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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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Learning to Read Out: Unembedding Dynamics in Language Model Pretraining
The paper investigates when language models learn capabilities by tracking unembedding matrix dynamics during pretraining using parameter-trajectory crosscoding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies internal representation dynamics rather than safety or guardrails.
ReviewPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Screening and Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews
Presents a multi-agent system for paper screening and data extraction in systematic literature reviews following standard guidelines.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies literature review automation rather than AI safety or alignment.
PremiseCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of Human and AI Peer Reviews
Combines language models and lightweight decision models to fact-check statements in peer reviews against original manuscripts.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on factual accuracy in reviews rather than safety or alignment guardrails.
Athanor: An Agent-Native System for Autonomous Post-Training Research
Develops an open agent environment for evaluating how autonomously language agents can conduct post-training machine learning experiments.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies autonomous post-training capability rather than safety or guardrails.
Bellman-Consistent Trajectory RL for LLM Arithmetic Reasoning
Applies trajectory Bellman residual minimization to turn sparse rewards into dense token signals for arithmetic reasoning.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies mathematical reasoning optimization, not safety or guardrails.
OmicsBench: a long-horizon multi-turn benchmark of AI agents on research-study-scale bioinformatics
Presents a multi-turn benchmark measuring language agent capabilities on complex, long-horizon bioinformatics workflows.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on capability benchmarking rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Sci$Π$vot: Benchmarking Principal-Investigator Judgment at Pivotal Moments of Scientific AutoResearch Agents
Introduces a benchmark evaluating whether language agents can make correct scientific judgment calls derived from human interventions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates scientific agent planning accuracy rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
SIEVE: Overcoming Topological Obstruction in Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning
Introduces an equivariant self-supervised learning framework that avoids topological collapse in 3D point cloud masked autoencoding.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on self-supervised representations rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
MemComposer: Learning to Assemble Memories for LLM Agents via Reinforcement Learning
Uses reinforcement learning to train an agent module that selects, sizes, and orders retrieved memories for downstream tasks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Optimizes memory context assembly rather than AI deployment guardrails, jailbreaks, or safety.
ToolBottleneckBench: Measuring Tool-Agent Performance under Controlled Pressures and Fixed Harness Budgets
Measures tool-agent performance failures under controlled harness limits such as completion caps and tool menu visibility.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes harness budget limits rather than safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or red-teaming.
Planning Commitment of LLM under Partial Observability
Analyzes trade-offs between aggressive and conservative planning horizons in language models operating under partial observability.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies agent planning efficiency trade-offs rather than AI safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Kolab: Benchmarking Human-Agent Collaboration in Long-Horizon Workflows
Introduces a dataset benchmarking human-agent interaction and collaboration across long-horizon professional workflows.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on workflow coordination rather than deployment safety, jailbreak defense, or guardrails.
SSR: Structural Signal Retriever for Scalable Agent Discovery in LLM-Orchestrated Multi-Agent Systems
Proposes a training-free structural lexical retriever to select relevant agent cards without overloading model context windows.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on retrieval latency and context scaling rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
DST-Net: Decomposed Spatio-Temporal Network for Time Series Forecasting
Presents a decomposed network architecture that applies separate graph and convolution modules to trend and seasonal time series components.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses time series decomposition rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or alignment.
OnBodyAI - Why the Next AI Needs a Body
Presents an opinion article on wearable on-body language models based on an industrial panel talk.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Discusses wearable AI vision rather than concrete safety, guardrail, or reliability techniques.
When is a better LLM worth paying for? Stochastic Optimization with Switching Mixed-Fidelity Oracles
Investigates cost-aware policies for adaptively switching between language models of varying fidelity in stochastic optimization pipelines.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses cost tradeoffs in optimization rather than safety guardrails or adversarial threats.
CoSTA: Compressed Speech Token Adaptation for Efficient Spoken Dialogue Models
Presents a framework that decouples speech generation and synthesis token spaces to speed up spoken dialogue model inference.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses dialogue latency and throughput rather than deployment safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
All-in-One Memory: Process-Rewarded Reinforcement Learning for Memory Agents
Introduces a reinforcement learning framework that evaluates memory operations in agents using a shared state and process rewards.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on memory management optimization rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
CARE-SD: Explainable Reasoning Architecture for Local SLM Self-Disclosure Analysis in Textual Data
Develops a structured explainable reasoning architecture to extract sensitive self-disclosures from cybersecurity interviews using local small language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on interview text analysis rather than deployment guardrails or adversarial robustness.
