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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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| The Singularity Has a Distribution: Exact Timing Laws and Detection Limits for a Stochastic Intelligence Explosion The authors formulate a stochastic model to analyze the timing distributions and detection limits of potential recursive artificial intelligence explosions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical mathematical modeling of recursive self-improvement, not AI agents. | |
| Learning Perturbation-Specific Representations through Conditional Energy Prior for Cellular Response Prediction The authors present an energy-based prior for cellular perturbation models to better distinguish specific therapeutic signals from general biological background noise. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies energy priors to cellular response prediction, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies sparse autoencoder interpretability, not agent workflows. | |
| Task-evoked eye movements as candidate digital biomarkers of depression severity in adolescents and young adults The authors analyze task-evoked eye movements in adolescents to identify objective behavioral markers corresponding to depression severity scores. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Clinical study of eye-movement biomarkers, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on mathematical autoformalization, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| EgoOmniWorld: Unifying Egocentric Understanding via Ego-Action-World Interactions The authors introduce a benchmark evaluating egocentric video understanding structured around an interactive loop of user perception, action, and world feedback. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on egocentric video QA, not LLM agentic tool use. | |
| The Smart Buildings Challenge: Learning Foundation Models for Real-World Optimization at Scale The authors introduce a challenge benchmark to develop foundation models for building HVAC energy optimization that transfer across different physical structures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on HVAC optimization policies, not LLM agent systems. | |
| A Global View of How LLMs Value Human Time The paper evaluates how commercial language models value human time by measuring recommended delay compensation amounts across 193 different countries. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates geographical valuation bias in LLMs, not multi-step agent architectures. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines logit distribution geometry, not agent planning or tools. | |
| APTree: Extended Behavior Trees for Adaptive and Scalable Automated Robotic Task Planning in Construction The paper presents an extended behavior tree framework that automates modular robot task planning and runtime replanning for off-site construction fabrication. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on classical symbolic planners and behavior trees, not LLM agents. | |
| On Symmetry for Characterizing Agent Heterogeneity in Multi-Agent Systems The paper defines an algebraic symmetry framework for characterizing structural agent heterogeneity and policy representations in multi-agent systems. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical game theory on POSGs, not LLM-based agent systems. | |
| Input-Conditioned Search for Efficient Test-Time Scaling of Recursive Reasoners The paper presents a test-time search method that perturbs input conditions to generate diverse reasoning paths in recursive reasoning models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on recursive reasoner inference search, not tool-using agents. | |
| Rethinking Quality in Large Language Model Routing: Security-Conditioned Model-and-Budget Selection The paper proposes a query router that balances answer utility, security risks, and token budgets when selecting language models for mixed enterprise workloads. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on request routing across models, not multi-step LLM agents. | |
| Configuring RAG Systems: What Breaks, Where Originates, and How to Fix The paper presents an empirical study of 654 real-world configuration bugs across ten retrieval-augmented generation systems, categorizing causes and fixes. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates RAG configuration issues rather than agentic planning or tools. | |
| Order-Consistent Latent Geometry for Reliable Short-Horizon Planning in World Models The paper analyzes pathwise distance consistency in visual world models to avoid candidate order reversals during latent short-horizon planning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on world-model latent trajectory geometry, not LLM agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies media narratives about AI, not LLM agent systems. | |
| When More Objectives Make Identification Easier: The Role of Preferences and Feedback The paper theoretically analyzes multi-objective best-arm identification to determine when multiple criteria reduce exploration requirements in multi-armed bandit settings. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical bandit theory paper, not focused on LLM agents. | |
| Compare to Correct: Pairwise-Guided Logit Adjustment for LLM Test-Time Scaling The paper introduces a logit adjustment method based on pairwise comparisons between sampled reasoning paths to improve test-time answer selection in language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on test-time sampling aggregation, not multi-step agent actions. | |
| GeoMER: A Joint Euclidean-Hyperbolic Geometry Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition The paper presents a multimodal emotion recognition framework that integrates Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry to capture hierarchical emotion structures from text and speech. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies multimodal emotion recognition, not LLM agents or tool use. | |
| ACCRUE: Continual Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Robot Foundation Models The paper proposes a continual off-policy reinforcement learning framework that reuses actor and critic networks across sequential robotic manipulation tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on robot reinforcement learning, not LLM agent workflows. | |
| PhysicsSliders: Learning Physical Controls for Audio Foley Generation The paper presents a generative audio method that controls Foley sound synthesis using physical interaction, material, and geometry parameters. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on audio foley synthesis, not LLM agent systems. | |
| Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs The paper examines projector training in multimodal models and proposes a training-free initialization method using summary statistics instead of paired image-caption data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates multimodal projector training, not multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| LLM2R: From Large Language Models to 3D Reassemblers The paper adapts a causal language model using compressed 3D geometric tokens to assemble multi-part objects in a single forward pass. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies transformer architectures to 3D shape assembly, not autonomous agent workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-trace answer verification rather than interactive agent workflows. | |
| DPOison-VL: Clean Preference Poisoning in Vision-Language Direct Preference Optimization The paper introduces an imperceptible image perturbation attack that manipulates alignment in vision-language models during preference optimization without altering text annotations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies preference poisoning attacks rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Tests theory of mind selection rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Nudge the Judge: Uncovering Program Decision Hijacking in Real-World Jev Applications The paper presents an automated framework to evaluate how adversarial contexts can redirect program execution through valid structured judgments in language-model applications. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies program decision hijacking in decision models rather than autonomous agents. | |
| Does self-distillation improve reasoning? The paper evaluates whether self-distillation using privileged information improves reasoning capabilities or reflects overfitting to training tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates self-distillation training methods rather than agent architectures or tool use. | |
| Two Routes to Interoceptive Prioritisation: Dissociating Likelihood Precision and Preference Reweighting in Active Inference The authors compare information precision and preference reweighting mechanisms in active-inference agents managing competing survival needs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Active inference neuroscience study on biological agents, not LLM agent systems. | |
