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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI safety and reliability in deployment — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Abstracts or full text? Evaluating input scope and computational efficiency in biomedical lay summarization
Compares abstract-only versus full-text inputs and few-shot versus fine-tuning approaches for generating biomedical lay summaries.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on summarization efficiency rather than deployment safety risks.
SceneWeave: Audience-Guided Scene Exploration for Dramatic Adaptation
Introduces a system that generates and compares alternative scene drafts to guide full dramatic script adaptations from prose.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on creative adaptation quality, not safety risks or guardrails.
Content associations with answer selection and engagement in supply chain community question answering
Analyzes how specific nouns and semantic clusters relate to answer selection and user engagement in logistics question-answering forums.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not investigate AI safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
N-Gram Memories at Two Bits: Quantizing Lookup Tables in Large Language Models
Proposes a compressed representation using Gaussian trellises to quantize conditional memory lookup tables down to two bits.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with table quantization, not safety, robustness, or alignment.
Dynamic ordering in sequence generation in Transformers: experiments on low-resource Tagging scenarios
Introduces a non-autoregressive transformer model that dynamically decides tag generation order at inference time for low-resource sequence labeling.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses grammatical tagging rather than deployment safety or jailbreaks.
TEM: Temporal State Tracking Memory for Large Language Model Agents
Presents a training-free framework that tracks changing conversational facts as versioned records to improve agent memory retrieval.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or unlearning.
Learning Speech Attribute Representations via Multi-Teacher Distillation
Distills multiple speech attributes from four teacher models into a single shared speech encoder.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not study safety risks, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
P2TPO: Structure-Aligned Page-to-Token Credit Assignment for Full-Page Document Parsing
Proposes a reinforcement learning credit-assignment method for document parsing models to align rewards with structured page elements.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Optimizes parsing accuracy rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
WEAVE: Weaving Real-World Code Evolution into Dependency-Structured Tasks for Benchmarking and Training Code Agents
Introduces a benchmark that structures multi-pull-request code changes into dependency graphs to evaluate long-horizon software engineering agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Examines code task progress rather than safety guardrails or vulnerabilities.
Beyond Context Length: Characterising the Difficulty of Long-Context Reasoning
Presents a benchmark that measures long-context reasoning difficulty using evidence scope, dispersion, and reasoning depth.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies context difficulty metrics, not safety or guardrails.
The Right Byte First: How UTF-16 Helps Multilingual Boundary Prediction
Studies how using UTF-16 byte order improves boundary prediction and representation efficiency in multilingual byte-level language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not touch on safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
Patch where the text is new: a compression view of where byte-level models should spend compute
Introduces a compression-based patching strategy for byte-level language models that allocates compute where upcoming bytes are unlikely to repeat.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not investigate safety, red-teaming, or model alignment.
Unfragmenting Nawatl NMT: Single-Variant Specialization for Masewalkopa
Specializes a translation model to a specific indigenous Nawatl variety using a curated dataset and finite-state morphological analysis.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not evaluate deployment safety risks or model robustness.
Intern-Decision: Efficient Multimodal Decision Making with Autoregressive Masked Language Modeling
Develops small multimodal models that output structured choices using masked language modeling to reduce inference latency in agent tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on inference speed and calibration rather than safety guardrails.
CLUE: Uncovering Social Context for Pragmatic Understanding
Develops a two-stage training approach combining evidence reasoning and reinforcement learning to improve pragmatic social reasoning in conversational models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety, guardrails, or adversarial robustness.
Lexical Reference Frames: Interpreting LM Residual Streams in Native Semantics
Introduces lexical reference frames to interpret intermediate hidden states in language models using the model's own remaining layers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents mechanistic interpretability, not deployment safety or guardrails.
EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment
Proposes an event-centric framework to align audio and video features when generating detailed video descriptions with language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not address safety, jailbreaks, or deployment risks.
Hy-Memory-30B-A3B: Attributed Reinforcement Learning for Long-Term Memory Writing
Introduces a compact language model trained with distillation and reinforcement learning to manage long-term memory across multiple external frameworks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not target safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or red-teaming.
Not X, but When: Diagnosing a Mandarin LLM Writing Tic through Contextual Appropriateness
Analyzes the overuse and contextual appropriateness of a common corrective phrasing pattern in Mandarin language model text.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes stylistic linguistic tics rather than deployment safety risks.
Multi-Target Few-Shot Prompting with Diffusion Language Models
Uses diffusion language models to perform multi-target few-shot infilling across shared code context guided by demonstration examples.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not address safety, jailbreaks, or alignment monitoring.
