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  1. Characterizing the Consistency of the Emergent Misalignment Persona

    Apr 30, 2026Anietta Weckauff, Yuchen Zhang, Maksym AndriushchenkoMisalignmentPersona

  2. Mind the Gap: Structure-Aware Consistency in Preference Learning

    Apr 30, 2026Mehryar Mohri, Yutao ZhongLarge Language Model AlignmentDirect Preference Optimization

  3. Distributional Alignment Games for Answer-Level Fine-Tuning

    Apr 29, 2026Mehryar Mohri, Jon Schneider, Yifan WuLarge Language Model AlignmentFinetuning

  4. MedSynapse-V: Bridging Visual Perception and Clinical Intuition via Latent Memory Evolution

    Apr 29, 2026Chunzheng Zhu, Jiaqi Zeng, Junyu Jiang +2Anatomical PriorsLong-Term Memory

  5. Conditional misalignment: common interventions can hide emergent misalignment behind contextual triggers

    Apr 28, 2026Jan Dubiński, Jan Betley, Anna Sztyber-Betley +2MisalignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  6. Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?

    Apr 28, 2026António Branco, João Silva, Nuno Marques +10Cultural KnowledgeLarge Language Model Alignment

  7. Refinement via Regeneration: Enlarging Modification Space Boosts Image Refinement in Unified Multimodal Models

    Apr 28, 2026Jiayi Guo, Linqing Wang, Jiangshan Wang +6Text-To-ImageUnified Multimodal Models

  8. Investigating Linguistic Steering: An Analysis of Adjectival Effects Across Large Language Model Architectures

    Apr 28, 2026Lars MalmqvistLinguisticsArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  9. Frictive Policy Optimization for LLMs: Epistemic Intervention, Risk-Sensitive Control, and Reflective Alignment

    Apr 28, 2026James Pustejovsky, Nikhil KrishnaswamyEpistemic ActionsEpistemic Stance

  10. GAIA-v2-LILT: Multilingual Adaptation of Agent Benchmark beyond Translation

    Apr 27, 2026Yunsu Kim, Kaden Uhlig, Joern WuebkerMultilingual BenchmarkMultilingual

  11. A Multi-Dimensional Audit of Politically Aligned Large Language Models

    Apr 27, 2026Lisa Korver, Mohamed Mostagir, Sherief RedaLarge Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Alignment

  12. Meta-Aligner: Bidirectional Preference-Policy Optimization for Multi-Objective LLMs Alignment

    Apr 27, 2026Wenzhe Xu, Biao Liu, Yiyang Sun +2Large Language Model AlignmentFeature Alignment

  13. The Alignment Target Problem: Divergent Moral Judgments of Humans, AI Systems, and Their Designers

    Apr 27, 2026Benjamin Minhao Chen, Xinyu XieMoral ReasoningArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  14. LLMs Reading the Rhythms of Daily Life: Aligned Understanding for Behavior Prediction and Generation

    Apr 26, 2026Fanjin Meng, Jingtao Ding, Nian Li +2Behavioral AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  15. The Collapse of Heterogeneity in Silicon Philosophers

    Apr 26, 2026Yuanming Shi, Andreas HauptPhilosophyArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  16. Pref-CTRL: Preference Driven LLM Alignment using Representation Editing

    Apr 26, 2026Imranul Ashrafi, Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Massimo PiccardiLarge Language Model AlignmentNovel Modular Learning Framework

  17. AI Safety Training Can be Clinically Harmful

    Apr 25, 2026Suhas BN, Andrew M. Sherrill, Rosa I. Arriaga +2Mental Health SupportLarge Language Model Safety

  18. Alignment has a Fantasia Problem

    Apr 23, 2026Nathanael Jo, Zoe De Simone, Mitchell Gordon +1Human-Ai InteractionArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  19. MiMIC: Mitigating Visual Modality Collapse in Universal Multimodal Retrieval While Avoiding Semantic Misalignment

    Apr 23, 2026Juan Li, Chuanghao Ding, Xujie Zhang +1Multimodal RetrievalUnified Multimodal Models

  20. CAP: Controllable Alignment Prompting for Unlearning in LLMs

    Apr 23, 2026Zhaokun Wang, Jinyu Guo, Jingwen Pu +7Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Alignment

