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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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Personalization Without Stereotyping: Do Speech LLMs Know When to Turn a Deaf Ear?
The paper introduces a benchmark to measure demographic robustness, stereotyping, and intentional personalization in speech language models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies paralinguistic personalization and bias rather than autonomous agent systems.
Not All Correct Fixes Run Alike: An Empirical Study of Patch Performance in Repository-Level Issue Resolution
The paper analyzes the runtime performance differences of test-passing issue resolution patches generated by language models on SWE-bench.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Evaluates patch runtime performance in SWE benchmarks rather than agent planning architectures.
Measuring Artifact Reliance in Machine-Generated Text Detectors
The paper demonstrates that machine-generated text detectors rely heavily on document formatting and PDF extraction artifacts rather than text quality.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies AI-generated text detection rather than autonomous multi-step agent systems.
zip2zip++: Towards Inference-Time Token Compression with Minimal Quality Loss
The paper proposes compression-layer modifications to reduce accuracy loss when using dynamic LZW vocabularies during language model inference.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on token compression layers rather than autonomous tool-using language agents.
BLiMPPI: Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for Polarity Items
The paper presents a multilingual benchmark of minimal pairs to evaluate language model sensitivity to negative polarity items across 33 languages.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Examines linguistic grammaticality of polarity items, not autonomous multi-step agents.
Training User Simulators with Latent Intrinsic Feedback
The paper trains conversational user simulators equipped with latent evaluation thoughts and scalar ratings to provide intrinsic feedback.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on training dialogue user simulators rather than autonomous agent systems.
AMLworld-Compact: Importance-Weighted Downsampling for Cost-Effective LLM Evaluation and Error Diagnosis
The paper presents an importance-weighted downsampling protocol to lower evaluation costs on transaction graph datasets without distorting precision metrics.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on benchmark downsampling for AML evaluation, not autonomous agentic frameworks.
Multi-Stream Attention Residuals
The paper extends attention residuals across model depth by introducing multi-stream depth attention with causal convolutions.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Proposes an internal attention residual architecture, not multi-step autonomous agent systems.
Retractions Revisited: A Replication, Extension, and Mechanistic Evaluation of Linguistic Obfuscation Effects in Fraudulent Science
The paper evaluates linguistic obfuscation patterns and reality-monitoring mechanisms across fraudulent and genuine scientific publications.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Analyzes linguistic features in scientific papers rather than autonomous agent systems.
Verifiable Retrieval for Legal Reasoning through Structure-driven Knowledge Graph
The paper evaluates knowledge-graph-informed chunking and retrieval strategies over German legal code to support verifiable retrieval-augmented generation.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on knowledge graph retrieval for legal text rather than autonomous multi-step agents.
Enhancing Legal Reasoning in Pre-trained Language Models via Knowledge Graph-Guided Multi-Task Pre-training
The paper proposes multi-task pre-training guided by knowledge graphs to improve zero-shot legal reasoning in language models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on legal knowledge pre-training rather than autonomous multi-step agent frameworks.
OccludeBench: Can VLMs Find What's Missing?
The paper presents a benchmark evaluating how effectively vision-language models recover fully occluded objects using remaining visual cues.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Evaluates visual occlusion reasoning in VLMs rather than multi-step autonomous agent systems.
Not Just an Evaluation: A Case Study of Discourse Particle Sensitivity in Language Models
The paper studies language model sensitivity to discourse particles such as 'just' and 'only' in natural conversations.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Examines linguistic particle sensitivity in LLMs rather than autonomous agentic workflows.
REFLECT: Role-Aware Detection of Sentiment, Emotion, Politeness, and Formality
The paper introduces a transformer architecture incorporating semantic role labeling into attention mechanisms to detect sentiment, emotion, politeness, and formality.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on dialogue classification architectures rather than autonomous multi-step agents.
Error Rate is Not Enough: Costs of Augmentation in Low-Resource ASR
The paper analyzes phoneme-level error patterns from audio and text data augmentation techniques in low-resource automatic speech recognition.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates speech recognition data augmentation rather than autonomous agent workflows.
