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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Multimodal models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Smart Alone, Blind Together: Why Accuracy Fails to CertifyTheory of Mind in Multi-Agent Teams Argues that inferential accuracy fails to evaluate agent coordination safely because correlated errors can compound into costly team actions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates agent coordination without focusing on multimodal vision or audio processing. | |
| Beyond Aggregate Accuracy: Item-Level Transitions in Prompt Optimization Introduces a prompt optimization framework that monitors item-level regressions and recoveries rather than relying solely on aggregate accuracy. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates text-based prompt optimization without multimodal components. | |
| From Copying to Composition: How Language Models Develop In-Context Learning Analyzes how language models develop in-context learning by separating simple demonstration copying from multi-token rule composition across training checkpoints. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates unimodal text language models without multimodal components. | |
| Unlocking Structured Pruning for Reasoning Language Models via Attention-Preserving MLP Trimming The paper proposes a training-free structured pruning method that trims multilayer perceptron layers while preserving attention mechanisms for reasoning tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Exclusively addresses text-based reasoning models without multimodal data. | |
| Plant Memory: Technical Language Processing and a Verified Maintenance Ontology for Agent-Accessible Failure Knowledge from SAP PM Work Orders The paper presents a system using technical language processing to transform industrial maintenance work order records into an ontology. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Processes industrial free-text maintenance orders without multimodal image or audio modalities. | |
| CAFE: Confining Feature Distillation to Language-Routed Adapters for Compact Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition The paper proposes confining feature distillation loss to language-routed adapters to balance performance in compact multilingual speech recognition models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses purely on automatic speech recognition distillation, not multimodal cross-modal reasoning. | |
| MA-Bench: Measuring Operational Planning in Language Models The paper introduces a benchmark assessing language models on operational planning from incomplete, complex, and contradictory military document sets. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Exclusively uses textual operational document scenarios without multimodal inputs. | |
| Into the Unknown: Benchmarking AI agents on open scientific research problems The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether frontier language model agents can execute open scientific research and produce follow-up papers. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on multimodal reasoning across vision, audio, or document models. | |
| ListQA: A Benchmark for Evaluating List-Formatted Factual Knowledge Retrieval in Large Language Models The paper introduces an evergreen benchmark to evaluate the ability of language models to retrieve and format multi-element factual lists. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Restricted purely to text-based factual question answering without multimodal components. | |
| Titan-Llama: Retrofitting Pre-trained LLMs with External Neural Memory Modules The paper presents a method to retrofit attention models with hierarchical test-time neural memory modules to improve long-context inference efficiency. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses solely on text-based language model attention and context architectures. | |
| Do Syntax Heads Influence Model Behavior? The paper analyzes whether syntactic attention heads in transformers play a direct causal role in syntactic language predictions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies textual syntax heads rather than multimodal vision-language understanding. | |
| Copy-Paste Language Models The paper proposes adding an explicit copy-paste prediction head to language models to improve in-context retrieval and copying efficiency. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on textual token copying heads rather than multimodal understanding. | |
| Whose Data, Whose Benchmark? A User-Centric Framework for Auditing Evaluation Resources The paper introduces a framework to audit cultural, geographic, and user-representation biases embedded within popular machine learning benchmarks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on benchmark audit methodologies rather than multimodal architecture or reasoning. | |
| LLM-jp-4 Technical Report The paper details the development, training data criteria, and performance of the open Japanese sovereign models, LLM-jp-4. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text language models without multimodal cross-domain capabilities. | |
| Steering Vectors for Competing Ethical Frameworks Are Interchangeable: A Competing-Target Test for Activation Steering The paper introduces a test showing that steering vectors designed for competing ethical frameworks behave interchangeably in open-weight models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines text model representation steering, not multimodal perception. | |
| Tail Competition Explains Scaling in Best-of-N Sampling for Verifiable Problems The paper analyzes Best-of-N sampling as an extreme-value competition between tails of correct and incorrect responses to explain reward hacking. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with reward scaling theory, not multimodal data. | |
| Beyond Corrected Actions: Training LLM Agents on Textual Critiques The paper proposes a fine-tuning method that trains language model agents using textual expert critiques alongside corrected actions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies strictly to text-based multi-turn agent environments. | |
| Evaluating Compressed Memory: Dependence, Utility, and Content Benefit The paper evaluates whether language models genuinely benefit from compressed memory by comparing them against memory-free baseline models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses exclusively on text passages and memory representations. | |
| KoAGE: Do Large Language Models Know, Learn, and Coin Korean Neologisms? The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how well language models recognize, infer, and coin newly emerging Korean terms. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text-based neologisms, not multimodal data. | |
