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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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Measuring the Inference Energy Efficiency of Open-Weight LLMs across Benchmarks, Reasoning Modes, and Hardware
The paper measures inference energy efficiency across 86 open-weight language models, showing large efficiency gaps among models of similar capability.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies energy efficiency of LLMs, not autonomous agent architectures.
RealityBench: Simulated Environments to Evaluate a Vision Language Model's Ability to Document Human Physical Work
The paper presents a simulated benchmark across eleven unconstrained environments to evaluate vision-language models on documenting real-world human physical work.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates vision-language model understanding, not multi-step agent planning or tool use.
Memory Without Curation: Learning Multi-Stream Latent Memory for Robot Policies
The paper proposes an uncurated multi-stream latent memory framework that augments vision-language-action robotic policies while maintaining low inference latency.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on low-level robotic manipulation control rather than LLM-based agents.
Coarse-Graining Recursive Expert Computation: Continuation-Relative Interfaces and Failure Modes
The paper introduces an evaluation framework to measure the trade-off between task quality and computation cost when replacing iterative neural modules.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with neural computation reduction rather than autonomous agent workflows.
SceneForesee: Learning Scene Evolution for Spatiotemporal Reasoning
The paper introduces a benchmark and framework to evaluate how multimodal models track entities and reason about future scene evolution in videos.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with video scene forecasting, not autonomous agent tool use or planning.
Target-ESS Tempered Policy Optimization (TETPO): Smooth Variance Control via Bridge Importance Sampling
The paper proposes a data-adaptive importance sampling method to stabilize variance and prevent sample size collapse in asynchronous RL post-training.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on RL optimization theory rather than autonomous agent planning.
Specification-Based Testing of Large Language Models
The paper introduces a testing framework that turns documented model safety claims into specifications to find counterexamples via mutated prompts.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on testing model compliance, not multi-step agent actions.
KV4-RL: Unlocking Faster Asynchronous Rollouts for RLVR with INT4 KV Cache Quantization
The paper introduces INT4 KV cache quantization with selective INT8 protection to accelerate asynchronous rollouts in reinforcement learning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on RL training acceleration rather than agent orchestration.
Co-adaptive Rule Routing and Constraining for Structured Knowledge Retrieval
The paper presents a framework that jointly learns query rule assignment and rule-constrained evidence retrieval over structured knowledge bases.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on retriever routing algorithms rather than general multi-step agents.
Diffusion-Based Auctions for Multi-Winner Banner Ads
The paper proposes a multi-winner banner ad auction mechanism using diffusion models guided by bids and text descriptions to generate ads.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on auction mechanisms, not LLM agent workflows.
RES-MR: Risk-Aware Reasoning for Explainable and Safe Medication Recommendation
The paper introduces a two-stage reasoning framework to generate personalized, safe, and explainable medication recommendations using language models.
Peer-reviewed
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on clinical recommendation policies rather than autonomous tool-using agents.
Scale, Drivers, and Limits of Representational Alignment Across Large Language Models
The paper presents two geometric methods to evaluate where and why representational structures align across different large language models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on internal representation analysis, not autonomous agent planning or actions.
AphaVoice: Text-to-Speech Model for Aphasia Patient Simulation
The paper develops a text-to-speech model that simulates realistic clinical dysfluency in aphasia speech across multiple speakers for training healthcare professionals.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Develops a speech synthesis model, not autonomous LLM agents.
AlignPoison: Conditional Targeted Poisoning of Generative Recommenders via Decoding-Aligned Prefixes
The paper demonstrates that generative recommenders are vulnerable to targeted poisoning attacks using fewer than 1% malicious synthetic interactions.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on poisoning recommender systems rather than LLM agents.
HiPPT: Physiology-Grounded Wearable PPG Representation Learning via Multi-Scope Text Alignment
The paper presents a pretraining framework aligning wearable PPG signals with text across both individual pulse morphologies and broader demographic contexts.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents wearable PPG physiological representation learning, not LLM agents.
