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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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| Language Models Have Interpretable Narrative Mechanisms Identifies internal attention heads, neurons, and sparse autoencoder features that causally influence narrative representation in language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address document retrieval or grounding. | |
| Evaluating LLM Creativity through Long-Tail Performance Formalizes language model creativity evaluation as long-tail input-output distribution performance and tests it across multiple benchmarks and models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval mechanisms or external document grounding. | |
| Evo$^2$: Evolving the Evolver through Weight-Harness Co-Evolution Proposes a co-evolution framework that coordinates agent harness prompt modifications with model weight updates using self-generated experience. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on agent self-evolution mechanisms rather than document retrieval systems. | |
| RAMP: Recurrent Adaptive Mixed Precision for Efficient Prefill in Recurrent-Depth Language Models Analyzes quantization error propagation in recurrent-depth language models and proposes adaptive mixed-precision schedules for faster prefill inference. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or grounding. | |
| From 2.1M Hours of Raw Broadcast Audio to Finnish Speech SSL: Confidence Filtering and Architectural Analysis at Scale Evaluates speech self-supervised learning models on Finnish broadcast audio using ASR confidence filtering and controlled architectural comparisons. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| BenCoDiC: A Large-Scale Contextual Cyberbullying Corpus for Bengali Political News Discourse FULL VERSION Presents a multi-dimensional annotated corpus of Bengali political YouTube discussions to support research on contextual cyberbullying detection. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on social media discourse dataset creation, not RAG systems. | |
| Neurograf v1: An End-to-End Romanian-First Language Model Family Introduces an end-to-end open pipeline, pretraining corpus, and family of decoder-only models trained from scratch for Romanian. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a pretraining pipeline rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Les Misérables Dialogue: A film-based network representation of social communication Constructs a temporal and multilayer social dialogue network dataset based on the film adaptation of Les Misérables. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with dialogue network analysis, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Scaling Agentic Data for Long-Horizon Terminal Intelligence Introduces a synthetic data generation framework to produce long-horizon task trajectories for terminal agents. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on terminal agent trajectories rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| PreSTO: Predictive Subtree Prefetching for Fast LLM Power Sampling Presents a predictive subtree prefetching method to accelerate power sampling for test-time language model reasoning. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or grounding. | |
| S$^3$R: Fast and Faithful RL Rollouts via Self-Sparse Speculative Decoding Introduces speculative decoding using self-sparse attention to speed up rollout generation during reinforcement learning. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with RL training optimization, not document retrieval or grounding. | |
| SharP: Soft and Hard Prompt-Guided Augmentation with LLM for Low Resource Fake News Detection Proposes a prompt-guided text augmentation framework to assist fake news detection in low-resource settings. Peer-reviewed | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| What Do Audio-Language Judges of Generated Music Listen For? Four Probes with Controls from Expert Ratings Designs diagnostic probes to determine whether audio-language evaluation models judge music based on audio or prompt content. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Vision Transformers Learn Word Meaning from Images Alone Tests whether self-supervised vision transformers represent semantic meanings of rendered words without paired text data. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not cover retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| CAST: Credit Alignment for Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation Proposes a chunk-level credit assignment method for on-policy distillation across language models with different tokenizers. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not relate to retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Do Prompt Optimizers Break Requirements They Are Not Scored On? A Preregistered Study Evaluates whether automated prompt optimizers inadvertently cause regressions in unscored prompt constraints and requirements. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Host-Aware Web Crawling for LLM Pretraining Data Studies host-level budget allocation and crawling policies to collect pretraining web data for language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Covers pretraining data collection rather than inference-time retrieval systems. | |
| Taking Tokenization off the Host for Agentic LLM Serving Develops a GPU-accelerated tokenizer using CUDA graphs to reduce time-to-first-token in agentic language model serving. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on GPU tokenization rather than RAG or retrieval. | |
| Exploring Attention Sinks in Text-to-Image Transformers from Diffusion and Autoregressive Models Analyzes the emergence and behavior of attention sinks in text-to-image diffusion and autoregressive Transformers. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Overcoming Data Imbalances with Expert Selection Biases Proposes category-conditioned expert routing biases to mitigate data imbalance in mixture-of-experts language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| From Structure to Validity: Mechanism-Guided Generation and Refinement of LLM Rubrics Analyzes rubric construction mechanisms and introduces a tree-search method to refine rubrics for evaluating language model outputs. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not cover retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| MoPrO-SD: Modular Prompt Optimization for Stance Detection Presents a modular prompt optimization framework and benchmark targeting stance detection in text. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or grounding. | |
