arXiv research

New method improves safety analytics by addressing imbalanced data issues.

SECRM-2D improves RL-based autonomous driving with safety guarantees.

Deriving the optimal safety stock quantity with which to meet customer satisfaction is one of the most important topics in stock management. However, it is difficult to control the stock management of correlated marketable merchandise when using an inventory control method that was developed under the assumption that t…

Video applications and analytics are routinely projected as a stressing and significant service of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network. As part of a NIST PSCR funded effort, the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have been developing a computer vision dataset o…

Synthesizes machine learning applications in reliability and safety.

Study examines sample complexity for RL with safety constraints.

The variability of the clusters generated by clustering techniques in the domain of latitude and longitude variables of fatal crash data are significantly unpredictable. This unpredictability, caused by the randomness of fatal crash incidents, reduces the accuracy of crash frequency (i.e., counts of fatal crashes per c…

Classifier-based AI safety gates fail in self-improvement, even with advanced verification methods.

RLVR maintains safety while improving reasoning capabilities in LLMs.

The paper reviews machine learning safety techniques for autonomous vehicles.

Research tackles safety of deep learning in safety-critical tasks.

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are widely employed in control and learning because of their principled treatment of uncertainty. However, tracking uncertainty for iterative, multi-step predictions in general leads to an analytically intractable problem. While approximation methods exist, they do not come with guarantees, mak…

The paper discusses safety assessment for AI systems, focusing on machine learning models.

Fine-tuning LLMs improves capability but harms safety, study finds.

RAGuard improves safety in LLMs for offshore wind maintenance.

Survey of algorithms for testing AI-driven CPS safety.

Safe imitation learning with a safety layer for flexible training.

This paper formalizes AI safety using hypothesis testing in GenAI.

A new algorithm for identifying the best arm in linear feedback with safety constraints.

Safety filter for unknown discrete-time systems with learned models and noise covariance.

SafeML monitors ML systems for safety and security risks.

Paper defines and quantifies safety risks in deep neural networks.

Study best arm identification with safety constraints in bandit problems.

Failures are challenging for learning to control physical systems since they risk damage, time-consuming resets, and often provide little gradient information. Adding safety constraints to exploration typically requires a lot of prior knowledge and domain expertise. We present a safety measure which implicitly captures…

Safe reinforcement learning tackles safety constraints with linear approximations.

Enhances safety of 3D object detection neural networks.

Each year, around 6 million car accidents occur in the U.S. on average. Road safety features (e.g., concrete barriers, metal crash barriers, rumble strips) play an important role in preventing or mitigating vehicle crashes. Accurate maps of road safety features is an important component of safety management systems for…

CARL safely adapts RL agents for safety-critical tasks.

A novel approach for safe offline RL using latent safety constraints.

LLM safety alignment explained as divergence estimation.

Machine learning algorithms increasingly influence our decisions and interact with us in all parts of our daily lives. Therefore, just as we consider the safety of power plants, highways, and a variety of other engineered socio-technical systems, we must also take into account the safety of systems involving machine le…

Safe Bayesian Optimization algorithms are improved to ensure safety in real-world applications.

The paper introduces sanity tests to detect spurious correlations in AI-guided radiology systems.

Researchers introduce a method to assess the safety of interpretable machine learning models.

New method provides scalable safety guarantees for RL agents.

By building on a recently introduced genetic-inspired attribute-based conceptual framework for safety risk analysis, we propose a novel methodology to compute construction univariate and bivariate construction safety risk at a situational level. Our fully data-driven approach provides construction practitioners and aca…

Algorithm minimizes regret while adhering to unknown safety constraints.

The paper shows why AI safety doesn't generalize across tasks.

Study probabilistic safety of BNNs under adversarial attacks.

FISAR uses neural networks to optimize safe reinforcement learning with forward-invariant constraints.

Safe learning of stochastic dynamics with safety constraints.

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly influencing our decisions and interacting with us in all parts of our daily lives. Therefore, just like for power plants, highways, and myriad other engineered sociotechnical systems, we must consider the safety of systems involving machine learning. In this paper, we first …

Unified control theory and machine learning for safety in uncertain systems.

Logarithmic regret strategies for safe multi-armed bandits with safety risk constraints.

A new method reduces the computational burden of safety alignment for large language models.

Urban traffic systems worldwide are suffering from severe traffic safety problems. Traffic safety is affected by many complex factors, and heavily related to all drivers' behaviors involved in traffic system. Drivers with aggressive driving behaviors increase the risk of traffic accidents. In order to manage the safety…

ARTEO algorithm optimizes safety-critical systems with uncertainty.

The paper tackles safe exploration in RL by a conservative safety critic.