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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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DUALVIEW: Leveraging Broad and Output-Specific Evidence for LLM-based Multi-Output Text Regression
The paper proposes a parameter-efficient method leveraging frozen model representations for multi-output text regression tasks across diverse benchmarks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not focus on AI safety, red teaming, or guardrails.
From Efficiency to Sufficiency: The Cost-Aware Measurement Design Framework for Automated Essay Scoring
The paper presents a framework to formalize compute, labor, and workflow costs as core measurement design criteria for automated essay scoring.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not address prompt injection, jailbreaks, or safety guardrails.
Can LLM Agents Efficiently Identify Appliance Faults? Insights From Diagnosing a Simulated Appliance
The paper evaluates the ability of language model agents to diagnose appliance faults using a simulated appliance benchmark based on sensor data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on operational diagnostic benchmarking rather than AI safety.
Qwenfant: Train Big Character-level BabyLMs on Concise Parallel Text
The paper presents an approach using character-level tokens, larger models, and synthetic data for the multilingual BabyLM data-efficiency challenge.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not address AI safety risks, robustness, or guardrails.
PersEvalBench: Can LLM Evaluators Judge Contextually Appropriate Use of Persona Information?
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether language models can accurately detect appropriate and inappropriate uses of persona information in dialogue.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark evaluation of personalization rather than safety.
Truthful and Expected-Payment-Optimal Model Routing in Graph-Based Agentic Workflows
The paper formulates task routing across language model providers as an auction mechanism to encourage truthful cost reporting while minimizing context switching.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses economic mechanism design, not AI safety or jailbreaks.
TopicMerge: A Divide and Conquer Approach to Topic Modeling
The paper introduces a multi-stage topic modeling pipeline that merges fine-grained document clusters using a language model to balance efficiency and quality.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or hallucination mitigation.
Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition: Separating Selection from Redistribution in Training-Data Filtering
The paper proposes an experimental design that separates example selection from mass redistribution to analyze the effects of training-data quality filtering.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Studies data selection effects rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Target-Token Asymmetry Can Masquerade As Depth Specialization
The paper shows that differences in predicted target tokens, such as whitespace, can falsely look like layer specialization across different corpora.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address safety vulnerabilities, hallucinations, or deployment guardrails.
Where to Start, How to Move: Analyzing Curricula under GRPO for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
The paper analyzes prefix replay curricula and handoff rules under reinforcement learning to improve long-horizon task completion for language model agents.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Studies task completion learning rather than safety or guardrails.
VLX-Go: Robust Embodied Tracking through Multi-Stage Learning and On-Policy Refinement
The paper presents a vision-language policy combining pre-aligned representations and multi-stage learning to improve robotic person tracking among distractors.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic control rather than model safety or alignment.
Learning What to Keep: Transfer-Aware Personal Skill Learning from User Feedback
The paper introduces a framework that decomposes user feedback into atomic rules to retain only reusable preferences for personalizing language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies preference learning rather than safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
The Sum of All Summaries: PROPALIGN for Graded Proposition Salience Evaluation
The paper proposes a multiple-summary metric and dataset to evaluate graded proposition salience across diverse text genres.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety vulnerabilities or deployment reliability.
ForkGRPO: Efficient Exploration and Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Diffusion Language Models
The paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework using intermediate-state branching and segment-level credit assignment for diffusion language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on reinforcement learning optimization, not safety guardrails.
More Than Seeing: Vision as Scalable Anchors in Native Multimodal Pre-Training
The paper studies how visual input signals affect scaling behavior and non-visual reasoning during native multimodal pretraining.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not study safety, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability.
ActICL: Post-Training for Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning
The paper proposes an agentic framework enabling multimodal models to identify information gaps and retrieve in-context demonstrations iteratively.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
AgriJev: Efficient Agricultural Candidate Scoring with Multi-Scale Adapted Models
The paper presents adapted small language models designed to directly score agricultural candidate choices in a single forward pass.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on domain candidate scoring efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
Towards Efficient Simultaneous Inverse Text Normalization with Pretrained Text-to-Text Language Model and Read-Tag-Write Policy
The paper develops a streaming end-to-end inverse text normalization architecture using a pretrained text-to-text model with a read-tag-write policy.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses text formatting accuracy, not deployment safety or jailbreaks.
One Block Ahead: Promoting Sampler State in Diffusion Language Models
The paper proposes a decoding algorithm that denoises consecutive blocks concurrently by promoting sampler states in diffusion language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on inference throughput acceleration, not AI safety.
A Unified Response Framework for Questions and Tutoring Dialogues
The paper presents an item response theory framework to jointly evaluate student performance on standard questions and tutoring dialogue subtasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers educational response evaluation, not AI safety or jailbreaks.
