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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| VELD-QA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Evidence Grounding and Question Answering in Long Documents Presents a benchmark with human-annotated visual evidence to evaluate retrieval and question answering across long documents. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a QA dataset rather than multi-step autonomous agent architectures. | |
| One Bias Score, Two Factors: How Mitigations Affect Option Bias in Multiple-Choice Evaluation Deconstructs multiple-choice option bias in language models into two factors tracking answer flips and positional skew. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multiple-choice evaluation metrics, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| Can LLMs Anticipate Their Cruxes? Explores methods to extract the underlying decisive sub-questions that drive language model decisions across diverse generated outputs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes decision rationale distributions rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Learning When to Think: Utility-Guided Adaptive Reasoning for Efficient Text Retrieval Proposes an adaptive reasoning framework that supervises intermediate retrieval states and stops reasoning steps dynamically to cut latency. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on retriever reasoning rather than autonomous agent tool use. | |
| INCONVENIENT: A Benchmark to Assess LLM Generalization Capabilities from Convenience Samples Introduces a benchmark to test model generalization under systematic convenience sampling biases in tabular data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Introduces a distribution shift benchmark, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| SHIP: Structured and Hierarchical Insight with Privacy The paper proposes SHIP, an architecture for extracting structured differentially private representations from text for analytical queries. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on privacy-preserving representation synthesis, not autonomous agents. | |
| Multimodal AI Detection for Math-Heavy Scientific Text The paper examines AI-generated text detection in scientific papers by combining visual formatting, PDF text, and LaTeX representations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on AI text detection rather than autonomous planning agents. | |
| Compression Does Not End at Selection: Post-Selection Positional Geometry for Sparse KV Caches The paper proposes RoPERelay to reorganize positional geometry and rotary embeddings after sparse KV cache token eviction. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses KV cache positional geometry, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| From Observation to Intervention: Distilling Self-Generated In-Context Demonstrations via Executable Causal Intervention The paper introduces a causal intervention framework to distill transferable self-generated in-context learning demonstrations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies in-context demonstration selection, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| Automatic Sentence Completion Using Bengali Audio Speech with a Transformer-Based Early Speech Recognition System The paper presents an automated speech recognition and sentence completion system to assist dementia patients speaking Bengali. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents assistive speech models, not autonomous planning LLM agents. | |
| From Long Context to Selective Memory:A Survey of Memory-Centric Compression for Large Language Models The paper surveys memory-centric compression techniques for managing inference resources and context windows in large language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Surveys context compression across tasks rather than autonomous agent architectures. | |
| Beyond Retrieval Failure: Understanding Why LLMs Miss Evidence in Multi-Hop RAG The paper introduces ExecutionRAG to show how search drift causes apparent retrieval failures in multi-hop question answering. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines multi-hop retrieval dynamics rather than general agent execution environments. | |
| KBS: A Korean Benchmark Suite for Foundation Model Evaluation The paper introduces the Korean Benchmark Suite to evaluate foundation models across six natural language capabilities. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents an evaluation suite, not agentic planning or multi-agent workflows. | |
| What Should We Remove? Evaluating the Reliability and Costs of RLVR Data Decontamination The paper audits data decontamination methods on math corpora to quantify false removals and benchmark leakage risks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Audits training datasets rather than multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| LLM-Based Weak Annotation for Cybersecurity Tweet Classification: A Teacher-Student Framework The paper presents a teacher-student framework using language models for weak annotation to classify cybersecurity tweets. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers weak supervision for classification, not LLM planning or agent systems. | |
| Isolating a Language Model's Judgment with a Label-Free Subspace The paper proposes isolating internal model judgments from instruction formatting variations using a label-free hidden state subspace. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes internal representations, not autonomous agentic workflows or tool use. | |
| TimeCap: A Scalable Open-Source Pipeline for Captioning Wearable Health Time-Series Data The paper introduces TimeCap, an open deterministic pipeline for generating signal-grounded captions from wearable health time-series data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on wearable time-series captioning, not autonomous multi-step LLM planning. | |
| Making every stage of medical device document assessment with large language models deterministic The paper evaluates output non-determinism in commercial language model deployments during medical device regulatory compliance assessments. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on deterministic document processing, not multi-step agent tool use. | |