GRADS: Graph-Regulated Agentic Data Synthesis with Controllable Difficulty
Proposes a graph-guided synthetic data generation framework with controlled difficulty levels for training multi-hop research agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on data synthesis rather than deployment safety, jailbreak defense, or robustness.
MemScope: Evolving Agent Memory Architectures through Localized Code Repair
Introduces a localized code repair framework that evolves language model memory architectures using fine-grained execution feedback.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on agent task execution memory rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
Language Models Share a Readout Bottleneck in Working Memory
Analyzes working memory error patterns in language models to show that failures stem from readout interference rather than target retrieval.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates cognitive mechanistic interpretability rather than safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Does Latent Chain-of-Thought Actually Reason? A Single, Unifying Taxonomy for Latent Reasoning
Investigates whether continuous latent reasoning tokens genuinely compute answers or merely settle early on predetermined conclusions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies internal reasoning mechanics rather than deployment safety risks.
Mine, Sample, Render: Test-Time Diversity Alignment Of Generative Models
Presents a test-time method that extracts structured schemas from corpora to guide generative models toward more diverse outputs.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on generation diversity rather than safety or reliability.
Condition-Contrastive Extrapolation for On-Policy Distillation of Language Models
Introduces a condition-contrastive distillation approach to prevent student language models from learning erroneous teacher continuations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on training distillation algorithms, not safety guardrails.
Entertain, then Cancel: How Thinking Makes Reasoning Models Read Some and Or Literally
Examines how extended reasoning steps lead language models to interpret everyday logical terms strictly literally instead of inferring pragmatic meaning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes linguistic interpretation of logical terms, not safety risks.
AutoOnboarder: Autonomously Onboarding LLM Agents
Presents an autonomous supervisor agent that iteratively tunes an agent's code, harness, and prompt on few examples.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on performance and cost optimization rather than safety.
RecSoup: Efficient Model Merging Approach for Controllable Multi-Objective Recommendation
Introduces a two-stage model merging method to enable dynamic multi-objective recommendation trade-offs at inference time without retraining.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not focus on deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
System1-Arena: Which Decisions Can Be Left to System 1?
Introduces a benchmark evaluating single-forward-pass discrete decision models versus generative reasoning models across diverse closed-loop tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates decision accuracy and latency, not safety guardrails.
Fractional Power-of-Two Quantization for Efficient and Effective Multiplier-Free LLM Inference
Proposes a fractional power-of-two quantization grid to enable efficient multiplier-free integer inference for large language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on inference hardware efficiency, not safety risks.
TRACER: A Multimodal Harness for Patient Care in Hospitals
Introduces a multimodal harness and benchmark pairing continuous video with clinical records to assist patient monitoring in hospitals.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on monitoring capabilities rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
TRACER: Trajectory-Aware Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents
Proposes a trajectory-aware retrieval method that indexes tool sequences in a trie to cut token costs and improve selection accuracy.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not address safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
Mallea: Building, Steering, and Memorizing Worlds with Coding Agent
The paper presents an agent system that generates, edits, and renders interactive virtual worlds from text using executable code rules.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on world generation via code, not safety.
The Density of Thought: Predicting and Steering Reasoning in Large Language Models
The paper explores whether measuring information density across reasoning steps can predict and guide answer correctness in large language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes reasoning chain information theory, not deployment safety.
Money-Mule Detection as a Relational Learning Problem: A Study on the RBIH NFPC Dataset
The paper applies heterogeneous graph neural networks directly to bank relational schemas to detect money-mule accounts prior to flag dates.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Applies classical GNNs to fraud, not LLM safety.
Loud and Clear: Making Visual Evidence Count in Multimodal Document RAG
The paper examines how increasing visual token budgets and cropping key evidence improves document retrieval-augmented generation in vision-language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies visual token efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Imagination
The paper evaluates a constrained multi-agent reinforcement learning method that learns policies inside world models to reduce environment interaction costs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on reinforcement learning world models, not LLM safety.
DocPilot: Interactive Agent Orchestration and Training for Long Visual Document Understanding
The paper presents an agent orchestration framework that trains smaller language models to navigate, inspect, and reason over long multimodal documents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on document task orchestration, not safety guardrails.
Does On-Policy Distillation Need to Complete Every Rollout?
The paper introduces a method that accelerates on-policy knowledge distillation by truncating student rollouts and applying inverse-probability weighting.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on distillation training speed, not deployment safety.
Quantum Versus Classical Machine Learning for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Feature-Matched Multi-Cohort Evaluation
The paper compares quantum and classical machine learning models on multi-cohort fMRI datasets to test their utility for neuropsychiatric classification.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses clinical neuroimaging classification, not AI deployment safety.
