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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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| Lifted State Policy Optimization: Internalizing Self-Correction through Transition Geometry The paper proposes a policy optimization method that treats reasoning transitions as learned coordinates in an energy space to internalize self-correction. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on reasoning accuracy and latency, not deployment guardrails. | |
| Human Demonstrations as Post-Training Data for Any Robot Body: Retargeting the Object, Not the Hand The paper retargets object motion rather than human hands from video demonstrations to generate post-training data for various robot embodiments. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses motion transfer feasibility, not AI safety or jailbreaks. | |
| From Relevance to Validity: Zero-Shot Tool Selection via Functional and Contextual Validation The paper proposes a progressive validation framework for zero-shot tool selection that evaluates functional compatibility and contextual relevance. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent tool selection accuracy, not deployment safety. | |
| Cortex: Consolidating Context into Parametric Memory The paper presents a method to consolidate context gains into parametric model weights using prospective queries and low-rank feed-forward updates. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on knowledge retention and editing, not safety guardrails. | |
| When Does Momentum Help in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards? The paper analyzes when first-moment momentum accelerates reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards under exact and sampled policy gradients. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates optimization convergence rates, not safety alignment or guardrails. | |
| One Size Does Not Fit All: Curvature-Aware Adaptive Perturbation for SAM The paper introduces an adaptive perturbation method for sharpness-aware minimization that modulates perturbation radii using local loss curvature. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies general neural network loss curvature, not LLM safety guardrails. | |
| OrionMoE-v1.0: A Mixture-of-Experts Foundation Model for Tabular In-Context Learning The paper introduces a compact tabular foundation model combining distribution-aware representations with dataset-conditioned sparse mixture-of-experts computation. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on predictive tabular modeling rather than deployment safety. | |
| Analyzing performance of Retrieval Augmented Generation models for Question Answering Tasks The paper analyzes the performance of retrieval-augmented generation architectures on open-domain question answering tasks involving culturally grounded South Asian narratives. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not evaluate jailbreaks, hallucinations, or safety guardrails. | |
| SwarmRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Scientific Agent Swarm The paper presents a recursive self-improvement framework using scientific agent swarms that mutate hypotheses and recombine code based on experimental feedback. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on self-improvement rather than safety or reliability. | |
| Equal CER, Unequal Damage: Severity-Weighted Character Error Rate for OCR Proposes a severity-weighted character error rate that charges text transcription errors based on their practical impact on reader understanding. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on transcription scoring rather than deployment safety. | |
| Selective Growing Q-Networks (SGQN): An Analysis of Adaptive Action Grids in Decoupled Q-Learning Implements adaptive action grids in value-based reinforcement learning that selectively refine promising bins while pruning suboptimal actions. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on RL action discretization, not deployment safety. | |
| SafeAdapt-Poker: Counterfactual Risk Calibration for Budgeted Adaptation under Opponent Shift Introduces a counterfactual risk management method to calibrate adaptive decision-making against shifting opponent behaviors within fixed deviation budgets. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Poker game theory adaptation, not deployment safety or guardrails. | |
| Hindsight-Privileged RLVR: Single-Rollout Token Credit Without Group Sampling Derives token-level credit from single rollouts using hindsight future context rather than sampling multiple attempts per prompt. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses RL optimization rather than safety or alignment guardrails. | |
| VascuSR: Iterative Anatomy-Aware Diffusion for CT Super-Resolution Uses explicit three-dimensional vascular guidance in an iterative diffusion pipeline to improve anatomical accuracy in computed tomography super-resolution. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not cover AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails. | |
| VASPO: Self-Distillation with Privileged Value Estimation Combines privileged teacher signals with value estimation in policy optimization to provide denser token-level supervision for reasoning tasks. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses training dynamics rather than deployment safety risks. | |
| The Wealth of Agents: Scaling Agentic AI Across Developers Studies multi-developer agentic systems where independently built specialist agents collaborate to outperform larger systems created by single developers. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies agent collaboration frameworks rather than deployment safety. | |
| ActiveEvidence: Decision-Focused Evidence Graphs with Verifiable Acquisition Gaps Presents a graph-based framework with decision certificates to determine when multimodal agents should acquire visual evidence under cost constraints. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on cost-sensitive acquisition rather than AI safety. | |
| PrismaCoder: Pushing the Boundaries of Open Multimodal Code Intelligence through Decomposed Rubric Synthesis Introduces a decomposed rubric synthesis method to create training data for open multimodal models that generate visual code artifacts. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails. | |
| Detection of Potato Plant Leaf Diseases using Convolutional Neural Networks Develops and tests a lightweight convolutional neural network to classify potato leaf diseases on field-collected farm images. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address AI deployment safety or robustness. | |
| PerSo: Investigating Facets of LLMs' Social Intelligence in Real-World Persuasion Scenarios Introduces a benchmark based on real online discussions to evaluate both cognitive and behavioral persuasion skills in language models. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on persuasive capability evaluation rather than safety guardrails. | |
