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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · LLMs for code — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Rehearse Everything, Remember Nothing: Attic-KV Rehearses What Will Be Read The paper shows that whole-context KV cache rehearsal harms compression under tight budgets, proposing targeted rehearsal to preserve answer-relevant entries. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on long-context KV caching rather than code generation or software tasks. | |
| Language-Specific Effects of Tokenizer Choice in Multilingual Language Models The paper trains 123 models across 54 tokenizers to show tokenizer choice matters more for languages with less training data. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies multilingual natural language tokenization rather than programming code. | |
| When KL Regularization Misfires in Group Policy Optimization Analyzes interaction failures between KL regularization and rewards in group policy optimization and proposes a calibrated surrogate objective. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates mathematical reasoning rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| SteerablePlex: Can We Steer Full-Duplex Models? Introduces an instruction-following benchmark and training recipe to improve goal adherence in full-duplex conversational models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with speech dialog control rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| SciTBERT: A family of chronologically consistent language models for scientific and technological language processing Releases BERT models pre-trained with yearly chronological cutoffs to reduce lookahead bias in scientific and patent text mining. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies NLP to scientific papers and patents rather than code or software engineering. | |
| DiffuPlex: Accelerating Full-Duplex Spoken Dialog Models via Rolling Masked Diffusion Presents a rolling masked diffusion method that accelerates full-duplex spoken dialog models by forecasting multiple future interaction frames. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on spoken dialog diffusion models rather than code generation. | |
| Language Models as AI Research World Models Evaluates whether language models can act as world models to predict empirical experimental outcomes across AI research workflows. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on research workflow outcome prediction rather than software engineering. | |
| TokenRouter: Efficient Serving System for Token-Level LLM Routing Designs an inference serving system optimized for dynamic, token-level routing across multiple language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with LLM inference systems rather than code synthesis or program repair. | |
| NativeScope: Relation-Localized Retrieval over Native Topology with a Correct Anchor Proposes a scope-then-rank retrieval method using document topology and relational structure rather than pure semantic similarity. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses document retrieval rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| EgoVoice: Proactive Spoken Assistance from Egocentric Multimodal Streams Develops a framework for egocentric multimodal assistants to decide both when to speak and what guidance to provide. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address programming, code generation, or software engineering. | |
| SparseDecoding: Decoding-Aware Pruning for Accurate and Efficient LLM Inference Identifies distribution shift during autoregressive decoding and proposes a decoding-aware pruning method to accelerate model inference. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies to LLM decoding efficiency broadly, not software engineering or coding tasks. | |
| VFold: Symmetry-Aware Cross-Layer Value Cache Compression Presents a symmetry-aware value cache merging method to compress key-value memory during long-context decoding without architectural changes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general LLM memory efficiency rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| Which Skill to Distill? SGUID: Selecting a Compact Skill Bank for Model-Skill Co-Evolution Proposes a method to select a compact subset of procedural skills that provide effective training signals during model distillation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates general skill distillation rather than software development or coding models. | |
| Latent Core Tokenizer: Compress, but Meaningfully Introduces a multilingual tokenizer that uses structural discovery and linguistic constraints to improve downstream model representations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies multilingual vocabulary tokenization without addressing software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| SpaceCast-Bench: Evaluating Predictive Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Introduces a benchmark evaluating how well vision-language models predict unseen physical outcomes following scene interventions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code generation, program repair, or software engineering tasks. | |
| ViSkill: Reinforcing VLM Agents with Evolving Visual-Native Skills Proposes a framework that encodes visual trajectories into reusable skill cards to reinforce vision-language agent planning and rewards. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates visual RL environments rather than programming or software code. | |
| WOVEN: Weaving Visual World Modeling into Multimodal LLMs Presents a benchmark and dataset using generative video rollouts to train and evaluate visual transition reasoning in multimodal models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies multimodal physical and spatial reasoning, not software engineering or code. | |
| FastBench: Can Streaming VLMs Perceive High-Dynamic Real-World Streams? Introduces a benchmark evaluating streaming vision-language models on fast-moving, high-dynamic events in real-world video streams. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates dynamic video perception, entirely unrelated to software or coding. | |
| Contextual Correction of Parallel Draftsfor Speculative Decoding Introduces a lightweight correction mechanism to restore token dependencies during parallel draft generation in speculative decoding. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Develops a general speculative decoding mechanism rather than code-specific tools. | |
| CLUE: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Unsupervised Event Type Induction and Annotation Proposes an unsupervised framework using contrastive learning and clustering to induce, name, and annotate event types from text. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses natural language event extraction rather than programming or software code. | |
| One Model to Loop Them All: Elastic Latent Recurrence for Language Models Presents a training method for latent recurrent language models that avoids performance penalties at single loops while scaling with compute. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes a general language modeling architecture unrelated to coding or software engineering. | |
| Reflective Prompt Optimization of a Deep-Research Agent: A Topic-Disjoint, Multi-Seed Protocol for Measuring Transferable Gains and Prompt-Level Overfitting Studies reflective prompt optimization in research agents, demonstrating that gains on held-out tasks can stem from prompt-level memorization. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates deep-research citation agents, not coding or software development agents. | |
| Knowing Is Not Telling: Identity Ossification in LLM Representations of Trans-border Communities Proposes a diagnostic framework to study how language models compress fluid trans-border ethnic identities into rigid nation-state categories. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies cultural and geopolitical representations in text, not programming code. | |
| GeopoliticalQA: Benchmarking Retrieval and Generation over Intelligence Reports Introduces a benchmark of 5,525 QA pairs from intelligence reports to evaluate RAG document- and chunk-level retrieval. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on geopolitical QA, having no connection to code generation or software tasks. | |
| perturber: A Stateless Service for Semantics-Preserving Text Perturbations Presents a stateless service and library providing isolated, semantics-preserving text perturbations for language model robustness testing. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies text perturbations to general NLP benchmarks, not software engineering or code. | |
