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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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| Text-Only vs. Image-Aware VLM Judges for Manga Translation Evaluation The paper evaluates whether providing page images to vision-language models improves the detection of errors in Japanese-English manga translation. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines VLM evaluation judges rather than multi-step planning or tool-using agents. | |
| Batch-Paced: Fixed-Budget Batch Decoding in Discrete Diffusion Language Models The paper proposes Batch-Paced, a method that dynamically allocates decoding compute across batched requests to improve discrete diffusion language model inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion decoding algorithms rather than multi-step autonomous agent systems. | |
| Fish Audio Drama 3 Technical Report The paper introduces Fish Audio Drama 3, an open-source text-to-speech model designed for multi-character dialogue, long-form synthesis, and iterative voice revision. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on autonomous planning, agents, or tool use. | |
| Machine--human agreement in marking undergraduate assignments is specific to model, prompt and institution The paper examines machine grading on undergraduate essays across three universities, finding models compress score distributions and vary across institutions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study multi-step agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| A Benchmark for Bangla Task-Oriented Dialogue Understanding The paper introduces BanglaTOD, a tri-lingual benchmark for task-oriented dialogue understanding covering Bangla, English, and romanized Banglish across nine service domains. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on dialogue state tracking rather than autonomous agent planning. | |
| Narrative Lookahead in LLMs: Event-Level Decodability, Predictive Advantage, and Steering The paper probes language model hidden states across generated stories to test whether models anticipate narrative events multiple steps ahead. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text generation dynamics, not multi-step agents or tools. | |
| Cheap, Consistent, Calibrated, but Biased? Typed Decision Models as Judges The paper evaluates typed decision models against standard language model judges to measure how emotional tone and biases affect their evaluation accuracy. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not examine agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| SparPR: Runtime KV-Cache Recovery for Resource-Constrained LLM Inference on Consumer Hardware The paper presents SparPR, a runtime key-value cache recovery mechanism that reduces memory bottlenecks during model inference on consumer hardware. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study multi-step agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| Attacking Only Half the Data: Two-Sided Evaluation of AI-Text Detector Robustness Evaluates AI text detectors under attacks applied to both human and machine text, revealing high false-positive rates on edited human writing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not cover language model agents or planning. | |
| TRACESTEER: Trace Driven Activation Steering for Hallucination Mitigation in Diffusion Language Models Proposes dynamic activation steering using preceding denoising predictions to reduce hallucinations in diffusion language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multi-step agent actions or planning. | |
| PACT: A Pragmatic Prompting Framework for Expressive and Voice-Preserving Speech-to-Speech Translation Presents a pragmatic prompting framework to preserve speaker voice, emotion, and tone during speech-to-speech translation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not cover planning, tool use, or agent workflows. | |
| Are We Testing Too Much? A Survey of Benchmark Compression for Efficient Evaluation of Large Language Models Surveys methods for compressing large language model benchmarks to reduce evaluation costs while maintaining accurate score estimates. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on planning, tools, or agents. | |
| PAINT: A Framework for Multilingual Pain Representation from Medical Licensing Exams to Real-World Clinical Texts Presents a multilingual framework and dataset spanning four languages to evaluate clinical pain representations across exams and clinical notes. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on autonomous multi-step agents or tools. | |
| LegalRewardBench: Benchmarking Reward Models for Legal Preference Evaluation Introduces a human-verified benchmark to evaluate how accurately reward models judge language model outputs on legal tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study autonomous agents or tool use. | |
| Prompt or Policy? Optimizing Physician Slate Presentations with LLM User Simulators Develops a simulation framework using persona-guided models to optimize comparative doctor summary presentations for medical patients. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on presentation optimization rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Probing the Geometry of Color Representations in Multilingual Language Models Probes layer representations in multilingual language models to study whether internal color geometry aligns with human perception or language syntax. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies internal representations rather than agent planning or actions. | |
| Pin It on Anyone: Certified Targeted Displacement of Multi-Bit LLM Watermarks Without the Key Demonstrates an attack method that alters embedded multi-bit text watermarks without knowing the secret generation key. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multi-step agent systems or tool use. | |
| Multi-Stream Residual Computation in Diffusion Language Models Equips diffusion language models with multiple residual streams and adaptive routing to separate visible context from masked token generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on internal model architecture, not agents or multi-step execution. | |
| Revisiting the Estimation of Unigram Surprisal in Computational Psycholinguistics Proposes estimating both contextual and unigram surprisal from the same language model to reduce estimation mismatch in reading time studies. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies computational psycholinguistics and reading times, not LLM agents. | |
| Estimating Surprisal from the Speech Signal Estimates surprisal directly from continuous speech signals using a speech language model and importance sampling over abstract linguistic units. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies psycholinguistic surprisal from speech, not autonomous agents. | |
