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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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Causal Integrated Gradients: Scalable Feature Attribution Along Causal Paths
The paper extends integrated gradients to trace feature attributions along causal paths for high-dimensional models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses explainability methods rather than deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Explaining the Roles of Experts in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs for Personalization
The paper personalizes mixture-of-experts models and analyzes which specialized experts encode distinct user-specific features.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies MoE personalization interpretability, not safety or guardrails.
DropKV: Decoupling Residual-Output Perturbation for Near-Optimal KV-Cache Eviction
The paper proposes a decoupled per-token scoring method to efficiently manage key-value cache memory during long-context generation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers inference speed and memory, not safety or guardrails.
CART: Compatible Routing for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
The paper coordinates projector and language model adaptation using task-specific routing to reduce catastrophic forgetting in multimodal models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on continual learning drift, not deployment guardrails or safety.
RAG-RST: Retrieved Exemplars as In-Context Discourse Schema for RST Parsing
The paper uses retrieved in-context exemplars to improve rhetorical structure discourse parsing without requiring model fine-tuning.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses discourse parsing, not safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Realtime-Bench: Can Frontier Models Solve Real-time Interactive Problems?
The paper introduces a benchmark to measure language model agent performance under real-time latency and streaming temporal constraints.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies real-time latency evaluation, not AI safety or guardrails.
EMO: A Closed-Loop Test-Time Computation Framework via Alternating Context Optimization and Logits Steering
The paper proposes an alternating context optimization and logit steering framework to adapt language model outputs at test time.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies test-time context optimization, not AI safety or guardrails.
Multi-sourced AI Tutor for Non-Native English Speaker Students
The paper develops a multilingual retrieval-augmented tutoring system providing bilingual responses and glossaries for international computing students.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Discusses an educational chatbot, not AI safety or guardrails.
Mosaic: Multi-Session Agentic Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces a hierarchical reinforcement learning method designed for agentic tasks that span multiple interaction sessions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses reinforcement learning optimization, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Motion- and Gravity-Aware Feedforward 3D Reconstruction
The paper trains feedforward 3D reconstruction models using privileged motion and gravity cues to improve dynamic scene understanding.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Concerns geometric 3D reconstruction, not AI safety or guardrails.
Whole-Body Dexterity
The paper introduces a reinforcement learning pipeline enabling humanoid robots to manipulate bulky objects using their arms and torso.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers physical robotic manipulation rather than AI deployment safety.
Terminal-RSI: Recursive Self-Improving Terminal Agents via Recursive Self-Rewrite and Policy-Refine
The paper proposes an iterative self-improvement method combining trajectory rewriting and policy refinement for terminal-based coding agents.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on terminal task optimization, not safety or guardrails.
AutoSFT: An Agentic System for Automated Data Research in Supervised Fine-Tuning
The paper introduces a multi-agent system to automate data curation and dataset editing for supervised fine-tuning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates fine-tuning automation, not deployment safety or guardrails.
HTN-Orchestrate: A Hierarchical Task Network Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration
The paper introduces a hierarchical task network framework that separates multi-agent planning from execution scheduling.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on workflow efficiency, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Decentralized LLM Workflows via Sequential Auctions
The paper examines decentralized multi-agent coordination through sequential market auctions under conditions of imperfect competition.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with market mechanisms and bidding rather than safety or guardrails.
TRACE: Topology-Aware Reconnection via Prediction-Adaptive Connectivity Enforcement for Thin-Structure Segmentation
The paper introduces an adaptive connectivity objective to improve deep learning segmentation of thin, continuous anatomical or physical structures.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses segmentation topology, not AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
GNN-Guided Local Refinement for Efficient Layout Decomposition with DSA-MP
The paper proposes a graph neural network method to speed up layout decomposition for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on semiconductor manufacturing layout algorithms rather than AI deployment safety.
Skill-Decoupled On-Policy Expert Distillation for Unified Vision-Language Models
The paper introduces a skill-decoupled on-policy distillation method to merge vision-language experts without conflicting gradients or reward hacking.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on visual capability distillation without addressing safety risks or guardrails.
OS-Helix: Unifying GUI Interaction and Code Execution in Native Computer-Using Agents
The paper presents an end-to-end trained multimodal agent that combines visual graphical interface actions and executable code execution.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on agent task execution capability rather than safety or robustness guardrails.
Training-Free On-Policy Distillation
The paper presents a closed-form, training-free approach to merge specialized fine-tuned models into a single student using forward passes.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on capability distillation rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
Disagreement-Guided Weak-to-Strong Routing
The paper develops an unsupervised routing method to escalate tasks from weak language models to stronger models without ground-truth labels.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on routing optimization rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
X-RIC: An Agentic RAN-Intelligent Controller Benchmark for Enhancing Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces an agentic reasoning controller framework and an evaluation benchmark for optimizing open radio access networks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses telecommunications control optimization rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Librarian Agents: Training LLMs to Curate Long-Context Workspaces that Anticipate Future Queries
The paper trains language model agents to reorganize unstructured document collections into structured workspaces to speed up future multi-document queries.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on task performance and curation rather than safety or guardrails.
