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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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Exact Cut Complexity of Equal-Length Proportional Cake Cutting
This paper establishes the exact cut complexity required for equal-length proportional cake cutting among multiple agents.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Purely theoretical mathematics, not AI deployment safety.
ProtModernBERT: Compute-Efficient Protein Language Modeling
This paper introduces an efficient encoder-only protein language model incorporating modern architectural updates to lower training costs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on biological sequence modeling, not deployment safety.
Does the Linguistic Register of Thinking Matter? Wenyan as a Compact Reasoning Register for Chinese LLMs
This paper investigates using Classical Chinese as a compact intermediate reasoning register to reduce token length in Chinese language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on token efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
LabOPBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Laboratory Decision Making
This paper introduces a multimodal benchmark evaluating AI models on evidence-grounded decision making in chemistry and materials laboratories.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Benchmarking scientific reasoning, not deployment safety or guardrails.
LiFi: LiDAR Generation from Multi-View Images via Geometric and Semantic Collaborative Guidance
This paper presents a dual-branch latent diffusion method to generate LiDAR point clouds from multi-view camera images.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on sensory data synthesis, not deployment safety.
One Agent per Zone: Decentralised Active Inference under Partial Observability for Multi-Zone HVAC Control on Edge Hardware
This paper presents a decentralized active inference controller for multi-zone building heating and cooling systems on edge hardware.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on building energy optimization, not AI safety guardrails.
StateCraft: Augmenting Video World Models with Abstract-State Reasoning
This paper pairs language models with video diffusion to maintain persistent abstract states across dynamic video world interactions.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not study model safety, robustness, or reliability guardrails.
Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning
This paper trains language models using reinforcement learning to generate explicit perception-to-action rules for theory-of-mind reasoning tasks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers cognitive reasoning in LLMs, not safety or guardrails.
ReproBAIT: Can coding agents build their own biological AI tools?
This paper introduces a benchmark evaluating whether coding agents can reimplement and train biological AI tools from published scientific papers.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not focus on safety guardrails or deployment risks.
VaryST: Generalizable Spatio-Temporal Forecasting Beyond the Closed-World Setting
This paper presents a compact spatio-temporal forecasting model designed to generalize across shifting spatial domains and varying observation availability.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
ActionOPD: Distilling Decisions, Not Tokens
This paper proposes an on-policy distillation method that aligns student agents using semantic actions rather than token-level supervision.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses policy imitation for agents, not safety or guardrails.
Teaching Agents in their Own Style: Blackbox Teacher Distillation for Web Agents
This paper presents a distillation method where a teacher model minimally edits a student web agent's reasoning traces at failure points.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with agent distillation efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
LAGO: Language Agents with Reusable Growing Options
This paper introduces an architecture that stores and reuses specialized language agents as temporally extended options for complex coding tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses agent task performance rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
Memory-Efficient Subspace Optimization with Residual Correction: From Momentum SGD to Muon
This paper presents a memory-efficient subspace optimization framework using residual correction to stabilize language model training.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not examine AI safety, alignment, or deployment guardrails.
DeltaStreamer: Towards Human-Like Agentic Streaming Video Understanding
This paper proposes an agentic video framework combining change-aware memory and targeted replay for streaming video understanding.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on video reasoning capabilities rather than safety risks or guardrails.
Euler: Towards Human-Centered Multi-Agent Mathematical Discovery
This paper introduces a multi-agent mathematical discovery system that organizes proofs, assumptions, and failed attempts into structured research graphs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Targets research discovery workflows rather than deployment safety or alignment.
Explorer-Zero: Improving Self-Play for Long-Horizon Tasks with Decomposable Verifiable Rewards
This paper proposes a self-play reinforcement learning framework that automatically generates tasks and intermediate verifiable rewards for long-horizon agent training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on agent task capability rather than safety or guardrails.
Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning
This paper presents a flow matching method to distill diverse continuous latent reasoning distributions from multiple chain-of-thought rationales.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies reasoning efficiency and coverage rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Neural Wasserstein Splines: Representation-Invariant Second-Order Priors for Trajectory Inference
The paper presents a continuous trajectory inference method that regularizes population dynamics using neural splines and Wasserstein smoothness.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not cover AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Frustratingly Easy Majority Voting Using Length Conditioning
The paper proposes weighting majority voting responses using a length-conditioned prior adapted at test time without model fine-tuning.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on reasoning accuracy via voting rather than safety or reliability risks.
