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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Small and efficient models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Comprehensive Workflow for Uncertainty-Aware Ionic Liquid Solvent Discovery This paper introduces an uncertainty-aware property prediction workflow to guide out-of-distribution candidate selection for ionic liquid solvent discovery. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on chemical property discovery rather than model compression or efficiency. | |
| ModRes: A modification of the ResPlan dataset ready for floor plan analysis and graph machine learning This paper presents a cleaned and enriched residential floor plan dataset with graph, geometry, and image representations for machine learning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Provides an architectural floor plan dataset, not small or efficient models. | |
| CartoVec: General-Purpose Location Embeddings from Open Map Data This paper introduces a coordinate encoder trained on open map data to produce multi-scale location embeddings without requiring imagery. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on geospatial coordinate encoders rather than efficient model architectures. | |
| Density-Matrix Reinforcement Learning This paper proposes density-matrix reinforcement learning, representing policies as density matrices to capture relationships and coherences between actions. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning policy structures rather than model compression or serving. | |
| CodeLift: Your Test Suite Is Secretly a Dense SWE Curriculum This paper introduces a reinforcement learning method that calibrates test pass-rate rewards to create adaptive training curricula for software engineering agents. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on RL training curricula rather than model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| Solvating machine-learning interatomic potentials for solution-phase chemistry This paper introduces an implicit solvation potential providing solvent-dependent corrections to gas-phase machine learning interatomic potentials without retraining. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on chemical potential modeling rather than efficient model inference. | |
| MIRRA: Fast, High-Fidelity Molecular Generation with Chemistry-Informed Discrete Flow Matching This paper presents a discrete flow-matching generator that evaluates molecular identity probabilities on demand to accelerate high-fidelity molecular generation. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on chemistry-informed molecular generation speed, not efficient language models. | |
| Value-Preserving Action Quantization The authors propose an action quantization method that preserves value functions by minimizing reachability error for search-based robot policy learning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on continuous action space discretization in RL, not model parameter quantization. | |
| Protocol Choices Matter More Than the Aggregation Algorithm: Federated Learning for In-Hospital Mortality Prediction in Care-Unit and Multi-Hospital Federations The authors compare federated learning algorithms for hospital mortality prediction and report that evaluation protocol choices outweigh aggregation algorithm differences. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies federated learning aggregation protocols, not efficient model compression or serving. | |
| Colored Graph Signal Diffusion Models The authors propose a score-based diffusion framework that controls generation speed across different graph frequency bands via colored noise priors. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies graph signal diffusion, not small or efficient language models. | |
| The Surprising Expressivity of a Single Neuron with Autoregressive Chain-of-Thought The authors demonstrate that a single autoregressive neuron using chain-of-thought generation can simulate any feedforward circuit of the same activation type. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Theoretical expressivity bounds for single neurons, not practical model efficiency. | |
| Which Geometry on Which Layer? Measured Sign-Spectral Assignment in Mixed-Optimizer Training The authors provide a theoretical criterion to decide whether neural network layers should receive sign-based or spectral optimization updates during training. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies general neural network optimizer geometry, not model efficiency or compression. | |
| Calibrating LLM Explanations to Human Decisions with Reinforcement Learning The authors introduce a reinforcement learning method that optimizes language model explanations specifically to improve human downstream decision accuracy. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Does not address model compression, quantization, distillation, or serving efficiency. | |
| A Geometrical Approach to Constructing Neural Networks for Perfect Training-set Classification The authors develop a geometric construction method to build two-hidden-layer neural networks that achieve exact classification on given training sets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Discusses exact geometric hyperplane fitting for classification, not small LLM architectures or efficiency. | |
| Deeply unrolled alternating projections for phase retrieval The authors propose a deep unrolling algorithm combining alternating projections with a learned denoiser for phase retrieval under changing measurement conditions. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on signal reconstruction techniques, not small or efficient language models. | |
