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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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| LatentRiskBench: Measuring State-Dependent Risks in Enterprise Agents Introduces LatentRiskBench to evaluate safety risks in enterprise agents where action safety depends on latent workflow context. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses entirely on text-based agent actions, not multimodal or vision-language data. | |
| SkillScreen: High-Recall Screening of Malicious Agent Skills with Decision Models This paper presents a compact decision model designed to screen malicious agent tool skills with high recall directly from specification files. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal inputs like image, video, or audio. | |
| Auditing Failure Attribution: Label Predictability and Judge Behavior This paper provides four auditing tests to determine whether failure-attribution judges actually perform multi-step checks or merely rely on spurious surface cues. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes text-based LLM judges rather than multimodal vision-language architectures. | |
| Autonomous 3D Visual-Thermal Inspection for Utility-Scale Solar Farms This paper presents an autonomous system combining LiDAR SLAM, visual imagery, and thermal sensing to inspect under-panel components of solar farms. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on 3D computer vision and LiDAR-thermal fusion rather than vision-language models. | |
| Efficiently Learning To Reason or Not to Reason: Root-token Policy Optimization for Adaptive Thinking This paper presents an optimization method that trains models to decide when to invoke reasoning tokens, reducing unnecessary thinking overhead. Peer-reviewed | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Operates on text-based reasoning models without multimodal inputs. | |
| Checking the Checkers: A Synthesis of Verifier Noise and Robustness in RLVR This survey analyzes how verifier noise affects reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards across 58 studies and summarizes practical mitigation techniques. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on reasoning verifiers in LLMs, not multimodal architectures. | |
| Diff Diffusion: Predicting Edit Paths with Diffusion Models for Efficient Code Editing Proposes Diff Diffusion, a diffusion-based model that predicts localized code edit sequences rather than regenerating entire source files. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant The framework operates strictly on source code text, not multimodal inputs. | |
| FASHION-RQ: Mining Hierarchical Semantic Structure for Automated Evaluation of Fashion Retrieval Introduces FASHION-RQ, an automated framework deriving hierarchical evaluation benchmarks for fashion retrieval directly from catalog structures. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on catalog retrieval evaluation without multimodal integration as main focus. | |
| Cross-Lingual Transfer of Evil Vectors Is Directionally Asymmetric Shows that evil persona vectors extracted from low-resource languages transfer poorly and fail to steer model behavior effectively across languages. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text representations across languages, not vision or audio. | |
| Training LLMs for Multi-Agent Collaboration with Verifiable Information Rewards Proposes CoSIR to train multi-agent collaboration policies using information-theoretic surprisal rewards that assess the helpfulness of communication. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text-based collaboration, not multimodal inputs. | |
| Evaluating the Causal Faithfulness of SHAP as a Candidate Attribution Method for SAE Features Evaluates SHAP attribution methods on sparse autoencoder features, finding weak correspondence with direct causal feature intervention in language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates language model internal representations, not multimodal models. | |
| AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Intraoperative Detection of Low-Grade Glioma: A Clinical Study The clinical study compares hyperspectral and RGB imaging for intraoperative detection of low-grade gliomas during brain tumor surgery. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on hyperspectral medical imaging, not multimodal language models. | |
| HaloBlock: Faster and Better Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models HaloBlock allocates adaptive context halo regions across blocks to smooth context transitions and improve diffusion language model decoding. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text diffusion LLMs, not multimodal architectures. | |
| FETALFusion: Resolution-Aware State-Space Modeling for Multi-Domain Fetal Head Segmentation FETALFusion combines CNN and Mamba architectures to segment fetal heads accurately across different ultrasound acquisition methods. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on ultrasound image segmentation, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| Virtual Head Attention Virtual Head Attention uses two linear operations to compress key-value cache overhead without increasing training compute or sacrificing output quality. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Concerns general transformer attention, not multimodal-specific processing. | |
| Saliency-Guided Replay for Continual Learning in Deep Spiking Neural Networks The paper presents a saliency-guided patch replay method to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks under tight memory budgets. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with neuromorphic vision networks, not multimodal foundation models. | |
| Match the Canvas, Not Just the Answer: Predictability-Aware SFT for Diffusion Language Models The paper proposes predictability-aware supervised fine-tuning to resolve training and inference order mismatches in diffusion language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with diffusion language models, not multimodal vision-language models. | |
| LatentRemedy: Efficient Remedy For Non-Prefix KV Cache Reuse in Multi-Agent Systems LatentRemedy uses task-conditioned latent tokens to allow safe key-value cache reuse across conflicting tasks in multi-agent systems. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Concerns text KV cache reuse, not multimodal models. | |
| inLoRA-MINT: Internal Representations for Auditing Training Data in Domain-adapted LLMs This paper presents an intermediate-representation method to audit whether specific private data was used in LoRA fine-tuning of language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text models, not multimodal vision-language architectures. | |
| Chain of Thought Monitoring Can Fail Even When CoT Is Necessary This paper shows chain-of-thought monitoring can fail even when reasoning is necessary, proposing a multi-level hierarchy to measure monitorability. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal models or vision-language tasks. | |
