels, clinician-derived speech ratings, and progressively richer clinical descriptions improve transcription accuracy for dysarthric speech, finding that current models do not meaningfully use this context.
P. Moure, Niclas Pokel, Bilal Bounajma et al.· arXiv.org· 2 citations