| From Failures to Learnable Worlds: Policy-Conditioned Environment Generation for Navigation Agents The paper presents a method that uses agent failure patterns to generate tailored simulation environments for embodied navigation learning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on embodied navigation policies rather than vision-language models. | |
| How Do LLMs Understand Legal Philosophy? Diagnosing Legal-Philosophical Reasoning in LLMs The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how well language models understand legal philosophy and apply it to legal reasoning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Assesses text-based legal opinions without multimodal capabilities. | |
| Robust Real-Time Monocular Human Pose Estimation with Insole-Based Sensor Fusion The paper combines camera video and insole sensor signals to improve real-time monocular human pose estimation under visual occlusion. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on insole sensor fusion, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| Structure-Preserving Document-Level Data Augmentation via Discourse Parsing The paper introduces a document-level data augmentation method using discourse structure parsing to preserve logical flow during text generation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Works purely on document-level text without multimodal modalities. | |
| Retrieve What Helps, Only When It Helps: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Selective Retrieval-Augmented Machine Translation The paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework that decides when and what external knowledge to retrieve for machine translation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text translation without multimodal image or audio components. | |
| Typed Decision Models on Tabular Data The paper compares typed probabilistic decision models with large language models on tabular data classification and format robustness. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with structured tabular text data without multimodal visual inputs. | |
| Evidence-Anchored Overdose Death Prediction from Death Investigation Reports The paper presents an automated framework to predict suspected drug overdose deaths from investigation reports using expert-guided rationales. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Processes text investigation reports without computer vision or multimodal inputs. | |
| $τ$-Emotion-Bench: Exposing the Interaction Fragility of LLM Agents through Real-World User Emotions The paper introduces a benchmark to measure how tool-calling agents perform when interacting with emotionally varied, impatient users. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers text-based interactive dialog and tool use, not multimodal reasoning. | |
| REWIND: Uncertainty-Guided Trajectory Repair for Test-Time Reasoning The paper introduces a training-free controller that uses token entropy to target and regenerate faulty reasoning steps at test time. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on text-based mathematical and reasoning benchmarks. | |
| Who's Behind the Text? Robust Model Authorship Attribution The paper proposes a likelihood-based attribution method to identify the source model of machine-generated text under distribution shifts. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses exclusively on text attribution without multimodal capabilities. | |
| Divergent Paths: Learning an Outcome-Predictive Representation of LLM Agent Trajectories The paper learns trajectory embeddings to predict the success or failure of language model agents early during execution. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address multimodal models or vision-language reasoning. | |
| DAGFormer: Global Topology Prediction for Transformer Cross-Layer Connections The paper proposes a Transformer architecture that plans dynamic cross-layer connections globally across the model based on input tokens. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on autoregressive language modeling, not multimodal processing. | |
| Sparse Autoencoders Are a Shared Coordinate System for Symbolic Matching The paper uses sparse autoencoders to establish a shared coordinate system for matching symbols across heterogeneous neuro-symbolic systems. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on symbolic representations in text models, not multimodal models. | |
| Model What Matters: Decision-Guided Selective World Modeling for Language Agents The paper proposes a decision-guided co-training method that selectively filters observation units to improve world modeling for language model agents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with text environment observations, not multimodal models. | |
| HACHIMI-II: From Role-Play to Learner Behavior Modeling for Faithful Student Simulation The paper simulates student behavior by modeling individual learner history and constraining simulated actions via a third-person prediction harness. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies to text dialogue and response modeling, not multimodal processing. | |
| Measuring and Reducing Unusable Replies of LLM Agents The paper measures whether requester users can understand multi-step agent replies and evaluates how explicit constraints improve reply usability. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text replies from agents, not multimodal understanding. | |
| Interlock: From Local Correctness to Task Completion in Long-Horizon Agents The paper proposes a graph-based task synthesis framework to help long-horizon agents satisfy inter-dependent constraints and achieve complete task outcomes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses long-horizon text agent tasks, not multimodal models. | |
| Function-Space Temporal Self-Distillation for Policy Optimization The paper introduces a single-policy optimization framework combining privileged adaptation with stored historical next-token distributions for language model reasoning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on language model reasoning optimization, not multimodal inputs. | |
| SceneAE: Scene Generation and Reconstruction in Queryable 3D-Anchored Latent Space The paper proposes a 3D-anchored latent space representation for simultaneous scene reconstruction and view generation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on 3D computer vision rather than multimodal language reasoning. | |
| Articulation Upper Bounds for Language Models The paper introduces prompt optimization and recovery measurement tools to evaluate the limits of transmitting concepts between scaling language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Purely focused on text concepts between language models. | |
| Does the Linguistic Register of Thinking Matter? Wenyan as a Compact Reasoning Register for Chinese LLMs This paper investigates using Classical Chinese as a compact intermediate reasoning register to reduce token length in Chinese language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Exclusively text-based language model reasoning. | |
