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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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| Lexical Reference Frames: Interpreting LM Residual Streams in Native Semantics Introduces lexical reference frames to interpret intermediate hidden states in language models using the model's own remaining layers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies internal residual stream interpretability, not agent workflows. | |
| EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment Proposes an event-centric framework to align audio and video features when generating detailed video descriptions with language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on audiovisual captioning, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| Not X, but When: Diagnosing a Mandarin LLM Writing Tic through Contextual Appropriateness Analyzes the overuse and contextual appropriateness of a common corrective phrasing pattern in Mandarin language model text. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes linguistic writing patterns, not agentic planning or execution. | |
| CAT-alyzing Honesty: Continuous Adversarial Training for Transferable LLM Honesty Presents an adversarial training approach designed to improve language model honesty across diverse benchmarks without degrading core capabilities. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates honesty behaviors, with multi-agent games only as a testbed. | |
| Multi-Target Few-Shot Prompting with Diffusion Language Models Uses diffusion language models to perform multi-target few-shot infilling across shared code context guided by demonstration examples. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses prompting diffusion LMs rather than tool-using agents. | |
| Grid-Bench: Can LLMs Predict How Discrete Worlds Change? Evaluates the ability of language models to predict state changes in discrete spatial grids across sequential operations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Measures state-tracking reasoning rather than interactive multi-step agents. | |
| MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support Presents an evaluation framework combining simulated mental health patients and expert-developed rubrics to assess conversational language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Uses simulated patients for evaluation rather than deploying autonomous agents. | |
| Training Reasoning Models to Generate Diverse Scientific Ideas Introduces a set-level reinforcement learning objective to train language models to produce diverse and document-grounded scientific research ideas. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates idea generation rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| OmniVerifier-C1: Decomposed Graded Verifier for Rule-Governed Generative World Modeling Proposes a visual verifier that decomposes complex prompts into sub-questions and assigns continuous scores to improve multimodal evaluation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal verification methods, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| Evaluating Model Capabilities After Benchmark Saturation Tests whether transcripts of correctly solved tasks from saturated benchmarks can predict model performance on unseen harder evaluations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies evaluation methodologies on saturated benchmarks rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Value-Informed Schedule Trimming for Accelerated Sequential Monte Carlo Guidance in Discrete Diffusion The paper introduces a training-free schedule optimization method for accelerating sequential Monte Carlo guidance in discrete diffusion models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a diffusion sampling schedule rather than autonomous planning agents. | |
| When Correctness Feedback Erases Evidence: Phase-Separated Completeness Auditing in Verus The paper demonstrates how correctness feedback undermines formal specification auditing and proposes a phase-separated alternative for Verus. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies formal contract verification and auditing rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Counterfactual Neighborhood Risk Fields: Evidence-Grounded Selective Safety for Vision-Language Models The paper proposes a selective safety framework for vision-language models using counterfactual pairs and representation density estimation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on representation-level safety filtering for VLMs, not multi-step agent workflows. | |
| L2G-SR: Learning to Guide LLM-based Symbolic Regression The paper presents a framework that uses structural tree edit distance to guide language models in symbolic regression. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on symbolic regression algorithms rather than multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| Open Benchmark of AI Impact on Humans (ImpactBench): an expert-guided, open platform for the holistic evaluation of AI impact on humans The paper introduces an expert-guided benchmark to measure the impact of generative language models on user wellbeing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates multi-turn chat interactions rather than autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| WorldCast: Exploring Intelligent Visual Generation in World State Prediction The paper introduces a hierarchical benchmark for evaluating visual generative models on multi-step world state prediction tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates visual generation models rather than multi-step tool-using language agents. | |
| Interpreting Language Model Parameters The paper introduces a parameter decomposition method to interpret the mechanistic subcomponents of language model weights. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates mechanistic interpretability of model weights, not autonomous agent systems. | |
| Optimal Hydra: Model Heterogeneous Federated Learning for LLMs using Data-Informed Hydra-Nets The paper proposes a federated learning framework that tailors sub-network sizes and architectures to heterogeneous client hardware and data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on federated learning architecture rather than multi-step autonomous agent systems. | |
| Reference-Guided Turn-Taking Style Transfer for Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models The paper identifies an internal activation direction in spoken language models to control and transfer conversational turn-taking styles. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates full-duplex spoken models rather than autonomous multi-step planning agents. | |
| When Reality Outpaces Cognition: A New Scaling Principle for Reliable Intelligence The paper presents a metric and benchmark measuring how quickly environment dynamics can change before agent decision-making fails. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates theoretical reinforcement learning dynamics rather than language model agent systems. | |
| Verdict: Encode Once, Decide Many The paper introduces an encoder architecture that processes input once to answer multiple structured classification queries simultaneously. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Introduces an efficient single-pass classifier architecture, not an autonomous agent. | |
| ReasonUni: Reasoning-Augmented Reconstruction Advances Unified Multimodal Models The paper introduces a reasoning-augmented reconstructive post-training framework that unifies multimodal understanding and image generation tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on unified multimodal generation and editing, not autonomous multi-step agent systems. | |
| Open-world AI: a Tale of Three Requirements The paper formalizes three core architectural requirements for artificial intelligence systems operating in open-world settings. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical analysis of open-world generalization, not autonomous agent systems. | |
| When Reasoning Traces Conflict with Evidence: How Answer Configuration Shapes Evidence Following The paper analyzes how answering via a separate model call improves evidence adherence when reasoning traces conflict with provided context. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on trace answering setups rather than multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| Temporal Specification Guidance for Text-to-Video Generation The paper introduces an inference-time guidance method that enforces temporal logic constraints during text-to-video generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-to-video generation guidance, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents language models for Wolof, not multi-step agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on chain-of-thought distillation, not agent tool workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies test-time search budgeting, not multi-step agent tool use. | |