  21. Propensity Inference: Environmental Contributors to LLM Behaviour

    Apr 22, 2026Olli Järviniemi, Oliver Makins, Jacob Merizian +2Behavioral AlignmentLarge Language Model Decision-Making

  22. Relative Principals, Pluralistic Alignment, and the Structural Value Alignment Problem

    Apr 22, 2026Travis LaCroixPluralistic AlignmentArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  23. MGDA-Decoupled: Geometry-Aware Multi-Objective Optimisation for DPO-based LLM Alignment

    Apr 22, 2026Andor Vári-Kakas, Ji Won Park, Natasa TagasovskaLarge Language Model AlignmentDirect Preference Optimization

  24. To Intervene or Not: Guiding Inference-time Alignment with Probabilistic Model Blending

    Apr 22, 2026Jin Gan, Xin Li, Jun LuoLarge Language Model AlignmentInstruction-Tuned Models

  25. Four-Axis Decision Alignment for Long-Horizon Enterprise AI Agents

    Apr 21, 2026Vasundra SrininvasanAgent DecisionsLong-Horizon

  26. AlignCultura: Towards Culturally Aligned Large Language Models?

    Apr 21, 2026Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Mark Dras, Usman NaseemLarge Language Model AlignmentCultural Knowledge

  27. Reasoning Structure Matters for Safety Alignment of Reasoning Models

    Apr 21, 2026Yeonjun In, Wonjoong Kim, Sangwu Park +1Safety AlignmentLarge Reasoning Models

  28. The Triadic Loop: A Framework for Negotiating Alignment in AI Co-hosted Livestreaming

    Apr 20, 2026Katherine Wang, Nadia Berthouze, Aneesha SinghArtificial Intelligence AlignmentNarrative Coherence

  29. Aligning Language Models for Lyric-to-Melody Generation with Rule-Based Musical Constraints

    Apr 20, 2026Hao Meng, Siyuan Zheng, Shuran Zhou +2Music GenerationLarge Language Model Alignment

  30. SDOF: Taming the Alignment Tax in Multi-Agent Orchestration with State-Constrained Dispatch

    Apr 20, 2026Zhantao WangMulti-Agent Orchestration FrameworksModular Agentic Framework

  31. Culture-Aware Humorous Captioning: Multimodal Humor Generation across Cultural Contexts

    Apr 20, 2026Run Xu, Lu Li, Rongzhao Zhang +1HumorMultimodal Generation

  32. Boltzmann Machine Learning with a Parallel, Persistent Markov chain Monte Carlo method for Estimating Evolutionary Fields and Couplings from a Protein Multiple Sequence Alignment

    Apr 20, 2026Sanzo MiyazawaProtein Data BankMarkov Chain Monte Carlo

  33. Putting HUMANS first: Efficient LAM Evaluation with Human Preference Alignment

    Apr 20, 2026Woody Haosheng Gan, William Held, Diyi YangLarge Audio Language ModelsMean Opinion Scores

  34. Cat-DPO: Category-Adaptive Safety Alignment

    Apr 19, 2026Tiankai Yang, Yi Nian, Xinyuan Li +3Safety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  35. Instinct vs. Reflection: Unifying Token and Verbalized Confidence in Multimodal Large Models

    Apr 19, 2026Yunkai Dang, Yifan Jiang, Yizhu Jiang +3Confidence EstimationMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  36. Continual Safety Alignment via Gradient-Based Sample Selection

    Apr 19, 2026Thong Bach, Dung Nguyen, Thao Minh Le +1Safety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  37. Guardrails in Logit Space: Safety Token Regularization for LLM Alignment

    Apr 19, 2026Thong Bach, Truyen TranSafety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  38. Demystifying the unreasonable effectiveness of online alignment methods

    Apr 19, 2026Enoch Hyunwook KangTraining-Free Reward AlignmentKullback-Leibler Regularization

  39. Alignment Imprint: Zero-Shot AI-Generated Text Detection via Provable Preference Discrepancy

    Apr 18, 2026Junxi Wu, Kailin Huang, Dongjian Hu +4Machine-Generated Text DetectionLarge Language Model Alignment

  40. Expressing Social Emotions: Misalignment Between LLMs and Human Cultural Emotion Norms

    Apr 18, 2026Sree Bhattacharyya, Manas Mehta, Leona Chen +4Large Language Model BiasEmotion

