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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Multimodal models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Wolof-Adapted Industry-Ready Open-Weight Language Models The paper presents open-weight language models adapted for the Wolof language using instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model merging. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Language models for text understanding, not multimodal. | |
| CoTranslator: Reverse to Forward Chain-of-Thought Translator for Reasoning Distillation The paper proposes a method to translate reverse reasoning paths into verified forward chains of thought for distillation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Text reasoning distillation, not multimodal models. | |
| Confidence-Calibrated Inference Expansion for Evaluator-Guided Test-Time Reasoning The paper introduces a confidence-calibrated controller to optimize inference compute and test-time expansion decisions in reasoning models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with reasoning LLM compute, not multimodal models. | |
| Evolving Together, Failing Apart: The Skill-Policy Co-evolution Trap in Self-Improving Agents The paper investigates performance vulnerabilities in self-improving agents when their co-evolved skill banks undergo post-deployment drift. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address multimodal models or perception. | |
| Wrong Votes, Right Gradients: Why Majority-Vote Rewards Track Verifiable RL The paper analyzes why reinforcement learning with majority-vote rewards provides effective training gradients despite noisy individual labels. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on training reward dynamics, not multimodal models. | |
| SkillNEO: Non-Elitist Evolutionary Optimization of Agent Skills The paper proposes a non-elitist evolutionary optimization framework that retains and iteratively refines low-reward agent skills using execution feedback. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal perception or vision-language models. | |
| LEV: Thinking Fast and Deep with Looped Decision Models The paper presents a decision model that performs deeper reasoning by looping its layers instead of generating output tokens. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Operates on text-based decision tasks rather than multimodal inputs. | |
| Same Context, Different Agents: A Behavioral Study of Semantic Layers, Orchestration and Compaction in Data Agents The paper studies how semantic layers, orchestration, and compaction impact the performance and behavior of data agents across benchmarks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on heterogeneous data agents rather than multimodal vision models. | |
| EigDiff: Eigensample Diffusion - or how to significantly reduce training dataset size with marginal performance variation? The paper uses latent eigenvectors from CLIP to select smaller, representative training datasets for diffusion models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on image diffusion training efficiency rather than multimodal reasoning. | |
| Learning to Read Out: Unembedding Dynamics in Language Model Pretraining The paper investigates when language models learn capabilities by tracking unembedding matrix dynamics during pretraining using parameter-trajectory crosscoding. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text language model pretraining, not multimodal inputs. | |
| ReviewPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Screening and Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews Presents a multi-agent system for paper screening and data extraction in systematic literature reviews following standard guidelines. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Processes text papers rather than multimodal or vision inputs. | |
| PremiseCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of Human and AI Peer Reviews Combines language models and lightweight decision models to fact-check statements in peer reviews against original manuscripts. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses strictly on text documents without multimodal inputs. | |
| Athanor: An Agent-Native System for Autonomous Post-Training Research Develops an open agent environment for evaluating how autonomously language agents can conduct post-training machine learning experiments. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not evaluate or build multimodal vision-language models. | |
| A Jury, Not an Electorate: Label-Free Reliability Estimation for Ensembles of Language Models Estimates language model ensemble member reliability from unlabeled agreement patterns using an expectation-maximization jury formulation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes textual QA ensembles rather than multimodal vision-language architectures. | |
| SIEVE: Overcoming Topological Obstruction in Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Introduces an equivariant self-supervised learning framework that avoids topological collapse in 3D point cloud masked autoencoding. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on geometric 3D point clouds rather than multimodal vision-language or document models. | |
| MemComposer: Learning to Assemble Memories for LLM Agents via Reinforcement Learning Uses reinforcement learning to train an agent module that selects, sizes, and orders retrieved memories for downstream tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with agent trajectory memory rather than multimodal image, video, or audio tasks. | |
| ToolBottleneckBench: Measuring Tool-Agent Performance under Controlled Pressures and Fixed Harness Budgets Measures tool-agent performance failures under controlled harness limits such as completion caps and tool menu visibility. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Assesses text-based tool execution rather than multimodal vision or document architectures. | |
| Planning Commitment of LLM under Partial Observability Analyzes trade-offs between aggressive and conservative planning horizons in language models operating under partial observability. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates decision-making policies rather than multimodal vision-language architectures. | |
| Kolab: Benchmarking Human-Agent Collaboration in Long-Horizon Workflows Introduces a dataset benchmarking human-agent interaction and collaboration across long-horizon professional workflows. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes workflow interaction traces rather than multimodal foundation model architectures. | |
