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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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| CultureBot: A Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Exploration of Cultural Heritage Data This paper introduces an interactive retrieval-augmented framework that combines knowledge graphs and text retrieval to explore digital cultural heritage archives. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Presents a conversational retrieval system rather than autonomous multi-step planning agents. | |
| Differential Privacy Protected Preference Alignment on Survey Derived Data This paper presents a label differential privacy framework to protect survey-derived ordinal preference data during language model alignment. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on differential privacy during preference alignment, not agent execution. | |
| The interpreter as developer: An autoethnographic design study of building a computer-assisted interpreting tool through human-LLM co-creation This paper presents a case study of an interpreter co-creating a local computer-assisted interpreting tool using large language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Case study of human-LLM co-creation, not autonomous multi-step agent systems. | |
| Ontology-Based Post-Coordinated Expression Assembly: from Clinical Narrative to Queryable Knowledge Graphs This paper introduces UNIGRAPHE, a deterministic method to assemble clinical text into queryable knowledge graphs conforming to SNOMED CT grammar. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Constructs knowledge graphs from clinical text, not autonomous agents taking actions. | |
| Communication, Vocalisation, and Language This position paper argues that large language models perform language as social practices rather than building distributed representations of symbols. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Theoretical commentary on LLM language use, not autonomous agentic workflows. | |
| Intent-Triggered Anchoring for Multi-Token Format Units in Parallel Decoding of Diffusion Language Models This paper introduces a training-free decoding rule that anchors multi-token format units to ensure parseable parallel generation in diffusion language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Proposes a decoding technique for diffusion language models, not agent planning. | |
| Support or Magnitude? Characterizing Neuron Relevance for Instruction Data Selection This paper examines neuron relevance characterization methods based on magnitude and distribution support for selecting instruction fine-tuning data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Investigates instruction data selection criteria, not LLM agent workflows. | |
| Spectral-Driven Adaptive-Rank Optimizer for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards This paper investigates gradient spectral properties during reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to design an adaptive-rank optimizer for reasoning models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes a training optimizer for reinforcement learning, not agent tool execution. | |
| Know Yourself and Know Your Neighbour: A Syntactically Informed Self-Supervised Compositional Sentence Representation Learning Framework using a Recursive Hypernetwork This paper presents a self-supervised recursive hypernetwork framework using parse trees to learn syntactically informed compositional sentence representations. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on compositional sentence embeddings, not agent planning or tool execution. | |
| SIREN: Situation-aware Index for Response and Emergency ActioNability in Crisis Translation This paper introduces an evaluation index to measure whether machine translation of emergency communication preserves critical safety actionability. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on crisis translation metrics, not autonomous planning or tool-using agents. | |
| EHR-Bench: A Chinese Multi-Task Benchmark for Recruitment AI This paper introduces a Chinese multi-task evaluation benchmark covering six recruitment application areas for language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a multi-task benchmark for recruitment tasks, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Attention-Graph Curvature for the Verification of Mathematical Reasoning This paper evaluates whether attention-graph curvature features can help verifiers detect errors in mathematical reasoning steps. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies internal attention curvature for step verification, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| What Is the "Self" of a Large Language Model? This paper investigates internal model representations that separate assistant actions from externally provided text across conversational layers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes internal representations of conversational roles, not tool use or autonomous agents. | |
| Lost in Contrast: Instruction-Preserving Decoding for Reliable Visual Question Answering This paper introduces an instruction-preserving decoding strategy to prevent visual contrastive decoding from discarding valid abstention responses. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes a decoding technique for visual question answering, not agentic planning or tools. | |
| The Multilingual Artificial Hivemind: Do All LLMs Think Alike in Every Language? This paper investigates output diversity and text homogenization across twenty-three open-weight language models and thirteen languages. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies multilingual text diversity and collapse, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| Is the Platform Part of the Measurement? A Protocol and Simulation Study for Cross-Platform Equivalence of Machine-Labelled Policy Sentiment This paper presents a psychometric framework to test whether automated sentiment classification remains equivalent across different social media platforms. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on social media sentiment analysis, not LLM agents. | |
| A Bethe-Ansatz Source of Early Token Correlations: A marginal-preserving construction for parallel proposals This paper constructs joint token probability laws from physics models to improve speculative verification in parallel language model decoding. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on mathematical decoding laws, not agent architectures. | |
| TPPO: Tracking-Value PPO For Language Model Reasoning This paper proposes a cumulative value parameterization method for reinforcement learning to improve credit assignment in multi-step language reasoning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes an RL training algorithm for reasoning, not agent workflows or tool use. | |