  41. From Consumption to Reflection: Designing Human-AI Relations for Stable Reasoning

    Apr 17, 2026Rikard Rosenbacke, Carl Rosenbacke, Victor Rosenbacke +1Human-Ai InteractionLarge Language Model Reasoning

  42. Pruning Unsafe Tickets: A Resource-Efficient Framework for Safer and More Robust LLMs

    Apr 17, 2026Wai Man Si, Mingjie Li, Michael Backes +1Large Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Alignment

  43. Concept-wise Attention for Fine-grained Concept Bottleneck Models

    Apr 17, 2026Minghong Zhong, Guoshuai Zou, Kanghao Chen +2Fine-Grained PerceptionConcept Bottleneck Models

  44. C-Mining: Unsupervised Discovery of Seeds for Cultural Data Synthesis via Geometric Misalignment

    Apr 17, 2026Pufan Zeng, Yilun Liu, Mingchen Dai +12Cultural KnowledgeData-Curation

  45. Governing Reflective Human-AI Collaboration: A Framework for Epistemic Scaffolding and Traceable Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Rikard Rosenbacke, Carl Rosenbacke, Victor Rosenbacke +1Human-Ai CollaborationHuman-Ai Interaction

  46. The Missing Knowledge Layer in AI: A Framework for Stable Human-AI Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Rikard Rosenbacke, Carl Rosenbacke, Victor Rosenbacke +1Artificial Intelligence AlignmentLarge Language Model Reasoning

  47. Large Language Models Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types

    Apr 10, 2026Hadas Orgad, Boyi Wei, Kaden Zheng +4Large Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Alignment

  48. Activation Steering for Aligned Open-ended Generation without Sacrificing Coherence

    Apr 9, 2026Niklas Herbster, Martin Zborowski, Alberto Tosato +2Activation SteeringMisalignment

  49. How Alignment Routes: Localizing, Scaling, and Controlling Policy Circuits in Language Models

    Apr 6, 2026Gregory N. FrankLarge Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Alignment

  50. One Model to Translate Them All? A Journey to Mount Doom for Multilingual Model Merging

    Apr 3, 2026Baban Gain, Trilok Nath Singh, Asif EkbalMultilingual Language ModelsModel Merging

  51. Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models

    Mar 30, 2026Yujin Potter, Nicholas Crispino, Vincent Siu +2Frontier ModelsArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  52. SpectralSplats: Robust Differentiable Tracking via Spectral Moment Supervision

    Mar 25, 2026Avigail Cohen Rimon, Amir Mann, Mirela Ben Chen +1Multi-Object TrackingLarge Inter-Frame Displacements

  53. Domain Mixture Design via Log-Likelihood Differences for Aligning Language Models with a Target Model

    Mar 17, 2026Ryo Kishino, Riku Shiomi, Hiroaki Yamagiwa +2Large Language Model AlignmentKnowledge Distillation

  54. Training-Free Generation of Protein Sequences from Small Family Alignments via Stochastic Attention

    Mar 16, 2026Jeffrey D. VarnerSequence ModelingFeature Alignment

  55. QEDBENCH: Quantifying the Alignment Gap in Automated Evaluation of University-Level Mathematical Proofs

    Feb 24, 2026Santiago Gonzalez, Alireza Amiri Bavandpour, Peter Ye +48Knowledge GapsValue Alignment

  56. Rubrics as an Attack Surface: Stealthy Preference Drift in LLM Judges

    Feb 14, 2026Ruomeng Ding, Yifei Pang, He Sun +3RubricsLarge Language Model Alignment

  57. Mitigating the Safety-utility Trade-off in LLM Alignment via Adaptive Safe Context Learning

    Feb 14, 2026Yanbo Wang, Minzheng Wang, Jian Liang +3Safety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  58. Two Stages of Folding: Convergent Mechanisms in AI Protein Folding Trunks

    Feb 5, 2026Kevin Lu, Jannik Brinkmann, Stefan Huber +4Protein Data BankFolding

  59. CALIBURN: Self-Calibrated LLM Unlearning Alignment

    Feb 2, 2026Zhengbang Yang, Yisheng Zhong, Junyuan Hong +1Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Alignment

  60. Spectral Gradient Descent Mitigates Anisotropy-Driven Misalignment: A Case Study in Phase Retrieval

    Jan 30, 2026Guillaume Braun, Han Bao, Wei Huang +1AnisotropySpectral Reconstruction