| Near-Optimal Regret Bounds for Monotone Stochastic Optimization under Semi-Bandit Feedback The authors derive an online-to-offline reduction achieving near-optimal regret bounds for strongly monotone stochastic optimization under semi-bandit feedback. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on bandit regret bounds, not small models or efficient inference techniques. | |
| Accounting for model error in ensemble variational data assimilation through learned generative dynamics The authors present an ensemble variational data assimilation algorithm that incorporates learned generative forecasting models to account for complex model errors. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals with weather and climate forecast models, not small language models or efficiency. | |
| Monitoring for Shifts at Unknown Times: Parameter-Free Conditional Conformal Martingales The authors introduce a parameter-free conformal martingale method modeled as a universal portfolio to quickly detect distribution shifts at unknown times. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on sequential shift detection algorithms, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| HarnessTTT: Learn to Optimize Harness at Test-Time for Scientific Discovery The authors propose a test-time learning method that trains a proposer to generate prompts, tools, and controls guiding scientific discovery agents. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses prompt and tool optimization for discovery, not model quantization, distillation, or serving. | |
| Robustly Reliable Learning for Regression The authors analyze robustly reliable learning for regression under data corruptions and propose an algorithm to compute optimal prediction intervals for Lipschitz predictors. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on adversarial regression bounds rather than small models or efficient inference. | |
| Variable Input Masked Autoencoders for Wrist-Worn Accelerometry The authors introduce a masked autoencoder that pretrains wearable sensor representations across varied recording durations and sampling rates using cross-resolution views. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Proposes masked autoencoding for sensor signals, not small LLM architectures or compression. | |
| Measure Neural Mappings The authors define measure neural mappings and establish quantitative error bounds for self-attention transformers acting on probability measures in unbounded spaces. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on theoretical bounds for attention over continuous measures, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| A Method for Exact Enforcement of Boundary Conditions on General Curved Triangular Domains: Algorithm and Application to Scientific Machine Learning The authors present a mathematical method to enforce Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions exactly on curved triangular domains for scientific machine learning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on scientific machine learning on curved domains, not small models or efficient inference. | |
| Position: Beyond Training Time, Test-Time Coordination is Essential for Cooperative MARL The authors argue that cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning systems require test-time coordination mechanisms rather than relying solely on training-time centralized information. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses execution frameworks in multi-agent reinforcement learning, not small or efficient models. | |
| Formal-Verification-Guided Bayesian Optimization for Non-Intrusive Last-Mile Coverage Closure The authors present a verification workflow combining reachability analysis with Bayesian optimization to close residual test bins in chip design verification. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Discusses Bayesian optimization for chip verification, not small language models or efficient inference. | |
| On Sleep-Wake Disorder Identification from Polysomnographic Representations The authors compare self-supervised and sleep-stage-supervised representations for identifying sleep-wake disorders across thousands of polysomnography recordings. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Examines medical representation learning, not model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Effect of Spherical Parameter Space on Number of Non-Forgetting Tasks and Capacity of Continual Learning The authors analyze continual learning on a spherical parameter space to determine how many tasks a model can learn without catastrophic forgetting. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes spherical parameter geometry in continual learning, not small models or efficient inference. | |
| Selective Inference for Clustering Under Unknown Covariance The authors introduce a selective hypothesis test for comparing cluster means under an unknown covariance matrix without inflating false-positive rates. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Concerns theoretical statistics for clustering, not efficient model inference or compression. | |
| From Orbit Matching to Docking: A Hierarchical Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Multiphase Rendezvous Trajectory Design The paper proposes a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework to automate multi-phase spacecraft rendezvous and docking trajectories. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning for spacecraft docking, not small or efficient language models. | |
| Structure-preserving fidelity diagnostics for partial differential equations The paper introduces diagnostic scores to test whether neural network surrogates respect underlying physical conservation laws rather than numerical errors. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on physics-informed PDE surrogates rather than small model compression or serving. | |