Improving Environment-Agnostic Coding Agents: The Role of Scaffolding
The authors evaluate how developer scaffolding and general prompt instructions affect the performance of environment-agnostic coding agents across diverse benchmarks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates agent performance engineering rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
EliteReplay: Preserving Diverse Solutions in RL Post-Training via Quality-Diversity Search
The authors introduce EliteReplay, combining reinforcement learning with quality-diversity search replay to retain solution diversity during post-training.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Aims to retain solution diversity rather than mitigate safety failures.
Towards Continual Learning: Mitigating Forgetting With Subspace Tuning
The authors propose Subspace Tuning, a fine-tuning method restricting weight updates to bottom singular subspaces to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on continual learning stability rather than deployment safety guardrails.
AI Consilium: a Benchmark of LLM Clinical Multidisciplinary Second Opinions
The authors develop a clinical benchmark evaluating language model pipelines for generating multidisciplinary second opinions on complex medical cases.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents an evaluation benchmark rather than safety red-teaming or guardrails.
Knowledge That Is Linear Before Fine-Tuning Generalizes After It
The authors study why certain linearly represented facts in language models support generalization to new relations after fine-tuning while other recalled facts do not.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes learning representations without addressing safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft
The authors report on a team of autonomous Gemini 4 Argon agents collaborating via chat and shared code to beat Minecraft survival mode.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not evaluate safety, security, guardrails, or alignment vulnerabilities.
AVC-Reward: Event-Centric Audio-Video Consistency Evaluation
The authors present AVC-Reward, an event-centric framework to evaluate temporal, narrative, and attribute consistency in generated audio-video content.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on generation fidelity metrics rather than safety or reliability.
Learning Self-Orchestration in Decentralized Agent Swarms
The authors present a market-based post-training framework that allows decentralized agent swarms to learn both action policies and coordination mechanisms without central orchestration.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies agent coordination and bidding rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Twice Upon a Time: Complementary Representations for Time-Series Reasoning
The authors propose combining line plots and normalized delay embeddings to provide complementary visual representations for time-series reasoning in language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on multimodal time-series modeling rather than deployment safety or hallucination.
ACEdit: Stable Multi-Turn Image Editing via Asymmetric Conditioning
The authors propose ACEdit, a training and distillation scheme that stabilizes image editing models against accumulating errors across multiple editing turns.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses image distribution drift in editing rather than AI safety or reliability guardrails.
Designing Transformers for Continuous Diffusion Language Models
The authors introduce LangDiT, an adapted transformer architecture designed specifically for continuous diffusion language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on diffusion model perplexity optimization rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
KnowGPO: Knowledge-Grouped Policy Optimization for Search Agents
The authors propose KnowGPO, a reinforcement learning framework that assigns credit to deep search agents based on acquired knowledge conditions rather than trajectories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies reward modeling for search agents rather than safety guardrails or reliability risks.
Dexterity from Supervised Play
The authors introduce DSP, a framework where robots learn from brief human play and autonomously collect contact-rich data for dexterous manipulation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates robotic manipulation policies rather than deployment safety or hallucination.
3DCodeVerse: Exploring 3D Worlds as Code
The authors introduce 3DCodeVerse, a dataset and multi-agent framework enabling coding agents to generate, reason over, and verify 3D executable code.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on 3D asset generation rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
GeoState: Learning View-Decoupled Geometry States for 3D World Modeling
The authors introduce GeoState, a view-decoupled 3D world modeling approach separating scene dynamics from camera motion.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on view synthesis and 3D modeling rather than AI safety or guardrails.
MLExpert: Towards a Generalist Agentic Model for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
The authors propose a post-training method enabling autonomous language model agents to organize experiments and carry out machine learning engineering tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates agent training for engineering tasks, not AI safety or reliability guardrails.
FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery
The authors introduce FDE-Gym, a benchmark of 95 customer delivery tasks evaluating AI agents on ambiguous requirements and live software environments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Benchmarking delivery performance rather than safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or hallucination prevention.
Rethinking Routing Exploration in Modern Mixture-of-Experts
The authors propose MirrorMoE to reconcile an exploration dilemma between fine-grained expert segmentation and shared experts in mixture-of-experts models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on MoE parameter routing exploration rather than AI safety or reliability.