| When Judges Agree and Are Wrong: Consistency-Accuracy Dissociation as a Blind Spot for Label-Free Evaluation Examines failure modes in label-free evaluation where models reach high consistency across perturbations while generating identical incorrect answers. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines text-based QA datasets rather than multimodal vision or audio processing. | |
| CARE-SD: Explainable Reasoning Architecture for Local SLM Self-Disclosure Analysis in Textual Data Develops a structured explainable reasoning architecture to extract sensitive self-disclosures from cybersecurity interviews using local small language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Operates exclusively on textual interview transcripts without multimodal image or audio data. | |
| Language Models Share a Readout Bottleneck in Working Memory Analyzes working memory error patterns in language models to show that failures stem from readout interference rather than target retrieval. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text-based memory recall rather than multimodal vision or audio processing. | |
| Judging the Judges: Confidence and Disagreement in Rubrics as Rewards Proposes an ensemble framework that weights judge confidence and masks disagreements when training models with rubrics as rewards. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text responses, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Who May Release an Agent's Promise? Standing over Commitments in Multi-Party Chat Studies whether conversational agents correctly enforce authorization rules when users attempt to cancel prior agent commitments to others. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text conversations, not multimodal processing. | |
| Entertain, then Cancel: How Thinking Makes Reasoning Models Read Some and Or Literally Examines how extended reasoning steps lead language models to interpret everyday logical terms strictly literally instead of inferring pragmatic meaning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines text reasoning models, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Representation Redistribution in Sparse Autoencoders Analyzes how prompt variations redistribute internal feature activations in sparse autoencoders and traces their impact on downstream model decisions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text representations, not multimodal models. | |
| System1-Arena: Which Decisions Can Be Left to System 1? Introduces a benchmark evaluating single-forward-pass discrete decision models versus generative reasoning models across diverse closed-loop tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on multimodal or vision-language modeling. | |
| Behavioral Compositionality of Sparse Autoencoder Representations Introduces a metric to measure how non-linearly features learned by sparse autoencoders interact during downstream model behaviors. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study multimodal models or vision-language tasks. | |
| TRACER: Trajectory-Aware Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents Proposes a trajectory-aware retrieval method that indexes tool sequences in a trie to cut token costs and improve selection accuracy. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Operates on text-based tool trajectories, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Auditing Escalation Reliability in Healthcare LLM Agents: A Perturbation-Controlled Benchmark of Workflow-State Failures Introduces an episode-level healthcare benchmark to audit how reliably language model agents escalate actions when facing workflow disruptions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text-based LLM agents, not multimodal models. | |
| Mallea: Building, Steering, and Memorizing Worlds with Coding Agent The paper presents an agent system that generates, edits, and renders interactive virtual worlds from text using executable code rules. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on code-driven world generation, not multimodal VLM architecture. | |
| Bias Control and Injection for Multi-Agent Aggregation The paper proposes a test-time aggregation method using bias control and injection to resolve disagreements among reasoning language model agents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies to text-based reasoning, not multimodal vision models. | |
| ESG-Kor: A Korean Dataset for ESG-related Information Extraction and Practical Use Cases The paper presents a Korean dataset extracted from corporate sustainability reports to support information extraction on environmental, social, and governance topics. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Handles purely text-based corporate sustainability reports. | |
| Do Agents Need a New Kind of Paper? SPRA: Structured Paper Representation for Agents Creates a structured schema that converts research papers into connected scientific entities to improve retrieval-augmented generation for autonomous agents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Processes structured scientific text and relations, not multimodal vision, audio, or video data. | |
| Trajectory-Level Speculation with Semantic Verification for Tool-Using Agents Introduces a framework where a small model drafts tool-use trajectories and a larger model verifies them in single prefill passes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on language and tool interaction without image, video, or multimodal inputs. | |
| Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation Introduces a benchmark and evaluation to test whether language models can successfully generate coherent nonlinear narratives. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers text-only storytelling without any multimodal, image, video, or speech components. | |
| AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring Surveys the application of artificial intelligence methods to humanitarian disaster response and displacement monitoring. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Broad humanitarian survey, not investigating multimodal models or vision-language architectures. | |
| Decomposing Brain-LLM Alignment with Interpretable Semantic Representations Decomposes the alignment between language model activations and human brain scans using neurocognitively grounded semantic property representations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates brain response to text stories, not multimodal LLMs. | |
| SCRIBE: Scalable Contextual Representations of Interpretable Brain-Grounded Semantics Introduces a framework using language models to construct context-sensitive semantic representations that align with human brain activity during language comprehension. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on brain fMRI prediction from text, not multimodal VLMs. | |
