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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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| SAM3RL: Memory Control via Reinforcement Learning for Visual Object Tracking Trains a reinforcement learning controller to manage frame memory dynamically for visual object tracking in foundation models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses visual object tracking and video segmentation, not multimodal language-vision reasoning. | |
| Why 3D Reconstruction Breaks Down on Under-Ice AUV Video, and How to Predict It Analyzes reconstruction failures on under-ice underwater vehicle video and introduces a tool to flag camera baseline errors. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on under-ice 3D reconstruction failures, not multimodal models. | |
| GDBA-Net: A Gated Dual-Branch Adaptation of SAM2 for Robust Cross-Domain Nuclei Segmentation Adapts a frozen segmentation model using a dual-branch adapter to improve cell nuclei segmentation across varied histopathology domains. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on pathology image segmentation using SAM2 adaptation, not multimodal vision-language reasoning. | |
| Feasibility of a Patient-Specific Digital Twin for Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Trajectory Planning Constructs a digital twin from computed tomography scans to plan accurate surgical trajectories for ventricular shunt insertion. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on CT surgical trajectory planning, not multimodal models. | |
| When Pairwise Preferences Cycle: A Reliability-Anchored Preference Walk for Video GRPO Addresses cyclic preference graphs in reinforcement learning for video generation models using an anchored preference walk. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning preference aggregation for video generation, not multimodal models. | |
| RTAformer: Relation-Transition-Aware Transformer for Video Scene Graph Generation Models entity persistence and relation transitions separately to improve video scene graph generation accuracy during dynamic scene changes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on video scene graph relation generation, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| RepForcing: Representation-Space Initialization for Autoregressive Video Distillation Uses representation-space supervision to initialize autoregressive video distillation students for faster and clearer generation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers video diffusion generation distillation rather than multimodal reasoning. | |
| StreamErase: Towards Ultra-Fast Streaming Video Erasing Transfers capabilities from text-to-video foundation models to a unidirectional streaming model for real-time video object removal. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on generative video object removal, not multimodal language-vision reasoning. | |
| Attention-Based Spatio-Temporal Approach for Fire and Smoke Detection Combines spatial and temporal transformer modules to detect smoke and fire from camera video feeds. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses solely on video-based smoke and fire detection, not multimodal models. | |
| Dataset-Level Regularization for Joint-Embedding Self-Supervised Learning Introduces dataset-level regularization stored in memory to prevent representation collapse in self-supervised learning with small batch sizes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses self-supervised vision representation learning rather than multimodal vision-language models. | |
| OneLA: Learning Many Worlds from Latent Actions Learns continuous latent actions from video data using an orthogonal dictionary to build cross-domain world models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies visual world models and latent action spaces, not multimodal vision-language reasoning. | |
| Continual pretraining Prostate MRI ViT Encoder for task alignment Applies low-rank continual pretraining to vision transformers to improve task alignment in prostate magnetic resonance imaging segmentation. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates unimodal medical MRI encoder pretraining rather than multimodal models. | |
| Glance Forcing: Making Bidirectional Diffusion Autoregressive at a Glance Distills bidirectional video diffusion models into causal autoregressive models using an efficient single-sample supervision strategy. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on generative video diffusion distillation rather than multimodal language-vision models. | |
| Contrastive uncertainty learning for robust multi-structure segmentation in lower-pelvic MR Uses contrastive uncertainty learning during training to improve anatomical boundary segmentation in pelvic magnetic resonance imaging. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses unimodal 3D MRI medical segmentation rather than multimodal models. | |
| GLoD-LVSM: Learning Geometry-Grounded Continuous-LoD Scene Representations for Large View Synthesis Models Introduces a geometry-grounded scene representation with continuous levels of detail to compress large view synthesis models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses novel view synthesis and 3D scenes, not multimodal vision-language reasoning. | |
| Resolution Allocation with Learnable Resizing and Spectral Filter Parameterization Investigates the interaction between learnable image resizing and spectral-domain convolutional filter parameterization in neural networks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on unimodal vision convolutional filters rather than multimodal models. | |
| A Valid Watermark Is Not a Valid Identity: Spatial-Spectral Adversarial Face Evasion with Watermark Preservation Presents an adversarial evasion attack that fools face recognition systems while preserving embedded watermarks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines biometric adversarial attacks on face recognition, not multimodal models. | |
| Event Cameras versus Frame Cameras for Synthetic-Aperture Imaging: A Simulation Study Compares event and conventional frame cameras via simulations for synthetic-aperture imaging through occluding scenes like foliage. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with event camera optical integration rather than multimodal vision-language models. | |
| InfiniSplat v2: Analyzing and Improving Feed-Forward 3DGS from Any Views Decouples geometry and appearance learning in Gaussian reconstruction to improve three-dimensional scene rendering across diverse views. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on 3D novel view synthesis, not multimodal cross-modal modeling. | |
| Where Should the Gaussians Go? Reusable Label-Aware Allocation for Budget-Constrained Gaussian Splatting of Cinematic CT This paper proposes a reusable, label-aware front end to allocate fixed budgets of 3D Gaussians for cinematic CT visualization without per-case optimization. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with CT rendering techniques, not multimodal vision-language understanding. | |