INTACT: Inducing Latent Reasoning on a Frozen Backbone
The paper presents a method using an external encoder to induce latent soft-token reasoning on frozen language model backbones.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on reasoning speedup and accuracy, not safety or guardrails.
PA1-OPD: One-Step Prefix-Augmented On-Policy Distillation for Language Model Pretraining
The paper proposes a prefix-augmented distillation method providing one-step student branch feedback during language model pretraining.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on language model training efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
PN-Mix: Pair-Norm Guided Mixed-Precision Key Cache Quantization for Efficient Long-Output LLM Inference
The paper proposes a pair-norm guided mixed-precision quantization method for key caches during long-output transformer inference.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers inference hardware optimization, not safety vulnerabilities or robustness.
Twenty Days Later: A Pre-Registered Test of History-Based Forecasts of Brand Mentions in Gemini Answers
The paper reports a pre-registered test measuring the stability of history-based forecasts for model brand mentions over twenty days.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on commercial brand mention tracking, not safety risks or jailbreaks.
J-tau: A Fully Localized Japanese Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction
The paper introduces a localized Japanese benchmark for evaluating tool-using conversational agents in customer-support scenarios.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Evaluates agent task execution, not safety vulnerabilities or adversarial attacks.
Selective Reasoning for Typed Decision Models: When to Start, Read, and Stop
The paper proposes an interface for typed decision models that selectively invokes and interrupts reasoning to balance accuracy and latency.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on inference latency and compute trade-offs, not safety guardrails.
Beyond Distribution Matching: Selective Margin Preservation for Supervised Fine-Tuning
The paper introduces a soft margin preservation target for supervised fine-tuning to retain non-target token rankings.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses fine-tuning optimization, not safety, alignment, or hallucination prevention.
Share the Symbol, Not the Vector: Training-Free Fact Communication Across Language Models
The paper proposes a training-free interface for heterogeneous language models to communicate facts using shared symbolic word indices.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on collaborative multi-agent communication, not deployment safety or guardrails.
BANGLAPLAN: A Benchmark for Constraint-Based Planning and Decision-Making in Bangla
The paper introduces a 1,000-problem benchmark for constraint-based planning and decision-making in the Bangla language.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Measures task accuracy under constraints, not safety, jailbreaks, or robustness.
RouteWeaver: Weaving Mode Selection and Execution into Unified LLM Routing
The paper introduces a unified routing framework that learns both execution mode selection and model assignment across diverse tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on model routing optimization, not safety or guardrails.
Beyond State Capacity: Why Retrieval Breaks in Mamba
The paper analyzes retrieval failures in Mamba architectures under query-first settings and explores token representations and selection gates.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Analyzes internal representation mechanisms, not safety, hallucination, or deployment guardrails.
MakSafe: A Spatiotemporal Semantic Framework for Formal Specification and Compliance Checking of Road Vehicle Safety Rules
The paper presents a formal spatiotemporal framework to specify and verify road vehicle safety rules across continuous trajectories.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Vehicle physical safety rules, not language model safety.
Beyond Reachability: A Relation-Semantic Reasoning Framework for Biomedical Multi-hop QA
The paper proposes a relation-semantic reasoning framework to resolve disconnects between answer reachability and valid paths in biomedical graphs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety or guardrails.
Qwen-MT-Lumen at WMT2026: Instruction-Specialized Translation via Quality-Aware Training and On-Policy Distillation
The paper presents a four-stage training pipeline combining preference optimization and distillation for instruction-following machine translation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Instruction-following translation, not AI safety or guardrails.
More Methods, Better Agents? A Reality Check on Self-Distillation in Agentic Reinforcement Learning
The paper benchmarks ten self-distillation methods in agentic reinforcement learning across varied model sizes, tasks, and computational costs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on training stability and performance, not safety or guardrails.
JetSpec++: Foresight Parallel Drafting with Self Refinements
The paper introduces a speculative decoding system combining self-refinement and pipelined drafting to reduce wall-clock generation time.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety or guardrails.
Evolve Together, Fall into Place: How Social Scaffolding Shapes Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems
The paper investigates how team composition and organizational interdependence affect performance in self-evolving multi-agent systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on multi-agent collaboration rather than AI safety or reliability.
Delta Tokenizer: Reference-Identical Tokenization of Session Deltas and Segment-Parallelism for Long Prompts on Multicore CPUs
The paper introduces a CPU front-end tokenizer that encodes only session deltas to speed up multi-turn inference.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address safety, hallucination, or alignment.
MAPLE: A Multi-Axis Parametric Knowledge Extraction Lens for LLM Evaluation
The paper presents a diagnostic evaluation framework to measure how inference-time techniques affect parametric knowledge extraction in models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on diagnostic extraction metrics, not safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
EGCForest: Structured Agent Memory Organization for Enterprise Group Chats
The paper proposes a multi-view hierarchical memory framework to improve information retrieval from enterprise group chats.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on retrieval accuracy, not AI safety or guardrails.
