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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Learning Individual Scientific Taste with Privileged Hindsight Distillation The paper models individual scientific taste using criterion assessments and introduces privileged hindsight distillation to align proposals with researcher preferences. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Models subjective preference distillation, not tool-using planning agents. | |
| Articulation Upper Bounds for Language Models The paper introduces prompt optimization and recovery measurement tools to evaluate the limits of transmitting concepts between scaling language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies concept communication bounds, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| ONCship: A Large-Scale Underwater Acoustic Corpus for Ship Recognition This paper introduces a large-scale underwater acoustic recording dataset paired with vessel tracking data for ship recognition tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Underwater acoustic dataset for ships, not language model agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on visual grounding tasks, not multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on decoding strategies, not planning or tool-use agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates RL policies in gridworlds, not LLM agents. | |
| Exact Cut Complexity of Equal-Length Proportional Cake Cutting This paper establishes the exact cut complexity required for equal-length proportional cake cutting among multiple agents. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Mathematical algorithmic game theory, not LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| ProtModernBERT: Compute-Efficient Protein Language Modeling This paper introduces an efficient encoder-only protein language model incorporating modern architectural updates to lower training costs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on protein language modeling, not tool-using agents. | |
| Does the Linguistic Register of Thinking Matter? Wenyan as a Compact Reasoning Register for Chinese LLMs This paper investigates using Classical Chinese as a compact intermediate reasoning register to reduce token length in Chinese language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates linguistic registers for reasoning, not tool-using agents. | |
| LabOPBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Laboratory Decision Making This paper introduces a multimodal benchmark evaluating AI models on evidence-grounded decision making in chemistry and materials laboratories. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Introduces an evaluation benchmark, not an autonomous agent system. | |
| LiFi: LiDAR Generation from Multi-View Images via Geometric and Semantic Collaborative Guidance This paper presents a dual-branch latent diffusion method to generate LiDAR point clouds from multi-view camera images. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers LiDAR point cloud generation, not language model agents. | |
| One Agent per Zone: Decentralised Active Inference under Partial Observability for Multi-Zone HVAC Control on Edge Hardware This paper presents a decentralized active inference controller for multi-zone building heating and cooling systems on edge hardware. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Traditional active-inference control for HVAC, not language model agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on video world generation, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on Theory-of-Mind reasoning in LLMs, not autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on spatio-temporal forecasting, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| Memory-Efficient Subspace Optimization with Residual Correction: From Momentum SGD to Muon This paper presents a memory-efficient subspace optimization framework using residual correction to stabilize language model training. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates optimization algorithms for neural network training, not AI agents. | |
| Lost in the Fallback: How Reliably Do Typed Decision Models Use Fallback Options? This paper evaluates how reliably typed decision models switch to fallback options and remain consistent under equivalent decision rules. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies typed classification models and routing rules, not agent tool execution. | |
| Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning This paper presents a flow matching method to distill diverse continuous latent reasoning distributions from multiple chain-of-thought rationales. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on latent reasoning distillation rather than autonomous agent tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses continuous mathematical trajectory modeling on populations, not AI agents. | |
| Frustratingly Easy Majority Voting Using Length Conditioning The paper proposes weighting majority voting responses using a length-conditioned prior adapted at test time without model fine-tuning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on test-time aggregation of chain-of-thought samples, not agent tool execution. | |
| DeepPV-MRF: End-to-End Partial-Volume Fraction Estimation from MR Fingerprinting Time Series The paper introduces a deep learning framework to estimate voxel-wise brain tissue fractions directly from magnetic resonance fingerprinting signals. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers magnetic resonance imaging signal processing, completely unrelated to agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents mathematical embedding methods for higher-order mathematical objects, not agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Adapts vision-language models for medical images, not agentic planning or tools. | |
| Sparse Transformer: a Controlled Testbed for Mechanistic Interpretability The paper introduces a sparse transformer testbed with interpretable neurons to evaluate mechanistic interpretability methods. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates mechanistic interpretability in small transformers, not agent systems. | |
| MUCO: A Mani-Unit-Structured Manipulation Framework for Compositional Long-Horizon Robot Tasks The paper proposes a modular manipulation framework that sequences verified robot capability units for long-horizon tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on physical robot manipulation control rather than language model agents. | |
| Does Machine Translation Retain Media Bias? The paper investigates whether machine translation systems preserve or neutralize media bias across languages. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies media bias in machine translation, not LLM agent workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on molecular graph generation, not agent planning or tool orchestration. | |