| Activating the Annotator: Operationalising Lived Experience in Data Annotation Tests whether priming annotators with scenario vignettes and micro-narratives improves the operationalization of lived experience in subjective annotation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on annotating subjective social text, unrelated to software code. | |
| U4RASD at KnowledgeGraphEval-2026: Ontology-Constrained Encoder and LLM Systems for Arabic Relation Extraction Describes an ontology-constrained ensemble system of encoders and fine-tuned language models for directed Arabic relation extraction. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses Arabic relation extraction rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| MADS: Multi-Agent Dialog Simulation for Robust Conversational Agents Generates synthetic multi-agent dialogues to benchmark conversational agent robustness against non-cooperative and adversarial user behaviors. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies task-oriented dialogue agents rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| DistressBench: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Crisis Support in Large Language Models Introduces an evaluation benchmark measuring how effectively language models provide supportive responses during self-harm and crisis disclosures. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates mental health crisis interactions, completely unrelated to code generation. | |
| Large Language Models, Machine-Assisted Cultural Analytics, and the Agentic Turn Examines methodological and conceptual implications of using large language models and agentic workflows for machine-assisted cultural analytics. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on cultural analytics rather than code generation or software development. | |
| People Making Conversation: Evaluating How Naturally Speech Models Converse Evaluates whether real-time speech models decide to speak appropriately during natural pauses and turn ends in unscripted conversations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on human-model speech interaction rather than code generation or software tools. | |
| When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks Introduces a benchmark evaluating how misleading visualizations and charts affect the multi-step execution and decisions of web agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates web-browsing agents rather than code generation or software engineering agents. | |
| Fear Is Not Always Fear: Variation in Emotion Label Equivalence Across Datasets Tests cross-corpus emotion classification transfer across three datasets, finding significant loss in discrimination and conceptual disagreement on labels. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Analyzes emotion classification datasets, with no focus on programming or software development. | |
| Unreliable Narrator Framing as a Cost-effective Mechanism for Satire Explanation of Australian and American Satirical News Evaluates whether framing explanations around unreliable narrator theory enables open-weight models to explain satirical news cost-effectively. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on satirical news explanation, unrelated to code synthesis, repair, or software engineering. | |
| Time Delay System for Sequence Modeling Proposes a sequence modeling framework using dynamic nonlinear time delays based on semantic similarity between current and past inputs. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general sequence modeling, not software engineering or code. | |
| Temporal Evidence Forests for Long-Horizon Multi-Party Conversational Memory Presents a temporal memory architecture using hierarchical tree structures to trace evolving multi-party conversational histories for agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses multi-party conversation memory, not code generation. | |
| Rethinking the Roles of Diffusion and Decoding: Predictive-State Flows for Parallel Language Generation Proposes separating continuous diffusion language generation into high-level flow-generated predictive states and block-level autoregressive token decoding. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on generic text generation, not software code synthesis. | |
| SEEDS: Preview-Guided Evidence Admission for Search Agents Introduces a preview-guided admission framework allowing search agents to selectively incorporate retrieved candidates into the ongoing reasoning context. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general search agents rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| MVGraph: Benchmarking LVLMs on Evidence Composition across Multi-View Visual Graph Introduces a benchmark evaluating vision-language models on graph-theoretic reasoning where evidence is split across multiple visual graph views. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on visual graph theory reasoning, not software engineering or code. | |
| Forecasting Corpus-Sampling Disagreement in Masked Text Reconstruction Derives a formula to forecast disagreement between masked text reconstruction models fitted on independent samples from the same population. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with theoretical text reconstruction statistics, not code LLMs. | |
| Language Models Have Interpretable Narrative Mechanisms Identifies internal attention heads, neurons, and sparse autoencoder features that causally influence narrative representation in language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on narrative text mechanisms, not software code. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general LLM creativity metrics, not code generation. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses general agent harness evolution rather than code generation specific tasks. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on numerical precision for deep models, not software engineering. | |
| CliQ-RRG: Clinical-Knowledge Guided Disease-aware Visual-Textual Alignment for QA-Style Radiology Report Generation Presents a two-stage visual-textual alignment and retrieval-augmented framework for generating structured radiology reports from medical scans. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on medical radiology reporting, not code development. | |
| KV-Repurpose: A Testbed for Evaluating Non-Prefix KV-Cache Reuse Develops an open-source testbed to evaluate segment-wise key-value cache reuse beyond exact prompt prefixes during language model serving. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Targets serving systems, not code generation or program repair. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Concerned with speech audio representation, not code 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Concerned with political social media text, not coding or software development. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on Romanian general text models, not software engineering or coding. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on narrative dialogue networks, not code generation or repair. | |
| SOAR: Source-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Precise Credit Assignment for Search Agents Proposes a reinforcement learning framework that tracks external versus internal knowledge sources to reduce search agent fabrication. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general web search and question answering, not programming or code tasks. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies to general reasoning sampling, not specifically to software engineering tasks. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on RL rollout efficiency in general, not code generation or program repair. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code LLMs or software development. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code models or software engineering. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on code generation or software engineering. | |
| Beyond the Final Embedding: Retrieving Memories from Token-Level Evidence Introduces a retrieval method combining token-level matching and document-level embeddings for memory-augmented language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code generation or software development. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not evaluate code-specific models or software engineering tasks. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve code generation or software engineering. |
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