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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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| REDaCT: Collapse-Free Unlearning in Large Reasoning Models Proposes an inference-time unlearning method that detects leaks and injects corrective embeddings into large reasoning model traces. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on unlearning in reasoning models rather than multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Representation Alignment from a Few Paired Data via Distilled Optimal Transport Aligns independently pretrained unimodal encoders using a few paired anchors and distilled entropic optimal transport. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses cross-modal representation alignment, not LLM agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement via Reinforcement Learning-Based Neural Architecture Search Uses reinforcement learning-based neural architecture search to discover compact models for audio-visual speech enhancement. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies neural architecture search to speech enhancement, not LLM agent systems. | |
| COFFEQA: Counterfactual-Guided Few-Shot Distillation for LLM Question Answering Introduces a counterfactual-guided few-shot distillation framework to train smaller question-answering language models using limited training samples. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on knowledge distillation for question answering, not multi-step LLM planning or agent systems. | |
| Neural networks are more modular than single neurons suggest Proposes a hierarchy of modularity to identify functional modular organization in neural networks lacking single-neuron specialization. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Analyzes internal neural network modularity at the subspace level, not agentic planning or tools. | |
| Towards Defining, Measuring, and Leveraging Creativity in AI Applications Proposes formal mathematical postulates and definitions to measure and operationalize computational creativity across domains. Peer-reviewed | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes a mathematical definition of computational creativity, not autonomous LLM agents. | |
| When Generative Models Act as Simulators Investigates mappings between generative model latent states and simulator states to enable controllable environment simulation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Explores latent state editability in generative models, not LLM agent workflows or tool use. | |
| Mitigating Capability Degradation in LLM Self-Improvement via Representation Geometry Regularization Introduces representation geometry regularization to prevent capability degradation during on-policy self-distillation in language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on internal representation regularization during self-distillation, not multi-step agent architectures. | |
| Localized Generative Design of Ship Hulls with Diffusion Models and High-Fidelity Assessment Applies a reward-directed diffusion model to optimize localized ship hull geometry evaluated by automated fluid dynamics simulations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on ship hull design using diffusion models, not multi-step LLM agents or tool use. | |
| One-Step Text Generation by Seq-Drifting Proposes a sequence-drifting framework to generate full text sequences in a single forward pass from Gaussian noise. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes a non-autoregressive text generation diffusion method, not autonomous agents. | |
| Mind the Spatial Gap: A Benchmark for Geospatial Reasoning and Constrained Spatial Editing Presents a benchmark using real urban data to evaluate multimodal language models on spatial reasoning and constrained editing. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a benchmark for spatial reasoning and editing, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| DeFiRank: Federated Pairwise Ranking for Governance in Decentralized Financial Networks Proposes a federated pairwise ranking framework for institutions to evaluate decentralized finance participants without sharing transaction data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes federated pairwise ranking for blockchain governance, not LLM agents. | |
| AI-Mediation in Retail Markets: Revenue Effects and Assortment Optimization Studies the impact of AI shopping assistant mediation on retail product assortment planning and business revenue. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Economic study of retail assortment planning under AI recommenders, not agent architectures. | |
| Teaching neural decoders with language Uses natural language class descriptions as supervision to train neural decoders for brain-computer interfaces across multiple modalities. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with brain-computer interface neural decoders rather than LLM agents. | |
| Learning More by Training Less: Uncertainty-Guided Progressive Contraction for Efficient Reasoning Post-Training Presents an uncertainty-guided framework to compress reasoning supervision trajectories and reduce reasoning post-training costs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on reasoning post-training data selection, not autonomous agent execution. | |
| Surfing the Activation Wave: Analyzing the Information and Geometry of LLM Hidden States for Speculative Decoding Proposes matrix-entropy and kernel alignment criteria to select optimal layer subsets of hidden states for speculative decoding. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on speculative decoding acceleration, not autonomous agent planning or actions. | |
| MathVis: Can AI Reason through Drawing? A Benchmark for Mathematical Figure Generation Presents a benchmark to evaluate language models on generating mathematical figures and diagram-assisted reasoning across frontier problems. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates model reasoning via drawing rather than autonomous multi-step agent systems. | |
| MotionCoach: Constructing Multimodal Guidance for Video Professional Motion Editing Proposes a multimodal agent providing grounded prompts and video clips to guide video editing models in professional sports motions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Uses an agent workflow as a tool for video editing rather than studying autonomous agents. | |
| Beyond Semantic IDs: Finite-Beam Reachability and Continuous-Query Generation in Generative Recommendation Proposes continuous-query generation paradigms to eliminate reachability constraints caused by finite-beam decoding over discrete semantic IDs in recommendation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Concerns recommendation system retrieval architecture, not LLM agents taking environment actions. | |
| The Evidence Anchoring Boundary: Where Visual Interventions Matter and When They Help in Multimodal LLMs Analyzes layer-wise visual interventions in multimodal language models to identify where visual edits effectively reduce hallucinations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates internal representation interventions in vision-language decoders, not agent planning. | |
