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Every paper checked for brief #4 of 12–19 Oct 2026 — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Branching On-Policy Distillation Introduces BranchOPD, which branches student rollouts from shared prefixes at uncertain decision points to improve on-policy distillation efficiency. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on an on-policy distillation training method rather than agent planning or multi-agent architectures. | |
| Branching On-Policy Distillation Introduces BranchOPD, which branches student rollouts from shared prefixes at uncertain decision points to improve on-policy distillation efficiency. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Optimizes distillation training efficiency without studying deployment safety, red-teaming, or guardrails. | |
| Humanize MLE Agents: Multi-Agent Session Alternation Beyond Single-Agent Limits Presents a framework alternating multi-agent sessions across context resets to overcome reasoning degradation in long-horizon machine learning engineering. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes an execution framework for ML engineering agents rather than a standardized evaluation benchmark. | |
| Humanize MLE Agents: Multi-Agent Session Alternation Beyond Single-Agent Limits Presents a framework alternating multi-agent sessions across context resets to overcome reasoning degradation in long-horizon machine learning engineering. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses context degradation and agent session management, not safety guardrails or deployment risk mitigation. | |
| Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses RL sample efficiency in recommenders rather than small language models or model compression. | |
| Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning credit assignment for recommender systems rather than LLM agent workflows. | |
| Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on long-horizon RL optimization, not deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination prevention. | |
| Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes an algorithmic credit assignment framework rather than benchmark analysis or evaluation methodology. | |
| Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies language models to RL credit assignment in recommendations, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a diagnostic clinical model without addressing safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or hallucination mitigation. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Introduces a predictive multimodal clinical model rather than an interactive multi-step planning agent. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on medical multimodal integration rather than model compression, quantization, or serving efficiency. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies multimodal methods to clinical electronic health records, not to code generation or software engineering. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates a clinical prognosis architecture on existing benchmarks rather than proposing general LLM benchmark methods. | |
| RESCUE: Is This Alarm Worth Acting On? Counterfactual Evaluation of VLA Runtime Monitors Presents RESCUE, a counterfactual simulation framework to evaluate whether runtime failure monitor alarms enable beneficial robot interventions. Preprint | Computer vision for industrial applications via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on embodied robotic manipulation policy monitors rather than industrial inspection or manufacturing computer vision. | |
| Causal Effect Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Strict Hierarchy of Criteria Formalizes a theoretical hierarchy of identifiability criteria for estimating causal effects across equivalence classes of causal graphs. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses theoretical causal identifiability mathematics rather than evaluating language models. | |
| Causal Effect Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Strict Hierarchy of Criteria Formalizes a theoretical hierarchy of identifiability criteria for estimating causal effects across equivalence classes of causal graphs. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on theoretical causality rather than LLM safety, guardrails, hallucination, or deployment risks. | |
| Causal Effect Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Strict Hierarchy of Criteria Formalizes a theoretical hierarchy of identifiability criteria for estimating causal effects across equivalence classes of causal graphs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses purely on theoretical causal graph abstraction criteria without language model agents or planning. | |
| Beyond Domain-Routed Supervision: Cross-Teacher Guarding for Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation Proposes Road MOPD, using non-routed teachers as cross-domain critics to resolve gradient conflicts in multi-teacher on-policy distillation. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes a model training method rather than introducing or analyzing LLM evaluation benchmarks. | |
| Beyond Domain-Routed Supervision: Cross-Teacher Guarding for Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation Proposes Road MOPD, using non-routed teachers as cross-domain critics to resolve gradient conflicts in multi-teacher on-policy distillation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-teacher knowledge distillation training algorithms rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| Beyond Domain-Routed Supervision: Cross-Teacher Guarding for Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation Proposes Road MOPD, using non-routed teachers as cross-domain critics to resolve gradient conflicts in multi-teacher on-policy distillation. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses optimization gradient conflicts in distillation, not safety, guardrails, jailbreaks, or deployment monitoring. | |
| MAGMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Embodied Agents under Dynamic Tasks and Execution Failures Introduces MAGMA-Bench to evaluate long-horizon embodied agent reasoning during dynamic task execution failures and multi-robot coordination. Preprint | Computer vision for industrial applications via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates embodied multi-robot planning, not computer vision systems for manufacturing or industrial inspection. | |