| Towards the Roof of the World: NLP Progress in Tibetan Languages Surveys twenty-two years of Tibetan natural language processing literature across corpora, speech processing, and language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| Does Financial Speech Need Continual Learning Regularization? A Study of EWC and mini-KFAC on Earnings Call ASR Investigates continual learning regularization techniques for speech recognition during domain adaptation on financial earnings calls. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not cover retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Revisiting Accent Classification with DistilHuBERT: Speaker-Disjoint Evaluation and Cross-Corpus Generalization Evaluates DistilHuBERT-based accent classification under speaker-disjoint and cross-corpus conditions to measure generalization to unseen speakers. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Oído: Open-Vocabulary Speech Recognition on a $5 Microcontroller without a Neural Accelerator Implements open-vocabulary speech recognition on a low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller without dedicated neural accelerators. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or RAG pipelines. | |
| Towards Enriching Design-Time Models with Evidence from Simulation and Operational Activities Proposes a workflow to enrich design-time cyber-physical system models using empirical evidence collected from simulations and operational runs. Peer-reviewed | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| A Better Metric Will Not Save You: What You Compare Beats How You Compare It Analyzes representational similarity metrics and demonstrates that input category selection has a larger impact on comparisons than the choice of metric. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not study retrieval-augmented generation or search systems. | |
| Proactive Agentic Orchestration Introduces POrchestra, an agentic orchestration framework enabling sub-agents to proactively communicate with the orchestrator during dynamic execution. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on agentic orchestration rather than document retrieval or grounding. | |
| S-Space: Exploring Spatial Workspace in Multimodal Language Models The paper identifies a linear spatial workspace subspace in multimodal language models that encodes continuous 3D coordinate representations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies internal spatial representations without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Personalization Without Stereotyping: Do Speech LLMs Know When to Turn a Deaf Ear? The paper introduces a benchmark to measure demographic robustness, stereotyping, and intentional personalization in speech language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Examines speech LLM bias and personalization without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Not All Correct Fixes Run Alike: An Empirical Study of Patch Performance in Repository-Level Issue Resolution The paper analyzes the runtime performance differences of test-passing issue resolution patches generated by language models on SWE-bench. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies code fix runtime performance without retrieval-augmented generation components. | |
| Measuring Artifact Reliance in Machine-Generated Text Detectors The paper demonstrates that machine-generated text detectors rely heavily on document formatting and PDF extraction artifacts rather than text quality. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates machine-text detection artifacts without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| zip2zip++: Towards Inference-Time Token Compression with Minimal Quality Loss The paper proposes compression-layer modifications to reduce accuracy loss when using dynamic LZW vocabularies during language model inference. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies token representation and vocabulary compression without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| BLiMPPI: Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for Polarity Items The paper presents a multilingual benchmark of minimal pairs to evaluate language model sensitivity to negative polarity items across 33 languages. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on linguistic polarity licensing without any retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Training User Simulators with Latent Intrinsic Feedback The paper trains conversational user simulators equipped with latent evaluation thoughts and scalar ratings to provide intrinsic feedback. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates user simulation in multi-turn dialogues, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| APEX-Harm: Evaluating Agent Safety in Shared Professional Workspaces The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating agent susceptibility to prompt and script injections across multi-tool shared workspace environments. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on security attacks against agent tools rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| AMLworld-Compact: Importance-Weighted Downsampling for Cost-Effective LLM Evaluation and Error Diagnosis The paper presents an importance-weighted downsampling protocol to lower evaluation costs on transaction graph datasets without distorting precision metrics. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Pertains to graph classification evaluation rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Multi-Stream Attention Residuals The paper extends attention residuals across model depth by introducing multi-stream depth attention with causal convolutions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Implements depth-wise attention over internal network layers, not document retrieval systems. | |
| Retractions Revisited: A Replication, Extension, and Mechanistic Evaluation of Linguistic Obfuscation Effects in Fraudulent Science The paper evaluates linguistic obfuscation patterns and reality-monitoring mechanisms across fraudulent and genuine scientific publications. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on scientific fraud detection using text analysis, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Enhancing Legal Reasoning in Pre-trained Language Models via Knowledge Graph-Guided Multi-Task Pre-training The paper proposes multi-task pre-training guided by knowledge graphs to improve zero-shot legal reasoning in language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Embeds structured legal knowledge into weights during pre-training to remove retrieval needs. | |
