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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · LLMs for code — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Support or Magnitude? Characterizing Neuron Relevance for Instruction Data Selection This paper examines neuron relevance characterization methods based on magnitude and distribution support for selecting instruction fine-tuning data. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies general instruction data selection, not code-specific models or benchmarks. | |
| Spectral-Driven Adaptive-Rank Optimizer for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards This paper investigates gradient spectral properties during reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to design an adaptive-rank optimizer for reasoning models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a general optimization algorithm for LLM reasoning, not software engineering. | |
| Know Yourself and Know Your Neighbour: A Syntactically Informed Self-Supervised Compositional Sentence Representation Learning Framework using a Recursive Hypernetwork This paper presents a self-supervised recursive hypernetwork framework using parse trees to learn syntactically informed compositional sentence representations. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies natural language sentence syntax and semantics, not code generation. | |
| SIREN: Situation-aware Index for Response and Emergency ActioNability in Crisis Translation This paper introduces an evaluation index to measure whether machine translation of emergency communication preserves critical safety actionability. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates natural language emergency translation, not software engineering or coding. | |
| EHR-Bench: A Chinese Multi-Task Benchmark for Recruitment AI This paper introduces a Chinese multi-task evaluation benchmark covering six recruitment application areas for language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses HR and recruitment workflows, not software development or coding assistance. | |
| Attention-Graph Curvature for the Verification of Mathematical Reasoning This paper evaluates whether attention-graph curvature features can help verifiers detect errors in mathematical reasoning steps. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates mathematical reasoning steps rather than software coding or repair. | |
| What Is the "Self" of a Large Language Model? This paper investigates internal model representations that separate assistant actions from externally provided text across conversational layers. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies internal activation representations of conversational roles, not code generation. | |
| Learn from Move: the Next Step for GUI Agents This paper introduces an environment benchmark and exploration framework to help graphical user interface agents learn unfamiliar interaction dynamics. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies graphical user interface control, not software coding or program repair. | |
| Lost in Contrast: Instruction-Preserving Decoding for Reliable Visual Question Answering This paper introduces an instruction-preserving decoding strategy to prevent visual contrastive decoding from discarding valid abstention responses. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses visual question answering decoding, not programming or code tasks. | |
| The Multilingual Artificial Hivemind: Do All LLMs Think Alike in Every Language? This paper investigates output diversity and text homogenization across twenty-three open-weight language models and thirteen languages. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes multilingual open-ended text generation, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Is the Platform Part of the Measurement? A Protocol and Simulation Study for Cross-Platform Equivalence of Machine-Labelled Policy Sentiment This paper presents a psychometric framework to test whether automated sentiment classification remains equivalent across different social media platforms. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines sentiment analysis on social media platforms, not code. | |
| A Bethe-Ansatz Source of Early Token Correlations: A marginal-preserving construction for parallel proposals This paper constructs joint token probability laws from physics models to improve speculative verification in parallel language model decoding. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Mathematical study of token correlation, not software development. | |
| TPPO: Tracking-Value PPO For Language Model Reasoning This paper proposes a cumulative value parameterization method for reinforcement learning to improve credit assignment in multi-step language reasoning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on general RL training for mathematical and scientific reasoning, not coding assistants. | |
| The Bell Boundary of Shared Representations This paper uses Bell's theorem bounds to analyze capacity limits and task interference in multi-task shared representations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical multi-task representation study, not software engineering. | |
| Label Collapse in Diffusion Language Model In-Context Learning This paper analyzes label collapse failure modes across diffusion and autoregressive language models during in-context learning classification. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on classification failure modes, not software engineering or code. | |
| Estimating Uncertainty of Omnimodal Large Language Models via External Omnimodal Embeddings This paper develops an uncertainty estimation framework for omnimodal models using external embeddings to score reasoning grounding and coherence. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses multimodal uncertainty quantification, not software code generation. | |
| Lexical Redefinition Reveals Context-Sensitive Instruction Following This paper tests how language models handle explicit instructions when subsequent contextual sentences provide conflicting word definitions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies lexical semantics in prompts, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Event Memory and Narrative Dynamics: A Large Language Model Framework for Multidimensional State Spaces This paper presents a language model framework to extract event representations from autobiographical narratives into geometric state spaces. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on narrative and episodic memory analysis, not code generation. | |
| Predicting Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviour on Reddit: A Survival Analysis of Linguistic and Behavioural Signals This paper uses survival analysis on Reddit text and activity to predict when users will seek mental health support. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with mental health prediction, not code generation or program repair. | |