Grid-Bench: Can LLMs Predict How Discrete Worlds Change?
Evaluates the ability of language models to predict state changes in discrete spatial grids across sequential operations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on spatial reasoning evaluation, not deployment safety.
Training Reasoning Models to Generate Diverse Scientific Ideas
Introduces a set-level reinforcement learning objective to train language models to produce diverse and document-grounded scientific research ideas.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not examine deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
OmniVerifier-C1: Decomposed Graded Verifier for Rule-Governed Generative World Modeling
Proposes a visual verifier that decomposes complex prompts into sub-questions and assigns continuous scores to improve multimodal evaluation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents evaluation verification techniques, not safety alignment or guardrails.
The World Won't Wait: Evaluating and Teaching Agents Under a Live Clock
Introduces a benchmark evaluating language model agents in real-time environments and a two-timescale training method to improve execution speed.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on latency and real-time execution, not safety or guardrails.
Value-Informed Schedule Trimming for Accelerated Sequential Monte Carlo Guidance in Discrete Diffusion
The paper introduces a training-free schedule optimization method for accelerating sequential Monte Carlo guidance in discrete diffusion models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses diffusion sampling efficiency rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
AlphaDiana: A Measurement System for Agents in Verifiable Reasoning Tasks
The paper introduces a modular measurement system to evaluate how agent frameworks, tools, and memory impact verifiable reasoning tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on agent accuracy and harness benchmarking rather than safety, guardrails, or red-teaming.
IneqAgent: Agentic Inequality Proving in Lean with Symbolic Computation
The paper introduces an agentic framework combining language model reasoning with symbolic engines for formal inequality proving in Lean4.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on automated theorem proving rather than AI safety, alignment, or guardrails.
L2G-SR: Learning to Guide LLM-based Symbolic Regression
The paper presents a framework that uses structural tree edit distance to guide language models in symbolic regression.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses mathematical formula discovery rather than deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
WorldCast: Exploring Intelligent Visual Generation in World State Prediction
The paper introduces a hierarchical benchmark for evaluating visual generative models on multi-step world state prediction tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on visual generation performance rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Optimal Hydra: Model Heterogeneous Federated Learning for LLMs using Data-Informed Hydra-Nets
The paper proposes a federated learning framework that tailors sub-network sizes and architectures to heterogeneous client hardware and data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on federated optimization rather than AI safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
Reference-Guided Turn-Taking Style Transfer for Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models
The paper identifies an internal activation direction in spoken language models to control and transfer conversational turn-taking styles.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Controls conversational turn-taking style rather than safety, guardrails, or adversarial threats.
Verdict: Encode Once, Decide Many
The paper introduces an encoder architecture that processes input once to answer multiple structured classification queries simultaneously.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on classification efficiency rather than AI safety, guardrails, or robustness.
ReasonUni: Reasoning-Augmented Reconstruction Advances Unified Multimodal Models
The paper introduces a reasoning-augmented reconstructive post-training framework that unifies multimodal understanding and image generation tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not address safety, guardrails, hallucination, or adversarial robustness.
Open-world AI: a Tale of Three Requirements
The paper formalizes three core architectural requirements for artificial intelligence systems operating in open-world settings.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses representation learning theory rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or robustness.
EvolvingBrain: An Adaptive Skill System for Multi-modal Agents Self-Evolution in Open Worlds
The paper proposes an adaptive skill framework that extracts patterns from trajectories to enable multi-modal agents to self-evolve.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Targets agent capability and skill acquisition rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
A Self-Improving Agent that Grows its Own DSL: Oracle-Free Operator Induction for Exact Question Answering
The paper presents an agent that expands its domain-specific language for exact answering without external rewards or judges.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on capability extension rather than AI safety.
Temporal Specification Guidance for Text-to-Video Generation
The paper introduces an inference-time guidance method that enforces temporal logic constraints during text-to-video generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with video generation sampling, not deployment safety guardrails.
Wolof-Adapted Industry-Ready Open-Weight Language Models
The paper presents open-weight language models adapted for the Wolof language using instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model merging.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on low-resource language adaptation, not AI safety.
CoTranslator: Reverse to Forward Chain-of-Thought Translator for Reasoning Distillation
The paper proposes a method to translate reverse reasoning paths into verified forward chains of thought for distillation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on student accuracy distillation, not AI safety.
Amortizing Sequential Experimental Design in Reasoning LLMs
The paper trains reasoning models to perform sequential experimental design by optimizing information-gain rewards during action selection.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on active learning acquisition, not deployment safety.