CoDA: Co-Evolution of Data Engines and Action Policies
The authors present CoDA, a framework where a simulation data engine and a robot action policy co-evolve using memory of past failures.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with simulation training for robots, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
T2-z: Test-Time Optimization of Environment Latents for Robotic World Models
The authors propose T2-Z, a method optimizing learnable environment latents at test time to help robotic world models adapt to unobserved physical factors.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers robotic world modeling rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or red-teaming.
Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models
The authors introduce an evolutionary framework using large language models to design and optimize resource-efficient quantum circuits.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies quantum algorithm discovery rather than AI safety, hallucination, or deployment reliability.
LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation
The authors introduce LIBERO-PeRM, a simulation benchmark for studying how embodied robotic agents learn and follow user preferences in manipulation tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses preference satisfaction in robotics rather than AI safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Reliability without Validity: A Systematic, Large-Scale Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge Models Across Agreement, Consistency, and Bias
The paper evaluates twenty-one language models used as judges across three benchmarks, finding widespread discrepancies between agreement metrics and underlying validity.
PreprintOlder paper (2026)
Older paper (2026) — discussed this week
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via blog · 16 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Assesses general benchmark judge metrics rather than deployment safety mechanisms.
Comprehensive Analysis and Experiment of Extreme Faults in MMC Based on IGCT
The paper analyzes extreme faults in modular multilevel converters and proposes a protection scheme using integrated gate-commutated thyristors.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2023)
Older paper (2023) — discussed this week
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Electrical engineering paper on power converters, not AI safety.
Sparse and Dense: Learning Confusion Representation Network for 3-D Action Recognition
The paper presents a network utilizing self-attention and spatio-temporal convolutions for 3D skeleton-based human action recognition.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025)
Older paper (2025) — discussed this week
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Covers 3D action recognition for medical IoT, not AI safety.
Sequential Probabilistic Descriptor via Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Modal Fusion for Safety-Critical Place Recognition
The paper proposes an uncertainty-aware multimodal descriptor fusing sequential camera and LiDAR data for robotic place recognition.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026)
Older paper (2026) — discussed this week
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Focuses on robot localization and SLAM, not AI safety guardrails.
Development of a Microprocessor Based Smart and Safety Blind Glass System
The paper develops a microprocessor-based smart wearable glass system with GPS monitoring to assist visually impaired individuals.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2019)
Older paper (2019) — discussed this week
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Hardware project for blind assistance, not AI deployment safety.
CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
The authors introduce CharXiv, a benchmark of realistic scientific charts designed to test descriptive and reasoning capabilities in multimodal language models.
PreprintOlder paper (2024)
Older paper (2024) — discussed this week
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via blog · 15 Oct, 15:11
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Focuses on multimodal chart reasoning capabilities rather than deployment safety.
A Systematic Study of Deprecated Android API Usage Updates
This paper analyzes deprecated Android application programming interfaces and derives patterns to study how developers update them.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Focuses on API evolution patterns rather than AI safety guardrails.
Beyond Functional Correctness: Static Code Quality Profiling of LLM-Generated Code
This paper profiles the maintainability and structural code quality of model-generated Python programs using static analysis tools.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Focuses on static code quality analysis rather than AI system safety.
OS-Bench: Evaluating SWE Agents on Cross-OS Code Migration
This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate software engineering language agents on migrating code between Linux and Windows.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Presents a benchmark for code migration rather than AI safety guardrails.
BenchChecker: Assessing the Credibility of Bug-Fixing Benchmarks for LLMs
This paper proposes a framework to detect training data contamination in bug-fixing benchmarks for language models.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark integrity for code repair rather than deployment safety.
Systematic Detection of Energy Regressions in Software Version Histories
This paper introduces an approach to detect statistically significant software energy consumption regressions across commits in version histories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Focuses on software energy profiling rather than AI safety or reliability.
Taming the Online Software Engineering Tongue: Detecting and Reducing Offensive Language in Software Communities
This paper develops machine learning models to detect, explain, and suggest alternatives for offensive language in online developer communities.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Analyzes human communication toxicity in developer forums, not AI system safety.
Temporal Adaptive Fine-Tuning for Code Comprehension
This paper presents a fine-tuning method to update language models for code comprehension as codebases change over time.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Focuses on repository-level code comprehension adaptation rather than AI deployment safety.
The Code of Theseus: Can Agents Rebuild Software from Recovered Design Documents?
The paper extracts software requirements and architecture from code repositories and tests whether language agents can reconstruct projects from them.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Studies design recovery and code synthesis rather than safety or reliability.
What Should a Software Team Spend on Agents? Simulation-Based Cost Optimization of Mixed AI-Human Teams
The paper models mixed human-agent software teams to find cost-optimal spending allocations balancing human developer hours and automated coding agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
Not relevant
Focuses on software engineering cost optimization rather than deployment safety guardrails.
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