| PhySGA: A Physics-Space Grounded Agentic Framework for Generalizable and Interactive 3D Composition Proposes an interactive agent framework that utilizes physics simulation and spatial exploration for complex 3D object assembly and composition. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address AI safety or guardrails. | |
| Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting Shows that periodically clearing agent search history and restarting from the top candidate prevents automated research agents from plateauing. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses search optimization rather than deployment safety risks. | |
| Recovering Reliable Supervision via Critique-Guided On-Policy Distillation Uses teacher critiques on incorrect student rollouts to improve on-policy distillation and recover supervision during mathematical reasoning tasks. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses reasoning distillation rather than deployment safety or guardrails. | |
| Player-1: Learning to Play from Synthetic Experience Develops a post-training framework that trains computer-use agents for video games using synthetic interactive experiences and an expanded action space. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on game agent reinforcement learning, not AI safety or guardrails. | |
| Continuum Attention Replaces discrete attention lookup in transformers with integration over a continuous memory curve to improve validation likelihood. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on core attention layer math, not AI safety or guardrails. | |
| Price of Anarchy of First-Price Auctions in Agentic Markets Analyzes the price of anarchy and economic efficiency of first-price auctions where AI agents bid to serve user prompts. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on auction game theory rather than AI deployment safety risks. | |
| Your Transformer Is Secretly Elastic Presents a retraining-free method to adapt transformer sizes dynamically across diverse computational budgets using joint soft pruning of components. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on dynamic neural pruning, not AI safety or guardrails. | |
| Co-Evolving Acting and Forecasting for Language Agents Introduces multi-step action forecasting targets alongside actor rollouts to train language agents more effectively from intermediate trajectory steps. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent policy learning, not AI safety or hallucination prevention. | |
| Hierarchical Residual Policy Learning for Real-World Mobile Manipulation with Sparse Human Guidance Proposes a hierarchical residual policy learning framework to fine-tune mobile robot manipulation policies with decoupled base and arm adjustments. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Pertains to robotics control policies, not AI deployment safety or jailbreaks. | |
| Modeling and Understanding Neural Weights of Humanoid Policies with Diffusion Generatively models humanoid robot control policy weights using a latent diffusion framework combined with a linear autoencoder and Diffusion Transformer. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant About humanoid robot control policies, not LLM safety or guardrails. | |
| Laterally Coupled DFB Lasers With Self-Aligned Metal Surface Grating by Holographic Lithography This paper reports the fabrication and continuous-wave optical performance of laterally coupled distributed feedback semiconductor lasers. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2008) Older paper (2008) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Semiconductor laser physics paper, completely unrelated to AI safety. | |
| Buffer-Free HEMT With Ultra-Thin AlN Back Barrier and GaN Channel Suppressing Drain Lag and Quiescent Drain Current Drift This paper evaluates a buffer-free transistor structure designed to suppress current drift and lag in high-power electronics. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Hardware semiconductor engineering paper, completely unrelated to AI safety. | |
| Reliability study of AlGaN/GaN/Si HEMTs using Capacitance-Voltage measurements This paper surveys capacitance-voltage measurement techniques to evaluate defect states and reliability in gallium nitride transistor devices. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant About semiconductor transistor reliability, not AI system safety or reliability. | |
| On the Evaluation of Large Language Models in Unit Test Generation This paper presents an empirical study evaluating open-source language models for automated unit test generation in software development. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via acm · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Evaluates unit test generation rather than operational AI deployment safety. | |
| Automated Non-Functional Requirements Generation in Software Engineering with Large Language Models: A Comparative Study This paper evaluates the ability of language models to generate non-functional requirements from functional software specifications. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Addresses software engineering requirements rather than operational AI safety and robustness. | |
| Video-Bench: Human-Aligned Video Generation Benchmark This paper introduces an evaluation benchmark using multimodal models to assess generated videos across human preference dimensions. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on video quality benchmarking rather than AI safety or guardrails. | |
| REvolution: An Evolutionary Framework for RTL Generation driven by Large Language Models This paper combines evolutionary computation with language models to optimize register-transfer level hardware code for correctness and efficiency. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI safety and reliability in deployment via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on hardware code synthesis, not deployment safety or reliability. | |
| Vibe Coding with Google AI Studio Case Study This case study evaluates a non-programmer using an AI development tool to build a database application in a non-English language. Peer-reviewed | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Examines non-programmer code generation rather than AI safety guardrails. | |
| Conserved amount, negotiable placement. Prompting perturbs one architecture, an AI reviewer both The paper examines how prompting conditions and automated agent reviews affect code complexity placement across two software architectures. Peer-reviewed | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on software architecture evolution, not AI deployment safety. | |
| Agentic Evolution of SQL Test Generators The authors use coding agents and execution validation to add new database dialect features into reusable database test generators. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Addresses database testing evolution rather than AI deployment safety guardrails. | |
| HoldSpec: A Machine-Checked Model and Conformance Suite for the Payment Authorization Hold Lifecycle The paper models payment authorization hold lifecycles using formal state machines to generate conformance tests for provider application interfaces. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on payment API conformance testing, not AI deployment safety. | |