| Monitoring latent reasoning in looped language models This paper presents an interpretability protocol to monitor latent reasoning dynamics and stability across multiple looped language model families. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text language models rather than multimodal architectures. | |
| Fan Out or Relay? Ownership-Aware Routing for LLM Agents Querying Siloed Tables This paper shows data ownership determines whether agents should broadcast or relay table queries, and proposes ownership-aware routing. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses purely on tabular SQL queries without multimodal data. | |
| Claim Framing as a Driver of LLM Sycophancy This paper studies how different framings of user claims induce sycophancy in large language models on factual questions. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text-based sycophancy without multimodal inputs. | |
| LoOPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation with Looped Teachers This paper introduces a self-distillation method that searches over repeated layer execution orders to create stronger teacher guidance. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses exclusively on text-based language model distillation. | |
| TextualRL: Textual Reinforcement Learning for Context Management TextualRL updates agent context prompts using groupwise trajectory comparisons rather than isolated feedback runs to improve policy adaptation without parameter tuning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses purely on text context updates without multimodal inputs. | |
| A Controlled Evaluation of Curvature Inspired Scalar Feature Scaling for Domain Generalization This paper audits a specific scalar feature scaling method to test whether claimed curvature benefits hold for domain generalization benchmarks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not investigate vision-language or multimodal multimodal foundation models. | |
| Consider, Then Choose: Order-Invariant Decisions in System One Models Runoff eliminates option-order bias in multiple-choice model predictions by scoring items independently before running balanced candidate comparisons. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates multiple-choice text evaluation, not multimodal models. | |
| LiFUSE: Frequency-Spatial Unified Self-Supervised Pretraining for Liver Disease Analysis on Non-contrast CT LiFUSE uses frequency-spatial self-supervised pretraining on non-contrast CT scans to improve representation learning for liver disease detection. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on medical 3D CT analysis, not multimodal VLMs. | |
| FALLNEST: Dual-Domain Dataset Condensation of Imbalanced IMU Data for Wearable Fall Detection FALLNEST condenses large imbalanced wearable motion sensor datasets into small balanced synthetic sets for training fall detection models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Processes IMU time-series sensor signals, not vision-language models. | |
| Encrypted Skills Can Become New Security Exploits If AI Agents Know How to Decipher The authors demonstrate that encoding malicious instructions in agent skills bypasses scanners and causes models to execute harmful actions upon decoding. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text-based agent prompt injection, not multimodal models. | |
| JevGPT: Thinking Fast and Slow in Autonomous Research JevGPT combines fast local evidence assessments with deliberative planning to improve autonomous research agents operating under fixed retrieval budgets. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Processes text documents and question answering, not multimodal data. | |
| SimInter: Evidence-Grounded User Simulation with Interview-Based Profile Enrichment for Conversational Recommender Systems SimInter simulates conversational recommendation users by conducting synthetic interviews between language models to enrich implicit behavioral profiles. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Works on text-based conversational systems, not multimodal inputs. | |
| ShoeFit: A New Dataset and Dual-image-stream DiT Framework for Virtual Footwear Try-On ShoeFit presents a multi-view dataset and a dual-stream diffusion framework for consistent virtual footwear try-on synthesis. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focus is generative image diffusion, not multimodal reasoning models. | |
| Lightweight but Linguistically Fair? Quantisation Robustness across Bavarian, German, and English The authors evaluate how 8-bit and 4-bit quantization methods affect model accuracy across Bavarian, Standard German, and English benchmarks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text-only language models, not multimodal systems. | |
| PRISM: Calibrating Black-Box Judges with Counterfactual Probes The authors propose a probe-based method to measure and calibrate systematic scoring biases in black-box LLM evaluation judges. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text summarization and generation, not multimodal models. | |
| Not All Drift Is a Mechanism: Tracing Prompt Adaptation in LLMs The authors trace internal representations across prompt optimization techniques to show how discrete prompts, prompt tuning, and prefixes alter model processing. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines text language models, not multimodal models. | |
| Do Factuality Methods Make LLMs More Factual? Reproducibility and Fair Comparison The authors reproduce and compare five language model factuality alignment methods on a standardized benchmark across identical base models and evaluation protocols. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text factuality, not multimodal models. | |
| Agaram 2.5B: The First Tamil-First Language Model Trained from Scratch with Tool Calling. A Playbook for Under-Represented Languages The authors introduce a 2.5-billion-parameter bilingual Tamil-English language model trained from scratch with tool-calling capabilities. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Text-only language model, not multimodal. | |
| Readout Scaling Shapes Sparse Feature Recovery The authors analyze readout scaling in sparse autoencoders and propose canonicalized coordinates to improve the recovery of underlying generative factors. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not examine multimodal or vision-language models. | |
| Judges Follow the Reference: The Derivation Gap in Verifying Tool-Call Arguments The authors identify a derivation gap where LLM judges reject correct tool arguments lacking direct textual references, and propose a dedicated reference model. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal reasoning or vision-language models. | |
| Aligning Faithfulness for Theory-Scale Autoformalization The authors propose evaluating autoformalization faithfulness by aligning phrase-level correspondences between informal mathematics and formal code under contextual interpretations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve multimodal models or vision-language data. | |
