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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Multimodal models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Neither True nor False: Do LLMs Represent Truth-Value Gaps in Plural Predication? The paper introduces HomogeneityNLI to evaluate whether open-weight language models recognise truth-value gaps in plural predication. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes natural language sentences without multimodal capabilities. | |
| Evaluating Semantic Relation Knowledge through Bidirectional Relation Prediction from Gloss Pairs The paper introduces a bidirectional gloss-pair prediction task to evaluate semantic relation knowledge across multiple languages in language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Covers text gloss pairs across languages without multimodal components. | |
| Re-executing Coding-Agent Evaluations: Unchanged Decisions and Unresolved Policy Risk The paper re-evaluates coding-agent benchmark results to measure sensitivity to test execution environments and grading configurations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Pertains strictly to code and execution environments, not multimodality. | |
| Evaluating Bias in Chinese Large Language Models across Tasks and Registers: Task Operationalization Effects and Irony Classification Risks This paper audits Chinese language models for bias and error propagation across formal and ironic social registers. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes text classification registers without multimodal inputs. | |
| EdgeLLM-Nano: Auditing Polar-Guided Key-Cache Compression and Consistency-Anchored Pruning on a 33.6 MB On-Device Language Model This paper audits key-cache compression and weight pruning techniques on a small edge-deployed language model testbed. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Investigates text language model caches, not multimodal systems. | |
| Query-Adaptive Neuron Steering for LLMs This paper proposes a framework that dynamically steers internal language model neurons based on query-induced activation patterns. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies text language models, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Reward-Aligned Distillation This paper presents a bilevel distillation method that weights teacher supervision tokens based on their predicted impact on student reward. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Operates entirely on text-based math reasoning without multimodality. | |
| Uniform Information Density-Based Preference Optimization This paper proposes a preference optimization algorithm grounded in uniform information density theory to align language model outputs. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies text alignment without multimodal inputs or outputs. | |
| Fine-Tuning Strategy, Not Just Data: A Statistically Rigorous Audit of Gender and Stereotypical Bias in Embedding Models for HR Recommendation Systems This paper audits gender and stereotypical bias in multilingual job-matching embedding models using robust statistical tests. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Audits text embedding models, not multimodal systems. | |
| The Company a Question Keeps: Auditing Open Jev-Style Models for Retrieval This paper audits request independence in open Jev-style retrieval models across multi-passage query states. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text passage retrieval without multimodal inputs. | |
| Amharic-English Cross-Language Question Answering Using Statistical Machine Translation, Named Entity Recognition, and Semantic Indexing This paper presents a bidirectional Amharic-English cross-language question answering system using machine translation, entity recognition, and semantic indexing. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Processes text documents without multimodal features. | |
| The Constitution Speaks Nheengatu: An Open MT System and Reproducible Corpus Pipeline for the Amazonian Língua Geral This paper releases an open parallel corpus, speech evaluation set, and translation models for Portuguese and the Amazonian language Nheengatu. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Text and speech translation corpus, not multimodal model reasoning. | |
| Who Receives Respect? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Honorific Allocation Bias in Bengali This paper introduces a counterfactual benchmark to evaluate honorific register allocation bias across gender and occupations in English-to-Bengali translation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Text translation analysis without multimodal data. | |
| Training-Free BioNEL-RAG: Advancing Biomedical Entity Linking through Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Model This paper introduces a training-free retrieval-augmented generation framework for biomedical named entity linking to improve cross-domain adaptability. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals with biomedical text without multimodal components. | |
| Dependency Reasoning for Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction This paper injects linearized dependency parse trees into language model prompts to improve aspect sentiment quadruple prediction. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Examines text sentiment prediction without multimodal elements. | |
| Social Bias in Chinese Large Language Models under Social Media Expressions This paper evaluates social bias in Chinese language models across social media expressions, internet slang, and sarcastic packaging. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses solely on text-based Chinese social media expressions. | |
| Agent-Guided Evidence Acquisition for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction This paper investigates an agent framework that selectively queries expert judgments for borderline emotion-cause pairs to improve extraction accuracy. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Text extraction task without visual, audio, or multimodal components. | |
| Description Complexity Bounds for Analytic Approximations of Lipschitz Functions This paper derives theoretical description complexity bounds for approximating one-dimensional Lipschitz functions using elementary analytic expression trees. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Pure mathematical function approximation with no multimodal aspects. | |
| TeachGrade: Training-Free Short Answer Scoring with Teacher Evidence This paper proposes a training-free framework that uses teacher-graded examples and dual memories to improve automated short answer grading. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on textual short-answer scoring without multimodal input. | |
| FidelityQ: Preserving Predictive Fidelity in Ultra-Low-Bit Language Model Quantization This paper introduces a scalar quantization method using analytic coding to preserve language model predictive fidelity at precisions down to two bits. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on language model quantization without multimodal components. | |
