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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI safety and reliability in deployment — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Hyperspherical Contrastive Representations Unlock Planning and Exploration
This paper presents a self-supervised reinforcement learning method that uses hyperspherical representations and spherical interpolation to infer planning waypoints.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Studies robotic exploration planning, not language model safety or guardrails.
Tracking a Small Set of Experts in Online Convex Optimization
This paper proves a computational separation between information-theoretic and polynomial-time regret when tracking small expert subsets in online convex optimization.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Theoretical optimization paper, unrelated to deployment safety or AI guardrails.
Continual Learning for Reliable In-Sequence Molecular Communication
This paper introduces a continual learning replay method to incrementally evaluate and adapt molecular communication models across changing experimental settings.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on molecular networking simulations, not AI system deployment safety.
The Accuracy Well: Nonmonotone Accuracy Dynamics at Vanishing Initialization
This paper analyzes non-monotone accuracy dynamics during early neural network training when models are initialized with vanishingly small weights.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on general neural network training phenomena, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Learning by Examples: Power Grid Steady State Analysis with a Tabular Foundation Model
This paper evaluates whether a pretrained tabular foundation model can perform power grid steady-state analysis without task-specific retraining.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on power grid physical simulation accuracy, not AI deployment safety.
Decoupled Marginal Sharpening for Training-Free Inference-Time Scaling
This paper proposes a decoupled marginal sharpening method to improve inference-time reasoning in language models without weight updates or reward models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Optimizes reasoning path probabilities rather than AI safety, guardrails, or red teaming.
Average-Reward Policy Identification from a Single Continuing Trajectory
This paper provides matching upper and lower bounds for learning near-optimal policies from a single continuing trajectory in average-reward reinforcement learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses RL policy exploration bounds, not deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Graph-Enhanced Disease Trajectory Discovery and Temporal Endpoint Forecasting from Longitudinal Electronic Health Records
This paper introduces a graph-enhanced framework to discover disease trajectories and forecast temporal clinical endpoints from electronic health records.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on healthcare forecasting rather than AI safety or system guardrails.
A Two-Level Clinical Novelty Prioritization Framework for Disease Trajectories Discovered from Longitudinal Electronic Health Records
A two-level prioritization framework evaluates semantic novelty and reliability of disease trajectory patterns extracted from electronic health records.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses clinical motif ranking rather than AI safety or LLM guardrails.
The Physics Is the Network: Fast, Training-Free Neural Emulation
PolyNets embeds continuous polynomial equations into recurrent neural structures to perform fast, training-free physics simulations with known parameters.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address deployment safety, red-teaming, or LLM guardrails.
Revisiting Simple Baselines for Relational Deep Learning
The paper demonstrates that simple feature propagation and shallow classifiers yield competitive baselines compared to complex architectures in relational deep learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not focus on AI safety, alignment, hallucination, or guardrails.
Bridging the Topological Divide: Dual-Branch Graph Distillation with Semantic Priors for Robust Cold-Start Recommendation
DualGCN uses dual-branch graph knowledge distillation with topology-smoothed semantic priors to address item cold-start collapse in recommender systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaking, red-teaming, or guardrails.
How Far Can Coding Agents Go in Visual Generation?
The study evaluates coding agents generating images via executable code, analyzing their strengths in geometric constraints over photorealistic drawing.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address safety, jailbreaking, hallucinations, or deployment guardrails.
Riding the Fixed-Point Curve: Image Classification in the Continuous Thought Machine
The paper investigates the emergent dynamics of the Continuous Thought Machine during image classification using non-normal maps and fixed-point curves.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Theoretical neural analysis without direct focus on safety or guardrails.
The Impact of Detector Architecture, Model Scale, and Scene Density on Multi-Pedestrian Tracking
The paper benchmarks how detector architectures, model scale, and crowd density influence multi-pedestrian tracking performance in video sequences.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Benchmarking pedestrian trackers, not AI safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
Train to Stitch: Topology-Preserving Regularization for Interoperable Representations
The paper introduces topological regularization to align latent spaces across independently trained autoencoders without inter-model communication.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Theoretical latent space alignment, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Learning to Select Features with Manifold Deep Unfolding PCA
The paper proposes a deep unfolding network integrating manifold optimization for unsupervised feature selection in image processing.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on PCA optimization, not AI safety or reliability.