| A Time-Synchronous Prequential Evaluation Framework for Next-Week Student Disengagement Prediction from Moodle LMS Logs The paper evaluates online machine learning models within a time-synchronous framework to predict weekly student disengagement from activity logs. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on educational log classification rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Longitudinal Learner Participation Profiling in Online Learning: Heterogeneous Consensus Clustering under Unequal Observation Windows The paper evaluates clustering methods on learning management system logs to identify learner participation profiles across unequal observation windows. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies student log clustering rather than small, efficient model compression or serving. | |
| Merit: Making every modality earn its contribution in multimodal attention decoding The paper introduces a multimodal auditory attention decoding framework designed to maintain reliance on neural signals alongside behavioural tracking. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses hearing aid decoding methods rather than small model compression or inference. | |
| Risk-Averse Inference-Time Diffusion Model Alignment with Finite-Sample Guarantees The paper proposes an inference-time alignment method that optimizes expected costs while controlling tail risk in diffusion models. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion inference alignment rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Training Generalist Navigation Policies via Action Self-Distillation The paper introduces a self-distillation framework where a vision-language model teaches itself language-conditioned robotic navigation policies without human annotations. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Uses distillation for robot policy learning rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| FedLoRD: Personalized Federated Learning based on Low-Rank Structures of Model Parameter Differences The paper introduces a personalized federated learning method that regularizes local model updates using low-rank difference structures. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Targets federated regularizers rather than small model compression, distillation, or serving. | |
| textGrain watermarking is harder to detect: can sum-tests still do it optimally? The paper analyzes the theoretical detection limits and sum-test efficiency of textGrain watermarking under human text edits. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on watermarking theory rather than model compression or efficient inference methods. | |
| Focus on What You Need: Global-to-Local Dynamic Attention for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection The paper introduces a global-to-local dynamic attention model to filter visual noise and improve multimodal sarcasm detection. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal attention mechanisms rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Confine to the Task, Anchor the Rest: Concept-Guided Retention Regularizer for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning The paper proposes a concept-guided regularizer using sparse autoencoders to reduce catastrophic forgetting during parameter-efficient fine-tuning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on retaining knowledge during fine-tuning rather than model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| MissPath-FM: Flow Matching with Structured Priors for Partially Observed Time Series The paper develops a flow matching framework with structured priors to model partially observed time series without wasting capacity on observed entries. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses time series flow matching rather than small, efficient model serving or compression. | |
| Representation Geometry and Inductive Biases in Quantum Classifiers across Classical Visual Benchmarks The paper investigates the representation geometry and inductive biases of quantum classifiers when applied to classical visual benchmark datasets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Investigates quantum machine learning classification rather than efficient language model compression or inference. | |
| Hybrid Parallel Bessel KAN Model: a Kolmogorov Arnold Network: integrated framework for developing a novel architecture to reconstruct the fused-basis approach via a parameter free quadratic interaction The paper proposes a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network architecture using parallel Bessel branches and quadratic interactions to reduce parameters and conditioning problems. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Develops a specialized neural network architecture rather than methods for small, efficient language models. | |
| Follow the Perturbed Leader for Linear Bandits: $\sqrt{T}$ Regret over General Convex Sets The paper provides an adversarial linear bandit algorithm achieving sublinear regret over general convex action sets using follow-the-perturbed-leader. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Covers theoretical online optimization rather than small, efficient model architectures or compression. | |
| GeoNIRS: Geometry-Aware Pretraining for Heterogeneous fNIRS Representation Learning The paper presents a geometry-aware pretraining framework that aligns heterogeneous probe layouts for functional near-infrared spectroscopy representation learning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on brain signal pretraining rather than compact or efficient model architectures. | |