| Hybrid supervised instance segmentation by learning label noise suppression This paper presents a hybrid instance segmentation pipeline that trains ancillary models to suppress label noise when combining bounding boxes with pixel masks. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses strictly on unimodal computer vision instance segmentation. | |
| Infant Fingerprints: Quality Assessment & Recognition This paper assesses ten fingerprint quality assessment methods on longitudinal infant data and proposes parameter tuning routines to improve recognition. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Biometric image processing, not multimodal reasoning across multiple modalities. | |
| A$^3$PreCore: Robust Rigid Registration for Native FLAIR-Space Brain-Mask Transfer This paper presents A3PreCore, a six-degree-of-freedom rigid-registration method for robust T1-to-FLAIR brain-mask transfer alongside quantitative quality control metrics. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Specific medical image registration technique, not multimodal language-vision models. | |
| Learnable Hodge-Laplacian Driven Mixture of Experts for Steady-PDE Surrogates on Coarse Unstructured Meshes This paper proposes a mixture-of-experts transformer architecture using discrete Hodge-Laplacian operators to solve steady partial differential equations on unstructured meshes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Numerical PDE surrogate architecture, not multimodal reasoning models. | |
| Feed-Forward Multi-View Feature Coding for 3D Gaussian Splatting This paper presents a feed-forward framework that encodes multi-view image features into a compact bitstream for 3D Gaussian Splatting scene reconstruction. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant 3D scene reconstruction and compression, not multimodal text-image-audio integration. | |
| An Initial Study of Physiological Markers for Deepfake Speech Detection This paper investigates 36 handcrafted physiological markers from speech production to detect deepfake speech using standard classifiers. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies audio speech production markers exclusively, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| No Way To Steal My Face: Proactive Defense Against Identity-Preserving Personalized Generation The authors present IDGuardian, an adversarial perturbation framework designed to defend facial images against unauthorized personalized diffusion models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses image diffusion personalization defense, not multimodal reasoning or vision-language models. | |
| Can LLMs Access their World Knowledge for Event Prediction? The authors introduce DescribeEvent to show that language models can forecast temporal events when using natural-language descriptions and symbolic labels. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates natural language event forecasting, not multimodal vision-language reasoning. | |
| Joint Subspace Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context Decoding The paper introduces a token-level sparse attention method using a learned query-key subspace and an indexed kernel to accelerate long-context decoding. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text long-context decoding, not multimodal vision-language tasks. | |
| Crossing the Gender Binary: Modelling Gendered Reference in Science Fiction and General Fiction The paper analyzes gendered reference replacements across science fiction and general fiction corpora using a masked language model. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes written fiction text corpora, not multimodal vision-language data. | |
| Tracing Morphology, Semantics, and Divergence in Language Acquisition The paper analyzes intermediate training checkpoints to trace when language models acquire morphological structures versus semantic embeddings during pretraining. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses exclusively on text-based language acquisition, not multimodal models. | |
| Pre-Trained Language Models as Zero-Shot Tools for Social Science Research The paper examines using pre-trained language models without task-specific training for social science record linkage and demographic inference from names. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Operates exclusively on tabular and text data, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Similar Models, Broken Odds: Where Luce's Axiom Fails in Chatbot Arena The paper shows that the Bradley-Terry model fails on Chatbot Arena for similar models, and introduces a parameter-efficient correction for ties. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines Chatbot Arena text rankings, not multimodal model architectures. | |
| DivAlgo: A systematic evaluation of algorithmic diversity for code generation models The paper introduces a benchmark and similarity metric to measure the algorithmic diversity of solutions produced by code generation models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines source code and text, not multimodal image or video understanding. | |
| From Qualitative Text to Integrated Evidence: The Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI) Procedure The paper presents a four-step methodological procedure to integrate ontology-guided coding and topic modeling representations of qualitative text data. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals strictly with qualitative text representations, not multimodal data. | |
| Fantastic Metrics and How to Find Them: Meta-Evaluating Metrics for Multi-lingual Style-Personalized Generation The paper proposes a regression-based meta-evaluation framework and benchmark to assess text evaluation metrics for multilingual style-personalized generation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates only multilingual text generation, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| HERO: Harnessing Evidence for Test-time Refinement and Prompt Optimization in Program Generation The paper proposes a method combining offline execution-verified prompt updates and test-time refinement to improve program generation in language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies to programming languages and text, not multimodal inputs. | |
| How to Evaluate When You Don't Know How to Evaluate? Choosing Reliable Setups for Base Language Model Benchmarking The paper investigates base language model benchmarking setups to identify evaluation configurations that produce consistent, non-random, and monotonic performance signals. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates language models across text tasks without multimodal data. | |
| NEPSEE: A Double-Annotated Benchmark for Nepali Sentiment Analysis The paper presents a double-annotated sentiment dataset for Nepali and evaluates several open-source and commercial language models on it. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text sentiment analysis without multimodal data. | |