| Do Personalized LLMs Need the Whole Conversation? Matching the Full History with Only 5% of Its Text via Relevance-Filtered Context This paper demonstrates that sentence-level relevance retrieval can match full conversation history accuracy in personalized language models using only five percent context. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text conversation histories. | |
| HodgePhaseNet: Discrete Hodge Decomposition of Semantic Flows in Transformer Attention This paper introduces a discrete Hodge decomposition method to separate semantic flow transitions within transformer attention mechanisms. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Theoretical attention paper without cross-modal multimodal integration. | |
| What Drives AI Citations? Content, Retrieval and Model Knowledge in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) This paper examines how content matching, retrieval mechanics, and model knowledge affect web page citations in generative search engines. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based web search citation dynamics. | |
| PAT: A Personality-Driven Augmentation and Transfer Learning Framework for Depression Detection on Social Media This paper presents a personality-driven augmentation and contrastive learning framework to improve depression detection from social media posts. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Processes text posts without multimodal data integration. | |
| RegExtract: A Benchmark for PFAS Regulatory Information Extraction with LLMs The paper introduces an information extraction benchmark for extracting structured regulatory fields and source provenance from dense environmental policy documents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals purely with regulatory text extraction without visual modality. | |
| Lumen-bench: Cross-Lingual Safety Gaps and the Say-Do Problem in Tool-Calling Large Language Models The paper introduces a multilingual benchmark evaluating safety and discrepancies between verbal refusals and tool actions in tool-calling language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Text and tool-calling benchmark without multimodal components. | |
| Compute-Optimal Scaling Laws for Spiking Language Models The paper presents an empirical scaling law study measuring parameter and compute trade-offs in spiking neural network language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text language modeling without multimodal components. | |
| Where Did We Go Wrong? Localizing Errors to Repair Multi-Turn Conversations The paper presents a framework to probabilistically localize user-intent misinterpretations and repair conversational states in multi-turn assistant systems. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses text dialogue interactions without multimodal processing. | |
| Learning Proposition-Level Links from Sentence-Level Supervision for Neuro-Symbolic NLI The paper proposes a trainable proposition linker that learns atom-level semantic links from sentence-level supervision for neuro-symbolic inference. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies propositional text linking without multimodal inputs. | |
| Sanzaru: Benchmarking Protocol Formation under Epistemic & Communication Asymmetry The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating how multi-agent teams develop communication protocols under asymmetric information and restricted communication channels. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on communicative interaction rather than multimodal vision-language models. | |
| Active Learning for Finding a Needle in a Haystack The paper evaluates whether active learning strategies can overcome initial selection biases when identifying rare document classes in large text corpora. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Uses text document corpora without multimodal integration. | |
| Word-Aligned Prosody Reflects Speaker Differences More Than Depression or PTSD Severity The paper investigates whether word-aligned prosodic speech measurements reflect speaker identity traits more strongly than depression or PTSD severity. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies acoustic prosody analysis rather than multimodal vision-language models. | |
| SAFE-KV: Causal Suffix Repair for Behavior-Preserving Non-Prefix KV Cache Reuse in RAG The paper presents a repair method that re-encodes causal suffixes to enable safe non-prefix KV-cache reuse in retrieval-augmented generation. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text document KV caches without multimodal inputs. | |
| Do LLMs differentiate linguistic traits internally?: A layer-wise analysis The paper conducts layer-wise representational analysis to determine how language models internally distinguish conventional meanings from idiomatic traits. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes text models without image, audio, or video modalities. | |
| Do correct answers have stable latent knowledge support? The paper proposes stability metrics to measure whether correct outputs in language models are backed by stable internal knowledge representations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Evaluates text-based models across factual queries without multimodal inputs. | |
| From Candidate Tokens to Final Outcomes: Decoding Relative Long-Horizon Candidate Value from Reasoning Model Representations The paper constructs a dataset to show that relative candidate token value in multi-step reasoning is linearly decodable from model representations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes text reasoning hidden states without multimodal capabilities. | |
| AlphaPilot: Multi-Turn Tool-Using LLM Agents for Adaptive Alpha Mining with Reinforcement Learning The paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework that trains tool-using agents to generate and refine financial alpha factor formulas. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals with financial text and market data, not multimodal VLMs. | |
| Concept Representations in Vector Space: Quantifying Sharedness and Idiosyncrasy of Meaning The paper develops a measurement framework using sentence embeddings to quantify shared versus individual-specific variation in concept definitions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Investigates text embeddings without multimodal vision or audio inputs. | |
| A Step in the Right Place: Understanding and Optimizing Timestep Placement in Continuous Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces an algorithm to optimize denoising timestep placement in continuous diffusion language models to improve generation quality. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion for text generation without multimodal inputs. | |
