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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Small and efficient models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Recognizing Dialogue Ambiguity via Candidate Set Visual Grounding This paper introduces a task and benchmark for tracking candidate sets of referent objects across ambiguous interactive dialogue turns. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Mitigating Video Hallucinations via Attention-Guided Representation Perturbation This paper presents a training-free contrastive decoding framework using attention-guided perturbations to reduce hallucinations in video language models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Training-free decoding technique, not model compression or small models. | |
| What Happens to the Goal? Distinct Failures of Policy Alignment in Goal Misgeneralization This paper analyzes three distinct failure modes where reinforcement learning agents misgeneralize goals despite competent behavior. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not about model pruning, distillation, or serving efficiency. | |
| StateCraft: Augmenting Video World Models with Abstract-State Reasoning This paper pairs language models with video diffusion to maintain persistent abstract states across dynamic video world interactions. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address model compression or serving efficiency. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on model compression, distillation, or efficient inference. | |
| ReproBAIT: Can coding agents build their own biological AI tools? This paper introduces a benchmark evaluating whether coding agents can reimplement and train biological AI tools from published scientific papers. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates tool reproduction capabilities, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| VaryST: Generalizable Spatio-Temporal Forecasting Beyond the Closed-World Setting This paper presents a compact spatio-temporal forecasting model designed to generalize across shifting spatial domains and varying observation availability. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Compact forecasting model, not language model compression or serving. | |
| Explorer-Zero: Improving Self-Play for Long-Horizon Tasks with Decomposable Verifiable Rewards This paper proposes a self-play reinforcement learning framework that automatically generates tasks and intermediate verifiable rewards for long-horizon agent training. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on self-play training, not model quantization, distillation, or lightweight serving. | |
| Neural Wasserstein Splines: Representation-Invariant Second-Order Priors for Trajectory Inference The paper presents a continuous trajectory inference method that regularizes population dynamics using neural splines and Wasserstein smoothness. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on dynamic optimal transport splines rather than efficient model serving. | |
| Universal Sample-Based Embeddings of Higher-Order Objects The paper proposes a sample-based neural framework to learn fixed-size embedding representations for higher-order objects like distributions and graphs. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with higher-order object embeddings rather than LLM compression or efficient serving. | |
| Multimodal Medical Image Parsing with Task-Specific Low-Rank Adapters The paper describes a vision-language model using task-specific low-rank adapters for multimodal medical image parsing. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies standard 4-bit LoRA without developing novel efficient serving or compression methods. | |
| Does Machine Translation Retain Media Bias? The paper investigates whether machine translation systems preserve or neutralize media bias across languages. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not explore small models, quantization, or efficient model architectures. | |
| Learning Graph Energies for Finite-Time Generation The paper proposes an energy-based learning method that optimizes acceptance rates for finite-step discrete graph sampling. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with energy-based sampling algorithms, not model compression or efficient LLM serving. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not study model compression, quantization, distillation, or efficient serving. | |
| Safe-FCL: Continual Risk Awareness and Fine-Grained Safety Aggregation for Federated Continual Learning of LLMs The paper proposes a federated learning framework with risk-aware aggregation to prevent malicious updates from compromising global model safety. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on federated safety rather than model efficiency or pruning. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent harness orchestration rather than model compression. | |
| On the Convergence of Semi-Gradient TD: A Mean Field Perspective The paper provides a theoretical analysis of stability and convergence for semi-gradient temporal-difference learning using mean-field neural networks. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on RL convergence theory rather than efficient inference. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not explore model compression or efficient serving methods. | |
| Trainable at Depth, Solvable at Small Size: What the Loss Surface of a Polynomial Activation Dictates for Designing, Initializing and Training Networks The paper investigates the loss surface of deep networks using a specific polynomial activation function without standard normalization layers. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Theoretical study of activations without focus on model compression. | |
| Designing Textual Interfaces To Enhance Llm Reasoning On Audio-Visual Question Answering The paper compares three textual interface designs for optimizing prompts in multimodal audio-visual question answering systems. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not investigate model quantization, pruning, or efficient inference. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on fact conditioning rather than model compression techniques. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address model compression, pruning, or efficient inference. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates dialogue baselines, not model efficiency or distillation. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on model compression, quantization, or efficient serving. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes a policy optimization training method, not small model efficiency. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual evaluation datasets rather than small efficient model architectures. | |
| Retrieval Over Training: Similarity search-based Model Selection for Time Series Anomaly Detection The paper proposes a retrieval framework that selects suitable anomaly detection models for time-series data using similarity search over existing datasets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on model selection for time series, not small LLMs. | |
| Long-Horizon RL Needs Muon The paper investigates an asynchronous training recipe combining the Muon optimizer, token-averaged loss, and penalties for long-horizon agent tasks. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on RL optimization recipes, not model compression or quantization. | |
| Harness Policy Distillation: Aligning Agent Policies with Runtime Semantics The paper introduces a distillation method that trains agent policies on explicit runtime control semantics recovered from replayed execution traces. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on harness policy distillation rather than model compression techniques. | |
| FUSE: Fairness-aware Update Screening against Byzantine Exploitation in $q$-Fair Federated Learning The paper studies Byzantine robustness in fair federated learning and proposes an update screening method using client trajectory consistency. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses federated learning robustness, not model compression or inference. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents an evaluation benchmark, not model efficiency techniques. | |