| Weighted Ensemble Sampling for Rare-Event Estimation in Language Models The paper introduces a training-free sampling framework that uses internal model activations to efficiently estimate rare failure probabilities in language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with language model text generation without multimodal inputs. | |
| DUALVIEW: Leveraging Broad and Output-Specific Evidence for LLM-based Multi-Output Text Regression The paper proposes a parameter-efficient method leveraging frozen model representations for multi-output text regression tasks across diverse benchmarks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses strictly on text regression rather than multimodal tasks. | |
| From Efficiency to Sufficiency: The Cost-Aware Measurement Design Framework for Automated Essay Scoring The paper presents a framework to formalize compute, labor, and workflow costs as core measurement design criteria for automated essay scoring. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text essay scoring rather than multimodal models. | |
| Can LLM Agents Efficiently Identify Appliance Faults? Insights From Diagnosing a Simulated Appliance The paper evaluates the ability of language model agents to diagnose appliance faults using a simulated appliance benchmark based on sensor data. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on sensor telemetry in text format without multimodal vision. | |
| Qwenfant: Train Big Character-level BabyLMs on Concise Parallel Text The paper presents an approach using character-level tokens, larger models, and synthetic data for the multilingual BabyLM data-efficiency challenge. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text data rather than multimodal capabilities. | |
| PersEvalBench: Can LLM Evaluators Judge Contextually Appropriate Use of Persona Information? The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether language models can accurately detect appropriate and inappropriate uses of persona information in dialogue. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text dialogue history rather than multimodal understanding. | |
| Truthful and Expected-Payment-Optimal Model Routing in Graph-Based Agentic Workflows The paper formulates task routing across language model providers as an auction mechanism to encourage truthful cost reporting while minimizing context switching. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-provider agent routing without multimodal modalities. | |
| TopicMerge: A Divide and Conquer Approach to Topic Modeling The paper introduces a multi-stage topic modeling pipeline that merges fine-grained document clusters using a language model to balance efficiency and quality. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with text document clustering without multimodal data. | |
| Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition: Separating Selection from Redistribution in Training-Data Filtering The paper proposes an experimental design that separates example selection from mass redistribution to analyze the effects of training-data quality filtering. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes text retrieval data filtering without multimodal components. | |
| Target-Token Asymmetry Can Masquerade As Depth Specialization The paper shows that differences in predicted target tokens, such as whitespace, can falsely look like layer specialization across different corpora. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates language models on text data without multimodal elements. | |
| Where to Start, How to Move: Analyzing Curricula under GRPO for Long-Horizon LLM Agents The paper analyzes prefix replay curricula and handoff rules under reinforcement learning to improve long-horizon task completion for language model agents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on language-based tool calling and agent benchmarks. | |
| Learning What to Keep: Transfer-Aware Personal Skill Learning from User Feedback The paper introduces a framework that decomposes user feedback into atomic rules to retain only reusable preferences for personalizing language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals purely with textual user feedback and personalization. | |
| The Sum of All Summaries: PROPALIGN for Graded Proposition Salience Evaluation The paper proposes a multiple-summary metric and dataset to evaluate graded proposition salience across diverse text genres. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with written and spoken English text, not multimodal. | |
| ForkGRPO: Efficient Exploration and Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework using intermediate-state branching and segment-level credit assignment for diffusion language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion language models without multimodal inputs. | |
| AgriJev: Efficient Agricultural Candidate Scoring with Multi-Scale Adapted Models The paper presents adapted small language models designed to directly score agricultural candidate choices in a single forward pass. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Operates on domain text data without image or multimodal modalities. | |
| Towards Efficient Simultaneous Inverse Text Normalization with Pretrained Text-to-Text Language Model and Read-Tag-Write Policy The paper develops a streaming end-to-end inverse text normalization architecture using a pretrained text-to-text model with a read-tag-write policy. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text normalization post-ASR rather than multimodal foundation models. | |
| One Block Ahead: Promoting Sampler State in Diffusion Language Models The paper proposes a decoding algorithm that denoises consecutive blocks concurrently by promoting sampler states in diffusion language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion language models for text generation. | |
| Diagnosing and Correcting Reward Hacking in Verifiable Instruction Following The paper analyzes reward hacking in verifiable instruction following and introduces a likelihood bonus method to maintain answer quality. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with text-based instruction following and reward alignment. | |
| A Unified Response Framework for Questions and Tutoring Dialogues The paper presents an item response theory framework to jointly evaluate student performance on standard questions and tutoring dialogue subtasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes text tutoring dialogues without multimodal inputs. | |
| GraphRAG-LTM: A Layered Threat Modeling Framework for Attacks on Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation The paper introduces a threat modeling framework examining adversarial query demotion and graph edit attacks on graph-based RAG systems. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text and knowledge-graph retrieval, not multimodal models. | |
| INTACT: Inducing Latent Reasoning on a Frozen Backbone The paper presents a method using an external encoder to induce latent soft-token reasoning on frozen language model backbones. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Pertains to text reasoning tokens without multimodal modalities. |
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