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most citedFoundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models

16 citations · 16 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Frontier Models Can Take Actions at Low Probabilities

Alex Serrano, Wen Xing, David Lindner +1

Pre-deployment evaluations inspect only a limited sample of model actions. A malicious model seeking to evade oversight could exploit this by randomizing when to "defect": misbehav…

cs.CR2025

Can Reasoning Models Obfuscate Reasoning? Stress-Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitorability

Artur Zolkowski, Wen Xing, David Lindner +2

Recent findings suggest that misaligned models may exhibit deceptive behavior, raising concerns about output trustworthiness. Chain-of-thought (CoT) is a promising tool for alignme…

cs.LG2025

RL-Obfuscation: Can Language Models Learn to Evade Latent-Space Monitors?

Rohan Gupta, Erik Jenner

Latent-space monitors aim to detect undesirable behaviours in Large Language Models by leveraging their internal representations rather than relying solely on black-box outputs. Th…

cs.LG2024

Obfuscated Activations Bypass LLM Latent-Space Defenses

Luke Bailey, Alex Serrano, Abhay Sheshadri +7

Recent latent-space monitoring techniques have shown promise as defenses against LLM attacks. These defenses act as scanners that seek to detect harmful activations before they lea…

cs.LG2024★ 16 cited

Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models

Usman Anwar, Abulhair Saparov, Javier Rando +39

This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large language models (LLMs). These challenges are organized into three different categories…