| CASI: Credit Assignment via Set Intervention for Agentic Retrieval The paper presents an intervention method using Shapley values to assign credit to individual actions within multi-action agentic retrieval sets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on retrieval policy optimization, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent search context management, not model compression. | |
| Non-asymptotic Convergence of Average-reward Q-learning with Options The paper provides finite-sample convergence guarantees for average-reward option Q-learning algorithms under inter- and intra-option settings. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on classical RL convergence rates, not efficient serving. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on parametric context retention rather than small/efficient model architectures. | |
| When Does Momentum Help in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards? The paper analyzes when first-moment momentum accelerates reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards under exact and sampled policy gradients. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on optimizer acceleration rather than model compression or inference. | |
| One Size Does Not Fit All: Curvature-Aware Adaptive Perturbation for SAM The paper introduces an adaptive perturbation method for sharpness-aware minimization that modulates perturbation radii using local loss curvature. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Targets general loss landscape optimization, not model compression or serving. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates existing low-cost models rather than proposing efficiency techniques. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address model compression or efficient serving. | |
| 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 | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not cover model quantization, pruning, or distillation. | |
| Equal CER, Unequal Damage: Severity-Weighted Character Error Rate for OCR Proposes a severity-weighted character error rate that charges text transcription errors based on their practical impact on reader understanding. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not cover model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| Selective Growing Q-Networks (SGQN): An Analysis of Adaptive Action Grids in Decoupled Q-Learning Implements adaptive action grids in value-based reinforcement learning that selectively refine promising bins while pruning suboptimal actions. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on Q-learning grids, not small language models. | |
| SafeAdapt-Poker: Counterfactual Risk Calibration for Budgeted Adaptation under Opponent Shift Introduces a counterfactual risk management method to calibrate adaptive decision-making against shifting opponent behaviors within fixed deviation budgets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not deal with model compression or efficient serving. | |
| VascuSR: Iterative Anatomy-Aware Diffusion for CT Super-Resolution Uses explicit three-dimensional vascular guidance in an iterative diffusion pipeline to improve anatomical accuracy in computed tomography super-resolution. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address efficient language model serving or compression. | |
| ActiveEvidence: Decision-Focused Evidence Graphs with Verifiable Acquisition Gaps Presents a graph-based framework with decision certificates to determine when multimodal agents should acquire visual evidence under cost constraints. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not study model compression or efficient serving architectures. | |
| PrismaCoder: Pushing the Boundaries of Open Multimodal Code Intelligence through Decomposed Rubric Synthesis Introduces a decomposed rubric synthesis method to create training data for open multimodal models that generate visual code artifacts. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| Detection of Potato Plant Leaf Diseases using Convolutional Neural Networks Develops and tests a lightweight convolutional neural network to classify potato leaf diseases on field-collected farm images. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Traditional compact CNN application, not SLMs or LLM efficiency. | |
| PerSo: Investigating Facets of LLMs' Social Intelligence in Real-World Persuasion Scenarios Introduces a benchmark based on real online discussions to evaluate both cognitive and behavioral persuasion skills in language models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not study model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting Shows that periodically clearing agent search history and restarting from the top candidate prevents automated research agents from plateauing. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address model compression or efficient inference. | |
| One Task, Many Interfaces: Simple Cross-Interface Consistency Training Improves LLM Agent Robustness Introduces a self-supervised consistency loss across varied tool interfaces to make language model agents robust against notation and naming changes. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on model compression, quantization, or distillation. | |
| Continuum Attention Replaces discrete attention lookup in transformers with integration over a continuous memory curve to improve validation likelihood. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes a continuous attention operator without focusing on efficiency or compression. | |
| Price of Anarchy of First-Price Auctions in Agentic Markets Analyzes the price of anarchy and economic efficiency of first-price auctions where AI agents bid to serve user prompts. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes auction economics rather than model compression or efficient inference. | |
| Co-Evolving Acting and Forecasting for Language Agents Introduces multi-step action forecasting targets alongside actor rollouts to train language agents more effectively from intermediate trajectory steps. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning efficiency, not small models or compression. | |
| Hierarchical Residual Policy Learning for Real-World Mobile Manipulation with Sparse Human Guidance Proposes a hierarchical residual policy learning framework to fine-tune mobile robot manipulation policies with decoupled base and arm adjustments. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on sample-efficient robotic RL, not LLM quantization or compression. | |
| Modeling and Understanding Neural Weights of Humanoid Policies with Diffusion Generatively models humanoid robot control policy weights using a latent diffusion framework combined with a linear autoencoder and Diffusion Transformer. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Generates policy weights using diffusion, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Pristine Models The paper introduces an architecture that separates safe and unsafe visual knowledge during pretraining so unsafe branches can be disabled. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on safety compartmentalization rather than model compression. | |
| A Physics-Informed Hybrid Forward-Inverse Machine Learning Framework for High-Dimensional Sparse Recipe Reconstruction The paper proposes a physics-informed forward-inverse machine learning framework for sparse recipe formulation in industrial dyeing. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Does not address small models, pruning, or efficient inference. | |
| From Prototype to Massing: Learning Graph Correspondence for Scalable Facade Modeling The paper develops a graph attention network to transfer prototype facade articulation patterns onto building massing targets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on graph correspondence for architecture, not model efficiency. | |
| Early Detection of Pension-Sponsor Distress from Public Filings: A Sponsor Vulnerability Index, Stress-Augmented VaR, and Dynamic Self-Investment Caps The paper develops an early-warning pipeline using public balance-sheet filings to predict defined-benefit pension sponsor distress. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Does not study model compression, distillation, or efficient model architectures. |
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