Rethinking Activation Functions: Reducing Bias Can Improve Learning
The paper examines positive activation bias in neural networks, showing that reducing this bias slows initial training but improves final model performance.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on activation function mathematics, not autonomous LLM agents.
MontageFlow: Physically Valid High Fidelity EEG Generation
The paper introduces a flow-matching model that enforces exact linear identity constraints among EEG channels to generate physically valid clinical signals.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Concerns EEG signal generation via flow matching, not LLM agents.
Compositional Concepts Erasing: Disentangling Object-Style via Domain Manifold Unlearning
The paper presents a feature-proxy method to selectively erase combined object-style concepts from diffusion models without degrading general generative performance.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses concept unlearning in image diffusion, not LLM agents.
ScienceBuddy-PV: A Verifier-Governed Recursive Improvement Protocol for Panvascular Intervention Research
The paper specifies a verifier-governed protocol for panvascular research and benchmarks a baseline model on intervention imaging tasks.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates a medical image segmentation model and gate, not LLM agents.
Energy Ring: Stabilizing Feature Energy for Reliable Test-Time Discovery
The paper proposes an energy-anchoring technique to reliably separate known and novel classes during continual test-time model adaptation.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with test-time classification discovery, not LLM planning agents.
Who to Trust in Multi-Robot Systems: Joint Robot and Object Hypothesis Trust Inference via Neural-Symbolic Cross-Validation
The paper presents a neural-symbolic method for multi-robot systems to evaluate robot and object hypothesis trust purely via inter-robot observation consistency.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on multi-robot sensory trust estimation rather than LLM agents.
Are Multimodal Benchmarks Really Useful? Item-Level Multimodal Benchmark Diagnosis via Structure-Response Co-Calibration
The paper introduces a diagnosis framework to evaluate whether multimodal benchmark items genuinely require multi-image reasoning rather than unimodal shortcuts.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Examines dataset shortcuts in benchmarks rather than autonomous LLM agents.
Active Neural Matter: A Finite-Window Response Framework for Physical Systems and Distributed AI Workflows
The paper introduces a finite-window theoretical framework to determine what historical state information dynamical systems and distributed AI workflows must retain.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Theoretical physics and dynamical systems framework, not language model agents.
LLM-based User-Product Relevance Evaluation for Dynamic Product Advertising
The paper introduces a large language model-based metric for offline evaluation of user-product relevance in dynamic product advertising retrieval.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Uses LLM evaluation prompting rather than multi-step tool-using agents.
LASER: Defeasible Certificate Search for Long-Range Protocol Dependencies
The paper presents a certificate-based search method paired with a symbolic checker to resolve complex, distributed dependencies in protocol specifications.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on proof-carrying protocol dependency search rather than LLM agents.
Decoupling Knowledge Forgetting and Refusal Learning in MLLM Unlearning
The paper proposes a distillation framework to remove specific multimodal knowledge without causing hallucinations or leaving residual queryable information.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on machine unlearning rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use.
Limitations on Autoregressive Token Generation via Sequential Sampling
The paper analyzes theoretical computational limits of sequential sampling circuits in autoregressive language model token generation.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on theoretical sampling bounds rather than practical multi-step agents.
EarthAlign: Learning Language-Aligned Representations of Earth System Data
The paper releases a multimodal dataset and dual-encoder model to align natural language descriptions with global Earth system meteorological data.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on Earth science representation learning rather than autonomous agent planning.
AegisVox: Factorized Privacy and Clinical Preservation for Long-Form Speech
The paper evaluates a framework that replaces spoken patient identifiers and alters voice identity while preserving clinical conversational evidence.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on speech de-identification pipelines rather than autonomous agent planning.
Shaping Latent Mixture-of-Experts: From Expert Geometry to Layerwise Capacity Allocation
The paper studies expert width and dimension balance in latent mixture-of-experts architectures to optimize parameter capacity across model layers.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates MoE architecture design rather than interactive multi-step agents.