| Taylor-Approximation-Based Repair of High Floating-Point Errors The authors present a framework that uses localized Taylor approximations to repair high floating-point calculation errors in numerical C routines. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Covers classical numerical floating-point repair, not LLM deployment safety. | |
| Rethinking SZZ Search Strategies: Lessons from Claude Code The paper studies whether flexible search strategies used by coding agents improve the identification of commits that introduce software bugs. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Studies commit history search strategies rather than AI deployment risks. | |
| When Is a Reconciliation Break Real? A Temporal Correctness Contract for Streaming Financial Reconciliation The authors provide a formal correctness contract to identify genuine breaks in asynchronous streaming financial reconciliation systems. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on financial streaming correctness rather than AI deployment safety. | |
| Executable but Unfaithful: Mock Object, Stub, and Assertion Generation by LLMs and Coding Agents The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how accurately language models and coding agents generate mock objects, stubs, and assertions. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Targets unit test mock generation, not deployment safety or guardrails. | |
| TileCas: Cascading Kernel Development Across Programming Abstractions The paper presents an interface that lets coding agents navigate and edit multiple abstraction levels when generating accelerator kernels. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on compiler kernel generation rather than safety or reliability. | |
| Testuary: Agentic Test Generation with Zero-Shot Parallelism The authors combine zero-shot test suite generation with agentic refinement to improve test coverage and mutation scores. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on automated test generation rather than deployment safety guardrails. | |
| Verifying Autoware Controller Node by Combining Model Verification and Runtime Monitoring The paper combines formal dynamic logic models and runtime monitoring to verify trajectory-following control in the Autoware autonomous driving platform. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on formal control theory for vehicles rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or alignment. | |
| PassSum: Leveraging Paths of Abstract Syntax Trees and Self-Supervision for Code Summarization The paper proposes a code summarization method that encodes abstract syntax tree paths using self-supervised learning to reduce training overhead. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on code summarization performance, not AI system safety or reliability in deployment. | |
| Comparing the Pre-trained Models of Source Code by Re-pre-training under a Unified Setup The paper evaluates pre-trained code models under a standardized experimental setup to compare the impacts of their pre-training tasks fairly. Peer-reviewed | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Benchmarks pre-training objectives for code models, not deployment safety or guardrails. | |
| Reviewing Beyond the Change: Repository Size and Existing Code Across Agent and Human Pull Requests The paper studies how often human and agent pull request reviews reference existing repository code outside the submitted change. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Studies repository context in code reviews, not deployment safety or reliability risks. | |
| Separating Statistical Inference from Experimental Runtime: An Architecture for Sequential Scientific Analysis The authors present a software architecture that separates incremental statistical calculations from execution runtimes and data delivery pipelines. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Addresses general scientific computing architecture rather than AI deployment safety risks. | |
| BRQGen: Towards Adaptive Completeness Assessment and Follow-Up Question Generation for Bug Reports The paper proposes a framework that identifies missing information in bug reports and generates targeted follow-up questions only when needed. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on bug report clarification rather than AI safety or reliability in production. | |
| Software Testing Meets Bayesian Workflow: A Literature-Driven Artifact Study of Probabilistic Programs The authors analyze statistical literature to turn visual judgment guidelines into testable correctness specifications for probabilistic programs. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on statistical software testing, not AI deployment safety or model guardrails. | |
| Domain-Knowledge Driven Configuration Tuning of Kubernetes Workloads The paper presents a method using domain constraints to tune Kubernetes workload configurations without disrupting live production performance. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Deals with platform infrastructure tuning rather than safety and reliability of AI deployments. | |
| DeepGroundRepair: From API-Grounded Generation to Shape-Aware Repair for Deep Learning Programs This paper presents a three-stage generation and repair framework to resolve API constraints and tensor shape errors in deep learning programs. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on program synthesis correctness rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or jailbreaks. | |
| When Is RTL Better? Auditing Evaluation Stability with Tool-Grounded Requirement Profiles The authors introduce tool-grounded requirement profiles to audit and stabilize how register-transfer-level code generation is evaluated. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on hardware code synthesis evaluation rather than AI system deployment safety. | |
| Cross-Project Bug Localization: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why The paper compares three cross-project bug localization model architectures across 13 open-source Python projects against limited within-project baselines. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Investigates cross-project bug localization algorithms, not AI deployment safety or reliability. | |
| State-Aware Generation of Deployable Websites from Visual Prototypes and Requirements The paper introduces a graph framework to maintain consistency across visual elements, workflows, and code when generating websites from prototypes. Preprint | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Addresses prototype-to-code alignment rather than general AI safety, guardrails, or hallucination prevention. | |
| Mobile App Analysis in the New Era: Challenges and the Road Ahead This paper reviews challenges in mobile app analysis across code artifacts, runtime systems, and application ecosystems. Peer-reviewed | AI safety and reliability in deployment via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on conventional mobile app testing and compliance, not AI deployment safety or reliability. |
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