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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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| Delta Tokenizer: Reference-Identical Tokenization of Session Deltas and Segment-Parallelism for Long Prompts on Multicore CPUs The paper introduces a CPU front-end tokenizer that encodes only session deltas to speed up multi-turn inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Optimizes CPU tokenization for agent sessions, not agent planning or architecture. | |
| Model vs. User: Whose Values Prevail? Inference-Time Value Alignment in Multi-Turn Conversations The paper studies the durability of inference-time value steering in multi-turn conversations when user and model values conflict. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates multi-turn value steering, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| MAPLE: A Multi-Axis Parametric Knowledge Extraction Lens for LLM Evaluation The paper presents a diagnostic evaluation framework to measure how inference-time techniques affect parametric knowledge extraction in models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on AI agents or tool planning. | |
| OpenTWBench (Open Taiwan Benchmark): Taiwan-Domain Knowledge Evaluation for Large Language Models, and How the Measurement Apparatus Shapes the Score The paper introduces a two-part benchmark to evaluate language models on general and examination knowledge concerning Taiwan. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address AI agents. | |
| SEA-HELM Audio: Evaluating Multilingual ASR-LLM Pipeline Performance Across SEA-HELM Subsets The paper presents an audio evaluation benchmark assessing accuracy drops between speech-input and text-input pipelines in Southeast Asian languages. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Voice-agent mention is secondary; core focus is an evaluation benchmark. | |
| RCCM: Diagnosing Gains and Harms in Reasoning-Prompt Transfer The paper analyzes question-level variations and prompt-execution mismatches when transferring reasoning prompts across different language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates reasoning prompts, not multi-step agent systems. | |
| Beyond Benchmark Accuracy: A Diagnostic Test for LLM Chemical Prediction The paper proposes a diagnostic test hiding target identity to evaluate structure-property chemical reasoning in language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not about agentic planning or multi-agent systems. | |
| Not All Criteria Matter: Importance-Aware Criteria Weighting for Rubric-Based LLM Evaluation The paper introduces a method that weights rubric criteria through pairwise model comparisons to improve evaluation accuracy. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on evaluation weighting, not AI agents. | |
| To Reason but Not to Stop: Understanding and Recovering Pruned Large Reasoning Models The paper shows pruned reasoning models fail by looping, proposing an activation steering method to restore proper termination. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on model pruning termination, not agent architectures. | |
| Choosing the Number of Attention Heads from Intrinsic Dimension: A Small-Scale Study The paper tests a heuristic to set the number of transformer attention heads using the intrinsic dimension of token representations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on transformer attention head count, not AI agents. | |
| SoK: Grading Open-Text Legal Answers, from Law School Exams to Trustworthy Rubric Judges The paper systematizes grading requirements for open-text legal exams and compares eight evaluation paradigms using human and model judges. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on LLM grading rubrics, not autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| Gray-Box Hallucination Detection in LLMs with Token Identities The paper introduces a lightweight gray-box hallucination detector combining token probabilities with vector representations of token identities. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses hallucination detection, not multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| LintEval: Benchmarking LLMs on Linter-Guided File Refactoring The paper presents a multilingual benchmark to evaluate how language models resolve linter alerts while preserving program functionality. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on benchmarking code models, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| FACES: Fine-grained Gated Semantic Alignment for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation The paper introduces a gated semantic alignment framework with multi-source rewards to improve multimodal emotional support conversations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on conversation support alignment, not multi-step tool-use agents. | |
| What Is a Clarification? Estimating Model-Dependent Input Ambiguity The paper formalizes clarification criteria to estimate model-dependent input ambiguity based on accessible and valid answers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines ambiguity estimation, not multi-step autonomous planning agents. | |
| Language Exposure Matters: Distribution and Order in Multilingual BabyLM Pre-training The paper evaluates how language exposure distribution and ordering affect the performance of multilingual models trained with limited data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines multilingual pre-training data schedules, not autonomous agents. | |
| Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability in NLP: A Critical Survey of Recoverability, Interpretability, and Utility This paper surveys 138 studies on sparse autoencoders in NLP, examining dictionary design, feature recoverability, and practical utility. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Surveys mechanistic interpretability methods, not autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| Gap Detection: Mitigating Homogenization through Demand and Defensibility This paper introduces Gap Detection, an optimization method that identifies unoccupied semantic directions to reduce homogenization in open-ended model answers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on embedding search for diverse generation, not agents. | |