| Probing Negation Understanding in Vision-Language Models With Object Attention The paper analyzes how vision-language models process negation by comparing model attention mechanisms with human eye-tracking data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Probes vision-language attention, not multi-step agent actions. | |
| SHRED: Self-Play for Heterogeneous Road-Users without Expert Demonstrations The paper presents a self-play reinforcement learning framework to simulate interactions between vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists without human demonstrations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on autonomous driving simulation, not language-model agents. | |
| Anticipatory Commonsense with Moving Objects: An ASP-Based Framework for Predictive Reasoning with Interacting Trajectories The paper proposes a hybrid reasoning framework combining Answer Set Programming and energy-based models to predict interacting trajectory futures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents an ASP motion planner, not language-model agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies RL gradient dynamics, not agent planning or tools. | |
| TGrasp6D: Task-Informed Vision-Language Priors and Pose Refinement enable Zero-Shot Task-Oriented 6DoF Grasping The paper presents a zero-shot vision-language method for generating task-oriented robotic grasps in 6 degrees of freedom. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on robotic arm grasping, not language-model agents. | |
| Replicable Dueling Bandits The paper develops replicable algorithms with sublinear regret bounds for the dueling bandits problem. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical study on dueling bandit algorithms, not agents. | |
| Forecast lead time and the timing of crew deployment for weather-driven power outages using AI weather models The paper evaluates how forecast lead times from AI weather models affect the scheduling of utility crew restoration deployments. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies weather models to utility operations, not LLM agents. | |
| A Multi-Tiered AI Accessibility Model (MAIAM): Proportionate Access and Capability Limits for Comprehensive Frontier AI Safety The paper proposes a multi-tiered governance model regulating AI system access based on user purpose and model capability. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes an access policy model rather than agent architectures. | |
| Defining and Generating Compositional Structure The paper formalizes compositional structure in complex systems using algorithmic information theory and compression concepts. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on theoretical algorithmic information theory, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on looping architecture for classification rather than tool-using agents. | |
| MSP: Modality Self-Play for Training Multimodal LLMs Without Paired Cross-Modal Data The paper proposes a self-play framework to train multimodal foundation models using text proxies instead of paired cross-modal datasets. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal model training rather than autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| SOMA: Stack-of-Objects Manipulation using a Quadruped Robot The paper presents a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for non-prehensile 3D manipulation of multi-object stacks using quadruped robots. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on quadrupedal locomotion control rather than language-model planning agents. | |
| How to Train Your Little Dragon: Teaching a Small Language Model to Construct and Refine GPU Optimization Scripts The paper trains a small language model to generate and refine GPU kernel optimization scripts using compiler traces. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on compiler script generation rather than multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on dataset reduction for diffusion models, not autonomous agents. | |
| Deep Reinforcement Learning for HPC Job Scheduling: A Statistical Evaluation The paper evaluates deep reinforcement learning methods against simple heuristics and random baselines for high-performance computing job scheduling. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on classic reinforcement learning algorithms for job scheduling, not LLM agents. | |
| Failure Is the Mother of Success: Recovering Supervision with Grounding Hindsight The paper introduces a method that turns failed reasoning attempts into tested supervision notes to improve reinforcement learning training. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents an RL fine-tuning algorithm rather than an interactive planning agent. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes pretraining dynamics rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Recursive Reward Improvement via Adversarial Meta-Prompt Evolution Proposes an adversarial meta-prompt evolution method to improve model-generated evaluation rubrics for open-ended tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on RL training loops and adversarial rubrics rather than interactive agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on peer-review fact-checking pipelines rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Bellman-Consistent Trajectory RL for LLM Arithmetic Reasoning Applies trajectory Bellman residual minimization to turn sparse rewards into dense token signals for arithmetic reasoning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on RL algorithms for arithmetic reasoning, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on ensemble voting methods rather than multi-step tool-using autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on 3D point cloud representations rather than autonomous planning or tool agents. | |
| DST-Net: Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Network for Time Series Forecasting Presents a decomposed network architecture that applies separate graph and convolution modules to trend and seasonal time series components. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on time series forecasting rather than autonomous LLM agents or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes label-free evaluation methods rather than autonomous planning or agent tool use. | |
| Stronger Judges Do Not See More: Deployment-Integrity Blindness in LLM Evaluation Introduces a benchmark measuring how output-only model judges fail to detect tampered runtime environments in agent deployments. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses runtime tamper detection in evaluation rather than agent planning or tool use. | |
| OnBodyAI - Why the Next AI Needs a Body Presents an opinion article on wearable on-body language models based on an industrial panel talk. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Offers broad vision statements on wearable AI rather than technical agent frameworks. | |
| CleanRM: Reward Modeling from Noisy Feedback with a Few Clean Feedback for RLHF Proposes an optimal transport method using small clean feedback sets to calibrate sample-wise noise for reward model training. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on preference feedback denoising rather than multi-step autonomous planning agents. | |
| When is a better LLM worth paying for? Stochastic Optimization with Switching Mixed-Fidelity Oracles Investigates cost-aware policies for adaptively switching between language models of varying fidelity in stochastic optimization pipelines. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines stochastic optimization algorithms rather than autonomous agent planning or tool execution. | |
| CoSTA: Compressed Speech Token Adaptation for Efficient Spoken Dialogue Models Presents a framework that decouples speech generation and synthesis token spaces to speed up spoken dialogue model inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on spoken dialogue tokenization rather than planning or tool-using autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies modular reasoning for text analysis rather than multi-step tool-using planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on working memory mechanics, not autonomous planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on reward modeling for RL, not agent tool execution. |
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