| Copying Is Not Grounding: Training Faithful Long-Form RAG with Authored-Sentence Credit Identifies passage copying as a failure mode in long-form retrieval systems and introduces sentence-level credit assignment to encourage genuine grounding. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on long-form RAG training objectives rather than autonomous agents. | |
| How Safe Is ChatGPT Health Advice? Evidence from Real User Conversations in Four Global South Countries Evaluates the safety of ChatGPT health advice using real user conversation logs across four Global South countries. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies conversational health advice, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Imprinting: Knowledge Distillation Can Shift Student Behavior Demonstrates that knowledge distillation transfers safety dispositions and behavioral tendencies from teacher models to student models on unrelated tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies distillation behavior transfer rather than multi-step agent planning. | |
| Retrieval Disagreement as a Signal: Diagnosing and Steering Multilingual Dense Embedders Analyzes retrieval divergence across languages in multilingual dense embedders and introduces disagreement-guided steering to align shared-index search results. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on embedding spaces for dense retrieval rather than agent systems. | |
| How Reliable Are System-One Decisions in Medicine? A Comparative Study of Jev, Jev-like Models, and LLMs Evaluates fast, system-one decision models and language models across fifteen medical datasets, testing their accuracy, format robustness, and abstention awareness. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Compares rapid decision models on multiple-choice datasets rather than agentic planning. | |
| Empathy Is Not the Scapegoat for Declines in Factuality and Reliability Examines whether model empathy degrades reliability, showing that warm behavior effects depend on tasks and training approaches rather than an inevitable trade-off. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes conversational empathy and reliability, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| CREATE: Creativity Evaluation of VLMs using the Visual Remote Associates Test This paper introduces a visual associative test benchmark to evaluate the lateral reasoning and creative association capabilities of vision-language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not study LLM agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| Decomposing and Predicting Annotation Disagreement in Harmful Content Across Languages This paper predicts human annotator disagreement on harmful content across multiple languages by extracting interpretable semantic question features with models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on predicting annotator disagreement rather than LLM agents. | |
| From Hindsight to Foresight: Dissecting Clinical Evidence Acquisition in Large Language Models This paper analyzes dynamic clinical evidence gathering in language models, identifying failures in evidence identification, updating, and diagnostic reasoning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes diagnostic evidence acquisition failure in LLMs rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Breakdown of Conversational Involvement: A Joint Multi-Modal Analysis of Conversation Floors and F-formation Detection with Multiple Features This paper analyzes multi-person conversational involvement by jointly evaluating speaking floors and spatial formations from multimodal video features. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies human social interaction dynamics rather than LLM agents. | |
| Does Pretraining Teach Chemical Language Models Chemistry? This paper evaluates pretraining on chemical language models across 64 molecular datasets, finding that gains saturate below gradient-boosted tree baselines. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on chemical language model pretraining rather than LLM agents. | |
| Bayesian Test-Time Inference of Task-Aligned Similarity from Weak Interactive Feedback This paper proposes a Bayesian method that infers task-aligned similarity metrics at test time using weak interactive feedback. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on similarity metric inference rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models This paper presents a method to detect spoken code-switching directly from speech representations using language-selective hidden dimensions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on speech audio processing, not language model agents. | |
| On the Monitorability of Natural Language Autoencoders: Identification vs Discrimination This paper uses referential communication games to analyze why natural language autoencoders fail to provide discriminative oversight of model activations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates interpretability methods, not autonomous language model agents. | |
| Looking Complete Is Not Being Grounded: Evaluating LLM Sitreps Against Human-Authored Situation Reports This paper evaluates language-model-generated disaster situation reports against human-written reports using a domain-specific sixteen-slot information schema. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates report generation quality rather than multi-step autonomous planning agents. | |
| Rubrics from the Task, Verdicts from Evidence: Pointwise Rubric Rewards with Tool-Augmented Judges This paper proposes a rubric-based reward model that derives criteria strictly from instructions and evaluates responses pointwise using tool assistance. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on reward modeling and judging rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate multimodal models on joint audio-visual temporal grounding, spatial grounding, and question answering. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates video grounding and question answering, not agent planning workflows. | |
| Correction Training for Diffusion Models This paper introduces a learned correction step to reduce error accumulation and the training-inference gap in iterative diffusion model sampling. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on image diffusion training, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| VETNET: Assembling Benchmark Datasets for AI-Driven Veterinary Innovation This paper presents an ecosystem of benchmark datasets and evaluation frameworks to advance machine learning applications in veterinary medicine. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers veterinary datasets, not language model agents or multi-agent planning. | |
