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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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| FadeMem: Biologically-Inspired Forgetting for Efficient Agent Memory Proposes an agent memory architecture that uses biologically inspired adaptive decay functions to selectively retain and forget context. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Focuses on internal agent memory consolidation rather than retrieval-augmented generation from external document stores. | |
| MoPD: Mixture-of-Prompts Distillation for Vision-Language Models Introduces a mixture-of-prompts distillation method to transfer knowledge from hard prompts to soft prompts, improving generalization on unseen classes. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval, chunking, or knowledge grounding. | |
| CTC-Assisted LLM-Based Contextual ASR Uses coarse CTC decoding to filter relevant hotwords into LLM prompts for improved contextual speech recognition on rare words. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Addresses CTC-assisted hotword biasing for ASR, not retrieval-augmented text generation. | |
| Zero-shot LLM-guided Counterfactual Generation: A Case Study on NLP Model Evaluation The paper introduces a zero-shot LLM pipeline to generate counterfactual examples for stress-testing NLP models. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation or external document retrieval pipelines. | |
| Hybrid Scalar-Product Compression (HSPC): Optimizing Quantization in Vector Retrieval via Hot-Cold Separation Introduces Hybrid Scalar-Product Compression to optimize vector retrieval quantization by separating hot and cold vector data. Peer-reviewed | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Proposes vector quantization compression for general vector databases, not RAG grounding or generation. | |
| AIMA: An Autonomous Multi-Agent AI System for End-to-End Instagram Content Strategy, Generation, Scheduling, and Performance Observation Presents AIMA, an autonomous multi-agent system using retrieval-augmented generation to manage Instagram content strategy, generation, and scheduling. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Mainly focuses on multi-agent Instagram marketing automation; RAG is merely an implementation detail. | |
| To Maximize Web Service Retrieval Presents an IEEE publication page stub regarding methods to maximize web service retrieval. Not a research paperPeer-reviewedOlder paper (2007) Older paper (2007) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Scraped paywall text about classical web service retrieval, completely unrelated to modern RAG systems. | |
| A Survey of AI-Based Phishing Detection : Integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Reinforcement Learning Approaches Surveys AI-based phishing detection methods, focusing on hybrid architectures that combine reinforcement learning with retrieval-augmented generation. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant A survey of phishing detection paradigms; RAG is only touched on as one minor hybrid technique. | |
| Structured Sentiment Analysis Using Sequence Labeling as Dependency Graph Parsing The paper models structured sentiment analysis as dependency graph parsing implemented through sequence labeling across five languages. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation or external knowledge retrieval. | |
| 4-Tensor Attention Model for Semantic Physical Reality The paper proposes a four-tensor attention architecture that jointly normalizes attention over semantic and temporal fibers for scene prediction. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on scene state transitions rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To The paper defines evaluation metrics to show that language models continue generating reasoning traces even when instructed not to think. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval mechanisms, search, or external grounding. | |
| DPPM: Dual-Path Parametric Memory for Personalized Language Models The paper introduces a dual-path parametric memory method that combines pooled history representations with sequential adapter updates. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Encodes history into parametric adapters to avoid retrieval contexts at inference time. | |
| From Sparse Representations to Behavioral Insights for Multimodal Depression Assessment The paper proposes a sparse factor framework to map multimodal behavioral data to interpretable concepts for depression assessment. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not explore retrieval-augmented generation or corporate knowledge grounding. | |
| Easy to anticipate, hard to compute: boundary dependence finds the computed outputs that entropy patching misses The paper demonstrates that entropy-based byte patching misses predictable calculation points and proposes a boundary-dependence signal to fix it. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies byte-level compute allocation rather than retrieval-augmented generation mechanisms. | |
| Detecting Spin in Clinical Trials with Large Language Models The paper develops an LLM-based pipeline to automatically detect outcome switching and presentation spin in clinical trial reports. Peer-reviewed | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates text similarity and LLM classification directly without RAG or external retrieval. | |
| Can Decision Models Understand Stance? Evaluating Jev Against General-Purpose LLMs The paper benchmarks a specialized decision model against general-purpose LLMs on English and Chinese stance detection tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Assesses stance classification directly without retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Not Every Change Is Necessary: Recoverable Drift in Large Language Model Unlearning The paper introduces a method to unlearn target knowledge while recovering collateral capability loss in non-target tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies parametric unlearning rather than retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| When History Helps and Hurts: Selective History Use across Multimodal Turns The paper introduces a 7,000-task benchmark to evaluate how multimodal models selectively use or ignore conversational context. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates conversational context management rather than retrieval-augmented generation from external knowledge. | |
| MiMo-V2.6: Scaling Reinforcement Learning Towards Self-Improvement The report presents an omni-modal model family trained by scaling reinforcement learning throughput, environments, and agentic reward compute. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on RL training and self-improvement without investigating external retrieval systems. | |
| Specialized Decision Models vs. General-Purpose LLMs: Benchmarking Jev Across Knowledge, Reasoning, and Multilingual Tasks The paper benchmarks a specialized multiple-choice decision model against 19 general-purpose LLMs across knowledge, reasoning, and multilingual tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on multiple-choice decision models without evaluating external document retrieval or RAG mechanisms. | |
