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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Does not investigate retrieval systems, chunking, or external document grounding.
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