Tracing and Taming Hallucinated Terms via Subsequence-Association Filtering and Breadth-Aware Selection for LLM Query Expansion
The paper proposes a training-free query expansion method that filters hallucinated terms using corpus-conditioned cross-context reproducibility.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates query expansion algorithms rather than multi-step tool-using language agents.
QTestBench: A Test Framework for Evaluating LLM-Generated Quantum Code
The paper introduces a benchmark framework evaluating LLM-generated quantum software unit tests against independent ground-truth checkers.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on quantum code test suites rather than autonomous agent systems or tool workflows.
Can Language Models Learn When to Abstain? Policy Learning and Calibrated Answer Selection
The paper studies policy learning and answer-selection mechanisms to help language models decide when to abstain on factual questions.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies answer selection and abstention for factual QA, not multi-step agent planning or tool use.
OpenPA: Forced-alignment-free Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment with Mixed-transcript Adaptation
The paper presents an automatic pronunciation assessment method using Whisper cross-attention to predict word- and utterance-level scores without forced alignment.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on speech pronunciation scoring, not autonomous AI agents.
Structural Automata for Neural Semantic Parsing
The paper proposes accepting-path decoding using structural automata to enforce valid prefix completions within length limits for neural semantic parsing.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Covers semantic parsing decoding algorithms, not tool-using AI agents.
When VLMs Destroy What They Know: Spatial Representations Fall Below Lexical Priors
The paper evaluates vision-language models' spatial representations using causally controlled perturbations, showing spatial relations degrade compared to lexical features.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies internal representations of VLMs, not agent planning or tool execution.
Epistemic Disturbance in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: State-Preserving Actions, Four-Valued Assessments, and the Distinction between Capability and Intention
The paper extends the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution by incorporating epistemic states and state-preserving actions into its decision-making framework.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Formal game-theoretic conflict resolution paper, not LLM agents or tool use.
Can Jev be Your Q or Policy in Reinforcement Learning?
Studies how the non-generative decision model Jev can serve as a prior or policy component within reinforcement learning frameworks.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Explores decision foundation models in RL pipelines, not multi-step language agents.
Elucidating the Space of Enzymatic Reaction: A Unified Benchmark and Pretrained Model
Introduces a unified benchmark and pretrained encoder-decoder model for evaluating enzymatic reaction prediction and enzyme commission classifications.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on enzymatic reaction prediction models, not autonomous agents.
Intervention anchors and scientific verification in synthetic vascular predictive representations
Presents a mathematical audit on how intervention anchors and coordinate transport affect stability in synthetic vascular predictive representations.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Pertains to synthetic vascular representation audits, not AI agents.
Internalizer: Portable Context-to-Parameter Mapping for Very Large Language Models
Presents a hypernetwork that maps document contexts directly into low-rank adapter weights for large language models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Proposes a hypernetwork for model adapters, not autonomous agents.
MultiWorldBench: Do Independently Controlled Views Describe One Shared World?
Introduces a Minecraft diagnostic benchmark testing whether multiplayer world models maintain consistent and persistent representations across independently controlled views.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Examines multi-view world models rather than planning agents.
MAP4CS: A Multi-dimensional Data Pruning Framework for Efficient Code Retriever Fine-tuning
Presents a multi-dimensional data pruning framework that filters code repositories by syntax, diversity, and representation for efficient retriever fine-tuning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on code retrieval training data pruning, not multi-step agents.
Timer-M1: A Multivariate Time Series Foundation Model via Learning Primitives
Introduces a multivariate time series foundation model pretrained using synthetic temporal and relational pattern primitives for zero-shot forecasting.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Presents a time series foundation model, not an agent system.
Onboard Marine Anomaly Detection on $Φ$sat-2: From Simulation-Based Development to In-Orbit Demonstration
Describes an onboard satellite pipeline combining segmentation and self-supervised feature encoding for real-time marine anomaly detection.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses onboard satellite computer vision, not language model agents.
