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Reasoned Safety Alignment: Ensuring Jailbreak Defense via Answer-Then-Check

arXiv:2509.11629v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance in capabilities, ensuring their safety against jailbreak attacks remains a critical challenge. In this paper, we introduce a novel safety alignment approach called Answer-Then-Check, which enhances LLM…

Revisiting the (Sub)Optimality of Best-of-N for Inference-Time Alignment

arXiv:2603.05739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Best-of-N (BoN) sampling is a widely used inference-time alignment method for language models, whereby N candidate responses are sampled from a reference model and the one with the highest predicted reward according to a learned…

KLASS: KL-Guided Fast Inference in Masked Diffusion Models

arXiv:2511.05664v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked diffusion models have demonstrated competitive results on various tasks including language generation. However, due to its iterative refinement process, the inference is often bottlenecked by slow and static sampling speed. To overcome this problem,…

Quantum Diffusion Models: Score Reversal Is Not Free in Gaussian Dynamics

arXiv:2603.06488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based generative modeling suggests reversing a noising semigroup by adding a score drift. For continuous-variable Gaussian Markov dynamics, complete positivity couples drift and diffusion at the generator level. For a quantum-limited attenuator with thermal parameter…

GaiaFlow: Semantic-Guided Diffusion Tuning for Carbon-Frugal Search

arXiv:2602.15423v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As the burgeoning power requirements of sophisticated neural architectures escalate, the information retrieval community has recognized ecological sustainability as a pivotal priority that necessitates a fundamental paradigm shift in model design. While contemporary neural rankers…

Conditionally Site-Independent Neural Evolution of Antibody Sequences

arXiv:2602.18982v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Common deep learning approaches for antibody engineering focus on modeling the marginal distribution of sequences. By treating sequences as independent samples, however, these methods overlook affinity maturation as a rich and largely untapped source of…