Self-Conditioning Enables Deep Sequential Reasoning in Flow Matching
Proves theoretically that self-conditioning enables genuine multi-step reasoning in flow matching where standard samplers fail.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address deployment safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
Enhancing Latent World Models with Associative Memory
Adds content-addressable associative memory to latent world models to prevent collapse and improve long-horizon planning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on embodied planning dynamics, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Discriminative Score Function: Turning Pretrained Models into Functional Generative Priors
Extracts generative image priors directly from the loss-gradient geometry of pretrained discriminative models without retraining.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on image generation priors, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
SAM3RL: Memory Control via Reinforcement Learning for Visual Object Tracking
Trains a reinforcement learning controller to manage frame memory dynamically for visual object tracking in foundation models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with reinforcement learning for video tracking memory, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Continual pretraining Prostate MRI ViT Encoder for task alignment
Applies low-rank continual pretraining to vision transformers to improve task alignment in prostate magnetic resonance imaging segmentation.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Analyzes task alignment in vision encoders, not safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Contrastive uncertainty learning for robust multi-structure segmentation in lower-pelvic MR
Uses contrastive uncertainty learning during training to improve anatomical boundary segmentation in pelvic magnetic resonance imaging.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with boundary uncertainty in medical segmentation rather than AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Resolution Allocation with Learnable Resizing and Spectral Filter Parameterization
Investigates the interaction between learnable image resizing and spectral-domain convolutional filter parameterization in neural networks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on CNN architecture filter properties rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Generative Representation Learning for Scalable Latent Tokenization
This paper develops a self-supervised representation learning approach based on pointwise mutual information factorisation for scalable generative latent tokenization.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on representation learning efficiency, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Learnable Hodge-Laplacian Driven Mixture of Experts for Steady-PDE Surrogates on Coarse Unstructured Meshes
This paper proposes a mixture-of-experts transformer architecture using discrete Hodge-Laplacian operators to solve steady partial differential equations on unstructured meshes.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with fluid dynamics simulation accuracy, not AI deployment safety.
An Initial Study of Physiological Markers for Deepfake Speech Detection
This paper investigates 36 handcrafted physiological markers from speech production to detect deepfake speech using standard classifiers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Targets audio deepfake detection rather than AI deployment guardrails, safety, or robustness.
Physical Layer Anomaly Detection via Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Model
This paper proposes an adaptive Gaussian mixture model framework to detect physical-layer channel state information spoofing attacks in wireless localization.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on wireless signal physical-layer spoofing, not AI deployment safety.
Combining Post-Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Key Distribution: Taxonomy, Constructions, Proofs, Standards, Deployments and Open Problems
This survey provides an eight-dimension taxonomy and comparative analysis of hybrid protocols combining post-quantum cryptography with quantum key distribution.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Discusses post-quantum cryptography key distribution protocols, not AI safety or deployment.
TrackShield: An Efficient Runtime Defense Against Availability Attacks on High-Performance Real-Time Multi-Object Tracking
This paper presents TrackShield, a runtime resource-management layer that protects multi-object tracking pipelines from availability attacks by enforcing deterministic admission control.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Protects classical multi-object tracking pipelines from availability attacks, not AI safety.
AutoPoly-HE: Autonomous Design of Polynomial Activations for Privacy-Preserving Encrypted Inference
The authors propose AutoPoly-HE, a framework that automatically selects dataset-tailored polynomial activations for homomorphic encrypted neural network inference.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on homomorphic encryption activations rather than AI deployment safety and robustness.
Differentially Private Learning of Markov Chains: Near-Optimal Sample Complexity for Item and User Level Privacy
This paper establishes sample complexity bounds for differentially private estimation of Markov chain transition matrices under item and user privacy.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses theoretical differential privacy for Markov chains, not deployment AI safety.
Quantum-Resilient Secure Protocol for Decentralized Edge-IoT Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Systems
The authors present a post-quantum authenticated key agreement protocol for decentralized edge peer-to-peer energy trading systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with quantum key distribution for IoT energy trading, not AI safety.
Mission (Im)Possible: Towards Autonomous Discovery of Autopilot Logic Flaws in Open-Source Drone Frameworks
The authors present an approach using domain-informed language models to discover semantic logic flaws in open-source drone autopilot software.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on testing drone software rather than AI model safety, guardrails, or robustness.
Analyzing and Mitigating Poisoning Attacks on Flow-Based Intrusion Detection
This paper analyzes latent backdoor poisoning in flow-based intrusion detection and introduces a perturbation-based diagnostic and mitigation methodology.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on network intrusion detection systems rather than AI deployment safety and robustness.
Adaptive and Proximal Federated Optimization for Transferable Network Intrusion Detection
The authors study whether adaptive and proximal federated optimizers improve the detection of unseen attack classes in network intrusion detection.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on federated optimization for network intrusion detection, not AI model deployment safety.
DarKnight: Retrieval-Guided Agentic Framework for Breaking Dark Web CAPTCHA Gates
This paper introduces DarKnight, a framework that uses locally hosted vision-language models to solve dark web CAPTCHAs during threat intelligence gathering.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Targets automated CAPTCHA cracking rather than AI model safety, guardrails, or robustness.
Global and Local Entropy Tests for STL Files Under IEEE-754 Validity Constraints
The authors derive statistical entropy tests under IEEE-754 validity constraints to detect non-randomness in encrypted stereolithography CAD files.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on cryptographic entropy statistics of 3D file formats, not AI systems.
Bilinear Compressive Security with Finitely Many Samples
This paper investigates finite-sample key-recovery attacks against bilinear compressive security using a covariance-based estimation approach.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on mathematical cryptography for compressed sensing, not AI safety or deployment.