| What Should SFT Learn? Conditional Information Gain for Generalizable Post-Training Introduces an information-theoretic framework to reweight supervised fine-tuning data based on conditional information gain. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses general supervised fine-tuning techniques, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| Benchmarking Embedding Geometries and Clustering Algorithms for Unsupervised Patent Claim Classification Compares hyperbolic and Euclidean embeddings for unsupervised patent representation to improve cross-category prior-art discovery. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Study of embedding geometry and clustering for patent search, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Scaling Empowered Agents Presents a scalable method to maximize agent empowerment by guiding agents toward states affording numerous executable skills. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies RL empowerment and skill learning in environments like Crafter, not LLM agent systems. | |
| Provenance-Aware Belief Updating in Human-AI Feedback Loops Introduces a training objective enabling language models to update beliefs using report lineage rather than raw citation repetition. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates Bayesian belief updates from relayed inputs, not multi-step autonomous agents. | |
| Generalized Proximal Policy Optimization: Unifying LLM RL Algorithms from the Perspective of Divergence Proposes a generalized f-divergence trust-region framework to unify and stabilize reinforcement learning algorithms for LLM post-training. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a theoretical RL optimization framework, not autonomous multi-step agents or tool use. | |
| Don't Guess, Just Ask: Evaluating Interactive Requirement Clarification for Repository-Level Software Development Introduces a benchmark to evaluate how effectively LLMs clarify ambiguous user requirements in repository-level software development tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on requirement clarification benchmarks rather than multi-step autonomous agent architectures. | |
| GeoGR: Spatial-Semantic Token Compression and Group Routing for Efficient 3D VLMs Proposes spatial-semantic token compression and layer routing to accelerate 3D vision-language model inference across multi-view inputs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses 3D vision-language representation compression, not autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| CoBe: A Benchmark For Conversational Counterfactual Text Editing Presents a conversational benchmark testing whether models can edit text under counterfactual changes while preserving unaffected factual details. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Assesses counterfactual text rewriting models, not multi-step autonomous agents or tool use. | |
| Evolving Creatives with Clicks: CTR-Driven Advertising image Editing via Attribute Disentanglement and Preference Alignment Proposes an advertising image editing method that identifies and selectively refines visual attributes driving click-through rates. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on CTR-driven image editing rather than autonomous planning or agent tool use. | |
| Attention Sees, MLP Refuses: Tracing the Attention-to-MLP Safety Pathway in LLMs Investigates internal transformer mechanisms, showing attention updates decode harmfulness while MLP layers primarily drive refusal token generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates internal transformer layer mechanics, not autonomous multi-step agents or tool use. | |
| SWEAR: Section-Wise Efficient Audio Reasoning via Self-Rated Difficulty Presents a difficulty-aware framework that allocates reasoning steps across sections to improve efficiency in large audio-language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Examines internal token-budget allocation for audio reasoning, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| Does Location Matter? A Black-Box Causal Audit Reveals Model-Dependent Audio Grounding in LALM Hallucination Audits audio-language model hallucination mitigations by testing localized acoustic evidence ablation against baseline methods across model architectures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies multimodal audio-language decoding and hallucination, not tool-using or autonomous agent systems. | |
| Continually Post-training Small Models via Synthetic Self-distillation Proposes a synthetic self-distillation method using a slightly larger aligner to enable continual post-training in small language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on continual post-training distillation, not agentic planning, multi-step actions, or tool use. | |
| Looking Ahead and Back: Anticipatory Generative Modeling for Road-Network Trajectories Introduces an anticipatory generative modeling approach for road networks to improve realistic next-transition selection in trajectory generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates trajectory generation on road graphs rather than LLM-based autonomous agents or tool use. | |
| DP-MIND: Differentially private memory-guided Long context Inference Proposes a memory-guided differential privacy framework enabling private inference over million-token contexts in LLM-as-a-service settings. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on private long-context inference and memory mechanisms, not multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| VIGOR: Verifiable Industrial Geometry Optimization and Repair in Scene Programs Introduces an execution-grounded dataset and method to repair geometric and engineering constraint violations in LLM-generated industrial scene programs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on scene program synthesis and geometric solver optimization rather than interactive agents. | |
| AdaC-GRPO: Towards Mastering Long-Horizon Visual Sudoku Puzzles via Adaptive Curriculum Learning Introduces an adaptive curriculum reinforcement learning method to train multimodal models on long-horizon visual Sudoku reasoning tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on post-training multimodal LLMs via RLVR, not autonomous multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| Does Learning Recurrent Networks Matter in Partially Observable RL? Investigates whether frozen recurrent networks can provide sufficient memory for partially observable reinforcement learning without end-to-end training. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies recurrent architectures in POMDP reinforcement learning, not LLM agents. | |
| Beyond Actions: Learning Future Operation Targets for Vision-Language-Action Models Introduces AFCE, training vision-language-action policies to predict future physical effects rather than raw action chunks directly. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on robotic low-level policy action control rather than autonomous LLM agents. | |
| ReSFlow: Rectifying Categorical Flows on Statistical Manifolds for One-Step Generation Introduces ReSFlow, rectifying categorical flows along geodesic trajectories on statistical manifolds to enable one-step discrete generation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on continuous generative flow mathematics, not LLM agents or planning. | |