| Quiet Triggers, Loud Footprints: A Tri-Space Measurement Study of Backdoor Stealthiness The paper presents an empirical framework measuring neural network backdoor stealthiness across input, feature, and parameter spaces. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on neural network backdoor stealthiness, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| When Protection Overrides Consequences: Understanding Protection Mode in Large Language Model Decision-Making The paper introduces a benchmark to study why frontier models prioritize protecting subjects over preventing larger physical property damage. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines prompt-based decision preferences rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses federated learning aggregation rather than multi-step agents. | |
| Empirical Boundaries of Reservoir Computing for Few-Shot Sequence Pattern Tasks The paper empirically analyzes echo state network variants on synthetic sequence-to-sequence pattern tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates Echo State Networks on synthetic sequences, not agents. | |
| Provable Transformer Context Compression for In-Context Reinforcement Learning The paper analyzes the minimum context size required for transformer models to perform in-context reinforcement learning without parameter updates. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Theoretical context compression in RL, not multi-step agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Theoretical analysis of reinforcement learning convergence, not agents. | |
| Beyond Correctness: Compute-Responsive Data Selection for Reasoning Model Post-Training The paper introduces a data selection strategy that prioritizes training examples where reasoning performance improves with additional inference compute. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on post-training data selection, not autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes internal residual steering rather than agentic tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Theoretical analysis of polynomial activations, not agentic workflows. | |
| Rethinking Prediction Horizons: Decoupling Model Queries from State Updates in Few-Step MeanFlow The paper studies the impact of separating prediction horizons from state update intervals during sampling in generative flow models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates diffusion sampling, not multi-step language agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies pretraining data synthesis rather than autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| From Spectral to Frobenius: When Muon Loses Its Spectral Implicit Bias The paper analyzes the mathematical implicit bias of practical Muon optimization compared to gradient descent on linearly separable classification problems. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies theoretical implicit bias in optimizers, not LLM agents. | |
| ACR-Net: Mitigating Semantic Dominance via Contrastive Acoustic-Semantic Decoupling The paper presents a network to decouple acoustic and semantic representations when speech tone conflicts with transcript text. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on speech emotion recognition, not multi-step LLM agents. | |
| DreamHMR: From Video Generation to Human Motion Modeling via Structural Focusing The paper presents a framework adapting video generation priors to improve 3D human body and hand motion reconstruction from video. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses 3D human pose reconstruction, not language model agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents a document rule-checking pipeline, not multi-step autonomous planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on spoken dialogue turn-taking, not planning or tool-using agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes internal model activation dynamics, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Value-Guided Repulsion for Offline Reinforcement Learning The paper proposes a value-guided repulsion method for offline reinforcement learning that aligns behavior regularization with action value estimates. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Covers core offline reinforcement learning algorithms, not LLM agents. | |
| Robust Counterfactuals for Markov Decision Processes under Statistical and Causal Uncertainties The paper introduces a framework providing analytical bounds for counterfactual reasoning in sequential decision processes under statistical and causal uncertainty. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies theoretical Markov Decision Processes, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies benchmark translation for safety and reasoning, not multi-step LLM agents. | |
| Design Space Exploration of Reinforcement Learning Configurations for Post-Legalization Placement The paper explores reinforcement learning design configurations for post-legalization placement refinement in chip design. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies RL to VLSI circuit placement, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with time-series anomaly detection algorithms, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on federated learning optimization, not autonomous AI agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Assesses multilingual text generation, not autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| Beyond Static Cues: Unified Dynamic Detection of MLLM Backdoors via Dual-Flow Trajectory Analysis The paper detects backdoor triggers in multimodal language models by tracking output evolution trajectories across internal hidden layers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies backdoor defenses in MLLMs, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| Argument Graph Uncertainty: Quantifying Uncertainty from the Logical Structure of Reasoning Chains The paper estimates reasoning confidence by segmenting chain-of-thought traces into argument graphs evaluated through natural language inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on QA reasoning chain uncertainty estimation, not agents. | |
| Read, Parse, Describe: Unified Document Parsing with Visual Element Description Generation The paper presents a benchmark dataset evaluating unified page-level document parsing alongside alternative text descriptions for visual elements. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on document parsing and captioning, not autonomous agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents theoretical RL convergence proofs, not LLM agent systems. | |
| Human Demonstrations as Post-Training Data for Any Robot Body: Retargeting the Object, Not the Hand The paper retargets object motion rather than human hands from video demonstrations to generate post-training data for various robot embodiments. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on robotics embodiment transfer rather than LLM-driven planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Targets model memory updating rather than autonomous agent planning systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies optimization theory for RL post-training, not agent workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Presents a generic neural network optimizer, not AI agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates entity extraction tasks, not multi-step autonomous planning agents. |
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