| RM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Generative Reward Models This paper presents RM-OPD, a framework that trains domain-specialized reward models via on-policy distillation into a generalist model. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on reward model distillation, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| TreeSpark: Learning to Draft the Trees You Verify for Speculative Decoding This paper introduces TreeSpark, a framework training semi-autoregressive drafters to generate candidate trees aligned with speculative verification. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on speculative decoding speed, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction This paper analyzes career path prediction systems, reporting that explicit skill representations provide marginal improvement over text-only job descriptions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes career path prediction models, not planning agents. | |
| Scaling Multilingual Mixture-of-Experts: How Language Coverage Changes Capacity and Compute Allocation This paper proposes a joint scaling law evaluating how adding experts in multilingual mixture-of-experts models affects language capacity and loss penalties. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual mixture-of-experts architecture, not agents. | |
| Repairing Speech Access After Text Updates with Frozen Affine Fields This paper introduces AFFIRM, using affine fields on frozen speech models to repair spoken access to recently updated text knowledge. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers speech-text representation alignment, not autonomous agents. | |
| Anuvani-LID: Robust and Calibrated Spoken Language Identification for Indian Languages This paper introduces Anuvani LID, a dedicated 115M parameter model for spoken language identification across 22 Indian languages. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on audio language identification, not multi-step agents. | |
| Neural POS Tagging for the Low-Resource Saraiki This paper introduces an annotated part-of-speech tagging dataset and evaluates pretrained transformer encoders for the low-resource Saraiki language. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses part-of-speech sequence tagging, not planning agents. | |
| Taking the PULSE of Medical Reasoning: Step-Level Retrieval Timing for Knowledge-Grounded Inference This paper proposes PUlSE, using internal layer representations to detect factual errors and trigger step-level retrieval during medical reasoning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on retrieval triggering rather than autonomous multi-step agent planning. | |
| Anuvani-Diarization: Zero Shot Speaker Diarization and Annotation Conventions Across 22 Languages This paper presents Anuvani-Diarization, evaluating zero-shot speaker diarization across 22 Indian languages with uncertainty-aware silver supervision. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on speech speaker diarization, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Cascaded Retrieval with Cross-Modal Query Refinement for Efficient Visual Document Search This paper proposes SCOUT, a cascaded two-track framework combining visual candidate filtering, offline semantic summaries, and query refinement for document retrieval. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on visual document retrieval architectures, not autonomous decision agents. | |
| From Triage to Impact: A Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark for Explainable Persian Hate Speech This paper introduces a multi-hop reasoning benchmark to evaluate fine-grained, explainable hate speech analysis in Persian. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates hate speech detection tasks, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| FOLD: Position-Free Far Memory with Local Order for Long-Context Speculative Decoding This paper introduces FOLD, a training-free speculative decoding approach treating distant tokens as position-free far memory for long-context generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents a speculative decoding strategy, not autonomous multi-step planning agents. | |
| The COUNT: Counting N-grams Unlocks Scaling on Host Memory and Training-Free Adaptation This paper introduces COUNT, scaling language model memory without training parameters by storing precomputed n-gram counts directly in host memory. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes n-gram embeddings on host memory, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| ChronoCulture: Evaluating Cultural Awareness Across Time in Large Language Models This paper introduces ChronoCulture to evaluate how well language models capture temporal changes in cultural attitudes across 72 countries. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Introduces a temporal cultural benchmark, not autonomous planning or tool agents. | |
| Lost in Translation: Why Lower Bias Scores Don't Mean Fairer Models This paper evaluates multilingual bias audits across ten language models, showing that lower stereotype scores often reflect translation artifacts rather than fairer behavior. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies bias auditing across multilingual translations, not autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| ReaDy: Recurrent States as Dynamic Context for Speculative Drafting in Hybrid Linear Attention Large Language Models This paper presents ReaDy, a speculative decoding method using hybrid linear attention recurrent states to provide position-specific context during drafting. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes speculative decoding for hybrid linear models, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| Manacá-1B-Instruct-2: Reproducible Safety Alignment for a Native Brazilian-Portuguese LLM. Negative DPO Results, a Controlled Composition Scan, and a Silent Failure Mode of the LLM Judge Documents safety alignment methods, negative preference tuning outcomes, and automated judge limitations for a Portuguese language model. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on safety alignment of a Portuguese language model, not agents. | |
| Latent Compaction with Test-Time Training Compresses long-context key-value caches using test-time training on generic document prompts without task-specific labels. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes KV-cache compression via test-time training, not autonomous agents. | |
