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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Benchmarking Self-Supervised 3D Medical Vision Foundation Models and Transferability Estimation The paper benchmarks twenty-three self-supervised 3D medical vision foundation models across segmentation, classification, and regression tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Benchmarks 3D medical vision models, not language model agents. | |
| Dissociating Answerability from Extraction in LLM Question Answering over Radiology Reports The paper introduces an evaluation method that separates question answerability detection from answer span extraction in radiology report question answering. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies question answering evaluation, not multi-step autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Chasing Label Shifters: A Change-Aware Framework for Dynamic Graph Node Classification The paper analyzes why dynamic graph neural networks fail on evolving nodes and introduces a change-aware classification framework. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses dynamic graph neural networks, not language model agents. | |
| RAN-JEPA: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Energy-efficient Mobile Network Control The paper introduces an action-conditioned world model that separates observation representation learning from intervention learning for mobile network energy control. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Develops a world model for mobile network control, not language model agents. | |
| Taming Softmax at the Limits of Muon: A Unified Approach through Hilbert Geometry The paper applies Hilbert geometry to constrain activation shifts in softmax layers for stable optimizer updates in language model heads. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on optimization mathematics for neural network training, not AI agents. | |
| Revisiting the 16x Pretraining Compute Gap between Diffusion and Autoregressive Language Models The paper re-evaluates the pretraining compute scaling laws between diffusion and autoregressive language models using modern diffusion training designs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies diffusion language model pretraining compute, not multi-step planning or agents. | |
| Tanawpamana: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Philippine Cultural Heritage Sites The paper introduces a dataset and benchmark to evaluate vision-language models on recognizing and answering questions about Philippine cultural heritage sites. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates static vision-language perception, not autonomous agentic systems. | |
| Morphology-aware deep learning predicts colorectal cancer survival from whole-slide images The paper introduces a morphology-aware contrastive learning framework to predict five-year colorectal cancer survival from whole-slide pathology images. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on clinical whole-slide pathology, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| OpenDepth: Repurposing Image Editing Priors for Robust Open-World Monocular Depth Estimation The paper presents a monocular depth estimation method that uses image editing priors to improve geometric consistency under environmental perturbations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on monocular depth estimation, not LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| RELAY: Selective Self-Distillation with Adaptive Hand-off for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning The paper proposes a rubric-based reinforcement learning method combining selective teacher distillation with an adaptive hand-off to standard optimization. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses RL alignment algorithms, not agent planning or tool-use workflows. | |
| 4LC: 4D Latent Cache for Efficient Conditioning in Dynamic World Modeling The paper introduces a 4D latent cache to reuse static and dynamic visual representations for efficient conditioning in video generation models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on video generation caching, not language-model planning agents. | |
| The Tokens Strike Back: Safety-Aware Denoising with Directional Embedding-based Revision Presents SADDER, an inference-time text diffusion safety framework using directional embedding signals to steer unsafe tokens toward benign distributions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion model sampling, not tool-using or planning agents. | |
| Beyond Bias Scores: Answerability Confounds in Activation Steering with Gradient-Constrained Direction Design (GCD) Shows that activation steering evaluations can conflate bias reduction with model abstention, introducing a gradient-constrained direction design to isolate preferences. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies activation steering and bias metrics, not autonomous agent planning. | |
| RoTA-Bench: Evaluating 3D Spatial Reasoning through Interactive Projection Alignment Introduces RoTA-Bench to evaluate vision-language models on 3D spatial reasoning through interactive object rotation to match target 2D silhouettes. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on 3D spatial reasoning evaluation rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| PrT-Flow: Probability-Tractable Flow Matching for Reinforcement Learning Proposes PrT-Flow, an invertible flow matching method that enables exact action probability computation for reinforcement learning in robotics. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on continuous robotic reinforcement learning, not LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| Encounter-Driven City-Scale Human Mobility Generation with Large Language Models Introduces EncounterMob, an LLM-based framework that generates human mobility trajectories while preserving both individual routines and multi-person encounter patterns. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies LLMs to mobility generation, not agent planning or tool execution. | |
| Dynamic K-Head: Difficulty-Supervised Budget Selection for Continuous Latent Reasoning Proposes Dynamic K-Head, a question-conditioned budget selector that sets continuous latent reasoning steps based on input difficulty. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Optimizes latent reasoning budgets, not tool use or autonomous agents. | |
