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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Prompt or Policy? Optimizing Physician Slate Presentations with LLM User Simulators Develops a simulation framework using persona-guided models to optimize comparative doctor summary presentations for medical patients. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not propose novel retrieval-augmented generation methods. | |
| Jev-Guard: Fast Routing and Auditing Agent Actions over Editable Policy Trees Introduces a low-latency guardrail model that routes incoming agent actions through editable policy trees for safety auditing. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on retrieval-augmented generation techniques. | |
| Probing the Geometry of Color Representations in Multilingual Language Models Probes layer representations in multilingual language models to study whether internal color geometry aligns with human perception or language syntax. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval or external grounding. | |
| Pin It on Anyone: Certified Targeted Displacement of Multi-Bit LLM Watermarks Without the Key Demonstrates an attack method that alters embedded multi-bit text watermarks without knowing the secret generation key. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Multi-Stream Residual Computation in Diffusion Language Models Equips diffusion language models with multiple residual streams and adaptive routing to separate visible context from masked token generation. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve external retrieval or knowledge grounding. | |
| Prompt-Injection Probes Learn the Conversation, Not Just the Injection Shows linear prompt-injection monitors overfit to conversation features and reduces their false alarms by adding matched harmless negative examples. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on injection detection rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Revisiting the Estimation of Unigram Surprisal in Computational Psycholinguistics Proposes estimating both contextual and unigram surprisal from the same language model to reduce estimation mismatch in reading time studies. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Receiver Decides Agent-to-Agent Negotiations Studies agent-to-agent negotiations over money, finding that the receiving agent's characteristics primarily dictate the final transfer amounts. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Reliable Memory from Unstable Growth: Curating Self-Written Agent Playbooks with Randomized Experiments Presents a randomized experiment framework to test and curate self-written agent playbooks, preventing task failure caused by unverified lessons. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on persistent textual memory and playbooks for agents, not RAG. | |
| Estimating Surprisal from the Speech Signal Estimates surprisal directly from continuous speech signals using a speech language model and importance sampling over abstract linguistic units. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Teacher-Guided Tool Learning for Small Language Models via Bidirectional KL Constraints Proposes a teacher-guided reinforcement learning method using bidirectional constraints to help small language models learn effective tool use. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on tool-use learning rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| How Safe Is ChatGPT Health Advice? Evidence from Real User Conversations in Four Global South Countries Evaluates the safety of ChatGPT health advice using real user conversation logs across four Global South countries. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| The Last Mile of Coding Agents for Long-Document Tasks: An Empirical Study on Clinical Trial Protocol Digitization Introduces a benchmark evaluating how reliably software coding agents extract and digitize complex unstructured clinical trial protocol documents. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates coding agents on documents, not external RAG architectures. | |
| Imprinting: Knowledge Distillation Can Shift Student Behavior Demonstrates that knowledge distillation transfers safety dispositions and behavioral tendencies from teacher models to student models on unrelated tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not cover retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| How Reliable Are System-One Decisions in Medicine? A Comparative Study of Jev, Jev-like Models, and LLMs Evaluates fast, system-one decision models and language models across fifteen medical datasets, testing their accuracy, format robustness, and abstention awareness. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Empathy Is Not the Scapegoat for Declines in Factuality and Reliability Examines whether model empathy degrades reliability, showing that warm behavior effects depend on tasks and training approaches rather than an inevitable trade-off. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation or document indexing. | |
| CREATE: Creativity Evaluation of VLMs using the Visual Remote Associates Test This paper introduces a visual associative test benchmark to evaluate the lateral reasoning and creative association capabilities of vision-language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Decomposing and Predicting Annotation Disagreement in Harmful Content Across Languages This paper predicts human annotator disagreement on harmful content across multiple languages by extracting interpretable semantic question features with models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| From Hindsight to Foresight: Dissecting Clinical Evidence Acquisition in Large Language Models This paper analyzes dynamic clinical evidence gathering in language models, identifying failures in evidence identification, updating, and diagnostic reasoning. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines clinical conversational evidence elicitation, not external document retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Breakdown of Conversational Involvement: A Joint Multi-Modal Analysis of Conversation Floors and F-formation Detection with Multiple Features This paper analyzes multi-person conversational involvement by jointly evaluating speaking floors and spatial formations from multimodal video features. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Does Pretraining Teach Chemical Language Models Chemistry? This paper evaluates pretraining on chemical language models across 64 molecular datasets, finding that gains saturate below gradient-boosted tree baselines. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Bayesian Test-Time Inference of Task-Aligned Similarity from Weak Interactive Feedback This paper proposes a Bayesian method that infers task-aligned similarity metrics at test time using weak interactive feedback. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on general test-time similarity inference rather than document retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models This paper presents a method to detect spoken code-switching directly from speech representations using language-selective hidden dimensions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with speech representation, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| On the Monitorability of Natural Language Autoencoders: Identification vs Discrimination This paper uses referential communication games to analyze why natural language autoencoders fail to provide discriminative oversight of model activations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on internal activation explanations, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Rubrics from the Task, Verdicts from Evidence: Pointwise Rubric Rewards with Tool-Augmented Judges This paper proposes a rubric-based reward model that derives criteria strictly from instructions and evaluates responses pointwise using tool assistance. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates reward modeling with tools, not retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| SkillScaffold: Scaffolding Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Policy-Adaptive Skill Credit Assignment and Selective Injection This paper introduces a reinforcement learning scaffold that selectively injects textual skills into agents using low-cost utility estimation. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning policy guidance, not external document retrieval. | |
| OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate multimodal models on joint audio-visual temporal grounding, spatial grounding, and question answering. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates video grounding models rather than document retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| The Last Remote Sensing Model Built by Humans? Casting Any Earth Observation Task as Recursive Self-Improvement This paper frames Earth observation model development as an automated loop where coding agents build and iteratively refine models using verifiable harnesses. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on automated model training workflows rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop This paper introduces a training framework that enables harness-based software agents to self-improve without relying on external teacher models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on agent harness training rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation This paper introduces a coarse-to-fine text generation method using discrete code hierarchies to accelerate parallel sampling over diffusion language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Introduces a generative model framework without retrieval or external document grounding. | |
| Do you "see" what I "see"? A Multi-panel Visual Question Answer Dataset for Large Language Model Chart Analysis This paper presents a synthetic multi-panel chart visual question answering dataset to evaluate how multimodal models interpret complex scientific figures. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on visual chart question answering rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Unconstrained CTI-REALM with Open-Weights This paper evaluates open-weight language models against closed frontier models on a cybersecurity detection benchmark using an interactive telemetry environment. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates autonomous cyber threat intelligence agents, not standard RAG pipelines. | |
| Learnable Low-Rank Polynomial Sketch for Effective Linear Attention The paper proposes a learnable low-rank polynomial sketch to reduce approximation errors in linear attention mechanisms. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Concerns attention mechanism efficiency rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Harness^2: Recursive Agent Harnessing for an Open World The authors propose a two-level recursive self-improvement framework to evolve and refine execution harnesses for open-world agents. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses agent harness refinement, not retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| Agentic Data Engineering for LLMs: System Design and a Controlled Empirical Study The authors present a framework where autonomous agents iteratively refine data engineering strategies to improve model training outcomes. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on data engineering agents, not retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| RUBATO: Decoupled Clocks Allow Full-Duplex Models to Think as Fast as They Can The authors propose decoupled positional encodings enabling full-duplex speech models to run internal thinking streams at hardware-adaptive speeds. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on retrieval-augmented generation or document grounding. | |
| Which Metadata Matters for LLM Tool Selection in MCP? Evidence from Controlled Factor-Level Interventions The authors run controlled experiments showing how parameter schema differences in metadata alter language model tool selection. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on tool selection metadata, not retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| RealityBench: Simulated Environments to Evaluate a Vision Language Model's Ability to Document Human Physical Work The paper presents a simulated benchmark across eleven unconstrained environments to evaluate vision-language models on documenting real-world human physical work. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation or external document grounding. | |
| RES-MR: Risk-Aware Reasoning for Explainable and Safe Medication Recommendation The paper introduces a two-stage reasoning framework to generate personalized, safe, and explainable medication recommendations using language models. Peer-reviewed | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Graph retrieval is used only as background context for medication recommendation. | |
| Scale, Drivers, and Limits of Representational Alignment Across Large Language Models The paper presents two geometric methods to evaluate where and why representational structures align across different large language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval-augmented generation pipelines or external knowledge grounding. | |