| Natural Language to First-Order Logic LLM-based Autoformalization The paper reviews LLM-based first-order logic autoformalization, distinguishing ontology extraction from logical translation and outlining key benchmarking challenges. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on formal logic translation rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| A persistent accuracy ceiling in automated verbal deception detection The paper meta-analyzes 25 years of automated verbal deception detection models and identifies a persistent accuracy ceiling around 70 to 75 percent. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on deception detection rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Language-Specific Effects of Tokenizer Choice in Multilingual Language Models The paper trains 123 models across 54 tokenizers to show tokenizer choice matters more for languages with less training data. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Analyzes subword tokenizers rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| When KL Regularization Misfires in Group Policy Optimization Analyzes interaction failures between KL regularization and rewards in group policy optimization and proposes a calibrated surrogate objective. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses RL policy optimization rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| SteerablePlex: Can We Steer Full-Duplex Models? Introduces an instruction-following benchmark and training recipe to improve goal adherence in full-duplex conversational models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses conversational steerability rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| SciTBERT: A family of chronologically consistent language models for scientific and technological language processing Releases BERT models pre-trained with yearly chronological cutoffs to reduce lookahead bias in scientific and patent text mining. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Introduces scientific encoder models rather than retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| DiffuPlex: Accelerating Full-Duplex Spoken Dialog Models via Rolling Masked Diffusion Presents a rolling masked diffusion method that accelerates full-duplex spoken dialog models by forecasting multiple future interaction frames. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with spoken dialog inference latency rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Language Models as AI Research World Models Evaluates whether language models can act as world models to predict empirical experimental outcomes across AI research workflows. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies experiment outcome modeling rather than document retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| TokenRouter: Efficient Serving System for Token-Level LLM Routing Designs an inference serving system optimized for dynamic, token-level routing across multiple language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with serving infrastructure rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| EgoVoice: Proactive Spoken Assistance from Egocentric Multimodal Streams Develops a framework for egocentric multimodal assistants to decide both when to speak and what guidance to provide. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on egocentric streaming multimodal assistance rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| HarnessSQL: Harness-Native Training for SQL Agents in Realistic Database Environments Introduces a post-training framework that trains text-to-SQL agents directly inside interactive database execution environments. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with interactive database querying rather than document retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| SparseDecoding: Decoding-Aware Pruning for Accurate and Efficient LLM Inference Identifies distribution shift during autoregressive decoding and proposes a decoding-aware pruning method to accelerate model inference. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses weight pruning during decoding rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| VFold: Symmetry-Aware Cross-Layer Value Cache Compression Presents a symmetry-aware value cache merging method to compress key-value memory during long-context decoding without architectural changes. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Optimizes transformer KV cache compression rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Which Skill to Distill? SGUID: Selecting a Compact Skill Bank for Model-Skill Co-Evolution Proposes a method to select a compact subset of procedural skills that provide effective training signals during model distillation. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies selecting skills for model distillation rather than run-time retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Latent Core Tokenizer: Compress, but Meaningfully Introduces a multilingual tokenizer that uses structural discovery and linguistic constraints to improve downstream model representations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on subword tokenization algorithms rather than retrieval or grounding mechanisms. | |
| Long Text to Predictive Features: LLM-Guided Blockwise Feature Engineering via Executable Program Search Presents a framework that uses language models offline to generate executable feature-engineering code for tabular risk models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Generates offline feature-engineering programs from text without performing retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| SpaceCast-Bench: Evaluating Predictive Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Introduces a benchmark evaluating how well vision-language models predict unseen physical outcomes following scene interventions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on spatial reasoning in vision-language models rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| ViSkill: Reinforcing VLM Agents with Evolving Visual-Native Skills Proposes a framework that encodes visual trajectories into reusable skill cards to reinforce vision-language agent planning and rewards. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning policy skills rather than document retrieval or RAG. | |
| WOVEN: Weaving Visual World Modeling into Multimodal LLMs Presents a benchmark and dataset using generative video rollouts to train and evaluate visual transition reasoning in multimodal models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval pipelines or retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| FastBench: Can Streaming VLMs Perceive High-Dynamic Real-World Streams? Introduces a benchmark evaluating streaming vision-language models on fast-moving, high-dynamic events in real-world video streams. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address document retrieval or knowledge-augmented generation. | |