| Stable Token-level Scheduling for Serverless LLM Inference Proposes Token Window Pacing, a serverless scheduling framework that regulates request admissions at the token level to reduce inter-token latency. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on serverless LLM serving latency, not autonomous planning or tool use. | |
| MedEvo: Medical Reasoning Evolution through Knowledge Navigation Proposes MedEvo, an iterative training framework that repairs multimodal medical reasoning trajectories using minimal hints and taxonomy-guided feedback. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on medical multimodal fine-tuning, not autonomous agents. | |
| zPocket: Better Pocket Finding with Frozen Co-Folding Features Introduces the PocketWatch benchmark and zPocket, an approach training pocket-prediction heads on frozen representations from protein co-folding models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on protein-ligand binding pockets, not LLM agents. | |
| LeanPRM: Lean-Grounded Process Supervision for Natural Language Proof Verification Presents LeanPRM, a method using the Lean proof assistant to generate step-level correctness labels for training natural-language mathematical proof verifiers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on mathematical proof step-verification, not multi-step agent actions. | |
| Understanding Gene Expression-to-Image Learning: Spatial Structure and Information Fidelity Studies the trade-off between spatial smoothness and gene-level fidelity when mapping single-cell RNA sequencing profiles to images for neural networks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on genomics and RNA representations, not LLM agents. | |
| A Node Embedding Framework for Model-Centric Conformance Checking in Process Mining Introduces a graph embedding and Procrustes alignment framework to provide a bounded metric for evaluating discovered process models against ground truth. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents process mining graph methods, not LLM agents. | |
| From Token Correction to Claim Admission: Training-Free Hallucination Mitigation for Large Vision-Language Models Proposes a training-free framework that mitigates vision-language model hallucinations by admitting claims only when supported relative to a visual-null input. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on vision-language hallucination, not tool-using agents. | |
| Where Small Mistakes Matter: Quantifying State Criticality for Imitation Learning Develops SCRIM, a method quantifying state criticality in imitation learning by measuring downstream value degradation under bounded action perturbations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses general imitation learning theory rather than LLM-based agents. | |
| ECG-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Targeted Electrocardiogram Waveform Evolution Proposes a recursive self-improvement framework for electrocardiogram analysis models combining verified synthetic waveform edits with targeted intervention selection. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on ECG waveform classification rather than agent systems. | |
| Safety for Whom? Benchmarking Understanding Beyond Refusal in Egocentric Multimodal Assistants This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether egocentric multimodal assistants understand who is harmed rather than solely tracking output refusal. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies multimodal assistant safety rather than agent planning or tools. | |
| CoCA: Criterion-Aware Credit Assignment for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning This paper proposes a credit-assignment method that uses rubric evaluation outcomes to allocate token-level advantages during reinforcement learning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses RL credit assignment, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| Explore with Memory, Learn without It: In-Context Exploration and Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach that uses in-context dynamic memory during rollouts and self-distillation to accelerate reasoning exploration. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on RLVR exploration and self-distillation rather than agent workflows. | |
| Train for Many, Update with One: Improving Multi-Sample Reasoning via Fenchel-Bregman Posterior Learning This paper introduces a posterior learning approach that improves multi-sample reasoning coverage by updating models using single posterior draws. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-sample posterior optimization, not multi-step agent systems. | |
| DuplexAct: How Interactive Are Frontier Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models? This paper presents a benchmark with an action taxonomy to evaluate the interactive conversation capabilities of full-duplex spoken language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on spoken conversational turn-taking, not tool-using or planning agents. | |
| HiSTOR: Structured Treatment-outcome Representation Learning for High-Dimensional Longitudinal Data This paper proposes an end-to-end framework integrating nonlinear dimension reduction with longitudinal counterfactual prediction for high-dimensional observational data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with causal inference for longitudinal data, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on auditing LLM evaluation judges rather than multi-step planning agents. | |
| I3L: Iterative Interactive Imitation Learning for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation This paper presents a system combining interactive human corrections with iterative policy retraining for long-horizon whole-body mobile robot manipulation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on physical robot teleoperation and imitation learning, not LLM agents. | |
| Gaussian Process Bandits for AI System Optimization with Selectively Verified Feedback This paper proposes Gaussian process bandit algorithms with selective verification audits to optimize AI system configurations under noisy evaluations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes a Bayesian optimization method for audit designs, not LLM agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on robotics and sensor fusion rather than language model planning and tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on token-level policy optimization for reasoning generation rather than multi-step agents. | |
