VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
James Baskerville
dblp:413/4237
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
AI safety |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › model monitoring
runtime monitoring |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
neyman-pearson lemma · 0.9likelihood ratio · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI SafetyabstractMonitoring AIs at runtime can help us detect and stop harmful actions. In this paper, we study how to efficiently combine multiple runtime monitors into a single monitoring protocol. The protocol's objective is to maximize the probability of applying a safety intervention on misaligned outputs (i.e., maximize recall). Since running monitors and applying safety interventions are costly, the protocol also needs to adhere to an average-case budget constraint. Taking the monitors' performance and cost as given, we develop an algorithm to find the best protocol. The algorithm exhaustively searches over when and which monitors to call, and allocates safety interventions based on the Neyman-Pearson lemma. By focusing on likelihood ratios and strategically trading off spending on monitors against spending on interventions, we more than double our recall rate compared to a naive baseline in a code review setting. We also show that combining two monitors can Pareto dominate using either monitor alone. Our framework provides a principled methodology for combining existing monitors to detect undesirable behavior in cost-sensitive settings. Tim Tian Hua, James Baskerville, Henri Lemoine, Mia Hopman, Aryan Bhatt, Tyler Tracy |
NeurIPS | 2 |