| MENTOR: Procedural Shielding of Tool-Using LLM Agents This paper introduces a system to ensure tool-using language model agents comply with natural language company procedural manuals. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Targets general workflow policies (e.g., travel booking), not software engineering or coding. | |
| Beyond Model Bias: Cross-Entropy Based Rankings in Literary and Academic Texts Remain Stable across Small Language Models This paper studies cross-entropy surprisal metrics, showing that predictability rankings of texts remain consistent across multiple small language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates poetry and academic text predictability, not software engineering. | |
| AD4EDU: Benchmarking University Lecture Audio Description across Accessibility Standards, Metrics, and Learner Preferences This paper introduces a benchmark and rule-based metric for generating and evaluating audio descriptions in university slide lectures. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on lecture accessibility descriptions, not programming or code generation. | |
| UZHCL_for_the_win at Touche: Encoder Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Augmentation, and an Underpowered Encoder-LLM Comparison This paper evaluates encoder fine-tuning and synthetic data augmentation for fallacy detection and argument classification on Reddit discussions. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on detecting informal fallacies in Reddit posts, not code. | |
| Towards Universal Calibration for In-Context Classification This paper presents a universal calibrator to improve confidence estimates of in-context classification without requiring model-specific fine-tuning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with general in-context classification, not coding or software tasks. | |
| Gluing Local Contexts into Global Meaning: A Sheaf-Theoretic Decomposition of Transformer Representations This paper proposes a mathematical framework using cellular sheaves to isolate phrasing-invariant content representations in transformer language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies internal representations of language models, not software development. | |
| ToolHACE: A Dataset for Detecting Hallucinations in Tool-Based LLM Responses This paper introduces a benchmark dataset to evaluate hallucination detection in language model responses after external tool execution. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on general tool-augmented dialogue, not code generation or repair. | |
| Soft Teacher Forcing The paper proposes combining teacher-forced embeddings with soft tokens to improve supervised fine-tuning on reasoning datasets without changing inference. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluated on math datasets, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Welcome to the Age of Agent Ads: Using On-Policy Attacks to Steer Agentic Decisions The paper investigates on-policy indirect manipulation attacks that steer autonomous agent purchasing and ranking decisions via web retrieval. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to software engineering or code generation. | |
| MLAfication: Efficiently Enabling High-Fidelity MLA for Modern LLMs The paper introduces an attention conversion method enabling multi-head latent attention on modern architectures with reduced memory footprints. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses general LLM attention architecture rather than code generation. | |
| Online LLM Personalization from Pairwise Preferences Across Users The paper formulates online language model persona personalization as a dueling bandit problem using sequential pairwise user preferences. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software engineering. | |
| Nufo: A Benchmark for Ewe Automatic Speech Recognition The paper introduces a 174-hour speech benchmark and evaluates baseline models on Ewe automatic speech recognition. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Unrelated to software engineering or programming tasks. | |
| From Sampled Evidence to Radiology Reports: Objectives, Constraints, and Realization The paper evaluates how objective functions and candidate constraints affect decision conversion when generating radiology reports from sampled evidence. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation or software engineering. | |
| The Curse of Knowledge in Role-Playing Language Models The paper tests whether role-playing language models leak private or unobserved character information across simulated interactive scenes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to software engineering or code generation. | |
| UMCR: Universal Medical Concept Recognition through Guideline Integration and Agentic Linking The paper introduces a framework combining guidelines and agentic linking to ground medical concepts across diverse text types and ontologies. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on clinical medical concept recognition rather than code. | |
| PIG: Parallel Inconsistency Guidance for Accelerating Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces a lightweight guidance model to estimate parallel decoding inconsistency and accelerate diffusion language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates general decoding speedups, not specialized code assistants. | |
| Evaluating Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Event Temporal Relation Extraction with Allen's Interval Algebra, Logical Consistency, and Relative Time in Narratives The paper evaluates five language models on extracting complete interval networks of relative temporal events from narratives. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation or software engineering. | |
| Distilling Text LMs into Speech-to-Speech LMs by Matching Internal Text Predictions The paper proposes a knowledge distillation method that transfers text language model capabilities to speech-to-speech models using internal text interfaces. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to software engineering or code generation. | |
| A Sense of Proprioception in Language Models The paper trains language models to report internal states through supervised fine-tuning and on-policy learning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to coding assistants or program generation. | |
| Everyone Was Right: Lexical Representations in Language Models Are Both Abstract and Holistic The paper investigates lexical representations in transformer models by decomposing representations into item, class, and interaction components. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with lexical linguistics, not programming or code models. | |
| EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation The paper proposes an edge-cloud collaboration framework that selectively delegates complex agent steps from local models to cloud models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses general long-horizon agent execution rather than software engineering. | |