| Persistence Positional Encoding: A Minimal Transformer Recipe for Persistence Diagrams The paper proposes a minimal positional encoding method using random Fourier features to feed persistence diagrams directly into standard Transformers. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Investigates persistence diagram encodings rather than model compression or efficient serving. | |
| Searching for What Matters: Open-Ended Discovery of Multiple Hypotheses with Agentic Data Exploration The paper introduces an open-ended benchmark for evaluating agentic systems on discovering multiple data-supported hypotheses from tabular datasets. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on exploratory hypothesis discovery rather than model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| Deep Mesoscopic Dynamics The paper develops a neural network approach to learn effective mesoscopic field equations directly from microscopic trajectory data. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies mesoscopic physical dynamics rather than small, efficient model compression or serving. | |
| Stable-Plastic Subspace Construction for Differentially Private Continual LoRA The paper presents a subspace construction method for continual low-rank adaptation to mitigate forgetting under differential privacy constraints. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on privacy guarantees during adaptation, not model inference efficiency. | |
| NBCLT: Parameter-Agnostic Norm-Ball Clipped Local Training The paper introduces a unified local training framework using norm-ball clipping to improve communication efficiency in distributed and federated learning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on distributed optimization bounds, not small models or serving. | |
| Stein Variational Distributional Reinforcement Learning: Score-Guided Particles for Multivariate Return Distributions The paper introduces a score-guided particle framework using Stein variational gradient descent to model multivariate return distributions in reinforcement learning. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Covers distributional reinforcement learning algorithms, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| Learning Distributions from Samples and Qualities This paper establishes accelerated parameter estimation rates when continuous data samples are accompanied by binary quality labels or pairwise preferences. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Covers continuous parameter estimation theory, not efficient AI deployment. | |
| CALM-5G: Event-Level Conformal Risk Control for Predictive Service-Assurance Alarms This paper proposes a conformal risk control layer that certifies miss rates and reduces alarm duty cycles in predictive cellular network operations. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Applies conformal prediction to telecommunications alarms, not model efficiency. | |
| Neural Dimensional Analysis: Foundations of Dimensionless and Scale-Consistent Computation This paper introduces a dimensional analysis framework and diagnostic metrics to maintain scale consistency across Transformer components. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals with training stability theory across scales, not small models or inference compression. | |
| Rarity Determines Minimax Rates of Semantic Entropy From Weak Pairwise Judgments With a Known Channel This paper establishes minimax rates for estimating language model semantic entropy using verdicts from weak pairwise equivalence judges. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Theoretical information-theoretic analysis of entropy estimation, not model efficiency. | |
| All-electron machine-learned orbital-free density functional for periodic CHNO systems This paper presents an equivariant neural network functional to perform orbital-free density functional theory for periodic CHNO systems. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses molecular orbital modeling, not small language models or efficient inference. | |
| Exact power indices for plurality-voting ensembles This paper introduces an exact method to compute Banzhaf and Shapley power indices for base classifiers in plurality-voting ensembles. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on game-theoretic power indices, not efficient model architectures. | |
| Counterfactual Certification for Sequential Unlearning with Long-Run Performance Guarantees This paper proposes a counterfactual certification framework to bound performance loss during sequential machine unlearning requests. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on theoretical unlearning guarantees, not model compression or efficiency. | |
| Improving Neural Symbolic Regression with a Diverse Prior and Post-training Alignment This paper improves neural symbolic regression by using a tabular prior and reinforcement learning alignment to fit noisy data. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses neural symbolic regression training recipes, not model compression or inference efficiency. | |
| FRACTION: Fraud Explanation Generation via Agentic Graph Context Navigation This paper presents an agentic framework and an evaluation rubric for generating explanations of risk labels in graph fraud detection. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on graph context navigation for fraud explanations, not model compression. | |
| Weighting-Based Strategies for Classification: Analysis and Local Peak Dynamics with CART Trees This paper theoretically and empirically compares weighting-based rebalancing strategies to unweighted methods in imbalanced tabular classification tasks. Preprint | Small and efficient models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes class weighting in CART trees, not small or efficient models. |
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