Prospective Forcing: Learning to Look Ahead for Autoregressive Long Video Diffusion
The paper introduces a multi-head prediction method that injects future long-range supervision to improve autoregressive video generation consistency.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on generative video diffusion training, not interactive AI agents.
A Hybrid Kinematic GCN and Elastic Transformer for Efficient Indian Sign Language Recognition
The paper introduces a hybrid kinematic graph neural network and elastic transformer framework for efficient Indian sign language recognition from video.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on sign language recognition models, not autonomous LLM agents.
DexCast: Learning Real-World Dexterous Control from Human Videos
The paper presents a framework to learn dexterous robotic hand control directly from human monocular video demonstrations without teleoperation.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic imitation learning from human video rather than LLM agents.
AcrossVAM2.0: Conflict-Aware Point Supervision for Parameter-Efficient Video Diffusion Adaptation
This paper presents a parameter-efficient video diffusion adaptation method combining point tracking with gradient conflict resolution to preserve visual priors.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with video diffusion parameter adaptation, not LLM agent workflows.
AlignAudio: A Unified Dual-Alignment Framework for Noise-Robust Speech-Conditioned Generation
This paper proposes a dual-alignment framework to keep speech-conditioned audio generation robust and consistent across clean and noisy acoustic environments.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on speech-conditioned generative audio modeling, not autonomous agents.
Joint Discrete and SE(3) Diffusion for Protein Interface Design
This paper presents a multimodal diffusion framework that jointly designs protein sequences and physical structures to ensure interface complementarity.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on generative diffusion for computational biology, not interactive agents.
Towards Merging-conditional Backdoor Unalignment against Large Language Models
This paper demonstrates a security risk where dormant backdoors trigger safety failures only after merging models that passed individual safety audits.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not study autonomous multi-step agents or tool use workflows.
Lingdan-V2: Large language models for clinically grounded reasoning in traditional Chinese medicine
This paper introduces an aligned language model family trained with structured reinforcement learning for clinical reasoning and traditional Chinese medicine prescribing.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on domain-specific medical fine-tuning rather than autonomous agent planning or tool use.
How to Build a Benchmark That Actually Measures Taste
This paper introduces a pairwise evaluation benchmark and protocol designed to measure subjective aesthetic taste while controlling for shortcut artifacts.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates VLMs on aesthetic judgment, not multi-step agent planning or tool use.
Relational Semantic Grounding for Test-Time Discovery
This paper proposes a framework using language model attributes to ground and label novel visual classes discovered dynamically at test time.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on test-time visual concept discovery, not LLM agent systems.
Integrating AIRL-Based Reward Estimation into a Control Method Using Fuzzy Inference and Policy Gradient
This paper integrates adversarial inverse reinforcement learning into a fuzzy control framework to estimate reward functions directly from demonstration data.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers classical fuzzy control with inverse RL, not language agents.
MHWA: Multi-timescale Hierarchical World-Action Model
This paper introduces a hierarchical multi-timescale world model to reduce compounding rollout errors and drift in sequential decision-making systems.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers reinforcement learning world models for gaming, not LLM agents.
Self-improving data synthesis can scale embedding models across domains and tasks
This paper introduces a self-improving synthetic data generation pipeline to train embedding models across diverse retrieval domains without extensive manual annotation.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on generating synthetic training data for dense retrieval models.
SAGE: Pushing 2-Bit Vector-Quantized LLMs toward Real-World Usability
This paper introduces energy-based channel grouping and bit allocation to preserve accuracy when quantizing large language models to two bits.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on vector quantization for weights, not agent architectures.
Equal-information evaluation of credit assignment in modular financial reinforcement learning
This paper proposes an evaluation framework to test whether credit assignment techniques in modular financial reinforcement learning truly improve economic decisions.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses financial reinforcement learning credit assignment, not LLM-based agents.
GateSight: Recurrent Memory Anticipates Attention Memory for Query-Agnostic KV Eviction in Hybrid LLMs
This paper shows recurrent layers can predict future attention importance, enabling memory eviction in hybrid language models before queries arrive.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies KV cache eviction in hybrid architectures, not agent workflows.