ESAU: Expeditious Swarm Remote Attestation for Pub-Sub IoT Networks with Untrusted Cloud-based Proxy Verifier
This paper proposes ESAU, a lightweight swarm remote attestation framework for internet-of-things devices using untrusted cloud proxies.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers remote attestation for IoT networks, not AI system safety.
FreeSBee: A Constant-Time Compilation Pipeline
The authors propose FreeSBee, a compiler pipeline combining taint analysis and automated control-flow transformations to defend against timing side-channels.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with compiler hardening against timing attacks, not AI system safety.
Secret Sharing from Non-Extractable Randomness
This paper proves that two-out-of-two secret sharing is achievable from non-extractable randomness sources, answering an open cryptographic question.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Pure cryptographic theory on secret sharing, unrelated to AI safety.
Towards Efficient Threat Intelligence Instruction Tuning via Quality-Aware and Optimal Transport-Guided Data Selection
The authors present CTI-TDS, a data selection method using quality filtering and optimal transport to improve instruction tuning for threat intelligence.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on instruction tuning for cyber threat intelligence, not AI safety.
Building Sound Evaluation Practices for Rust-Based Security Frameworks
This paper examines evaluation practices for Rust security testing tools and proposes a methodology to support scientifically sound assessments.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on Rust security testing frameworks, not AI model deployment safety.
Phantomware: a Data Augmentation Framework for the Detection of Emerging Malware Campaigns
The authors propose Phantomware, a data augmentation framework designed to generate realistic malware variants for detecting emerging malicious campaigns.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers malware detection data augmentation, not AI deployment safety or LLMs.
Tulva: Practical Asynchronous Threshold FHE
This paper presents Tulva, a modular asynchronous threshold fully homomorphic encryption scheme evaluated for privacy-preserving smart contract applications.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with threshold fully homomorphic encryption, not AI safety or models.
Quantum-Aware Key Rank for Side-Channel Attacks evaluation
The authors introduce a cost model and metric for evaluating side-channel key rank against an adversary equipped with a quantum computer.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on cryptographic key side-channel attacks, not AI safety or LLMs.
Prioritizing Microservice Requests via Retries
This paper introduces DiffTry, a stateless retry mechanism that transforms retries into request prioritization to prevent microservice overload storms.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Presents cloud microservice networking retry policies, not AI deployment safety.
Can LLMs Access their World Knowledge for Event Prediction?
The authors introduce DescribeEvent to show that language models can forecast temporal events when using natural-language descriptions and symbolic labels.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Studies knowledge elicitation interfaces, not safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
Joint Subspace Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context Decoding
The paper introduces a token-level sparse attention method using a learned query-key subspace and an indexed kernel to accelerate long-context decoding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses inference acceleration, not safety, alignment, or guardrail deployment.
Crossing the Gender Binary: Modelling Gendered Reference in Science Fiction and General Fiction
The paper analyzes gendered reference replacements across science fiction and general fiction corpora using a masked language model.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Analyzes literary gender bias, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Tracing Morphology, Semantics, and Divergence in Language Acquisition
The paper analyzes intermediate training checkpoints to trace when language models acquire morphological structures versus semantic embeddings during pretraining.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Investigates linguistic acquisition dynamics, not safety, jailbreaks, or deployment risks.
Pre-Trained Language Models as Zero-Shot Tools for Social Science Research
The paper examines using pre-trained language models without task-specific training for social science record linkage and demographic inference from names.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on demographic inference accuracy, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Similar Models, Broken Odds: Where Luce's Axiom Fails in Chatbot Arena
The paper shows that the Bradley-Terry model fails on Chatbot Arena for similar models, and introduces a parameter-efficient correction for ties.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Examines benchmark methodology rather than deployment safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
DivAlgo: A systematic evaluation of algorithmic diversity for code generation models
The paper introduces a benchmark and similarity metric to measure the algorithmic diversity of solutions produced by code generation models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on algorithmic diversity in code, not safety or guardrails.
From Qualitative Text to Integrated Evidence: The Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI) Procedure
The paper presents a four-step methodological procedure to integrate ontology-guided coding and topic modeling representations of qualitative text data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses qualitative research methodology, not AI safety or deployment reliability.
Fantastic Metrics and How to Find Them: Meta-Evaluating Metrics for Multi-lingual Style-Personalized Generation
The paper proposes a regression-based meta-evaluation framework and benchmark to assess text evaluation metrics for multilingual style-personalized generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on style metrics rather than AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
HERO: Harnessing Evidence for Test-time Refinement and Prompt Optimization in Program Generation
The paper proposes a method combining offline execution-verified prompt updates and test-time refinement to improve program generation in language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on program synthesis accuracy rather than AI safety.
How to Evaluate When You Don't Know How to Evaluate? Choosing Reliable Setups for Base Language Model Benchmarking
The paper investigates base language model benchmarking setups to identify evaluation configurations that produce consistent, non-random, and monotonic performance signals.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark setup reliability rather than safety risks.
NEPSEE: A Double-Annotated Benchmark for Nepali Sentiment Analysis
The paper presents a double-annotated sentiment dataset for Nepali and evaluates several open-source and commercial language models on it.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not study safety risks, jailbreaks, or alignment.
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