| The Bell Boundary of Shared Representations This paper uses Bell's theorem bounds to analyze capacity limits and task interference in multi-task shared representations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies multi-task representations theoretically, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| Label Collapse in Diffusion Language Model In-Context Learning This paper analyzes label collapse failure modes across diffusion and autoregressive language models during in-context learning classification. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines in-context label bias, not agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Estimating Uncertainty of Omnimodal Large Language Models via External Omnimodal Embeddings This paper develops an uncertainty estimation framework for omnimodal models using external embeddings to score reasoning grounding and coherence. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on uncertainty quantification of model responses rather than agentic planning. | |
| Lexical Redefinition Reveals Context-Sensitive Instruction Following This paper tests how language models handle explicit instructions when subsequent contextual sentences provide conflicting word definitions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies prompt-level word meaning integration, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| Event Memory and Narrative Dynamics: A Large Language Model Framework for Multidimensional State Spaces This paper presents a language model framework to extract event representations from autobiographical narratives into geometric state spaces. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Uses LLMs for narrative extraction, not autonomous planning or tool execution. | |
| Predicting Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviour on Reddit: A Survival Analysis of Linguistic and Behavioural Signals This paper uses survival analysis on Reddit text and activity to predict when users will seek mental health support. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on survival analysis of Reddit user data, not agentic LLMs. | |
| Beyond Model Bias: Cross-Entropy Based Rankings in Literary and Academic Texts Remain Stable across Small Language Models This paper studies cross-entropy surprisal metrics, showing that predictability rankings of texts remain consistent across multiple small language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates cross-entropy predictability metrics, not agent workflows. | |
| AD4EDU: Benchmarking University Lecture Audio Description across Accessibility Standards, Metrics, and Learner Preferences This paper introduces a benchmark and rule-based metric for generating and evaluating audio descriptions in university slide lectures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies audio descriptions for lecture slides, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| UZHCL_for_the_win at Touche: Encoder Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Augmentation, and an Underpowered Encoder-LLM Comparison This paper evaluates encoder fine-tuning and synthetic data augmentation for fallacy detection and argument classification on Reddit discussions. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text classification shared tasks, not agent architectures. | |
| Towards Universal Calibration for In-Context Classification This paper presents a universal calibrator to improve confidence estimates of in-context classification without requiring model-specific fine-tuning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines in-context classification confidence, not agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Gluing Local Contexts into Global Meaning: A Sheaf-Theoretic Decomposition of Transformer Representations This paper proposes a mathematical framework using cellular sheaves to isolate phrasing-invariant content representations in transformer language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates transformer interpretability theory, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| Soft Teacher Forcing The paper proposes combining teacher-forced embeddings with soft tokens to improve supervised fine-tuning on reasoning datasets without changing inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on fine-tuning training loss, not agent workflows or multi-step execution. | |
| MLAfication: Efficiently Enabling High-Fidelity MLA for Modern LLMs The paper introduces an attention conversion method enabling multi-head latent attention on modern architectures with reduced memory footprints. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on attention compression rather than multi-step agent execution. | |
| Online LLM Personalization from Pairwise Preferences Across Users The paper formulates online language model persona personalization as a dueling bandit problem using sequential pairwise user preferences. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates prompt persona selection via dueling bandits, not agentic planning or tools. | |
| Nufo: A Benchmark for Ewe Automatic Speech Recognition The paper introduces a 174-hour speech benchmark and evaluates baseline models on Ewe automatic speech recognition. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers low-resource speech recognition, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| From Sampled Evidence to Radiology Reports: Objectives, Constraints, and Realization The paper evaluates how objective functions and candidate constraints affect decision conversion when generating radiology reports from sampled evidence. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies clinical report generation pipelines rather than tool-using autonomous agents. | |
| PIG: Parallel Inconsistency Guidance for Accelerating Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces a lightweight guidance model to estimate parallel decoding inconsistency and accelerate diffusion language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion model decoding rather than multi-step agent systems. | |
| Evaluating Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Event Temporal Relation Extraction with Allen's Interval Algebra, Logical Consistency, and Relative Time in Narratives The paper evaluates five language models on extracting complete interval networks of relative temporal events from narratives. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Tests narrative temporal extraction rather than tool-using agent systems. | |
| Distilling Text LMs into Speech-to-Speech LMs by Matching Internal Text Predictions The paper proposes a knowledge distillation method that transfers text language model capabilities to speech-to-speech models using internal text interfaces. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on speech model distillation rather than multi-step agent planning. | |
| A Sense of Proprioception in Language Models The paper trains language models to report internal states through supervised fine-tuning and on-policy learning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies internal state awareness rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Everyone Was Right: Lexical Representations in Language Models Are Both Abstract and Holistic The paper investigates lexical representations in transformer models by decomposing representations into item, class, and interaction components. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical study of lexical representations, not agentic planning or tools. | |
