Enhancing Safety and Robustness in AI Models

The recent advancements in the field of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have been marked by significant strides in safety, robustness, and diversity of model outputs. Researchers are increasingly focusing on mitigating biases, enhancing safety mechanisms, and ensuring that models generate outputs that are representative of diverse populations. A notable trend is the integration of active learning techniques to guide model generation, thereby improving the robustness and representativeness of LLMs in safety-critical scenarios. Additionally, there is a growing emphasis on addressing frequency biases and anisotropy in language model pre-training to ensure better generalization and fairness. The field is also witnessing innovative approaches to fault tolerance in LLM training, with a focus on lightweight yet effective methods to handle computational errors. Furthermore, the sensitivity of generative VLMs to prompt alterations is being thoroughly investigated to enhance the consistency and reliability of model outputs. Overall, the research direction is moving towards creating more inclusive, safe, and reliable AI systems that can handle a wide range of scenarios effectively.

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ALVIN: Active Learning Via INterpolation

Unraveling and Mitigating Safety Alignment Degradation of Vision-Language Models

SimpleStrat: Diversifying Language Model Generation with Stratification

SafeLLM: Domain-Specific Safety Monitoring for Large Language Models: A Case Study of Offshore Wind Maintenance

Superficial Safety Alignment Hypothesis

Active Learning for Robust and Representative LLM Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios

Mitigating Frequency Bias and Anisotropy in Language Model Pre-Training with Syntactic Smoothing

Light-Weight Fault Tolerant Attention for Large Language Model Training

The Fair Language Model Paradox

Weak-to-Strong Generalization beyond Accuracy: a Pilot Study in Safety, Toxicity, and Legal Reasoning

Cross-Modal Safety Mechanism Transfer in Large Vision-Language Models

Sensitivity of Generative VLMs to Semantically and Lexically Altered Prompts

An Active Learning Framework for Inclusive Generation by Large Language Models

On the Role of Attention Heads in Large Language Model Safety

Active-Dormant Attention Heads: Mechanistically Demystifying Extreme-Token Phenomena in LLMs

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