DeepPV-MRF: End-to-End Partial-Volume Fraction Estimation from MR Fingerprinting Time Series
The paper introduces a deep learning framework to estimate voxel-wise brain tissue fractions directly from magnetic resonance fingerprinting signals.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
Universal Sample-Based Embeddings of Higher-Order Objects
The paper proposes a sample-based neural framework to learn fixed-size embedding representations for higher-order objects like distributions and graphs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not study model safety, robustness, hallucination, or deployment risks.
Multimodal Medical Image Parsing with Task-Specific Low-Rank Adapters
The paper describes a vision-language model using task-specific low-rank adapters for multimodal medical image parsing.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on medical image parsing performance, not deployment safety or robustness.
Sparse Transformer: a Controlled Testbed for Mechanistic Interpretability
The paper introduces a sparse transformer testbed with interpretable neurons to evaluate mechanistic interpretability methods.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on internal model interpretability rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucinations.
MUCO: A Mani-Unit-Structured Manipulation Framework for Compositional Long-Horizon Robot Tasks
The paper proposes a modular manipulation framework that sequences verified robot capability units for long-horizon tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses robotics task execution rather than AI safety guardrails or reliability.
Learning Graph Energies for Finite-Time Generation
The paper proposes an energy-based learning method that optimizes acceptance rates for finite-step discrete graph sampling.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, hallucinations, or deployment guardrails.
AtomSearch: Evidence-Grounded Tree Search for Agent Skill Optimization
The paper proposes a tree search method that optimizes agent skills through contrastive atomic rule editing and execution memory.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on execution accuracy and skill optimization rather than safety or alignment.
Empirical Boundaries of Reservoir Computing for Few-Shot Sequence Pattern Tasks
The paper empirically analyzes echo state network variants on synthetic sequence-to-sequence pattern tasks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on synthetic sequence limits, not safety or guardrails.
Provable Transformer Context Compression for In-Context Reinforcement Learning
The paper analyzes the minimum context size required for transformer models to perform in-context reinforcement learning without parameter updates.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Theoretical memory scaling analysis, not deployment safety or robustness.
On the Convergence of Semi-Gradient TD: A Mean Field Perspective
The paper provides a theoretical analysis of stability and convergence for semi-gradient temporal-difference learning using mean-field neural networks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Addresses mathematical stability in RL, not AI safety deployment.
MorphAct: Robot Policies Morphing with the Worlds They Act In
The paper proposes a contextual parameterization framework that dynamically adjusts robot policy parameters as interaction contexts change.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Addresses policy generalization rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
Memorizing Who, Knowing How: Benchmarking Personal and Procedural Memory for Persistent Assistants
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how personal assistants handle interdependent personal and procedural memories over long trajectories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on memory maintenance benchmarks rather than safety risks.
SWE-Nexus: Automated Composition of Software Engineering Tasks from Test Execution
The paper introduces an automated pipeline that builds repository-level software engineering benchmarks from test execution footprints.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark creation rather than safety or guardrails.
Beyond Correctness: Compute-Responsive Data Selection for Reasoning Model Post-Training
The paper introduces a data selection strategy that prioritizes training examples where reasoning performance improves with additional inference compute.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Optimizes reasoning compute rather than addressing safety or jailbreaks.
FoveaVLA: Foveation Actions Replace the Wrist Camera in VLAs
The paper proposes a vision-language-action model that dynamically crops high-resolution regions to manipulate objects without using a wrist camera.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic manipulation policy, not safety or guardrails.
Trainable at Depth, Solvable at Small Size: What the Loss Surface of a Polynomial Activation Dictates for Designing, Initializing and Training Networks
The paper investigates the loss surface of deep networks using a specific polynomial activation function without standard normalization layers.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies optimization theory rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Rethinking Prediction Horizons: Decoupling Model Queries from State Updates in Few-Step MeanFlow
The paper studies the impact of separating prediction horizons from state update intervals during sampling in generative flow models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Does not address safety, security, or deployment reliability.
Designing Textual Interfaces To Enhance Llm Reasoning On Audio-Visual Question Answering
The paper compares three textual interface designs for optimizing prompts in multimodal audio-visual question answering systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Does not study safety, guardrails, or jailbreak defenses.
EvalBuilder: Can LLMs Build Efficient Benchmarks?
The paper presents a framework to evaluate whether language model agents can build lower-cost benchmark tests that match reference evaluations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark generation rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
From Spectral to Frobenius: When Muon Loses Its Spectral Implicit Bias
The paper analyzes the mathematical implicit bias of practical Muon optimization compared to gradient descent on linearly separable classification problems.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Theoretical optimization paper, not AI safety or deployment reliability.