| An Interpretable Linguistically-Grounded Analysis of Scene Saliency in Movie Screenplays The paper evaluates whether uniform information density and specific linguistic features predict salient scenes in movie screenplays. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses purely on text screenplay analysis without multimodal processing. | |
| The Fragility and Dynamics of LLM Pruning-Recovery Steps The paper analyzes how pruning and subsequent recovery stages interact, finding instruction-following collapses earlier than domain knowledge during model compression. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses standard text LLM compression without multimodal data. | |
| Towards Robust Calibration Dataset for Domain-General Mixture of Experts Pruning The paper studies how calibration dataset size, language, and data distribution affect post-training expert pruning in mixture-of-experts models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Evaluates language models without multimodal text-image-audio inputs. | |
| The Gradient That Top-k Distillation Never Computes The paper analyzes gradient dynamics in top-k distillation, showing that renormalization prevents optimization along directions controlling tail token probabilities. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies language model token vocabulary distillation without multimodality. | |
| Feedback as an Interface: Controlling Form and Detail in LLM Translation Refinement The paper investigates how varying the detail and format of feedback affects machine translation refinement in large language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on text translation without multimodal inputs. | |
| Rate-Resolved Text Evaluation with Masked Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces rate-resolved text evaluation to turn masking rates in diffusion language models into diagnostic scores for text assessment. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Evaluates text models, without multimodal capabilities. | |
| The Mathematical Collective Unconscious: Jungian Archetypes within the Latent Space The paper examines whether large language model embedding spaces naturally form semantic clusters resembling Jungian archetypes using synthetic and human-authored texts. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text embeddings, not multimodal systems. | |
| Do LLM Tutors Actually Teach? A Process-Centered Synthesis of the Tutoring Loop This paper synthesizes literature on educational language models to evaluate whether tutoring systems measurably improve student learning gains. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Reviews dialogue tutoring systems, not multimodal models. | |
| Generalizable Model Editing Could Be More Than Direct Generalization The authors analyze limitations in direct model editing benchmarks and compare them against observed generalization in practical chat settings. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text LLM editing, not multimodal models. | |
| Preserving Updates in Low-Bit Recurrent State Quantization This paper proposes a low-rank bypass to accumulate small updates and reduce compounding errors in quantized recurrent model states. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on recurrent model states, not multimodal tasks. | |
| TL;QR: Querying Temporal Discursive Patterns in Textual Corpora TL;QR pairs language-model passage judgments with a symbolic temporal logic engine to track evolving patterns in textual corpora. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Text-only query system, no multimodal data. | |
| NepPlural: A Human-Anchored Benchmark for Persona Annotation in Nepali Migration Discourse NepPlural provides an annotated benchmark of Nepali discourse to evaluate how reliably language models capture diverse socio-cultural personas. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Examines text comments only, without multimodal components. | |
| Enhancing Zero-Shot Domain Transfer in Low-Resource Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study in Marathi This paper studies multi-domain training setups to improve zero-shot sentiment classification transfer across unseen domains in Marathi. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text datasets. | |
| Robust Marathi Sentiment Analysis using Domain-Adaptive Pre-training and Data Augmentation Approaches The authors evaluate domain-adaptive pretraining and back-translation data augmentation to improve sentiment classification in Marathi. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Text-only classification study. | |
| RSIPO: Recursive Self-Improving Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Skill-Policy Co-Evolution RSIPO introduces a reinforcement learning framework where agentic skills and policy models co-evolve using self-extracted trajectory experience. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on policy optimization, not multimodal models. | |
| Who Sets the Pace of Judge Hacking? Judge Capability versus the Policy-Judge Gap This work analyzes whether policy capability gaps or judge models dictate reward hacking when training models against language-model judges. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Exclusively considers text LLMs and text judges. | |
| Heterogeneous Structured Pruning Under Resource Constraints for Hardware-Efficient Large Language Models Heterogeneous Structured Pruning selects sublayer-specific sparsity patterns guided by latency and memory models for hardware-efficient inference. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Evaluates text LLMs, not multimodal architectures. | |
| Local Citation Recommendation Without Graph Signals The paper introduces a dataset and citation recommendation system that retrieves relevant scientific papers without relying on citation graphs. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Processes textual papers only, no multimodal content. | |
| Latent Taxonomies: How Property Induction Develops in Language Model Pre-training This study analyzes how category-based property induction emerges in language models during pretraining using a synthetic hierarchical taxonomy. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Investigates textual taxonomies only, not multimodal data. | |
| KhyontekAI at CheckThat! 2026: Multilingual Dense Retrieval and Cross-Encoder Reranking for Scientific Web Claims The authors present a multilingual dense retrieval and reranking framework to link scientific web claims to their source publications. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals exclusively with text and metadata. | |
| Binding Phoneme Identity to Position in Neural Models and the Human Brain The study tests whether neural models bind phoneme identity to serial position using state direction and magnitude representations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on text and phonemes, not multimodal models. |
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