Safety, Evaluation, and Reasoning

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In this episode, we dive into the cutting edge of Large Language Models (LLMs)—their promise, their pitfalls, and the novel techniques reshaping how they’re used in the wild.

We unpack a wide spectrum of advancements:

• Privacy Risks in fine-tuning: How LoRA-adapted models are vulnerable to Membership Inference Attacks, and what defenses like dropout and differential privacy can do about it.

• Auto-Grading Physics Exams: Meet AlphaPhysics, a hybrid system that uses LLMs, computer algebra, and term rewriting to accurately grade even complex equations.

• LLMs as Critics: Explore CLEAR, a tool that uses LLMs themselves to identify recurring reasoning failures in math and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

• Reasoning in Arabic Tables: Enter AraTable, a benchmark for Arabic tabular understanding, with an Assisted Self-Deliberation (ASD) framework pushing multilingual evaluation forward.

• Smarter Code Reviews: Discover how symbolic reasoning enhances LLMs' ability to flag subtle code defects beyond current semantic techniques.

• Interpretability Research: Learn how Sparse Autoencoders and wMPPC are being used to analyze how language and vision models share core internal concepts.

• AI Safety at Scale: Dive into SafeWork-R1, a safety-aligned model trained using the SafeLadder framework and multiple ethical verifiers to steer behavior.

• Domain-Specific Data Synthesis: See how AQuilt generates instruction-tuning data for legal and medical domains through embedded logic and self-inspection—cutting cost while raising relevance.

If you're tracking where AI is going next, this episode is your briefing on the research shaping the next generation of intelligent systems.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18584v1.pdf

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