| Beyond Discrimination: Evaluating Probability Calibration in Radiomics-Image Fusion for Renal Cell Carcinoma Classification This paper evaluates whether combining radiomics with deep image representations improves probability calibration and discrimination in renal cancer classification models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers medical cancer classification rather than autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Beyond Gate Weights: Decision-Level Interpretation of Radiomics-Image Feature Fusion for RCC Classification This paper analyzes decision logits in radiomics-image fusion models to distinguish gate weight values from actual feature contributions during cancer classification. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents medical image classification rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation This paper introduces a coarse-to-fine text generation method using discrete code hierarchies to accelerate parallel sampling over diffusion language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on core text generation architecture, not autonomous agent systems. | |
| Do you "see" what I "see"? A Multi-panel Visual Question Answer Dataset for Large Language Model Chart Analysis This paper presents a synthetic multi-panel chart visual question answering dataset to evaluate how multimodal models interpret complex scientific figures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Tests multimodal models on chart QA without multi-step agent planning. | |
| Visualizing the World Model in an Agent's Value Function The paper uses counterfactual interventions to visualize and examine implicit environmental concepts learned inside a reinforcement learning agent's value function. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes classical RL PPO agents in games, not language model agents. | |
| Cross-Modal Latent Influence: Patch-Level Training Sample Attribution for Vision-Language Models The authors introduce sparse autoencoders to trace multimodal training influence down to specific image regions and text phrases. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies model interpretability and attribution, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| Learnable Low-Rank Polynomial Sketch for Effective Linear Attention The paper proposes a learnable low-rank polynomial sketch to reduce approximation errors in linear attention mechanisms. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on transformer linear attention kernels, not agent systems. | |
| CAPTOR: a vision-language foundation model for Chest-Abdomen-Pelvis Oncologic CT The paper develops and evaluates a multimodal foundation model for interpreting oncologic chest, abdomen, and pelvis CT scans. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on medical imaging foundation models, not autonomous agents. | |
| Echo: Error-Compensated 4-Bit Tensor-Parallel Communication for LLM Training and Inference The authors develop an error-compensated 4-bit all-reduce algorithm to reduce communication overhead during distributed model training and inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on distributed GPU communication, not LLM agent systems. | |
| The RNN Homunculus: Learning to Gate Long-Term Memory The paper studies gate learning in recurrent networks, showing how adding short-dependency samples helps models learn long-range temporal connections. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Explores sequence architecture memory gating, not agent workflows. | |
| GeoFix: Geometry Fixing for 4D Consistent Generation The authors introduce a framework that uses cross-view depth consistency as a single reward to improve 4D video generation geometry. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on video generation geometry, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Controllable Diverse Sampling through Pullback Directions The paper proposes a training-free method leveraging pullback directions to increase sample diversity in conditional diffusion generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with diffusion image diversity, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| RUBATO: Decoupled Clocks Allow Full-Duplex Models to Think as Fast as They Can The authors propose decoupled positional encodings enabling full-duplex speech models to run internal thinking streams at hardware-adaptive speeds. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents speech architecture encoding, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| ConicFlow: constrained Inference-time optimal control for flow matching models The paper introduces a receding-horizon optimal control algorithm for constrained sampling in flow matching generative models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses optimal control in flow matching, not agent workflows. | |
| MvFFN: Multi-view Floor plan Feed-forward Network for Unposed Wide-Baseline Panorama Layout Reconstruction The authors present a feed-forward network that aggregates local wall predictions to reconstruct floor plans from sparse unposed panoramas. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on 3D layout reconstruction, not autonomous agents. | |
| EV-JEPA: Elastic V-JEPA for Any Device and Cross-Device Inference The paper presents an elastic vision architecture that dynamically reconfigures width and supports partitionable inference across heterogeneous edge devices. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes vision model architectures, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| TraceSampler: Making Sampling Errors Predictable and Correctable for Accelerated Generative Sampling The paper introduces a post-training residual correction method to predict and correct endpoint errors during low-step generative model sampling. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with continuous-time generative sampling, not autonomous agents. | |
| Actionable Meta-Requirements for AI Robustness Auditing The paper establishes and validates a set of meta-requirements to guide the design of frameworks for auditing AI system robustness. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Auditing requirements for general AI, not interactive LLM agent workflows. | |
| When Pleasing the User Compromises Care: AI Sycophancy in Caregiver-Mediated Healthcare The paper benchmarks how caregiver-directed language models compromise medical advice when users express clinically inferior care preferences. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies conversational advice drift rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| DexFLEX: Contact-Aware Foundation Controller for Command-Guided Dexterity The authors present a foundation controller that converts motion drafts into contact-consistent joint commands for dexterous robotic hands. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on low-level robotic hand control, not language model agents. | |
| Deep learning from a control vantage point The paper reviews deep learning architectures and training dynamics through the lens of continuous-time nonlinear control theory. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Surveys control theory connections to deep learning architectures, not agent workflows. |
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