| How Reliable are AMR Parser Outputs? Uncertainty Estimation for AMR Parsing Studies uncertainty estimation for abstract meaning representation parsers using top-k beam candidates and prediction rejection ratios. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not study autonomous agents, tool use, or multi-agent collaboration. | |
| Tabular Foundation Models Are Effectively Shallow Analyzes tabular foundation models and shows most transformer layers can be replaced with affine translators without sacrificing performance. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not evaluate multi-step planning, tool-using, or interactive agents. | |
| BoundaryEvo: Data-Model Co-Evolution at the Capability Boundary for Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation Proposes BoundaryEvo, dynamically adapting training data around a student model's evolving capability boundary during long-chain reasoning distillation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Does not focus on multi-step tool-use agents or multi-agent planning systems. | |
| PRIME: Pre-Retrieval Index Modeling Enhancement for Structured Document Retrieval-Real Proposes PRIME, an index-side optimization framework using semantic restructuring and deterministic metadata synthesis to improve document retrieval. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Mentions agents in passing; main focus is index-side retrieval enhancement for documents. | |
| Agreement Without Alignment: Label-Free Rubric Clarification Increases LLM-Judge Consensus but Not Agreement with Humans Evaluates a label-free rubric clarification method, finding it increases consensus among LLM judges without improving agreement with human evaluations. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies LLM evaluation panels rather than multi-step tool-using autonomous agents. | |
| AlphaNIST: Emergent Assembly Skills from Binary Task Rewards Evaluates whether robotic manipulation agents can learn complex multi-step assembly skills purely from sparse binary task rewards. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation, not LLM-based autonomous planning agents. | |
| In-Context Learning for System Identification: Probabilistic Formulation, Long-Sequence Handling, and Benchmark Validation Develops a probabilistic transformer meta-learning architecture to perform zero-shot system identification directly from long training sequence contexts. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies in-context learning for classical dynamical system identification, not language model agents. | |
| CNN-Transformer with Sigmoid Label for High-Resolution Sub-Degree DOA Estimation Combines a CNN-Transformer network with a continuous sigmoid label encoding to overcome grid quantization errors in direction-of-arrival estimation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Addresses signal processing direction-of-arrival estimation using CNN-Transformers, not LLM agents. | |
| Local Diagnostics of Learned Event Representations for Anomaly Detection at the HL-LHC Evaluates neural embedding and diagnostic strategies to interpret detected anomalies in high-luminosity collider particle physics data. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on high-energy particle physics collision representations, not language model agents. | |
| Collective Autonomous Vehicle Routing Needs Social Awareness for Coexistence with Human Drivers Incorporates marginal-cost rewards into multi-agent reinforcement learning to reduce autonomous vehicle travel times without worsening human driver delays. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning for vehicle routing, not language model agents. | |
| SqueezeBench: Saturation-Resilient Evaluation of Mathematical Capability Introduces SqueezeBench, a saturation-resilient benchmark for formal mathematical reasoning where new accepted proofs dynamically raise the target bounds. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on Lean-verified mathematical evaluation rather than LLM agent planning or tool actions. | |
| When MLLMs miss what humans read: diagnosing and learning to read squint text Investigates multimodal LLM failures on squint-readable low-frequency text and provides a diagnostic benchmark alongside training interventions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies visual text reading deficiencies in vision-language models, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| Branching On-Policy Distillation Introduces BranchOPD, which branches student rollouts from shared prefixes at uncertain decision points to improve on-policy distillation efficiency. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on an on-policy distillation training method rather than agent planning or multi-agent architectures. | |
| Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning credit assignment for recommender systems rather than LLM agent workflows. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Introduces a predictive multimodal clinical model rather than an interactive multi-step planning agent. | |
| Causal Effect Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Strict Hierarchy of Criteria Formalizes a theoretical hierarchy of identifiability criteria for estimating causal effects across equivalence classes of causal graphs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses purely on theoretical causal graph abstraction criteria without language model agents or planning. | |
| Beyond Domain-Routed Supervision: Cross-Teacher Guarding for Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation Proposes Road MOPD, using non-routed teachers as cross-domain critics to resolve gradient conflicts in multi-teacher on-policy distillation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-teacher knowledge distillation training algorithms rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| Defence against the dark arts of distillation: Unsupervised discovery of subliminal learning Introduces an unsupervised method to identify and remove subliminally transferred traits from model parameter updates during knowledge distillation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Deals with parameter-space trait extraction during distillation rather than autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Constructing Pareto Frontiers of Optimal Reasoning Termination Methods for Overthinking in Reasoning Models Develops Step-wise Truncation Probing and termination strategies to quantify and mitigate accuracy degradation from overthinking in reasoning models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies reasoning termination dynamics and token budgets rather than tool-using autonomous agents. | |
| AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs Proposes AudioTETRIS, a training-free token pruning framework that uses acoustic transition signals to compress audio representations efficiently. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes token elimination in audio encoders rather than multi-step agent planning or tools. |
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