OpenTWBench (Open Taiwan Benchmark): Taiwan-Domain Knowledge Evaluation for Large Language Models, and How the Measurement Apparatus Shapes the Score
The paper introduces a two-part benchmark to evaluate language models on general and examination knowledge concerning Taiwan.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on domain knowledge testing, not AI safety or robustness.
SEA-HELM Audio: Evaluating Multilingual ASR-LLM Pipeline Performance Across SEA-HELM Subsets
The paper presents an audio evaluation benchmark assessing accuracy drops between speech-input and text-input pipelines in Southeast Asian languages.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Not focused on safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
RCCM: Diagnosing Gains and Harms in Reasoning-Prompt Transfer
The paper analyzes question-level variations and prompt-execution mismatches when transferring reasoning prompts across different language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on prompt transfer evaluation, not AI safety or alignment.
Beyond Benchmark Accuracy: A Diagnostic Test for LLM Chemical Prediction
The paper proposes a diagnostic test hiding target identity to evaluate structure-property chemical reasoning in language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Not focused on AI safety, attacks, or guardrails.
Not All Criteria Matter: Importance-Aware Criteria Weighting for Rubric-Based LLM Evaluation
The paper introduces a method that weights rubric criteria through pairwise model comparisons to improve evaluation accuracy.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on general evaluation rubrics, not deployment safety or guardrails.
MolHop: Scaffold-Hopping Molecular Design with Agentic Reinforcement Learning
The paper presents an agentic reinforcement learning framework that navigates organized chemical spaces for cross-scaffold molecular discovery.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not focus on AI safety or deployment guardrails.
MemDuet: Learning Dual-Process Memory for Long-Context Reasoning
The paper introduces a dual-process memory framework coordinating small and large models for efficient long-context reasoning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not address safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
To Reason but Not to Stop: Understanding and Recovering Pruned Large Reasoning Models
The paper shows pruned reasoning models fail by looping, proposing an activation steering method to restore proper termination.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Examines termination loops in pruned models, not AI safety or guardrails.
Choosing the Number of Attention Heads from Intrinsic Dimension: A Small-Scale Study
The paper tests a heuristic to set the number of transformer attention heads using the intrinsic dimension of token representations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability.
LintEval: Benchmarking LLMs on Linter-Guided File Refactoring
The paper presents a multilingual benchmark to evaluate how language models resolve linter alerts while preserving program functionality.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on code refactoring accuracy rather than deployment safety.
FACES: Fine-grained Gated Semantic Alignment for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation
The paper introduces a gated semantic alignment framework with multi-source rewards to improve multimodal emotional support conversations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on conversational empathy, not guardrails or safety attacks.
Language Exposure Matters: Distribution and Order in Multilingual BabyLM Pre-training
The paper evaluates how language exposure distribution and ordering affect the performance of multilingual models trained with limited data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses multilingual data ordering, not safety or guardrails.
Why Generate a Click? Plug-in Decision Heads for Web Agents
This paper introduces plug-in decision heads that read action choices directly from visual agent hidden states rather than generating text tokens.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on web agent execution efficiency, not safety guardrails.
Gap Detection: Mitigating Homogenization through Demand and Defensibility
This paper introduces Gap Detection, an optimization method that identifies unoccupied semantic directions to reduce homogenization in open-ended model answers.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on response diversity, not deployment safety or jailbreaks.
TreeSpark: Learning to Draft the Trees You Verify for Speculative Decoding
This paper introduces TreeSpark, a framework training semi-autoregressive drafters to generate candidate trees aligned with speculative verification.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Accelerates token generation without addressing AI safety or guardrails.
When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction
This paper analyzes career path prediction systems, reporting that explicit skill representations provide marginal improvement over text-only job descriptions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Not focused on safety, prompt injection, or hallucination.
Scaling Multilingual Mixture-of-Experts: How Language Coverage Changes Capacity and Compute Allocation
This paper proposes a joint scaling law evaluating how adding experts in multilingual mixture-of-experts models affects language capacity and loss penalties.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on scaling laws, not safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Repairing Speech Access After Text Updates with Frozen Affine Fields
This paper introduces AFFIRM, using affine fields on frozen speech models to repair spoken access to recently updated text knowledge.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses cross-modal knowledge updates, not AI safety or jailbreaks.
Anuvani-LID: Robust and Calibrated Spoken Language Identification for Indian Languages
This paper introduces Anuvani LID, a dedicated 115M parameter model for spoken language identification across 22 Indian languages.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on speech classification accuracy, not safety or guardrails.
Neural POS Tagging for the Low-Resource Saraiki
This paper introduces an annotated part-of-speech tagging dataset and evaluates pretrained transformer encoders for the low-resource Saraiki language.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers basic NLP classification, not safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
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