| Personalising Deformable Image Registration with Clinical Context and Deformation History for Adaptive Radiotherapy Integrates clinical text and deformation history into medical image registration models for adaptive radiotherapy planning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with medical deformable image registration, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Non-Abelian quantum Hall states at strong Landau level mixing: finding anyons with first-principles AI Uses a neural-network variational wave function to model non-Abelian quantum Hall states with realistic Landau level mixing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies neural wave functions to quantum physics, not language model agents. | |
| Discovering Undisclosed Concepts in LoRA Adapters for Diffusion-Based AIGC Models Proposes an optimization method to discover undisclosed or harmful generation concepts embedded within diffusion model adaptation weights. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies LoRA concept discovery in diffusion models, not autonomous agents. | |
| Evaluating Large Language Models for Multilingual Abstractive Summarization: A Comprehensive Study of English and Bengali Evaluates closed and open models on English and Bengali abstractive summarization using lexical metrics, factuality checks, and automated judges. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual summarization evaluation, not autonomous multi-step planning or tools. | |
| Scaling Cheap Synthetic Pretraining Improves Indoor Radio-Map Prediction Improves indoor radio-map prediction by pretraining models on diverse synthetic floorplans and an open-source ray tracer. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on physical wireless radio propagation rather than LLM agents. | |
| Who Should We Listen to More? Welfare-Aware Preference Acquisition for Pluralistic Alignment Introduces a welfare-aware objective to allocate limited human feedback across diverse individuals when training pluralistic alignment models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses alignment data collection rather than autonomous agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Loss Curvature as a Sampling-Free Proxy for Memorization in Diffusion Models Proposes input loss curvature as a sampling-free metric to detect the onset of training data memorization in diffusion models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies diffusion model memorization rather than autonomous planning agents. | |
| Graph Coarsening Enables Escaping Local Optima in Compute-Constrained Nonconvex MAX-CUT Combines spectral graph coarsening with continuous relaxation to find high-quality solutions for compute-constrained MAX-CUT problems. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Concerns mathematical graph optimization rather than autonomous language model agents. | |
| RLPE: Teaching LLMs to Prompt with Reinforcement Learning Uses reinforcement learning to train an auxiliary model that inspects execution traces and generates targeted prompts for another system. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Trains a model to generate prompts rather than designing multi-step autonomous planning agents. | |
| How Inner Optimizers Shape Replica Scaling Studies how the choice of local optimizers affects model performance degradation when scaling distributed training replicas under fixed budgets. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Concerns distributed pretraining optimizers rather than multi-step language model agents. | |
| Revisiting Generative vs. Dense Retrieval: A Static Value Prior Reverses the Gap Shows that incorporating static item value into dense retrieval outperforms generative retrieval in e-commerce recommendation settings. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on candidate retrieval for recommendation rather than multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies automatic prompt optimization dynamics rather than multi-step autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| DexMimic: A Generalist Dexterous Hand-Object Tracking Policy via Value-Guided Reset Allocation Introduces a generalist policy that tracks diverse dexterous hand-object interactions using value-guided reset allocation during training. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers physical robotic hand control rather than LLM-based planning or tool-use agents. | |
| Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models Surveys dataset design, construction methods, and evaluation protocols for improving spatial reasoning in multimodal language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Surveys spatial dataset construction for vision models rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates foundational in-context learning mechanics rather than agentic planning or tools. | |
| Genesis Steering: Better Activation Steering Through Training Data Steers language model activations using vectors derived directly from the model's own training data or inferred proxy data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates activation steering vectors rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on MLP pruning for transformer layers, not multi-step agent architectures. | |
| Learning in Orbit: Onboard Training and Closed-Loop Attitude Control with a Thermal Segmentation Model on a Spacecraft The paper demonstrates onboard thermal segmentation training and closed-loop attitude control on a satellite in low Earth orbit. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Involves satellite attitude control and onboard segmentation, not LLM agents or tool planning. | |
| PairIT: Autoregressive Transformers for Low-Data Molecule Optimization The paper introduces a transformer framework trained on matched molecular pairs for prompt-guided, multi-property molecular optimization in low-data regimes. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on molecular SMILES generation rather than multi-step agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Imagining Goals with Geometric Horizon Models for Policy Generalization The paper proposes sampling from a geometric horizon world model to imagine novel outcomes for zero-shot policy generalization. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning policy generalization, not LLM planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Describes ontology construction from maintenance logs rather than autonomous planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on speech recognition model distillation rather than agent planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates long-form planning determinations without multi-step autonomous tool use or execution. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on static question-answering evaluation rather than multi-step tool-use agents. |
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