| OccludeBench: Can VLMs Find What's Missing? The paper presents a benchmark evaluating how effectively vision-language models recover fully occluded objects using remaining visual cues. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on visual reasoning about occluded objects without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Not Just an Evaluation: A Case Study of Discourse Particle Sensitivity in Language Models The paper studies language model sensitivity to discourse particles such as 'just' and 'only' in natural conversations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates discourse particles in language models without any retrieval components. | |
| REFLECT: Role-Aware Detection of Sentiment, Emotion, Politeness, and Formality The paper introduces a transformer architecture incorporating semantic role labeling into attention mechanisms to detect sentiment, emotion, politeness, and formality. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Examines dialogue emotion/formality classification without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Error Rate is Not Enough: Costs of Augmentation in Low-Resource ASR The paper analyzes phoneme-level error patterns from audio and text data augmentation techniques in low-resource automatic speech recognition. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Pertains to low-resource speech recognition without retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| QTestBench: A Test Framework for Evaluating LLM-Generated Quantum Code The paper introduces a benchmark framework evaluating LLM-generated quantum software unit tests against independent ground-truth checkers. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| Can Language Models Learn When to Abstain? Policy Learning and Calibrated Answer Selection The paper studies policy learning and answer-selection mechanisms to help language models decide when to abstain on factual questions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on calibrated abstention for QA rather than retrieval, chunking, or RAG architecture. | |
| OpenPA: Forced-alignment-free Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment with Mixed-transcript Adaptation The paper presents an automatic pronunciation assessment method using Whisper cross-attention to predict word- and utterance-level scores without forced alignment. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with speech scoring, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Structural Automata for Neural Semantic Parsing The paper proposes accepting-path decoding using structural automata to enforce valid prefix completions within length limits for neural semantic parsing. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on semantic parsing generation, not document retrieval or grounding. | |
| When VLMs Destroy What They Know: Spatial Representations Fall Below Lexical Priors The paper evaluates vision-language models' spatial representations using causally controlled perturbations, showing spatial relations degrade compared to lexical features. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on VLM internal representations, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| RSI-Anything: Unlocking Recursive Self-Improvement with World Models The paper introduces a domain-general framework using predictive world models to guide action selection and policy improvement in recursive self-improvement settings. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on recursive self-improvement and world models, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Same Outcome, Different Evidence: Intent Recovery in LLM Safety Evaluation Pairs attack success rate with operative understanding rate to assess whether models recognize harmful intent during safety evaluations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies safety refusal evaluation rather than retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| RouterInterp: Understanding Superposed Specialisation in Mixture of Experts Routing Proposes an interpretability framework using sparse autoencoders to explain mixture of experts routing based on superposed fine-grained features. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Analyzes internal MoE expert routing rather than external retrieval systems. | |
| Memento 3: Model-Based Recursive Self-Improvement through Reflective Rulebooks Proposes an external memory framework allowing frozen language model agents to learn and iteratively refine natural-language world models compiled into executable code. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Uses an internal rulebook memory rather than standard retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| GRPODropout: Less is More for Online Reinforcement Learning Rollouts Presents a rollout selection strategy that drops high-probability positive-advantage trajectories to prevent entropy collapse during language model reinforcement learning. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Pertains to post-training RL optimization, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation Proposes a framework modeling research ideation as modular thinking flows sampled dynamically from a probabilistic supernet. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on dynamic reasoning workflows rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| DataVista: Diagnosing Multimodal LLMs on Data Video Understanding Introduces a benchmark evaluating multimodal language models on extracting data, tracking narrative flows, and answering questions from animated data videos. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates multimodal understanding from video charts rather than external knowledge retrieval. | |
| Agentic-TTT: Training test-time policy for test-time training Proposes a policy mechanism enabling language models to decide when, how, and which test-time training procedures to execute. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on parameter-updating test-time training algorithms, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Examining Social Attribution in LLM Reasoning: A Theory-Guided Probing Methodology Proposes a benchmark and probing methodology based on attribution theory to examine how language models assign responsibility and blame. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval mechanisms or grounding on external databases. | |
| InterviewPlayground: A Validated Simulation Environment for Evaluating AI Interviewers Presents a simulated participant environment to evaluate multi-turn AI interviewers across market research and social science scenarios. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval systems, chunking, or external document grounding. |
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