| AphaVoice: Text-to-Speech Model for Aphasia Patient Simulation The paper develops a text-to-speech model that simulates realistic clinical dysfluency in aphasia speech across multiple speakers for training healthcare professionals. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on speech synthesis, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Decoupling Knowledge Forgetting and Refusal Learning in MLLM Unlearning The paper proposes a distillation framework to remove specific multimodal knowledge without causing hallucinations or leaving residual queryable information. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies model unlearning rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Towards Merging-conditional Backdoor Unalignment against Large Language Models This paper demonstrates a security risk where dormant backdoors trigger safety failures only after merging models that passed individual safety audits. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval systems or external document grounding. | |
| Lingdan-V2: Large language models for clinically grounded reasoning in traditional Chinese medicine This paper introduces an aligned language model family trained with structured reinforcement learning for clinical reasoning and traditional Chinese medicine prescribing. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval-augmented generation or external knowledge retrieval systems. | |
| How to Build a Benchmark That Actually Measures Taste This paper introduces a pairwise evaluation benchmark and protocol designed to measure subjective aesthetic taste while controlling for shortcut artifacts. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation or external document indexing. | |
| Vela: User Behavior as Supervision Sparks LLM Intelligence This paper presents a framework that converts long-term real user behavior records into supervisory tasks to train personalization-focused language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on training user behavior modeling, not document retrieval or grounding. | |
| CUSE: Fine-Grained Multimodal Unlearning with Counterfactual Guidance and On-Policy Self-Distillation This paper introduces a multimodal unlearning method using counterfactual inputs and on-policy self-distillation to remove sensitive data without damaging general knowledge. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses model unlearning rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| WorkBorne: Discovering Agentic Tasks from Real-World Artifact Transitions This paper presents a framework for discovering and synthesizing terminal-based agent tasks grounded in real-world artifact transitions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Synthesizes agent task environments, not retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| SkillForgeBench: Evaluating Agent Reliability Grounded in Agent Skill Specifications This paper introduces a benchmark that uses agent skill specifications to evaluate the reliability and procedural correctness of AI agents. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focus is on agent procedural execution rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Predicting how model propensities generalize out of distribution This paper studies how language model behavioral propensities generalize out-of-distribution across different elicitation methods. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to retrieval-augmented generation or external document grounding. | |
| What Survives When Activation Steering Is Used as Memory This paper evaluates the capabilities and limitations of using activation steering vectors as an agent memory mechanism. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies parametric activation shifts instead of external document retrieval or RAG architectures. | |
| AlphaRLM: Aligning Language Models for Literature-Grounded Symbolic Factor Discovery This paper trains language models using reinforcement learning to construct executable financial trading formulas grounded in research literature. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Uses literature as semantic guidance in training rather than real-time retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Toward System One Clinical Intelligence: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Counterfactual Explainability of Decision Foundation Models This paper fine-tunes a quantized decision model to classify diseases from patient symptom descriptions without free-form text generation. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on classification without retrieval-augmented generation mechanisms. | |
| Select or Rewrite: Oracle-Guided Fine-Tuning for Generative ASR Post-Editing from N-Best Hypotheses This paper fine-tunes language models to selectively correct speech recognition transcripts using curated candidate pools. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses speech recognition transcript rewriting, not document retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Have You Been Convinced? A Neuro-symbolic Argumentation Reasoning Approach to Detecting Persuasiveness in ChangeMyView Discussions This paper presents a neuro-symbolic framework using language models and formal argumentation semantics to detect persuasiveness in online discussions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Uses retrieval as a minor component for argument extraction, not enterprise RAG. | |
| UDHRBench: Benchmarking Human Rights in Large Language Models Evaluates commercial language models against Universal Declaration of Human Rights principles, revealing misalignments driven by efficiency arguments. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies human rights alignment, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Exploring Jailbreak Vulnerability Across Depth-Based Dynamic Inference in Large Language Models Studies how depth-based early-exit inference affects language model safety, finding shallow exits resist jailbreaks better than deep exits. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on inference depth and jailbreaks, not retrieval systems. | |
| Sequent-Prover: Training Agents for Formal, Checkable SMT-based Reasoning The paper introduces Sequent-Prover, training language model agents to perform multi-turn formal reasoning using an external SMT solver scratchpad. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on SMT solver interactions rather than document retrieval or RAG. | |
| North or South? Diagnosing LLMs' Understanding of North Korean Language, Society, and Knowledge The paper presents LENS, a benchmark evaluating language models on North Korean linguistic nuances, sociocultural perspectives, and domain knowledge. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates parametric knowledge rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| A Sovereign, Indic-First, Reasoning Model The paper presents a hybrid language model adapted for reasoning, instruction following, and tool use across English and eight Indian languages. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on pretraining and post-training, not RAG. |
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