ARGUS: An Agenda-Driven Framework for Reliable User Simulation
The paper introduces an agenda-driven neuro-symbolic framework to improve the reliability of user simulation when testing interactive conversational agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on user simulation fidelity, not safety red-teaming.
FedSkillGit: Federated Skill Evolution via Version Control
The paper proposes a federated learning framework that uses version control operations instead of full document aggregation to evolve agent skills.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on skill evolution communication, not AI safety guardrails.
Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network Approach for Detecting Low-Quality Documents
The paper introduces a hierarchical graph convolutional network and dataset to detect internal inconsistencies and headline mismatches in news documents.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on news text consistency, not AI deployment safety.
LTM: Latent Transition Based In-Context Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models
The paper introduces an in-context memory method storing latent transitions between visual observations to assist robot manipulation without extra annotation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic memory, not AI safety or guardrails.
ESG-Kor: A Korean Dataset for ESG-related Information Extraction and Practical Use Cases
The paper presents a Korean dataset extracted from corporate sustainability reports to support information extraction on environmental, social, and governance topics.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on ESG extraction, not deployment safety or robustness.
Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs
The paper introduces a system that retrieves document information into a fixed set of prompt embeddings for frozen language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on document memory representation, not deployment safety.
PriorityFEC: Deadline-Aware Streaming FEC for KV-Cache Handoff in Edge Multi-Agent Systems
The paper proposes an error-correction method to prioritize and transmit key-value cache tokens across edge-deployed multi-agent systems under latency deadlines.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses edge transport deadlines, not AI safety or alignment.
Learning to Reason with Selective Internal Feedback
The paper introduces a reinforcement learning method that uses internal certainty profiles and selective filtering to train models without external verifiers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Targets reasoning accuracy via RL, not safety or reliability deployment.
Self-Guided LLM Reasoning for Error Diagnosis in Vehicle Routing Problems
The paper presents a self-guided reasoning framework where language models generate code to detect and diagnose errors in vehicle routing problem instances.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses data error correction, not safety or guardrails.
When do quantum views help? Complementary classical-quantum representations in multi-view fusion
The paper studies combining classical and quantum representations to determine when multi-view fusion improves machine learning predictions over single representations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates quantum ML representation learning, not AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Watts If? A Benchmark for Counterfactual Reasoning About the AI Data Center Buildout
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how language models perform counterfactual reasoning regarding AI data center infrastructure and siting commitments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates domain-specific counterfactual reasoning rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Jev-LiteMAS: Separating Decisions from Generation in Multi-Agent Workflows
The paper proposes a framework that replaces generative model calls with lightweight decision models for routing and reviewing in multi-agent workflows.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Targets coordination efficiency in agent workflows rather than AI safety or hallucination defenses.
JevAgentHarness: Benchmarking, Deploying and Training Decision Models That Share Control with LLMs
The paper presents a benchmark and harness to delegate routine tool choices from large language models to cheaper decision models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on agent harness execution and cost rather than safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
Where, How, and When: Query-Guided Grounding for Video Understanding
Presents methods for query-guided video grounding across object localization, relationship detection, and temporal moment identification.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies video visual grounding algorithms, not AI safety, alignment, or guardrail systems.
Do Agents Need a New Kind of Paper? SPRA: Structured Paper Representation for Agents
Creates a structured schema that converts research papers into connected scientific entities to improve retrieval-augmented generation for autonomous agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on knowledge structuring and retrieval rather than AI safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
Learning from Interaction Experience via Localized Context Distillation
Introduces a distillation method that identifies critical sub-spans in student agent trajectories for teacher revision and continual learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Targets general model post-training distillation, not safety guardrails or hallucination mitigation.
V-SHARE: Provable Convergence Guarantees for Advantage-based Algorithms
Provides theoretical convergence guarantees and finite-sample bounds for advantage-based value sharing in reinforcement learning algorithms.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Pure RL algorithmic theory without application to LLM safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
Incentivizing Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning for Post-Arrival Emergency Care Prediction
Integrates reinforcement learning and tabular model guidance to help language models select features and predict emergency department clinical risk.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on clinical risk prediction accuracy rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
X-Fly: Learning to Reach and Stop in Full-Chunk Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Proposes a training framework enabling aerial vision-language agents to navigate in full action chunks and stop reliably at destinations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic navigation control rather than system safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Full-Duplex Interaction with Speech, Expressions and Gestures
Presents a full-duplex conversational model that generates real-time speech alongside synchronized facial expressions and body gestures.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies conversational gesture synthesis rather than AI safety, hallucination mitigation, or guardrails.
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