| DialFork: Going Beyond Factuality to Evaluate Procedural Hallucination in Conversational Agents The authors present a benchmark to evaluate conversational agents that follow correct factuality but violate procedural task steps. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates raw dialogue text, not multimodal image or video tasks. | |
| Rethinking the Role of Tool Graph Memory in Multi-Turn Tool Use The authors analyze tool graph memory in multi-turn agents and find that stored transitions provide little benefit over baselines. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on text-based tool calling, not multimodal inputs. | |
| The Self-Improvement Problem The paper formalizes the theoretical limits of automated gates evaluating self-improvement updates in autonomous agent code. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with theoretical agent self-modification, not multimodal models. | |
| Human Interventions as Labels: Localizing, Steering, and (Sometimes) Editing the Computations Behind LLM Agent Failures The paper uses human interventions to localize and steer computations behind agent failure to decide between acting and clarifying. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal reasoning or vision-language data. | |
| FIRM: Fisher-Informed Retention Merging for Federated LLM Unlearning The authors introduce a Fisher-informed adapter merging method to maintain retained task performance during federated language model unlearning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with text unlearning rather than multimodal models. | |
| Retrieved but Not Read: Understanding Why Search-Augmented LLMs Fail to Use Available Evidence The paper analyzes why search-augmented language models produce outdated answers even when relevant evidence is retrieved. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on text-based web search and question answering. | |
| Reliable Knowledge Acquisition for Continual Learning Agents Proposes a structured knowledge admission and verification system to prevent continual learning agents from storing harmful past experience entries. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address multimodal reasoning across images or audio. | |
| DeciCAD: Harness-Grounded Learning of Action Policies for CAD Agents Develops a domain harness and policy learning pipeline to improve language model agent execution in computer-aided design environments. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses procedural CAD modeling code, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| DINO-FIL: Multi-Layer Transformer Fusion for Generative Inpainting Forgery Localization Combines multi-layer vision transformer representations with a fusion decoder to localize pixel-level generative image inpainting manipulations. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Pure computer vision forensic model, not a multimodal language system. | |
| In the Guise of Correction: How Framing and Cultural Adaptation Erode LLM Safety on Real-World Criminal Cases Presents a benchmark based on real criminal cases showing how correction framings and cultural adaptations bypass safety guardrails. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text safety prompts, not multimodal image/video understanding. | |
| RoleQ: Role-Aligned Scales for Converting Language Models to Ternary Proposes a structural scaling method based on transformer unit roles to convert language models to ternary weights effectively. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on language model weight quantization, not multimodal models. | |
| Priming Base Models for Agentic Post-Training: An Open Midtraining Recipe The paper outlines a long-context midtraining stage using software engineering data to prepare base language models for agentic tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses text-based code and agent traces, not multimodal vision or audio processing. | |
| Selection Is Not Learning: Choosing Model Futures The paper separates task generation from model update inheritance to avoid compounding errors in self-evolving language model loops. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies language model self-evolution, not multimodal vision-language architectures. | |
| Momentum, Commentary Tone, and Earnings Surprise in LLM Financial Forecasts The paper tests how language models weigh price momentum, commentary tone, and earnings surprises when forecasting financial outcomes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines text-based financial prompts, not multimodal image, video, or audio tasks. | |
| Multi-SFT: Permissively-Licensed Multilingual Instruction-Following The paper introduces a commercially permissive multilingual instruction dataset covering five European languages to train open language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Exclusively focuses on text instruction datasets across European languages, not multimodality. | |
| Explaining the Roles of Experts in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs for Personalization The paper personalizes mixture-of-experts models and analyzes which specialized experts encode distinct user-specific features. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text-only MoE models rather than multimodal capabilities. | |
| Believed but Not Said: Measuring Hidden Belief Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Discussions The paper demonstrates that a single adversarial agent can cause benign models in multi-agent discussions to quietly adopt false beliefs. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based multi-agent discussions without multimodal inputs. | |
| EMO: A Closed-Loop Test-Time Computation Framework via Alternating Context Optimization and Logits Steering The paper proposes an alternating context optimization and logit steering framework to adapt language model outputs at test time. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Operates strictly on text generation rather than multimodal architectures. | |
| Mosaic: Multi-Session Agentic Reinforcement Learning The paper introduces a hierarchical reinforcement learning method designed for agentic tasks that span multiple interaction sessions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text agent trajectories without multimodal processing. | |
| Motion- and Gravity-Aware Feedforward 3D Reconstruction The paper trains feedforward 3D reconstruction models using privileged motion and gravity cues to improve dynamic scene understanding. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with multi-view 3D vision, not vision-language multimodal models. | |
| Change the Number, Change the Answer: Assessing Rating Scale Sensitivity in LLM-Based Text Scoring The paper evaluates how choices in rating scale design systematically alter text evaluation scores produced by large language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text scoring rather than multimodal inputs. |
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