Uncovering and Fixing Collider Bias in Bayesian PINNs
Analyzes collider bias in Bayesian physics-informed neural networks and introduces a hierarchical generative chain model to resolve parameter estimation drift.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Deals with physics-informed neural networks, not AI agents.
Scalable AI Uncertainty Quantification via Generalized Laplace Active Subspaces
Develops a low-rank generalized Laplace approximation over active curvature directions for scalable neural network uncertainty quantification.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Discusses Bayesian uncertainty quantification, not LLM agents or tool use.
DEX: Digit-Level Early Exit for Energy-Efficient MSDF Neural Network Inference
Designs a most-significant-digit-first neural network accelerator supporting early exits and digit-level pruning for energy-efficient medical image segmentation.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on hardware accelerators for U-Net, not AI agents.
Where Draft Trees Lose Target Mass: Exit-Guided Speculative Decoding
Introduces an exact level-parallel tree verification procedure for speculative decoding derived from a canonical exit law of target-model probabilities.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on speculative decoding verification for LLMs, not multi-step tool-using agents.
Same Outcome, Different Evidence: Intent Recovery in LLM Safety Evaluation
Pairs attack success rate with operative understanding rate to assess whether models recognize harmful intent during safety evaluations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on safety metrics and prompt recovery rather than autonomous multi-step agents.
RouterInterp: Understanding Superposed Specialisation in Mixture of Experts Routing
Proposes an interpretability framework using sparse autoencoders to explain mixture of experts routing based on superposed fine-grained features.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Presents an MoE routing interpretability method, not multi-step tool-using agents.
AuraLuxMuse: Adaptive Fusion Modeling for Aesthetic Stage Lighting Design with Music and Expert Guidance
Presents a system combining representation learning and music alignment to generate editable aesthetic stage lighting cues for live performances.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on stage lighting design generation rather than autonomous LLM agents.
From Pixels to Structure: Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Document OCR and Structured JSON Extraction
Evaluates eight lightweight open-source vision-language models on optical character recognition and schema-compliant JSON extraction across heritage document collections.
Peer-reviewed
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies document OCR and JSON extraction, not multi-step autonomous planning agents.
From Suppression to Repair: Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Localized Distribution Alignment
Introduces a training-free inference method using Gaussian optimal transport to reduce object hallucination in vision-language models without suppressing valid representations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates internal representation repairs in vision-language models rather than autonomous agents.
Probability-Signature Dynamics: Unpacking Modular Addition Learning Within Two-Layer Networks
Analyzes modular addition learning in two-layer neural networks using probability signatures to explain how gradient training selects Fourier-structured representations.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Examines theoretical learning dynamics in two-layer networks, not LLM agents.
GRPODropout: Less is More for Online Reinforcement Learning Rollouts
Presents a rollout selection strategy that drops high-probability positive-advantage trajectories to prevent entropy collapse during language model reinforcement learning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on core reinforcement learning algorithms for reasoning, not multi-step agent architectures.
Evaluating Exact Output and Checkpoint-State Prediction in Real Programs
Evaluates language models on predicting program outputs and intermediate loop checkpoint states directly from source code and inputs.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Measures pure code-execution prediction without tools or multi-step agent actions.
Beyond Visual Enhancement: Adaptive Multi-Context Steering to Mitigate LVLM Hallucinations
Proposes an adaptive multi-source steering decoding method to mitigate hallucinations in vision-language models by balancing visual and textual context contributions.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on multimodal decoding steering rather than agent planning, tool execution, or agentic workflows.
From Surface to Depth: Towards Cognitive Appraisal Reasoning in Multimodal Emotion Understanding
Introduces a dataset and benchmark to model multimodal emotion understanding through cognitive appraisal reasoning rather than superficial affective cues.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Proposes an emotion-understanding model and dataset rather than multi-step autonomous planning agents.
Neural Decoding as Cognitive Inference
Formulates neural decoding as Bayesian cognitive inference to extract stable meta-neural semantic representations across varying neural recording modalities.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on computational neuroscience and biological neural decoding, not LLM agents or tool use.