| The Geometry of Language Model Logits: Generic Structure and Learned Departures The paper analyzes the geometric distribution of language model output logits, identifying a consistent log-linear relationship that emerges during pretraining. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text autoregressive logit geometry, not multimodal models. | |
| The Many Morals of AI: The cautionary bias of North American news narratives in global perspective The paper analyzes implicit morals in news coverage of artificial intelligence across four global regions, identifying distinct regional variations in narrative caution. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on multimodal model architectures or capabilities. | |
| Beyond Answer Voting: Fine-Grained Correction of LLM Reasoning through Graph Alignment across Sampled Traces The paper proposes a framework that uses reasoning graphs to locate claim-level disagreements across sampled traces and correct multi-step language model reasoning. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses text-based reasoning without any image or multimodal components. | |
| Jev-ToM: Evaluating Theory of Mind in Typed Decision Models The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how typed decision models handle theory-of-mind reasoning tasks compared to standard generative language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on English text Theory of Mind benchmarks without multimodal data. | |
| Does self-distillation improve reasoning? The paper evaluates whether self-distillation using privileged information improves reasoning capabilities or reflects overfitting to training tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based reasoning rather than multimodal image or video models. | |
| Knowledge Graphs as Files: An Agent Harness Where Tool Creation and Tool Use Co-Evolve This paper proposes a system where language model agents write code to create and refine tools directly over raw knowledge-graph files. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Involves text-rich knowledge graphs without vision, audio, or multimodal data. | |
| ST-GRU PredRNN-V2: A GRU-Based Reformulation of PredRNN-V2 for Video Prediction The authors reformulate a recurrent video prediction architecture using gated recurrent units to reduce parameters while maintaining spatiotemporal modeling. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on spatiotemporal recurrent architectures for video frames without multimodal text integration. | |
| Known-Voice Cloning and the Limits of Personality Transfer for Character Design This paper investigates whether cloning a familiar voice systematically transfers personality impressions to an embodied virtual character. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on perceptual psychology of voice cloning rather than multimodal foundation models. | |
| SMI: Ontology-Grounded Semantic IDs for Hierarchy-Aware Medical Concept Representation The authors propose a training-free method constructing ontology-grounded semantic identifiers to preserve hierarchy in medical concept embeddings. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text embeddings and medical ontologies, not multimodal models. | |
| From Relation-Specific Heads to Shared Interventions: Contextual Entrainment in Language Models This paper investigates attention heads responsible for contextual entrainment and evaluates whether their ablation transfers across different semantic relations. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates text-only transformer attention mechanisms, not multimodal models. | |
| RadarGSOcc: Doppler-Aware 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction Using 4D Radar Tensor with Geometric-Semantic Feature Extraction This paper proposes a framework and benchmark for 3D semantic occupancy prediction in autonomous driving using four-dimensional radar tensors. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with radar and point clouds for driving, not vision-language models. | |
| UniW(A)M: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts Framework for World and World-Action Models The authors propose a mixture-of-experts diffusion framework that unifies world prediction and action generation models across shared physical dynamics. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Embodied robotic action framework, not a general vision-language multimodal foundation model. | |
| PreciseCoder: Faithful and Generalizable Debugging Beyond Unit-Test Rewards The paper introduces a debugging training algorithm that rewards localized semantic code edits alongside unit test execution. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies text-based code generation and debugging without any multimodal aspects. | |
| BLADE: Auditing Information Use for Failure Attribution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems The paper introduces an auditing framework that identifies failure steps in multi-agent systems by evaluating how information is utilized across handoffs. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on text-based multi-agent execution graphs, not multimodal models. | |
| Pack Light, CarryOn: Building Object-Oriented Context for Long-Horizon Agents The paper presents a runtime system that structures long-horizon agent memory around reusable progress objects rather than raw interaction history. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on runtime context architecture for agents rather than multimodal reasoning. | |
| Where Do LLM Ensemble Gains Come From? Decomposing Candidate Value, Diversity, and Aggregation The paper analyzes how language model aggregation gains divide into candidate additions and context effects under different baseline comparison setups. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with text LLM aggregation without multimodal models or inputs. | |
| SEAR: Self-Evolving Agentic Robotics The paper presents a framework and benchmark to evaluate whether self-evolving robotic agents genuinely learn reusable skills across tasks. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on robotic agent learning systems, not multimodal model architectures. | |
| Self-Evolving Agent Harness The paper formalizes a framework and theoretical generalization bounds for evolving an agent's software harness without updating model weights. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses text-based software scaffolding, not vision or multimodal models. | |
| Back-Translation Still Matters: Leveraging Monolingual Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation with LLMs The paper examines back-translation using monolingual data as an alternative to continued pretraining for low-resource translation with language models. Preprint | Multimodal models via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals strictly with text translation, not multimodal models. |
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