| TDR: Tagalog Diacritic Restoration Dataset The paper introduces an annotated dataset and retrieval approach for Tagalog homograph diacritic restoration. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with diacritic restoration rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation The paper studies long chain-of-thought distillation and argues improvements stem from structured reasoning patterns rather than factual correctness. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies reasoning distillation mechanics rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| DisaggKD: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Teacher-Student Disaggregation and a Fused Loss The paper proposes disaggregating teacher and student models across separate nodes with a fused loss to accelerate knowledge distillation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on distillation systems rather than multi-step agent tool use or planning. | |
| Decouple to Forget: Semantic Mediation for Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models The paper proposes an unlearning method that removes sensitive facts from model responses while preserving surrounding non-sensitive factual context. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on LLM unlearning rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| Worth Their Weights? Evaluating Generative Models for Discourse Parsing The paper compares discriminative and generative language models for rhetorical structure parsing and elementary discourse unit segmentation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates discourse parsing rather than autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| The Image Still Has a Say: Final-Answer Repair for Multimodal Chain-of-Thought The paper repairs multimodal chain-of-thought final answers using original image features without altering the generated reasoning trace. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes an attention reallocation mechanism rather than multi-agent or tool-use planning. | |
| RALI@iKAT 2026: Retrieval-aware User Profile Denoising via Personalized Conversational Dense Retrieval The paper presents a retrieval-aware denoising method for conversational user profiles to improve personalized dense retrieval. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with conversational search rather than autonomous tool-using agents. | |
| Encoding Context into LLM Weights: What Makes It Context? The paper investigates methods for encoding context into model weights so that language models properly apply the temporary context during subsequent inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on context conditioning in weights rather than agent planning. | |
| Pushback in a Haystack: Language Models Respond to Factual Errors Ambiguously and Ineffectively The paper evaluates how language models correct user misconceptions across five languages, showing indirect pushback often fails to fix factual errors. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on dialogue feedback behavior rather than agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Understanding Machine Taste: Aesthetic Agreement Across Foundation Models in K-pop The paper analyzes aesthetic judgments by foundation models on K-pop music videos to measure inter-model consensus across audio and visual modalities. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies aesthetic preference ranking rather than multi-step agent systems. | |
| Geometric Structure Predicts Per-Example Neighborhood Loss Under PCA Truncation The paper analyzes geometric properties of text embeddings to predict how many nearest neighbors an individual example loses under dimensionality reduction. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes embedding dimension reduction rather than autonomous agents. | |
| Connecting the Dots: Enduring Performance Gaps in ASR Systems Between Standard and Minority English Varieties The paper tracks automatic speech recognition performance from 2021 to 2025, finding persistent accuracy disparities between standard American English and minority accents. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates speech recognition models rather than autonomous agents. | |
| More Reader Data or a Better Teacher? Updating a Model of Crowd Highlights in Late 2026 The paper compares direct prompting, model-distilled supervision, and larger reader datasets for predicting user text highlighting behavior on web pages. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies highlight prediction models rather than autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Many Right Answers, One Training Example: Removing Responder Noise from GRPO for LLM Recommenders The paper proposes ReMaRk, a reinforcement learning method that trains recommender models using all available reader replies simultaneously to reduce variance. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on RL training recipes for recommenders rather than autonomous agents. | |
| Beyond Belief Nesting: Rethinking Higher-Order Theory of Mind in Large Language Models The paper introduces HopToM, a benchmark testing whether higher-order theory-of-mind tasks in language models genuinely evaluate nested reasoning rather than shortcuts. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on Theory of Mind reasoning rather than tool use or autonomous agents. | |
| GENDIS: Gender-Related Discourse and Stance in Multilingual YouTube Comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria The paper presents GENDIS, a multilingual dataset of YouTube comments from India, Kenya, and Nigeria annotated for gender-related discourse and stance. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a discourse dataset without agent planning or tool use. | |
| Full-duplex Spoken Language Modeling with Discrete Diffusion The paper presents Diffuplex, a full-duplex spoken language model that separates speech timing from content generation using discrete diffusion. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes a speech model architecture rather than an autonomous tool-using agent. | |
| Where Words Begin and End The paper evaluates audio forced aligners and fine-tunes Whisper to predict human-aligned word boundaries across read, conversational, and telephone speech. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on forced speech alignment algorithms rather than agent workflows. | |
| Perturbation, Not Provenance: Why Activation Steering Does Not Make a Robust Text Watermark The paper tests activation steering as a text watermarking technique, finding that standard logit-based watermarking provides more robust detection against paraphrasing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text watermarking techniques rather than multi-step agent systems. | |
| Prefilling-dLLM v2: Learned Chunk Routing for Long-Context Diffusion Language Models The paper proposes a training approach that uses learned chunk routing to speed up long-context diffusion language model processing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on attention routing architecture, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| Swiss4Arg: A Parallel Dataset for Multilingual Argument Mining across Swiss National Languages The paper introduces Swiss4Arg, a multilingual argument mining dataset based on official Swiss voting brochures across four national languages. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents an argument mining dataset without agent planning or tool use. |
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