| VALCON: Benchmarking and Enhancing Value Consistency in Large Language Models via Dual-Role Variation The paper introduces VALCON to evaluate and improve value consistency when language models alternate between generator and evaluator roles. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies dual-role value alignment consistency, not multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| PocketTSLM: Deploying an On-Device Soft-Prompt Time-Series Language Model for Privacy-Preserving Smartphone Reasoning The paper presents PocketTSLM, deploying an on-device soft-prompt time-series language model on smartphones for personal health data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with on-device sensor reasoning, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| ZoomCap: Evidence-Routed Visual Zooming for Recoverable Visual Information Transfer The paper introduces ZoomCap, an adaptive visual zooming and evidence-routing framework to improve fine-grained image captioning supervision. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on visual captioning and zooming, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| Hybrid Generative-Tagging Decoding for Efficient Product Attribute-Value Extraction The paper introduces a hybrid generative-tagging architecture to improve efficiency and coverage in product attribute and value extraction. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Develops a decoding architecture for catalog extraction, not agent planning. | |
| VoteGEO-Bench: Measuring the Impact of Generative Engine Optimization on Electoral Visibility The paper presents VoteGEO-Bench to measure how rewriting web content influences information visibility in generative search engine election queries. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies search engine visibility manipulation, not LLM agent systems. | |
| QuasiLeak-Bench: Evaluating LLM-Based Privacy Detectors on Policy-Conditioned Quasi-Evidence Group Recovery The paper introduces QuasiLeak-Bench to evaluate whether privacy detectors can identify distributed quasi-identifiers governed by disclosure policies. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a benchmark for privacy detection, not autonomous agent planning or tools. | |
| Ranking and Partitioning of Attention Heads for Sparse and Continual Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning The paper studies ranking and partitioning attention heads by gradient norm for sparse and continual reinforcement learning fine-tuning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on parameter-efficient RL fine-tuning, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| Emotion Is Not External Knowledge: Internal Attention Signals for Affective State Reasoning The paper presents an internal attention boosting method to improve how language models infer implicit conversational affective states. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates internal attention head routing, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| RenoLayout: Unified Floorplan Renovation and Furniture Layout for Constraint-Aware Residential Design The paper introduces RenoLayout to generate residential renovation floorplans and furniture layouts under structural and physical constraints. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on CAD floorplan generation, not multi-step LLM agent systems. | |
| DPA-MoE: A Runtime Precision Control Framework for MoE Inference Introduces a dynamic precision control framework that allocates weight chunks to mixture-of-experts models during inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a runtime precision framework, not agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Calibration Language Shapes Block-Influence Pruning in Multilingual Language Models Analyzes how calibration language choices affect block-influence depth pruning rankings in multilingual language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies Transformer block pruning, not autonomous planning or agent tool use. | |
| Beyond Invariance: Factor-wise Selective Treatment of Shifts for Multimodal Learning Proposes a factor-wise representation framework to selectively treat different distribution shifts in multimodal machine learning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal distribution shifts, not autonomous agent planning. | |
| Identifying Effective Strategies in Prompt Evolution for Stress and Emotion Prediction Evaluates prompt optimization methods and identifies effective prompting strategies for social media stress and emotion classification. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on prompting strategies for classification, not autonomous agentic workflows. | |
| HyCo: Hybrid Drafting for Cost-Efficient Mobile-Cloud Speculative Decoding Introduces a hybrid speculative decoding framework splitting draft tasks between mobile neural processing units and cloud servers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies speculative decoding inference, not autonomous agent planning or tools. | |
| SITAR: A Situational Distortion Metric for Automatic Speech Recognition Evaluation Develops a lightweight situational distortion metric to evaluate speech recognition errors based on practical conversational severity. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Introduces an ASR evaluation metric, not LLM agent systems. | |
| Translation Circuit Discovery and Targeted Optimization for Low-Resource Multilingual Translation Identifies translation circuits in multilingual models and optimizes fewer than five percent of parameters for low-resource translation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on translation circuits, not multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| Writability and the Pathway: A Controlled Study of Knowledge Injection into Addressed Memory Conducts a controlled evaluation of direct knowledge injection into addressed conditional memory modules across small and production models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on memory module knowledge injection, not multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation Gates reinforcement learning policy-shift distillation using intermediate checkpoints to ensure student models only learn consistent teacher shifts. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes an RL distillation algorithm, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| ContextLift: Breaking the Spurious Correlation Behind Conditional Emergent Misalignment Introduces a data augmentation method that breaks spurious contextual correlations causing emergent misalignment during domain finetuning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on alignment fine-tuning, not autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| Spurious Attention Heads in Vision Transformers: Mechanistic Identification of Annotation-Driven Bias in Medical Chest X-Ray Analysis Identifies a specific vision transformer attention head that spuriously attends to medical image corner text instead of lung pathology. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes vision transformer attention heads, not autonomous AI agents. | |
| When Does "Post-Call" Begin? An Availability Contract for Earnings-Call NLP Benchmarks Proposes an availability framework to identify and resolve within-event timing mismatches in earnings-call financial NLP benchmarks. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with financial disclosure timing, not agent tool use or planning. | |