Confidence-Calibrated Inference Expansion for Evaluator-Guided Test-Time Reasoning
The paper introduces a confidence-calibrated controller to optimize inference compute and test-time expansion decisions in reasoning models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Optimizes inference resource allocation, not safety or guardrails.
Probing Negation Understanding in Vision-Language Models With Object Attention
The paper analyzes how vision-language models process negation by comparing model attention mechanisms with human eye-tracking data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes internal attention mechanisms, not deployment safety guardrails.
SHRED: Self-Play for Heterogeneous Road-Users without Expert Demonstrations
The paper presents a self-play reinforcement learning framework to simulate interactions between vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists without human demonstrations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Traffic simulation study, not AI safety in deployment.
Anticipatory Commonsense with Moving Objects: An ASP-Based Framework for Predictive Reasoning with Interacting Trajectories
The paper proposes a hybrid reasoning framework combining Answer Set Programming and energy-based models to predict interacting trajectory futures.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on trajectory prediction, not AI deployment safety.
Wrong Votes, Right Gradients: Why Majority-Vote Rewards Track Verifiable RL
The paper analyzes why reinforcement learning with majority-vote rewards provides effective training gradients despite noisy individual labels.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses RL optimization dynamics, not deployment safety or robustness.
TGrasp6D: Task-Informed Vision-Language Priors and Pose Refinement enable Zero-Shot Task-Oriented 6DoF Grasping
The paper presents a zero-shot vision-language method for generating task-oriented robotic grasps in 6 degrees of freedom.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic affordance grasping, not AI safety.
Replicable Dueling Bandits
The paper develops replicable algorithms with sublinear regret bounds for the dueling bandits problem.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Theoretical bandit algorithm analysis, not deployment safety.
Forecast lead time and the timing of crew deployment for weather-driven power outages using AI weather models
The paper evaluates how forecast lead times from AI weather models affect the scheduling of utility crew restoration deployments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Weather forecasting study, not AI safety or reliability deployment.
Defining and Generating Compositional Structure
The paper formalizes compositional structure in complex systems using algorithmic information theory and compression concepts.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Theoretical study on compositionality, not AI safety deployment.
SkillNEO: Non-Elitist Evolutionary Optimization of Agent Skills
The paper proposes a non-elitist evolutionary optimization framework that retains and iteratively refines low-reward agent skills using execution feedback.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on capability improvement rather than safety or reliability.
RAC: A Relational Agent Contract for Constraint-Governed Engineering Tasks
The paper introduces an action and feedback contract separating agent decisions from deterministic tool execution for constraint-governed engineering tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses engineering task execution rather than deployment safety.
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
The paper provides an open platform and environment suite for evaluating and training GUI agents with online reinforcement learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on RL training and evaluation platform, not safety.
LEV: Thinking Fast and Deep with Looped Decision Models
The paper presents a decision model that performs deeper reasoning by looping its layers instead of generating output tokens.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies inference compute efficiency rather than AI safety or reliability.
Same Context, Different Agents: A Behavioral Study of Semantic Layers, Orchestration and Compaction in Data Agents
The paper studies how semantic layers, orchestration, and compaction impact the performance and behavior of data agents across benchmarks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies data agent accuracy and context techniques rather than safety guardrails.
MSP: Modality Self-Play for Training Multimodal LLMs Without Paired Cross-Modal Data
The paper proposes a self-play framework to train multimodal foundation models using text proxies instead of paired cross-modal datasets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on cross-modal representation learning rather than safety guardrails.
SOMA: Stack-of-Objects Manipulation using a Quadruped Robot
The paper presents a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework for non-prehensile 3D manipulation of multi-object stacks using quadruped robots.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with physical robotics control rather than LLM deployment safety.
How to Train Your Little Dragon: Teaching a Small Language Model to Construct and Refine GPU Optimization Scripts
The paper trains a small language model to generate and refine GPU kernel optimization scripts using compiler traces.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on GPU script optimization rather than AI safety or reliability.
EigDiff: Eigensample Diffusion - or how to significantly reduce training dataset size with marginal performance variation?
The paper uses latent eigenvectors from CLIP to select smaller, representative training datasets for diffusion models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies diffusion training efficiency rather than safety or guardrails.
Deep Reinforcement Learning for HPC Job Scheduling: A Statistical Evaluation
The paper evaluates deep reinforcement learning methods against simple heuristics and random baselines for high-performance computing job scheduling.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with HPC cluster scheduling rather than LLM safety or reliability.
Failure Is the Mother of Success: Recovering Supervision with Grounding Hindsight
The paper introduces a method that turns failed reasoning attempts into tested supervision notes to improve reinforcement learning training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on RL reasoning optimization rather than safety or reliability.
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