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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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| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code generation or software engineering LLMs. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code generation or software tooling. | |
| Test-Time Memory Construction Presents a framework that defers memory construction to test time to answer queries across long interaction histories. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on code synthesis or software engineering. | |
| Overcoming Data Imbalances with Expert Selection Biases Proposes category-conditioned expert routing biases to mitigate data imbalance in mixture-of-experts language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates MoE routing across generic categories, not code-specific LLM systems. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation or software engineering tools. | |
| MoPrO-SD: Modular Prompt Optimization for Stance Detection Presents a modular prompt optimization framework and benchmark targeting stance detection in text. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software engineering. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not cover code models or software development tools. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve code generation or software engineering. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Not related to coding assistants or program repair. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on software engineering or code generation models. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on cyber-physical systems modeling rather than LLM-based coding tools. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not address code models or software engineering tasks. | |
| Proactive Agentic Orchestration Introduces POrchestra, an agentic orchestration framework enabling sub-agents to proactively communicate with the orchestrator during dynamic execution. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on coding assistants, code generation, or software engineering. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates spatial reasoning in multimodal models, unrelated to software engineering or code. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on speech LLMs and paralinguistics, unrelated to code or software development. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Examines machine-generated text detectors on scientific literature, not code 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates token compression algorithms, unrelated to software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies negative polarity items in linguistics, unrelated to code synthesis or programming. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses conversational assistant feedback rather than software engineering or code models. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Tests agent execution of generic scripts, but the primary focus is security and prompt injection. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies anti-money laundering transaction graphs, unrelated to code generation or software. | |
| Multi-Stream Attention Residuals The paper extends attention residuals across model depth by introducing multi-stream depth attention with causal convolutions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a general neural architecture improvement rather than code-specific language models. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies psychology and linguistic obfuscation in scientific text, unrelated to software code. | |
| Verifiable Retrieval for Legal Reasoning through Structure-driven Knowledge Graph The paper evaluates knowledge-graph-informed chunking and retrieval strategies over German legal code to support verifiable retrieval-augmented generation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies retrieval methods to German Legal Code rather than software engineering or code. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses statutory legal reasoning, not software engineering or code generation. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates object reasoning in visual scenes, unrelated to code generation or software. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies linguistic properties of English discourse particles, unrelated to code or software. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies natural dialogue classification, unrelated to code synthesis or software engineering. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on speech audio data augmentation, not software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| Tracing and Taming Hallucinated Terms via Subsequence-Association Filtering and Breadth-Aware Selection for LLM Query Expansion The paper proposes a training-free query expansion method that filters hallucinated terms using corpus-conditioned cross-context reproducibility. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on information retrieval query expansion rather than software engineering or code synthesis. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates factual QA datasets (TriviaQA, NQ), not software engineering or code generation. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Pertains to speech pronunciation assessment, not code models. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates abstract meaning representation parsing rather than programming language code generation. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies spatial representations in vision-language models, not code LLMs. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Code repair is only one evaluation domain among many for a general self-improvement method. | |
| Internalizer: Portable Context-to-Parameter Mapping for Very Large Language Models Presents a hypernetwork that maps document contexts directly into low-rank adapter weights for large language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on context parameterization, not software engineering or code 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Examines intent recovery in safety evaluation without focusing on coding assistants. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on foundational MoE routing interpretability rather than code LLMs or software tools. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Compiles rules to code for internal agent simulation rather than assisting software developers. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a general RL algorithm without a primary focus on code development or SE tasks. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on scientific research ideation rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates multimodal video understanding, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Neural Network Verification for Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding Presents a bound-propagation verification framework to bound worst-case reconstruction errors for deep joint source-channel coding decoders under noise. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with communications coding verification, not software engineering or coding LLMs. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies general test-time training policies, not code generation or software engineering tasks. | |
| 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 | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies social psychology attribution rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on conversational interviewing for social research, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Traceable World State: A Provenance-Aware State Representation and Deterministic Replay Framework for Robotic Systems Introduces an immutable, provenance-aware state representation framework with deterministic replay and audit logging for robotic systems. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Targets robotic state management and auditing, not LLM code generation or software engineering agents. | |
| When Should Agents Think? Adaptive Reasoning via Cross-Turn Estimation Proposes a training method to adaptively skip turn-by-turn agent reasoning when previous thoughts remain sufficient for future actions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general agent reasoning across turns rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| All Verdicts are Not Equal: Rethinking LLM Judge Reliability Audits the reliability of LLM judges across multiple prompt formats, temperatures, and orderings, introducing a trustworthy verdict metric. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Audits general LLM evaluators rather than models writing, debugging, or reviewing code. | |
| Universal Textual Teaching for LLMs Presents a parameter-free distillation framework transferring knowledge between language models via an iteratively updated natural language guide. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on universal textual distillation, not LLM code tools. | |
| Verdict Without the Rule: Diagnosing and Auditing Regulatory Rule Sensitivity in LLM Compliance Systems Evaluates whether LLM compliance systems adjust verdicts when governing rules are perturbed, finding many verdicts are insensitive to rule changes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not evaluate code generation, repair, or software engineering tasks. | |
| Overcoming Prior Barriers: Supervised Fine-Tuning under Long-Tail Distribution Analyzes long-tail concept learning during supervised fine-tuning using a theoretical prior barrier metric to guide data needs. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses general concept fine-tuning, not specialized code generation or software repair. | |
| Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM Agents under Knowledge Conflict Proposes an evaluation framework to measure how LLM agents handle uncertainty and resolve conflicting knowledge during execution. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates epistemic humility across general agent tasks, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Cited but Not Consulted: A Counterfactual Audit of Legal Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness Audits legal chain-of-thought faithfulness by substituting cited authorities and observing whether model verdicts causally change. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies to legal text and contracts, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Predicting Alignment Generalization with Value Representations Evaluates whether internal model representations can predict how fine-tuning on one value generalizes across other held-out values. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on general value alignment, not code generation, review, or software engineering. | |
| AutoIndexer: Flexible-Order Decoding by Training Causal Models on Chains of Edits Introduces a generative model that allows flexible post-hoc text editing through learned insertion, substitution, and deletion operations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Tests code correction only as a generic text editing application; main focus is decoding architecture. | |
| SpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire Presents a benchmark evaluating agentic large language models on long-horizon strategic reasoning in the game Slay the Spire. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not involve software engineering or code generation. | |
| Self-Preservation in Language Models Investigates self-preservation in language models by using task banks to steer synthetic replay during continual instruction tuning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Not specifically about code generation or software engineering. | |
| Cancerous Backdoor Attack: Gradual Activation via Invisible Tokens and A Stage Controller Demonstrates a backdoor attack where malicious reasoning degradation is triggered incrementally using invisible prompt tokens and stage tracking. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation or software engineering tasks. | |
| Recurrent Harness for Agentic Continual Learning Proposes a recurrent harness framework that uses streaming feedback to revise textual memory for continual agent learning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not specifically target code generation or software engineering agents. |
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