| Posterior-Averaged Bellman Flow Matching for Distributional Critics This paper proposes a flow-matching method that averages Bellman target directions under a posterior distribution to improve reinforcement learning critics. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on theoretical reinforcement learning distributional critics, not LLM agents. | |
| GIFT-Eval-CTX: A Benchmark For Contextual Forecasting Model Evaluation This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether forecasting models can incorporate forward-looking contextual information into accurate time-series predictions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Forecasting benchmark paper; agentic pipelines are used merely to build annotations. | |
| Same Attack, Different Judge: A First Controlled Adversarial Comparison of Jev, LLM Judges, and Purpose-Built Safety Classifiers This paper conducts an adversarial evaluation comparing a probability-based safety judge against large language model judges and safety classifiers across multiple attack types. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates safety classification tools rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Surveys verifier noise in RLVR rather than building or deploying LLM agents. | |
| QK-Edit: Revisiting Attention-based Injection in MM-DiT for Image and Video Editing Introduces QK-Edit, a training-free query-key attention manipulation method for text-guided image and video editing in multimodal diffusion transformers. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion-based image and video editing, not language model agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion models for code editing rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| A Tutorial on Quantum Amplitude Embedding with Data Re-Uploading Provides a tutorial analyzing theoretical expressiveness gains and parameter tradeoffs when re-uploading data in quantum amplitude embedding architectures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a tutorial on quantum amplitude embeddings, unrelated to AI agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers fashion search retrieval, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| MMTA: Benchmarking Multimodal Temporal Analysis with Time Series, Text, and Vision Releases MMTA, a multimodal benchmark testing the ability of language models to jointly analyze time series, text, and visual data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates multimodal model perception on time series, not tool-using agents. | |
| TStruct: Learning Shared Temporal Structures for Long-Term Time-Series Forecasting Proposes TStruct, a network that captures recurring temporal relationship structures across variables to improve long-term time-series forecasting. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with time-series forecasting, not LLM agents or planning. | |
| RT-J: Large-Scale Pretraining of Relational Transformers for Context-Efficient Predictions Presents RT-J, a relational transformer pretrained on diverse databases to achieve strong in-context table predictions with few sample examples. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a tabular foundation model, not an autonomous agent system. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies persona activation vectors, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on mechanistic interpretability of SAEs, not autonomous agents. | |
| PaceReasoner: Label-Free Learning to Answer Briefly from Long Reasoning Introduces PaceReasoner, using long reasoning outputs during test-time reinforcement learning to boost the accuracy of brief, low-latency model answers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on reasoning distillation and length control, not tool use or agents. | |
| Visual Dependence Does Not Imply Answerability: A Systematic Analysis of Answerability Signals in Frozen InstructBLIP Analyzes answerability signals in frozen visual question answering models, finding standard confidence and alignment metrics fail to reliably detect unanswerable inputs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes question-answering behavior in VLMs, not agentic planning systems. | |
| DriveWLA: Unifying Future Dynamics and Scene Semantics through World-Language-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving Introduces DriveWLA, a mixture-of-transformers architecture unifying scene semantics, future dynamic prediction, and vehicle trajectory planning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with autonomous driving trajectory planning, not general LLM tool-use agents. | |
| SpecCloak: Probing Harmful Code Generation through Engineering Specifications Finds that framing malicious coding prompts as engineering specifications systematically reduces language model refusal rates across multiple models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies refusal mechanisms in code generation, not agent planning workflows. | |
| LinMorph: Learning to Morph Weights for Efficient Video DiT Linearization Proposes LinMorph, a learnable weight transformation method to initialize linear attention models from pretrained video diffusion transformers efficiently. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers diffusion transformer linearization, not tool-using or planning agents. | |
| CineMem: Attention-Aligned Fine-grained Memory Retrieval for Multi-Shot Long Video Generation Introduces CineMem, an attention-aligned memory retrieval framework using clustered KV caches for autoregressive multi-shot long video generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on video generation cache retrieval, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| GLST: Global-Local Spatio-Temporal Memory Decomposition Framework for Online Chained-Goal Navigation Presents a memory decomposition framework separating spatio-temporal beliefs to support autonomous robot navigation under evolving online goals. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on robotic spatial navigation, not LLM planning or tool-use agents. | |
| MERIT: Multimodal Evidence Reasoning over Image Tables Proposes MERIT, a framework using visual table reasoning and adapted encoders to extract information directly from table images. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on visual table understanding, not multi-step agent planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses surgical tumor classification, not autonomous language agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on decoding algorithms for diffusion LLMs, not planning agents. |
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