| Enhancing Multimodal RLVR with Pairwise Token Contrast and Adaptive Trajectory Confidence Improves reinforcement learning credit assignment in multimodal reasoning using pairwise token contrast and adaptive trajectory confidence. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on training reward credit assignment, not multi-step agent actions. | |
| Diffusion Language Models as Open Quantum Systems Frames diffusion language models as open quantum systems to enable text generation conditioned on superpositions of prompts and thoughts. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes a quantum formulation of diffusion text generation, not agents. | |
| No Single Tokenizer Feature Reliably Predicts Downstream Language Model Performance Shows across 200 models that proposed intrinsic tokenizer metrics do not reliably predict downstream language model performance. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies tokenizer metrics, not autonomous planning agent architectures. | |
| Data Strategies for Large Language Models: A Unified Perspective on the Training Lifecycle Reviews and formalizes data selection, weighting, and scheduling policies across the pretraining and post-training lifecycle of language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Surveys training data selection policies, not tool-using agent architectures. | |
| Abstracts or full text? Evaluating input scope and computational efficiency in biomedical lay summarization Compares abstract-only versus full-text inputs and few-shot versus fine-tuning approaches for generating biomedical lay summaries. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines summarization input scoping, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Bias Mitigation in Audio-Enabled LLMs through Adversarial Training and Distillation Methods Applies adversarial training and distillation to remove unwanted gender bias in audio-enabled language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses audio model bias mitigation, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| Behavioral Forgetting Is Not Privacy in Machine Unlearning Demonstrates that machine unlearning often fails to prevent targeted information recovery across alternative multilingual access paths. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on machine unlearning privacy, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| Content associations with answer selection and engagement in supply chain community question answering Analyzes how specific nouns and semantic clusters relate to answer selection and user engagement in logistics question-answering forums. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes human community forum posts, not autonomous AI agents. | |
| N-Gram Memories at Two Bits: Quantizing Lookup Tables in Large Language Models Proposes a compressed representation using Gaussian trellises to quantize conditional memory lookup tables down to two bits. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on model memory table compression, not agent planning. | |
| Dynamic ordering in sequence generation in Transformers: experiments on low-resource Tagging scenarios Introduces a non-autoregressive transformer model that dynamically decides tag generation order at inference time for low-resource sequence labeling. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with sequence labeling decoding, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Learning Speech Attribute Representations via Multi-Teacher Distillation Distills multiple speech attributes from four teacher models into a single shared speech encoder. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies speech encoders and distillation, not tool-using agentic workflows. | |
| P2TPO: Structure-Aligned Page-to-Token Credit Assignment for Full-Page Document Parsing Proposes a reinforcement learning credit-assignment method for document parsing models to align rewards with structured page elements. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on document parsing policies, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| Effectiveness of Hidden-State Probes for Localizing Reasoning Failures Evaluates whether internal hidden-state probes can identify failure modes and pinpoint failing steps in multi-step reasoning traces. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes hidden-state probes in reasoning traces, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Name-Bias in Large Language Models Measures demographic bias related to age, gender, and race based on first names across local language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies demographic biases rather than agentic planning or tools. | |
| Documenting Trofinetide Treatment Phenotypes in Rett Syndrome with a Dual-LLM Consensus Pipeline Applies a dual language model consensus pipeline to extract clinical phenotypes from electronic health records for patients with Rett syndrome. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Develops a clinical extraction pipeline, not an interactive agent. | |
| Beyond Context Length: Characterising the Difficulty of Long-Context Reasoning Presents a benchmark that measures long-context reasoning difficulty using evidence scope, dispersion, and reasoning depth. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates long-context question-answering rather than agentic tool use. | |
| The Right Byte First: How UTF-16 Helps Multilingual Boundary Prediction Studies how using UTF-16 byte order improves boundary prediction and representation efficiency in multilingual byte-level language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates byte encoding schemes, not agentic planning or execution. | |
| Patch where the text is new: a compression view of where byte-level models should spend compute Introduces a compression-based patching strategy for byte-level language models that allocates compute where upcoming bytes are unlikely to repeat. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies byte-level tokenization mechanics, not autonomous agents. | |
| Unfragmenting Nawatl NMT: Single-Variant Specialization for Masewalkopa Specializes a translation model to a specific indigenous Nawatl variety using a curated dataset and finite-state morphological analysis. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies machine translation specialization, not interactive AI agents. | |
| PremiseSQL: Evaluating Premise Critique and Abstention in Text-to-SQL Systems Introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether text-to-SQL systems can detect flawed query premises and abstain from generating invalid SQL. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text-to-SQL generation rather than agentic tool workflows. | |
| CLUE: Uncovering Social Context for Pragmatic Understanding Develops a two-stage training approach combining evidence reasoning and reinforcement learning to improve pragmatic social reasoning in conversational models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on pragmatic conversation understanding rather than autonomous agents. |
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