| TDR: Tagalog Diacritic Restoration Dataset The paper introduces an annotated dataset and retrieval approach for Tagalog homograph diacritic restoration. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on natural language orthography, not code or software engineering. | |
| Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation The paper studies long chain-of-thought distillation and argues improvements stem from structured reasoning patterns rather than factual correctness. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates general reasoning distillation rather than code generation or repair. | |
| When Does an ASR Error Matter? Task-Role Diagnostics for Tool-Using Voice Agents The paper introduces a diagnostic protocol to evaluate how speech recognition errors affect structured tool calling in voice agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software engineering agents. | |
| DisaggKD: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Teacher-Student Disaggregation and a Fused Loss The paper proposes disaggregating teacher and student models across separate nodes with a fused loss to accelerate knowledge distillation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not focused on programming or software engineering tasks. | |
| Decouple to Forget: Semantic Mediation for Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models The paper proposes an unlearning method that removes sensitive facts from model responses while preserving surrounding non-sensitive factual context. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation, software engineering, or program repair. | |
| Worth Their Weights? Evaluating Generative Models for Discourse Parsing The paper compares discriminative and generative language models for rhetorical structure parsing and elementary discourse unit segmentation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on natural language discourse parsing, not software code. | |
| The Image Still Has a Say: Final-Answer Repair for Multimodal Chain-of-Thought The paper repairs multimodal chain-of-thought final answers using original image features without altering the generated reasoning trace. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with visual reasoning, not code generation or program repair. | |
| RALI@iKAT 2026: Retrieval-aware User Profile Denoising via Personalized Conversational Dense Retrieval The paper presents a retrieval-aware denoising method for conversational user profiles to improve personalized dense retrieval. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on conversational retrieval, not software engineering or code. | |
| Encoding Context into LLM Weights: What Makes It Context? The paper investigates methods for encoding context into model weights so that language models properly apply the temporary context during subsequent inference. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies test-time weight updates, not program synthesis or code repair. | |
| Pushback in a Haystack: Language Models Respond to Factual Errors Ambiguously and Ineffectively The paper evaluates how language models correct user misconceptions across five languages, showing indirect pushback often fails to fix factual errors. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses factual sycophancy, not coding or software development. | |
| Understanding Machine Taste: Aesthetic Agreement Across Foundation Models in K-pop The paper analyzes aesthetic judgments by foundation models on K-pop music videos to measure inter-model consensus across audio and visual modalities. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on music and video aesthetics, not software engineering. | |
| Geometric Structure Predicts Per-Example Neighborhood Loss Under PCA Truncation The paper analyzes geometric properties of text embeddings to predict how many nearest neighbors an individual example loses under dimensionality reduction. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on embedding geometry rather than code generation or repair. | |
| Connecting the Dots: Enduring Performance Gaps in ASR Systems Between Standard and Minority English Varieties The paper tracks automatic speech recognition performance from 2021 to 2025, finding persistent accuracy disparities between standard American English and minority accents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates speech recognition systems, not software engineering or code. | |
| More Reader Data or a Better Teacher? Updating a Model of Crowd Highlights in Late 2026 The paper compares direct prompting, model-distilled supervision, and larger reader datasets for predicting user text highlighting behavior on web pages. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not relate to software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| Many Right Answers, One Training Example: Removing Responder Noise from GRPO for LLM Recommenders The paper proposes ReMaRk, a reinforcement learning method that trains recommender models using all available reader replies simultaneously to reduce variance. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses recommendation systems, not program repair or code generation. | |
| Beyond Belief Nesting: Rethinking Higher-Order Theory of Mind in Large Language Models The paper introduces HopToM, a benchmark testing whether higher-order theory-of-mind tasks in language models genuinely evaluate nested reasoning rather than shortcuts. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines narrative Theory of Mind reasoning, not code generation. | |
| GENDIS: Gender-Related Discourse and Stance in Multilingual YouTube Comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria The paper presents GENDIS, a multilingual dataset of YouTube comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria annotated for gender-related discourse and stance. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with social media comments, not programming or code assistance. | |
| Full-duplex Spoken Language Modeling with Discrete Diffusion The paper presents Diffuplex, a full-duplex spoken language model that separates speech timing from content generation using discrete diffusion. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on spoken dialogue modeling rather than code generation. | |
| Where Words Begin and End The paper evaluates audio forced aligners and fine-tunes Whisper to predict human-aligned word boundaries across read, conversational, and telephone speech. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with speech-to-text alignment, not software engineering or code. | |
| BRIDGE: Selective Boundary Repair with Dependency Graph Evidence in Multi-Agent Systems The paper introduces BRIDGE, a runtime intervention framework that detects and repairs broken information handoffs across dependency graphs in multi-agent workflows. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses general multi-agent task collaboration rather than software engineering tasks. |
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