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No Tokenizer, Still a Gap: Cross-Lingual Fairness of Homoglyph and Invisible-Character Watermarking

arXiv:2610.36432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Homoglyph and invisible-character watermarks are edit-based watermarks. Instead of changing how a model generates text, they hide a signal in the text after it is written. They swap some characters for homoglyphs, which look the same, or very similar, but have different Unicode code points, or they insert characters that do not display, all without access to the model that wrote the text. Generation-time watermarks work less well for lower-resourced languages due to how tokenizers split their text. Because they work on individual characters, these watermarks never touch a tokenizer, so we ask whether they escape this gap. Across 40 language varieties in 24 scripts, we measure capacity (the hidden bits each character can carry), how much of it

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AK_QMUL at ArGuard Shared Tasks: A Single Fine-Tuned JAIS for Arabic Harmful-Prompt Detection

arXiv:2610.36360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present AK_QMUL's submissions to the ArGuard-2026 shared tasks on Arabic harmful-prompt detection: a binary safe/unsafe task (B1) and a seven-way harm-domain task (B2). Both submissions use one backbone -- JAIS-6.7B fine-tuned with 4-bit QLoRA and a linear classification head over its last-token representation. For B1 we train a four-way head that factors the label by dialect register {safe, unsafe} x {MSA, other}, we augment the training fold with MSA prompts from AraSafe, and decode with a plain argmax to score safe/unsafe. For B2 we fine-tune the same backbone as a seven-way classifier and average the softmax outputs of five random seeds. Both submissions ranked first on their track, with macro-F1 0.984 on B1 and 0.790 on B2. We report

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Causal Localization of Evidence Effects in Transformers

arXiv:2610.36524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can controlled symbolic inputs reveal attention heads that influence a language model's decisions from natural language evidence? We introduce controlled evidence aggregation (CEA), which varies the counts and order of two symbols in otherwise fixed prompts and measures changes in a frozen Transformer's preference between two answer tokens. The preference is measured by their logit difference; the prompts prescribe no correct answer. Balanced utility causal selection (BUC) identifies compact head sets by jointly evaluating how much ablating their outputs removes the count effect and how closely patching mean outputs between count conditions recovers the effect in both directions. We derive conditional bounds linking head attribution to interv

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Beyond IceBERT: Open-Data ModernBERT Encoders for Icelandic from 12M to 1B Parameters

arXiv:2610.36230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: IceBERT, the reference encoder for Icelandic, found that a cleaned web crawl is enough to train a strong model and that starting from a multilingual model can help on some tasks. We revisit both findings with the ModernBERT architecture. We train Icelandic encoders from 12M to 1B parameters on 9B tokens of open data, and rerun IceBERT's benchmarks and five newer tasks for 30 encoders under one protocol with confidence intervals. Our 1B model trained from scratch, to our knowledge the first monolingual Icelandic encoder of that size, is significantly better than IceBERT on all eleven tasks; warm-started from the English Ettin encoder of the same shape, it has the best score of all encoders on every task we rank. Because our model shapes match

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Calibrated for Which Policy? Conformal Uncertainty for Fixed World Models Under Intervention

arXiv:2610.35877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Changing a deployment policy can invalidate a world model's uncertainty while leaving the physical transition mechanism and predictor unchanged. For one-step prediction, if source and target laws share the conditional mechanism $P(Y|X)=Q(Y|X)$, then the intervention is identified by the pre-outcome change of measure $w(X)=dQ_X/dP_X$. For policy-controlled dynamics this ratio factors into state-occupancy and action-propensity terms. Weighted conformal calibration transports marginal coverage to the target law; with an estimated ratio $\hat w$, $P_Q\{Y \in C_{\hat w}(X)\} \ge 1-\alpha-TV(Q,\hat Q) \ge 1-\alpha-E_P|w-\hat w|$. Population log-loss regret for a source-versus-target domain classifier bounds the same ratio error. If $h$ is its clipp

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Is Token Confidence Just Chain Length? A Signal-Processing Audit of Reasoning Traces

arXiv:2610.36709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning language models answer math problems by writing long chains of thought, and sampling many chains per problem and taking a majority vote raises accuracy at a large cost in generated text. A popular way to cut that cost scores each chain by the model's confidence in each token it writes, where a token is a word or part of a word. The method averages this confidence over a sliding window of 2048 tokens and keeps or stops chains based on the lowest average. We treat the confidence, recorded token by token, as a signal in the sense of audio or radio, and examine the method with standard signal-processing tools such as spectral analysis and statistical tests for detecting a sudden change. We sampled 16 chains for each of 500 problems from

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A Quantitative Approach to Asch Conformity in Frontier Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.36668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Asch conformity experiment has recently gained considerable attention as a way of measuring conformity in large language models (LLMs). While previous studies have focused on demonstrating conformity in LLMs, our work adds a further quantitative layer to this approach. Instead of sampling a frontier LLM on a suite of questions, our approach samples a single question repeatedly, leveraging the probabilistic nature of LLMs to produce a distribution of answers. In doing so, we can compare the distributions of answers before and after the model is presented with the manufactured consensus. Our experiments confirm that frontier LLMs do conform, reinforcing prior literature, and, through our distribution-to-distribution comparisons, provide add

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server : add realtime conversation and transcription on /v1/realtime (#31269) * server : add realtime conversation and transcription on /v1/realtime Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * examples : default the realtime client to the server port 9931 Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * server : sample realtime responses right after their own decode Slots respond in turns on one context: sampling at the start of the next step read the logits of whichever slot decoded last, so concurrent sessions mixed their outputs. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * move more stuff to server-realtime, making it self-contained * examples : fix the type check of the realtime client Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 * examples : use the model card prompts in the realtime client Assisted-by: Claude O

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Dell expands cyber recovery tools to protect identity

Restoring data after a cyberattack isn’t enough if the identity systems that control access are compromised. Dell Technologies Inc. is extending its cyber recovery tools to cover those systems, putting identity resilience alongside data protection. That gap is widening as AI ties data, identity, infrastructure and applications into interdependent systems, making data protection a core […] The post Dell expands cyber recovery tools to protect identity appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Dell sees AI agent guardrails as a path to greater autonomy

As enterprises put AI agents to work, they face a challenge: How can they give those systems more autonomy while keeping AI agent guardrails in place? Security and resilience are becoming central considerations as enterprises decide which tasks to delegate to AI agents. Those decisions extend beyond individual actions to the data protection and cyber […] The post Dell sees AI agent guardrails as a path to greater autonomy appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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