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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation The authors introduce LIBERO-PeRM, a simulation benchmark for studying how embodied robotic agents learn and follow user preferences in manipulation tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on general robotics manipulation rather than LLM-based agent systems. | |
| Reliability without Validity: A Systematic, Large-Scale Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge Models Across Agreement, Consistency, and Bias The paper evaluates twenty-one language models used as judges across three benchmarks, finding widespread discrepancies between agreement metrics and underlying validity. PreprintOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 16 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Evaluates LLM judges, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| An adaptive strategy to help students in e-Learning systems using competency-based ontology and agents The paper proposes an adaptive strategy using software agents and competency-based ontologies to assist students in e-learning platforms. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2011) Older paper (2011) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Summary contains only IEEE boilerplate text without paper content. | |
| AsymGroup: Asymmetric Grouping and Communication Optimization for 2D Tensor Parallelism in LLM Inference The paper introduces an asymmetric 2D tensor parallelism framework to optimize large language model inference across hardware with uneven GPU capacities. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on distributed GPU tensor parallelism, not agentic planning systems. | |
| Adaptive Task Token Framework for Multi-Agent Logistics Operations The paper presents a task token framework designed to maintain sub-second runtime for multi-agent logistics operations with hundreds of agents. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Summary contains mostly web boilerplate without clear LLM agent focus. | |
| MMH-STA: A Macro-Micro-Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Attention Method for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction in Unsignalized Roundabouts The paper presents a spatio-temporal attention framework to predict trajectories of multiple mixed agents in unsignalized traffic roundabouts. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2023) Older paper (2023) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses vehicle trajectory prediction, not LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| InsightChain - AI Agent For Data Driven Supplier Discovery and Analysis The text contains publisher metadata and page navigation text without readable abstract details about the InsightChain supplier discovery agent. Not a research paperPeer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Summary contains only IEEE boilerplate text without paper content. | |
| Self-Healing AI Systems Using Multi-Agent Learning The paper presents an autonomous framework using multiagent reinforcement learning to monitor, diagnose, and recover from failures in production AI systems. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Uses classical reinforcement learning agents, not language model planning agents. | |
| CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs The authors introduce CharXiv, a benchmark of realistic scientific charts designed to test descriptive and reasoning capabilities in multimodal language models. PreprintOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 15 Oct, 15:11 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal chart understanding benchmarks, not autonomous AI agents. | |
| A Technical Survey of Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Large Language Models This survey provides an algorithmic overview and failure mode analysis of reinforcement learning techniques applied to language models. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Broad survey of reinforcement learning methods for LLMs, not AI agents. | |
| ENVACE: INTERNALIZING ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS Summary pending (next check). Could not confirmPreprint | AI agents via openreview · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Waiting for check | |
| TOWARDS RUNTIME MULTI-AGENT TOPOLOGY ... Summary pending (next check). Could not confirmPreprint | AI agents via openreview · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Waiting for check | |
| AutoAgent: A Fully-Automated and Zero-Code Framework for LLM Agents - ACL Anthology Summary pending (next check). Could not confirmPreprint | AI agents via acl · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Waiting for check | |
| Structural Dependence, Imitation or Herding? A Multi-Agent Simulation of Global Intermedia Agenda Setting The paper uses multi-agent language model simulations to evaluate why international news outlets replicate the agenda of major Western media. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Uses LLMs for computational social science simulation, not agent capabilities. | |
| TANGO: RNA Topology and Geometry Co-Design The paper presents a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for designing RNA sequences by co-optimizing both secondary topology and tertiary geometry. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-agent reinforcement learning for RNA design, not tool-using language agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates prompt interface design for forecasting, not multi-step agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses attention computation efficiency, not autonomous agentic workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates gendered reference modeling, not planning or autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates linguistic representation learning, not multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates zero-shot social science tasks, not multi-step agentic systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies ranking models for arena votes, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| DecisionRobust: Benchmarking Robustness for JEV Style Decision Models Across Text and Vision The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating the robustness of typed decision models against text, image, and prompt injection attacks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on decision model robustness, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates code diversity without investigating multi-step planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents a qualitative research methodology, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text evaluation metrics, not autonomous planning or agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes benchmarking methodology rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents a sentiment benchmark, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on statistical sampling estimation rather than LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes a regression head architecture, not agentic planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on automated essay scoring frameworks, not agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on training compact language models, not agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates LLM evaluators on personalization errors, not agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on document clustering pipelines, not multi-step agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates training data filtering decomposition, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes layer-ablation dynamics, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates proposition salience extraction, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies reinforcement learning for diffusion language models, not agent workflows. | |