ACR-Net: Mitigating Semantic Dominance via Contrastive Acoustic-Semantic Decoupling
The paper presents a network to decouple acoustic and semantic representations when speech tone conflicts with transcript text.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Deals with speech emotion recognition, not AI deployment safety.
Maximising Transparency in Context Compaction Improves Retention of Facts and Commitments for Lightweight Coding Agents
The paper presents a deterministic context compaction method designed to preserve factual history and commitments in lightweight coding agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on context management, not AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
DreamHMR: From Video Generation to Human Motion Modeling via Structural Focusing
The paper presents a framework adapting video generation priors to improve 3D human body and hand motion reconstruction from video.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on vision geometric recovery, not AI safety or guardrails.
MultiPartyTurnBench: Benchmarking Floor Control in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate conversational floor control, turn completion, and interruptions in multi-party spoken dialogue systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies conversational turn-taking dynamics, not AI safety or guardrails.
Value-Guided Repulsion for Offline Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes a value-guided repulsion method for offline reinforcement learning that aligns behavior regularization with action value estimates.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Deals with particle interaction in offline RL, not deployment safety.
SWE-Stream: Scaling Executable Training Data for SWE Agents via Progressive Construction and Elastic Streaming
The paper introduces a framework that progressively constructs and streams executable training tasks from code repositories for software engineering agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Focuses on software engineering performance rather than safety guardrails or reliability.
What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds
The paper presents a benchmark evaluating whether conversational agents agree on verifiable plans that satisfy both parties' private conditions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on coordination effectiveness rather than AI safety or reliability risks.
Drivers of LLM Consensus Formation Under Competing Incentives: A Simulation Study
The paper evaluates how open and closed language models reach consensus when presented with competing payoff incentives.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Studies multi-agent game-theoretic incentives, not safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
What and Where in Identifying and Quantifying Conventions in Humans and AI Agents
The paper analyzes implicit communication conventions between humans and AI agents in the cooperative card game Hanabi.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Analyzes human-agent coordination conventions, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Design Space Exploration of Reinforcement Learning Configurations for Post-Legalization Placement
The paper explores reinforcement learning design configurations for post-legalization placement refinement in chip design.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers hardware circuit layout optimization, not AI deployment safety.
PAWA: Panoramic Action-conditioned World Modeling for Multiple Agents
The paper introduces a dataset and framework pairing synchronized point-of-view and panoramic video to evaluate multiplayer action-conditioned world models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Studies environment modeling in games, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Retrieval Over Training: Similarity search-based Model Selection for Time Series Anomaly Detection
The paper proposes a retrieval framework that selects suitable anomaly detection models for time-series data using similarity search over existing datasets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Covers general time-series anomaly detection, not deployment safety or LLM guardrails.
Long-Horizon RL Needs Muon
The paper investigates an asynchronous training recipe combining the Muon optimizer, token-averaged loss, and penalties for long-horizon agent tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on training optimizers, not safety monitoring or alignment guardrails.
CSWBench: Evaluating Context-Sensitive Code-Switching in Creative Writing
The paper introduces a benchmark and evaluation framework assessing context-sensitive code-switching by language models in creative writing tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on creative writing evaluation, not deployment safety risks.
CASI: Credit Assignment via Set Intervention for Agentic Retrieval
The paper presents an intervention method using Shapley values to assign credit to individual actions within multi-action agentic retrieval sets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on retrieval credit assignment, not safety or guardrails.
Reflect After Failure: Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Agents for Embodied Spatial Intelligence
The paper introduces a brain-inspired reflection framework that diagnoses failure points to guide self-evolving agents in embodied spatial tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on embodied spatial intelligence, not deployment safety guardrails.
TreeFlex: Agents Navigating Their Own Search Trees
The paper proposes a framework where an agent policy navigates a global search tree by alternating between reflection and execution roles.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on agent task planning, not deployment safety guardrails.
Read, Parse, Describe: Unified Document Parsing with Visual Element Description Generation
The paper presents a benchmark dataset evaluating unified page-level document parsing alongside alternative text descriptions for visual elements.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on multimodal document layout parsing, not safety guardrails.
Doc2Harness: Benchmarking LLMs on Long-Horizon Harness Engineering of Coding Agents
The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating how well language models engineer isolated execution harnesses for coding agents using specification documents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Evaluates software engineering capability, not safety or guardrail robustness.
Non-asymptotic Convergence of Average-reward Q-learning with Options
The paper provides finite-sample convergence guarantees for average-reward option Q-learning algorithms under inter- and intra-option settings.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
Not relevant
Theoretical RL analysis, not deployment safety or alignment robustness.
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