| SWE-Duel: Towards a Self-Scaling Arena for Coding Agents Presents an arena benchmark where pairs of coding agents dynamically generate, test, and debug code against each other. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on code repair and bug injection, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Contextual Correction of Parallel Draftsfor Speculative Decoding Introduces a lightweight correction mechanism to restore token dependencies during parallel draft generation in speculative decoding. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not explore retrieval systems or knowledge-augmented architectures. | |
| CLUE: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Unsupervised Event Type Induction and Annotation Proposes an unsupervised framework using contrastive learning and clustering to induce, name, and annotate event types from text. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on event extraction and ontology induction, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| One Model to Loop Them All: Elastic Latent Recurrence for Language Models Presents a training method for latent recurrent language models that avoids performance penalties at single loops while scaling with compute. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval mechanisms or augmented external knowledge. | |
| Reflective Prompt Optimization of a Deep-Research Agent: A Topic-Disjoint, Multi-Seed Protocol for Measuring Transferable Gains and Prompt-Level Overfitting Studies reflective prompt optimization in research agents, demonstrating that gains on held-out tasks can stem from prompt-level memorization. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on prompt evolution for research agents rather than retrieval pipelines or indexing. | |
| Knowing Is Not Telling: Identity Ossification in LLM Representations of Trans-border Communities Proposes a diagnostic framework to study how language models compress fluid trans-border ethnic identities into rigid nation-state categories. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval-augmented architectures or external knowledge grounding. | |
| perturber: A Stateless Service for Semantics-Preserving Text Perturbations Presents a stateless service and library providing isolated, semantics-preserving text perturbations for language model robustness testing. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on synthetic text perturbations rather than retrieval or document augmentation. | |
| Activating the Annotator: Operationalising Lived Experience in Data Annotation Tests whether priming annotators with scenario vignettes and micro-narratives improves the operationalization of lived experience in subjective annotation. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address information retrieval or retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| U4RASD at KnowledgeGraphEval-2026: Ontology-Constrained Encoder and LLM Systems for Arabic Relation Extraction Describes an ontology-constrained ensemble system of encoders and fine-tuned language models for directed Arabic relation extraction. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on relation extraction classification rather than retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| MADS: Multi-Agent Dialog Simulation for Robust Conversational Agents Generates synthetic multi-agent dialogues to benchmark conversational agent robustness against non-cooperative and adversarial user behaviors. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on dialogue policy and function calling under adversarial user inputs, not RAG. | |
| DistressBench: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Crisis Support in Large Language Models Introduces an evaluation benchmark measuring how effectively language models provide supportive responses during self-harm and crisis disclosures. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval systems or document-augmented generation. | |
| Large Language Models, Machine-Assisted Cultural Analytics, and the Agentic Turn Examines methodological and conceptual implications of using large language models and agentic workflows for machine-assisted cultural analytics. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval-augmented generation or factual grounding systems. | |
| People Making Conversation: Evaluating How Naturally Speech Models Converse Evaluates whether real-time speech models decide to speak appropriately during natural pauses and turn ends in unscripted conversations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not evaluate external document retrieval or grounding architectures. | |
| When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks Introduces a benchmark evaluating how misleading visualizations and charts affect the multi-step execution and decisions of web agents. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies multimodal agent web actions rather than retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| Fear Is Not Always Fear: Variation in Emotion Label Equivalence Across Datasets Tests cross-corpus emotion classification transfer across three datasets, finding significant loss in discrimination and conceptual disagreement on labels. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation or document grounding. | |
| Unreliable Narrator Framing as a Cost-effective Mechanism for Satire Explanation of Australian and American Satirical News Evaluates whether framing explanations around unreliable narrator theory enables open-weight models to explain satirical news cost-effectively. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not explore document retrieval, indexing, or retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| Time Delay System for Sequence Modeling Proposes a sequence modeling framework using dynamic nonlinear time delays based on semantic similarity between current and past inputs. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with sequence modeling architectures, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Rethinking the Roles of Diffusion and Decoding: Predictive-State Flows for Parallel Language Generation Proposes separating continuous diffusion language generation into high-level flow-generated predictive states and block-level autoregressive token decoding. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| MVGraph: Benchmarking LVLMs on Evidence Composition across Multi-View Visual Graph Introduces a benchmark evaluating vision-language models on graph-theoretic reasoning where evidence is split across multiple visual graph views. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on visual graph reasoning rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Forecasting Corpus-Sampling Disagreement in Masked Text Reconstruction Derives a formula to forecast disagreement between masked text reconstruction models fitted on independent samples from the same population. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on retrieval-augmented generation. |
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