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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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| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on core transformer attention efficiency, not multimodal integration. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with text tutoring prompts, not multimodal applications. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Speech recognition dataset, outside the scope of multimodal vision-language models. | |
| The Curse of Knowledge in Role-Playing Language Models The paper tests whether role-playing language models leak private or unobserved character information across simulated interactive scenes. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based role-playing prompts, not multimodal models. | |
| UMCR: Universal Medical Concept Recognition through Guideline Integration and Agentic Linking The paper introduces a framework combining guidelines and agentic linking to ground medical concepts across diverse text types and ontologies. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Processes clinical text and ontologies, not multimodal vision or audio. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies to diffusion language models on text, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text narratives, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Scaling Inference-Time Compute with Teams of Coding Agents The paper studies compute allocation across multi-agent coding teams to identify Pareto-optimal trade-offs between cost and performance. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on code-generating agent teams, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on language model self-inspection, not multimodal data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Exclusively examines word representations in text transformers. | |
| EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation The paper proposes an edge-cloud collaboration framework that selectively delegates complex agent steps from local models to cloud models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on agent delegation between SLMs and LLMs, not multimodal architectures. | |
| TDR: Tagalog Diacritic Restoration Dataset The paper introduces an annotated dataset and retrieval approach for Tagalog homograph diacritic restoration. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Strictly text-focused linguistics, not multimodal. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with text-based reasoning models, not multimodal tasks. | |
| StateHarness: Maintaining Evolving Project State for Long-Horizon Coding Agents The paper presents a runtime framework that tracks evolving repository state and dependencies to assist long-horizon coding agents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based code repositories, not multimodal systems. | |
| When Does an ASR Error Matter? Task-Role Diagnostics for Tool-Using Voice Agents The paper introduces a diagnostic protocol to evaluate how speech recognition errors affect structured tool calling in voice agents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines cascaded speech recognition and text agents rather than end-to-end multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text language model distillation, not multimodal architectures. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text unlearning, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals exclusively with text discourse parsing without visual or audio modalities. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies dense retrieval strictly to text conversational history and user profiles. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text context encoding without multimodal vision or audio inputs. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals exclusively with multilingual text generation without multimodal data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text embeddings without image, video, or audio components. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes text sentence highlighting without visual or audio modalities. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals purely with text recommendation threads without multimodal components. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text-based reasoning without multimodal data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes text comments from YouTube without multimodal image or audio models. | |
| BRIDGE: Selective Boundary Repair with Dependency Graph Evidence in Multi-Agent Systems The paper introduces BRIDGE, a runtime intervention framework that detects and repairs broken information handoffs across dependency graphs in multi-agent workflows. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates multi-agent interaction traces without multimodal vision or audio data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals exclusively with text representations and generation. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses text-based diffusion language models without multimodal components. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals exclusively with multilingual text data without visual or audio modalities. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies discrete diffusion language models without multimodal inputs or outputs. | |
| Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively The paper introduces Agent-Reflex, a training framework designed to teach language agents how to reflect and recover from noisy environment feedback. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on language agents without multimodal data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes text essay grading, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals solely with text dialogue without multimodal data. | |
| From Agents to Edges: Paired Optimization for Multi-Agent Collaboration The paper introduces an optimization method that jointly refines communication instructions between communicating agents to improve multi-agent collaboration. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based multi-agent collaboration, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Exclusively covers text story generation, not multimodal inputs. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on text-based decision models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses language model inference, not multimodal architectures. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers text detection, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses diffusion language models, not multimodal data. | |
| SWE-MISBEHAVIOR: Benchmarking and Mitigating Boundary Violations in Software Coding Agents Introduces a benchmark evaluating coding agent misbehaviors across code generation, file management, and system environment integrity. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not cover vision, video, or multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on multimodal models or cross-modal tasks. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on clinical text without multimodal inputs. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses exclusively on text evaluation in the legal domain. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text-based summaries and profiles. | |
| Jev-Guard: Fast Routing and Auditing Agent Actions over Editable Policy Trees Introduces a low-latency guardrail model that routes incoming agent actions through editable policy trees for safety auditing. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal models or data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text-only multilingual language models, not multimodal systems. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Exclusively covers text watermarking without multimodal data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers text diffusion models, not multimodal models. | |
| Prompt-Injection Probes Learn the Conversation, Not Just the Injection Shows linear prompt-injection monitors overfit to conversation features and reduces their false alarms by adding matched harmless negative examples. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based prompt injection, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with text unigram surprisal, not multimodal models. | |
| Receiver Decides Agent-to-Agent Negotiations Studies agent-to-agent negotiations over money, finding that the receiving agent's characteristics primarily dictate the final transfer amounts. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based agent negotiations, not multimodal models. | |
| Reliable Memory from Unstable Growth: Curating Self-Written Agent Playbooks with Randomized Experiments Presents a randomized experiment framework to test and curate self-written agent playbooks, preventing task failure caused by unverified lessons. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on agent textual memory, not multimodal systems. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with textual long-form RAG, not multimodal models. | |
| Teacher-Guided Tool Learning for Small Language Models via Bidirectional KL Constraints Proposes a teacher-guided reinforcement learning method using bidirectional constraints to help small language models learn effective tool use. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal or vision-language models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines text health conversations, not multimodal models. | |
| The Last Mile of Coding Agents for Long-Document Tasks: An Empirical Study on Clinical Trial Protocol Digitization Introduces a benchmark evaluating how reliably software coding agents extract and digitize complex unstructured clinical trial protocol documents. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on coding agents processing PDFs into structured data, not multimodal architectures. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines text language model distillation, not multimodal models. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text embedding retrieval across languages, not multimodal data. | |
| 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 | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes text-based medical decision tasks, not multimodal models. |
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