CUSE: Fine-Grained Multimodal Unlearning with Counterfactual Guidance and On-Policy Self-Distillation
This paper introduces a multimodal unlearning method using counterfactual inputs and on-policy self-distillation to remove sensitive data without damaging general knowledge.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on unlearning mechanisms, not agent planning or multi-agent systems.
Last Secure Code Benchmark: Is the Code You Vibe Secure?
This paper introduces a benchmark evaluating whether coding agents produce functionally correct code that also avoids real-world security vulnerabilities.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates code security vulnerabilities, not agent planning or tool architectures.
Prior-Fitted and Frozen Scorers for Multimodal Contrastive Learning
This paper investigates using frozen, pre-trained Transformer scorers instead of fixed mathematical formulas for multimodal contrastive representation learning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies multimodal contrastive learning scorers, not LLM planning agents.
Training a Compact, Strong, and Realistic Text-to-Speech Model
This paper introduces a compact text-to-speech model trained with a realism critic to improve prosodic naturalness during zero-shot voice cloning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses text-to-speech voice cloning, not autonomous planning agents.
GREAT-ESDD: Graph Edge Attention Network for Effectively Steered Delivery Decisions
This paper develops a graph edge attention neural solver for dynamic pricing and vehicle routing in same-day delivery operations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses vehicle routing with graph neural networks, not LLM agents.
CESNET-TimeSeries26: A Multi-Year Network Traffic Time Series Dataset for Annual Seasonality, Concept Drift, and Long-Term Anomaly Detection
This paper presents a multi-year network traffic time-series dataset to evaluate long-term anomaly detection and forecasting models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on network traffic time series, not language model agents.
YOUDrive: Driving Style as a Composable Direction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
This paper introduces a method to enable composable driving-style control in end-to-end autonomous driving planners using task vectors.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on autonomous driving motion planning, not language model agents.
Depth-progressive 3D seismic velocity model building via 2D generative diffusion models
This paper proposes a depth-progressive framework using 2D generative diffusion models to build 3D seismic velocity models efficiently.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on 2D/3D geophysical seismic modeling, not autonomous agents.
Seamless Deployment of Machine Learning Inference at the Far Edge: An Empirical AWS IoT Greengrass Architecture for Industrial Predictive Maintenance
This paper evaluates an edge-cloud hybrid architecture using AWS IoT Greengrass for real-time machine learning inference in predictive maintenance.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Edge machine learning deployment for telemetry, not an LLM agent.
Cross-Lingual TTS for Indian Languages: A Benchmark and Inference-Time Duration Estimation Strategies
This paper introduces an Indian language text-to-speech benchmark and an inference-time duration estimation method for alignment-free synthesis.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Pertains to text-to-speech audio synthesis, not autonomous multi-step agents.
Pre-Registered Genesis Accounting for Recursive Self-Improvement: First Audited Operator-Genesis Events in a Physics-Discovery Runtime
This paper introduces an accounting framework to measure recursive self-improvement and audits machine-authored operator generation in a physics runtime.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on automated scientific discovery and symbolic regression, not LLM agents.
Getting Space Right: Agentic Rewards for Image Generation
This paper proposes a curriculum-guided reinforcement learning framework and an agentic reward model for spatial text-to-image generation.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Uses agentic critic solely as a tool to provide rewards for image generation.
WeatherBridge: Forecast-Aware Multi-Source Input Adaptation for Pretrained Weather Forecasting Models
This paper introduces an adapter that aligns operational numerical weather prediction inputs with ERA5 reference states for pretrained forecasting models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Domain-specific numerical weather prediction adaptation, not an LLM agent.
MARL-BattleGrounds: A Novel JAX-native Benchmark for Heterogeneous and Competitive Multi-agent RL
This paper introduces a JAX-native benchmark for evaluating heterogeneous and competitive multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning games, not LLM-based agents.
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