| PRISMATIC : Prescription Risk Inspection System for Multi-Agent Treatment Interaction in Clinical Decision-Making This paper proposes a multi-agent system designed to reduce clinical medication errors through dynamic collaborative coordination. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Processes clinical text records, not multimodal data. | |
| Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning This paper trains language models using reinforcement learning to generate explicit perception-to-action rules for theory-of-mind reasoning tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Purely text-based reasoning without vision or multimodal components. | |
| Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning This paper presents a flow matching method to distill diverse continuous latent reasoning distributions from multiple chain-of-thought rationales. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on textual and latent reasoning paths, not multimodal perception. | |
| Frustratingly Easy Majority Voting Using Length Conditioning The paper proposes weighting majority voting responses using a length-conditioned prior adapted at test time without model fine-tuning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies exclusively to text-based reasoning models, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Does Machine Translation Retain Media Bias? The paper investigates whether machine translation systems preserve or neutralize media bias across languages. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers text-only machine translation without any multimodal data. | |
| AtomSearch: Evidence-Grounded Tree Search for Agent Skill Optimization The paper proposes a tree search method that optimizes agent skills through contrastive atomic rule editing and execution memory. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address vision, audio, or multimodal representations. | |
| A Strong Harness Narrows the Model Gap: A Comparative Evaluation for Legislative Document-to-XML Conversion The paper evaluates harnesses for legislative document conversion, showing structured multi-agent pipelines narrow performance gaps between models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Processes legislative text documents without image, audio, or video modalities. | |
| Which Knowledge Should LLMs Trust? Uncovering a Generalizable Steering Direction Across Knowledge Conflicts The paper identifies an activation steering vector that controls whether language models rely on internal memory or retrieved external context. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Exclusively investigates text representations in language models. | |
| AFCS: Atomic-Fact-Conditioned Synthesis for Factual Knowledge Pretraining The paper proposes a synthetic data pipeline that extracts atomic facts from source texts to guide factual pretraining for language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses text pretraining rather than multimodal models. | |
| LLM-Based Policy Compliance Verification of Loan Applications The paper describes an automated system using language models to verify corporate loan applications against internal bank lending policies. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Processes text loan policies and applications, not multimodal inputs. | |
| MultiPartyTurnBench: Benchmarking Floor Control in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate conversational floor control, turn completion, and interruptions in multi-party spoken dialogue systems. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on spoken audio dialogue rather than general multimodal reasoning. | |
| Cross-Model In-Context Neurofeedback Reveals (Limited) Activation Control in LLMs The paper uses in-context neurofeedback sessions to evaluate whether language models can intentionally control their internal activations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses exclusively on text LLM activation vectors. | |
| What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds The paper presents a benchmark evaluating whether conversational agents agree on verifiable plans that satisfy both parties' private conditions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates text-based dialogue scenarios without multimodal modalities. | |
| Scaling Multilingual Safety and Reasoning Evaluation through Reasoning-Guided Translation The paper introduces a reasoning-guided translation framework to scale multilingual safety and reasoning benchmarks while preserving original task meanings. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with multilingual text translation and reasoning, not multimodal inputs. | |
| CSWBench: Evaluating Context-Sensitive Code-Switching in Creative Writing The paper introduces a benchmark and evaluation framework assessing context-sensitive code-switching by language models in creative writing tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines multilingual text generation without any visual or audio modalities. | |
| TreeFlex: Agents Navigating Their Own Search Trees The paper proposes a framework where an agent policy navigates a global search tree by alternating between reflection and execution roles. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with reasoning search trees, not multimodal vision-language tasks. | |
| Cortex: Consolidating Context into Parametric Memory The paper presents a method to consolidate context gains into parametric model weights using prospective queries and low-rank feed-forward updates. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates general context consolidation across backbones, not core multimodal capability. | |
| From Unreliable to Usable: Decomposing Failure Modes and Confidence Signals in LLM Entity Extraction - Evidence from Cyber Threat Intelligence The paper evaluates failure modes and confidence calibration across frontier and lightweight language models during entity extraction from cyber threat intelligence reports. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text-based entity extraction from documents. | |
| Analyzing performance of Retrieval Augmented Generation models for Question Answering Tasks The paper analyzes the performance of retrieval-augmented generation architectures on open-domain question answering tasks involving culturally grounded South Asian narratives. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text question answering, not multimodal models. | |
| SwarmRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Scientific Agent Swarm The paper presents a recursive self-improvement framework using scientific agent swarms that mutate hypotheses and recombine code based on experimental feedback. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address multimodal language-vision models. |
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