| Falsification-proof non-market allocation mechanisms The paper characterizes optimal falsification-proof non-market allocation mechanisms when individuals can strategically manipulate their observable characteristics. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical economics paper on allocation mechanisms, not language model agents. | |
| Geometric Calibration of Supervised Fine-Tuning This paper presents a post-hoc method that refines fine-tuned models by selectively reverting parameter updates along principal directions of base weights. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates fine-tuning weight geometry rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| DTScribe: Generating Models for Digital Twin Reporting using Local Large Language Models The authors present an approach using local language models to automatically generate conceptual architectural models and reports for digital twins. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Uses LLM prompting loops rather than studying multi-step autonomous agent architectures. | |
| To Align or Not To Align: Check Your COMPASS Before You Train This paper introduces a metric to estimate the compatibility of pretrained models before running costly alignment or checkpoint merging. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies encoder alignment compatibility rather than agent tool use or planning. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Develops a video prediction GRU architecture, not an autonomous agent. | |
| Tiny Recursive Message Passing This paper applies recursive training and discrete deduction procedures to message-passing neural networks to solve constraint-reasoning tasks with few parameters. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates message passing graph architectures, not LLM agent systems. | |
| AMemOps: Evaluating Memory Updates in Long Audio Streams The authors introduce a benchmark to evaluate how audio models update, retain, or reject recurring acoustic sources in long streams. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Tests streaming audio memory operations rather than multi-step agent workflows. | |
| Kwai Summary Attention V2 Technical Report This technical report presents an updated summary-token attention architecture to optimize cache compression and computation across model layers. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on KV cache attention architecture, not multi-step agent planning or tools. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies human perception of cloned voices, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses clinical concept representation, not autonomous agent planning or actions. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Mechanistic interpretability study of attention heads, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| Model-Based Online Decision Making via Generative Trajectory Planning The authors introduce a decision-making framework that samples candidate action sequences from a diffusion model and refines them using learned dynamics. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies trajectory planning to continuous control and robotics, not LLM agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Autonomous driving 3D perception paper, not an LLM agent. | |
| Just Respect the Semantics: Image-Token Compression via Pre-LLM Semantic Variable-Resolution Tokenization and In-LLM Relevance Pruning The authors present an image-token compression technique using variable-resolution merging for semantic regions and learned relevance pruning inside the model. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on vision token compression rather than planning or tool use. | |
| GeoReader: Learning Latent Geometry for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models This paper introduces a framework that trains lightweight readers to convert latent 3D geometric representations into tokens readable by vision-language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on vision-language model spatial reasoning, not agent workflows. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on robotics world and action diffusion models rather than LLM agents. | |
| Unlocking Token Rewards via Training-Free Reward Attribution This paper presents a training-free, gradient-based method to extract token-level reward signals directly from process reward models. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on token credit assignment in reward models, not agent planning. | |
| Steertuning Policies from a Few Human Videos The authors introduce a system that enables robots to learn new tasks from five human video demonstrations via fast policy finetuning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on physical robot diffusion policies rather than LLM-based agents. | |
| A Rate Transfer Method: Convergence Rates in Stochastic Gradient Descent via Stochastic Calculus This paper presents a theoretical rate-transfer method using stochastic calculus to establish finite-time convergence bounds for stochastic gradient algorithms. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical optimization paper on gradient descent, not an agent system. | |
| SolBehave: Evaluating the Behavioural Correctness of LLM-Generated Smart Contracts The paper introduces a benchmark using fuzzing and transaction replays to evaluate the behavioral correctness of generated smart contracts. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on smart contract correctness rather than autonomous planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents an RL training algorithm for code repair, not general agent frameworks. | |
| Beyond the Verdict: Agentic Code Judging with Verifiable Feedback The paper introduces a benchmark and model for evaluating program correctness and generating diagnostic counterexamples for competitive programming code. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on automated code verification rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Jeva: System One Models from First Principles The paper proposes an alternative architecture for fast decision-making that handles missing choices, option permutation, and candidate scaling natively. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Proposes a model architecture for fast classification decisions, not planning or tool-using agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on static LLM ensemble output aggregation, not autonomous agent planning or multi-step execution. | |
| Bytes to Threats: Byte-Sequence Transformer For Malware Detection The paper presents a byte-level transformer model designed to detect malware directly from raw executable byte sequences. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on a malware classification model, not multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| Optimizing Team Behavior via Extremum-seeking Control in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning The paper introduces an adaptive diversity control framework that optimizes cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning teams using episodic return feedback. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning control, not language model agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies machine translation fine-tuning, not autonomous tool-use agents. | |
| Read the Room Before Your Model Generates The paper introduces a decoding framework that dynamically selects sampling temperature based on geometric representations of conversational scenarios. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on temperature sampling during text generation, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| RoboSimStudio: An Interactive Toolkit for Rapid Real2Sim of Robot Manipulation Tasks The paper presents an interactive simulation toolkit that enables humans and code agents to iteratively calibrate robot manipulation physics. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on an interactive simulation toolkit, not autonomous multi-step LLM agents. | |
| Fast Rates for Offline Q-Learning with KL Regularization The paper analyzes sample complexity rates for offline Q-learning algorithms using Kullback-Leibler regularization. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Theoretical offline RL sample complexity analysis, not practical LLM agents. | |
| Who Improves the Robot? Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement The paper analyzes physical recursive self-improvement in robotics, proposing a multi-level evaluation framework and reviewing existing adaptation methods. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Surveys physical recursive self-improvement in robotics, not software LLM agent workflows. |
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