| Defence against the dark arts of distillation: Unsupervised discovery of subliminal learning Introduces an unsupervised method to identify and remove subliminally transferred traits from model parameter updates during knowledge distillation. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on discovering hidden traits in weights rather than general LLM benchmarking protocols. | |
| Defence against the dark arts of distillation: Unsupervised discovery of subliminal learning Introduces an unsupervised method to identify and remove subliminally transferred traits from model parameter updates during knowledge distillation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with parameter-space trait extraction during distillation rather than autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Constructing Pareto Frontiers of Optimal Reasoning Termination Methods for Overthinking in Reasoning Models Develops Step-wise Truncation Probing and termination strategies to quantify and mitigate accuracy degradation from overthinking in reasoning models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies reasoning termination dynamics and token budgets rather than tool-using autonomous agents. | |
| Constructing Pareto Frontiers of Optimal Reasoning Termination Methods for Overthinking in Reasoning Models Develops Step-wise Truncation Probing and termination strategies to quantify and mitigate accuracy degradation from overthinking in reasoning models. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on overthinking token efficiency and accuracy trade-offs rather than deployment safety or guardrails. | |
| MENTOR: Learning from Failure with On-Policy Pedagogical Intervention Presents MENTOR, a multi-agent framework that intervenes adaptively during failed reasoning rollouts to prevent zero-reward collapse in RLVR. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes a pedagogical intervention training method rather than an evaluation framework or benchmark. | |
| MENTOR: Learning from Failure with On-Policy Pedagogical Intervention Presents MENTOR, a multi-agent framework that intervenes adaptively during failed reasoning rollouts to prevent zero-reward collapse in RLVR. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on preventing zero-reward collapse during RL training rather than deployed safety guardrails. | |
| AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs Proposes AudioTETRIS, a training-free token pruning framework that uses acoustic transition signals to compress audio representations efficiently. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes token elimination in audio encoders rather than multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs Proposes AudioTETRIS, a training-free token pruning framework that uses acoustic transition signals to compress audio representations efficiently. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Optimizes audio LLM inference efficiency rather than addressing safety, guardrails, or alignment. | |
| AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs Proposes AudioTETRIS, a training-free token pruning framework that uses acoustic transition signals to compress audio representations efficiently. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents an efficient token compression method rather than benchmark design or LLM evaluation. | |
| SWE-DeceptionBench: Benchmarking Deceptive Behaviors of LLMs Across the Software Development Lifecycle Introduces SWE-DeceptionBench, a benchmark measuring active and passive deceptive model behaviors across software development lifecycle tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates deceptive text outputs of LLMs rather than autonomous agent tool use or planning. | |
| Humanize Olympiad Agents: A Multi-Session Workflow for Olympiad Problem Solving with Solve, Review, Wiki, Verify Introduces HOA, a multi-session LLM agent framework coordinating review, wiki knowledge, and verification for complex Olympiad problem solving. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on mathematical problem solving performance rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails. | |
| Humanize Olympiad Agents: A Multi-Session Workflow for Olympiad Problem Solving with Solve, Review, Wiki, Verify Introduces HOA, a multi-session LLM agent framework coordinating review, wiki knowledge, and verification for complex Olympiad problem solving. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes an agent workflow rather than introducing or critiquing evaluation benchmarks. | |
| Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies machine learning to bioimaging analysis rather than language model agents or tool execution. | |
| Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Introduces a domain-knowledge augmentation technique for bioimaging rather than an LLM benchmark. | |
| Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on specialized biological imaging classification rather than multimodal vision-language models. | |
| Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging. Preprint | Computer vision for industrial applications via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on biomedical microscopy and cytomorphology rather than industrial inspection or manufacturing. | |
| Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses biomedical image classification rather than deployed AI safety guardrails or red-teaming. | |
| Learning Size Independent Constraint Models from Input Data and Positive and Negative Example Solutions Presents a constraint acquisition tool that synthesizes size-independent constraint programs from input data and example solutions. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with inductive logic and constraint programming rather than deployed AI safety or reliability. | |
| Learning Size Independent Constraint Models from Input Data and Positive and Negative Example Solutions Presents a constraint acquisition tool that synthesizes size-independent constraint programs from input data and example solutions. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a constraint acquisition tool rather than an LLM evaluation suite or benchmark. | |
| Learning Size Independent Constraint Models from Input Data and Positive and Negative Example Solutions Presents a constraint acquisition tool that synthesizes size-independent constraint programs from input data and example solutions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on constraint programming acquisition from examples, not language model planning or agents. | |
| SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data Introduces SelectArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate tabular feature selection methods across real-world domain datasets and contemporary models. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on tabular feature selection accuracy rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails. | |
| SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data Introduces SelectArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate tabular feature selection methods across real-world domain datasets and contemporary models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Covers feature selection for tabular data rather than small language models or LLM compression. | |
| SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data Introduces SelectArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate tabular feature selection methods across real-world domain datasets and contemporary models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a benchmark for tabular feature selection, not language model agents or tool usage. | |
| SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data Introduces SelectArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate tabular feature selection methods across real-world domain datasets and contemporary models. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Benchmarks classical and tabular models on tabular datasets, not LLM capabilities or evaluation methodology. | |
| Pretraining and Test-Time Training Budgets Matter for ARC: A Controlled Study of VARC and TRM Evaluates how pretraining and test-time training computational budgets affect ARC benchmark performance across two distinct reasoning model architectures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates neural networks on ARC grids rather than multi-step tool-using LLM agent systems. | |
| Pretraining and Test-Time Training Budgets Matter for ARC: A Controlled Study of VARC and TRM Evaluates how pretraining and test-time training computational budgets affect ARC benchmark performance across two distinct reasoning model architectures. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Analyzes performance scaling on abstract reasoning tasks without addressing AI safety or deployment risks. | |
| Pretraining and Test-Time Training Budgets Matter for ARC: A Controlled Study of VARC and TRM Evaluates how pretraining and test-time training computational budgets affect ARC benchmark performance across two distinct reasoning model architectures. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies training and test-time budget effects on ARC rather than model compression or quantization. | |
| A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models Presents a multi-agent LLM framework that automatically tunes specific internal algorithm components while preserving overall neural network structures. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on automated hyperparameter and architecture coding rather than safety guardrails or alignment. | |
| A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models Presents a multi-agent LLM framework that automatically tunes specific internal algorithm components while preserving overall neural network structures. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval, dense indexing, or retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models Presents a multi-agent LLM framework that automatically tunes specific internal algorithm components while preserving overall neural network structures. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on model compression, quantization, distillation, or small language models. | |
| A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models Presents a multi-agent LLM framework that automatically tunes specific internal algorithm components while preserving overall neural network structures. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on an automated model-tuning framework rather than LLM evaluation or benchmark design. | |
| A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models Presents a multi-agent LLM framework that automatically tunes specific internal algorithm components while preserving overall neural network structures. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with code and numeric modeling tasks without multimodal image, video, or audio integration. | |
| A Step Harder, Not a Step Too Far: The Benefits and Limits of Curriculum Difficulty Progression in GRPO Proposes a dynamic curriculum for GRPO that re-estimates sample difficulty to progressively transition policy training toward harder problems. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Explores training curriculum progression rather than benchmarks, saturation, or evaluation protocols. | |
| A Step Harder, Not a Step Too Far: The Benefits and Limits of Curriculum Difficulty Progression in GRPO Proposes a dynamic curriculum for GRPO that re-estimates sample difficulty to progressively transition policy training toward harder problems. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates reinforcement learning curriculum design rather than LLM agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| A Step Harder, Not a Step Too Far: The Benefits and Limits of Curriculum Difficulty Progression in GRPO Proposes a dynamic curriculum for GRPO that re-estimates sample difficulty to progressively transition policy training toward harder problems. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies curriculum progression for GRPO optimization rather than safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or monitoring. | |
| Inject a Turn, Not a Token: Learning Where to Redirect LLM Reasoning for Self-Correction Introduces UPTURN, a framework that trains a small classifier to inject redirection prompts as new user turns during reasoning failures. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Operates entirely on text-based reasoning tasks without multimodal inputs or outputs. | |
| Inject a Turn, Not a Token: Learning Where to Redirect LLM Reasoning for Self-Correction Introduces UPTURN, a framework that trains a small classifier to inject redirection prompts as new user turns during reasoning failures. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on reasoning accuracy via prompt injection rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Inject a Turn, Not a Token: Learning Where to Redirect LLM Reasoning for Self-Correction Introduces UPTURN, a framework that trains a small classifier to inject redirection prompts as new user turns during reasoning failures. Preprint | LLM evaluation and benchmarks via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes a self-correction inference technique rather than novel benchmarks or evaluation methodologies. |
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