| More Than Seeing: Vision as Scalable Anchors in Native Multimodal Pre-Training The paper studies how visual input signals affect scaling behavior and non-visual reasoning during native multimodal pretraining. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies multimodal pre-training and spatial reasoning, not autonomous agents. | |
| What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities The paper analyzes post-training in audio-language models to separate genuine audio reasoning gains from question-format memorization. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates audio-language model post-training, not multi-step agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on single-step candidate scoring, not multi-step agentic workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on streaming text normalization, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on decoding algorithms for diffusion models, not agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on RL alignment and instruction following, not multi-step agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on psychometric student modeling, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies attacks on GraphRAG evidence pipelines, not agent execution. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on internal latent reasoning prefixes, not tool-augmented agents. | |
| Moral Combat: Exploiting Moral Foundations Theory to Jailbreak LLMs The paper introduces a multi-agent framework that reframes harmful requests using Moral Foundations Theory to test model jailbreak vulnerabilities. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Uses multi-agent framing merely as an attack tool rather than studying agent systems. | |
| PA1-OPD: One-Step Prefix-Augmented On-Policy Distillation for Language Model Pretraining The paper proposes a prefix-augmented distillation method providing one-step student branch feedback during language model pretraining. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents pretraining distillation methods, not multi-step agent systems. | |
| PN-Mix: Pair-Norm Guided Mixed-Precision Key Cache Quantization for Efficient Long-Output LLM Inference The paper proposes a pair-norm guided mixed-precision quantization method for key caches during long-output transformer inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on KV cache quantization mechanics, not tool-using agent architectures. | |
| Twenty Days Later: A Pre-Registered Test of History-Based Forecasts of Brand Mentions in Gemini Answers The paper reports a pre-registered test measuring the stability of history-based forecasts for model brand mentions over twenty days. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Measures brand mention consistency, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| Are We Really Measuring Forgetting? Pitfalls in Evaluating Machine Unlearning for Multimodal LLMs The paper identifies evaluation pitfalls in multimodal machine unlearning and introduces a benchmark grounded in real-world knowledge. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on machine unlearning evaluation, not interactive multi-step agents. | |
| Selective Reasoning for Typed Decision Models: When to Start, Read, and Stop The paper proposes an interface for typed decision models that selectively invokes and interrupts reasoning to balance accuracy and latency. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses internal test-time reasoning control, not tool-using agentic workflows. | |
| Beyond Distribution Matching: Selective Margin Preservation for Supervised Fine-Tuning The paper introduces a soft margin preservation target for supervised fine-tuning to retain non-target token rankings. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers supervised fine-tuning loss targets, not autonomous planning or agents. | |
| BANGLAPLAN: A Benchmark for Constraint-Based Planning and Decision-Making in Bangla The paper introduces a 1,000-problem benchmark for constraint-based planning and decision-making in the Bangla language. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Introduces a static problem benchmark rather than an interactive agent system. | |
| Beyond State Capacity: Why Retrieval Breaks in Mamba The paper analyzes retrieval failures in Mamba architectures under query-first settings and explores token representations and selection gates. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on recurrent model internal retrieval mechanisms, not tool-using agents. | |
| MakSafe: A Spatiotemporal Semantic Framework for Formal Specification and Compliance Checking of Road Vehicle Safety Rules The paper presents a formal spatiotemporal framework to specify and verify road vehicle safety rules across continuous trajectories. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Autonomous vehicle safety verification, not LLM agents. | |
| Beyond Reachability: A Relation-Semantic Reasoning Framework for Biomedical Multi-hop QA The paper proposes a relation-semantic reasoning framework to resolve disconnects between answer reachability and valid paths in biomedical graphs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on biomedical graph multi-hop QA, not AI agents. | |
| Qwen-MT-Lumen at WMT2026: Instruction-Specialized Translation via Quality-Aware Training and On-Policy Distillation The paper presents a four-stage training pipeline combining preference optimization and distillation for instruction-following machine translation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on machine translation fine-tuning, not agents. | |
| Likelihood Is Not Authorship: Can We Reliably Measure Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Writing? The paper reveals vulnerabilities in prompt-predictability metrics used to estimate human contribution in AI-assisted writing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies human authorship estimation in AI text, not agents. | |
| JetSpec++: Foresight Parallel Drafting with Self Refinements The paper introduces a speculative decoding system combining self-refinement and pipelined drafting to reduce wall-clock generation time. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on speculative decoding, not AI agents. |
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