Stochastic Grouping Conformal Prediction for Effective Subgroup Reliability
Proposes a conformal prediction framework that learns stochastic groupings to improve subgroup coverage reliability without inflating overall prediction sets.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on conformal prediction for subgroup uncertainty quantification, not LLM agents.
MetaOPD: Meta-Learned Token Weighting for On-Policy Distillation
Presents a bilevel optimization framework for on-policy distillation that meta-learns dynamic token weights based on student validation loss.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on token weighting for student distillation, not multi-step agent planning or tools.
DataVista: Diagnosing Multimodal LLMs on Data Video Understanding
Introduces a benchmark evaluating multimodal language models on extracting data, tracking narrative flows, and answering questions from animated data videos.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Introduces a video question-answering benchmark rather than autonomous agent tool use or planning.
Neural Network Verification for Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding
Presents a bound-propagation verification framework to bound worst-case reconstruction errors for deep joint source-channel coding decoders under noise.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on formal verification of neural decoders in wireless transmission, not AI agents.
An Interpretable Approach to PDE Solution Discovery via Structural Experience Distillation
Uses Monte Carlo tree search and structural experience distillation to identify interpretable symbolic expressions for partial differential equation solutions.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Applies MCTS to symbolic PDE discovery, not LLM agent planning or tool orchestration.
The Polytopal Neural Network
Introduces a neural network architecture enforcing layer-wise polytopal constraints to improve latent representation interpretability without degrading task performance.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on neural network interpretability and latent geometric representations, not AI agents.
Complexity of Grounded Semantics and Preferred Semantics in Finitary Argumentation Frameworks
Analyzes the computational complexity of grounded and preferred semantics decision problems within computably finitary abstract argumentation frameworks.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Theoretical analysis of abstract argumentation complexity, not LLM agents or tool-using systems.
PulseBound: Future-Beat State Forecasting Under an Explicit Information Boundary
Develops a representation learning approach for photoplethysmography data that enforces strict causal information boundaries during future-beat forecasting.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Proposes a physiological forecasting architecture for PPG signals, unrelated to LLM agents.
Examining Social Attribution in LLM Reasoning: A Theory-Guided Probing Methodology
Proposes a benchmark and probing methodology based on attribution theory to examine how language models assign responsibility and blame.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Probes social reasoning in LLMs, but does not study autonomous agents, tool use, or multi-agent workflows.
Humanoid World Action Model With Joint State--Action Generation
Introduces a world action model for humanoid robots that jointly models robot internal states and scene evolution to close the execution gap.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on humanoid low-level control and proprioceptive action generation, not conversational LLM agents.
MPGE: A Multi-Perspective Graph Explainer for Molecular Classification Explanation
Presents an explainer for molecular graph neural networks combining factual, counterfactual, and exemplar graph perturbations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on GNN explainability for molecular classification, not LLM agents or tool orchestration.
Structure Tax: How Structured Output affects LLMs Performance
Evaluates how schema ordering impacts LLM performance under structured output constraints, showing reasoning-first designs prevent accuracy drops.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies structured output formatting and reasoning preservation rather than multi-step agent planning or tools.
MAST: Motif-Augmented Diffusion with Search Tree for Spectroscopic Molecular Structure Elucidation
Combines motif priors with search-tree diffusion to generate 2D and 3D molecular structures from spectroscopic data.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on molecular structure elucidation via diffusion search trees, not multi-step LLM agents or tool use.
All Verdicts are Not Equal: Rethinking LLM Judge Reliability
Audits the reliability of LLM judges across multiple prompt formats, temperatures, and orderings, introducing a trustworthy verdict metric.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies evaluation methodology rather than systems where LLMs plan, use tools, or execute tasks.
Is Memorization Context-Sensitive? Prefix-Based Extraction Beyond Isolated Prefixes
Analyzes training data extraction risks in language models when prompts include contextual conditioning such as retrieved documents.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates memorization extraction rather than multi-step agent planning or tool execution.
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