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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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| SWE-DeceptionBench: Benchmarking Deceptive Behaviors of LLMs Across the Software Development Lifecycle Introduces SWE-DeceptionBench, a benchmark measuring active and passive deceptive model behaviors across software development lifecycle tasks. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates deceptive text outputs of LLMs rather than autonomous agent tool use or planning. | |
| Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Applies machine learning to bioimaging analysis rather than language model agents or tool execution. | |
| Learning Size Independent Constraint Models from Input Data and Positive and Negative Example Solutions Presents a constraint acquisition tool that synthesizes size-independent constraint programs from input data and example solutions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on constraint programming acquisition from examples, not language model planning or agents. | |
| SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data Introduces SelectArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate tabular feature selection methods across real-world domain datasets and contemporary models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents a benchmark for tabular feature selection, not language model agents or tool usage. | |
| Pretraining and Test-Time Training Budgets Matter for ARC: A Controlled Study of VARC and TRM Evaluates how pretraining and test-time training computational budgets affect ARC benchmark performance across two distinct reasoning model architectures. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates neural networks on ARC grids rather than multi-step tool-using LLM agent systems. | |
| A Step Harder, Not a Step Too Far: The Benefits and Limits of Curriculum Difficulty Progression in GRPO Proposes a dynamic curriculum for GRPO that re-estimates sample difficulty to progressively transition policy training toward harder problems. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates reinforcement learning curriculum design rather than LLM agents, planning, or tool use. | |
| Not All Dimensions Are Equal: Outlier-Aware Attention Linearization with Grouped Quadratic Kernels Presents Outlier-Aware Attention Linearization, using quadratic approximations to retain outlier dimensions during efficient Transformer attention evaluation. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on attention kernel approximation rather than autonomous agent planning or actions. | |
| Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient is Nearly Minimax-Optimal Introduces Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient, proving near-optimal sample complexity under weak gradient domination using first-order updates. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents core reinforcement learning theory rather than LLM planning, multi-agent systems, or tool use. | |
| Calibration in One Go: Jointly Learning Accurate and Calibrated Neural Networks Employs a bilevel Stackelberg formulation to jointly optimize classification accuracy and confidence calibration without separate calibration datasets. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Investigates neural network output calibration, not multi-step LLM agents or tool usage. | |
| Adaptive DHiSparse: Speculative Decoding over a Load-Adaptive KV Hierarchy Combines load-adaptive hierarchical key-value caching with speculative decoding to accelerate long-context language model serving. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on inference hardware optimization and KV cache serving rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| Amortized Counterfactual Prediction with Graph Neural Networks Presents a graph neural process framework to answer counterfactual queries directly from observational data without prior causal graph discovery. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on causal inference via GNNs, not multi-step LLM planning or tool use. | |
| Orthros: Phase-Aware Heterogeneous Attention for Efficient Transformers Proposes an attention mechanism that switches from linear complexity during prefilling to full attention during token decoding. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Proposes an attention mechanism rather than multi-step tool-using language model agents. | |
| A Privileged Teacher That Only Scores Cannot Search: Critique-Conditioned On-Policy Self-Distillation for Reasoning Examines error localization and credit assignment failures in critique-conditioned on-policy self-distillation for mathematical reasoning. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on training reasoning models via distillation rather than autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| When Edge Independence Fails: Joint Graph Diffusion with Latent Sociability Priors Introduces a latent sociability prior to mitigate edge-independence issues in discrete graph diffusion models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on graph diffusion theory rather than LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| DualQuant: Dual-scale Calibration-free Weight-and-Activation Quantization for LLMs Proposes a calibration-free post-training quantization method that jointly optimizes weight and activation scaling for 4-bit model inference. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on low-bit model quantization rather than multi-step agent systems. | |
| ReplaySSM: Cache SSM Inputs, Not State Replaces frequent state memory updates in state-space models by caching inputs and periodically checkpointing state during decoding. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Optimizes state-space model inference rather than autonomous agent planning or actions. | |
| UkrMeme: Multimodal Explainable Persuasion Detection in Ukrainian Memes Introduces a Ukrainian meme dataset and evaluates vision-language models on detecting persuasive and propaganda techniques. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Evaluates zero-shot VLM classification on memes rather than agentic planning or tools. | |
| Your Discrete Graph Diffusion Model is Secretly Memorizing Demonstrates that discrete graph diffusion models exhibit conditional memorization when reverse trajectories are conditioned on corrupted training graphs. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies graph diffusion models rather than LLM-based autonomous agent architectures. | |
| FORTE: A Production Framework for Feature Evaluation and Deprecation in Industrial Recommender Systems Describes an industrial framework for evaluating, ablating, and deprecating features in production recommender systems without performance regressions. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Presents recommender system infrastructure rather than language model planning agents. | |
| Same Query, Different Answer: Run-to-Run Variance in Semantic Query Processing Measures output variability across repeated runs at temperature zero in semantic query engines backed by language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Examines database query execution engines powered by LLMs rather than autonomous agent systems. | |
| SpatialASM: Internalizing Active Mentalization for Spatial Reasoning Trains vision-language models to perform active spatial reasoning through novel-view generation and simulated mentalization trajectories. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on internalizing spatial reasoning in vision-language models rather than tool-using agents. | |
| Studying Comics at Scale with Artificial Intelligence: The PAGE Framework and Three Studies of American Comics and Japanese Manga Applies vision-language models and structured annotation to parse and analyze historical comic books and manga at scale. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on digital humanities document analysis rather than autonomous multi-step agents. | |
| Task Context Shapes Component Roles in Language Models Investigates how changing tasks redistributes attention head influence and alters internal activations in open-weight large language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Studies internal attention head mechanics in language models, not autonomous agents. | |
| Revisiting Tabular Deep Regression: Objectives and the Limits of Global Early Stopping Evaluates regression objective functions and global early stopping limits across neural network backbones and established tabular datasets. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on tabular deep regression, not LLM agents or multi-step planning. | |
| Hide and Seek: HIDE Concepts to SEEK explanations for black box models Introduces a model-agnostic, concept-level attribution method for black-box vision models by masking concepts located with vision-language models. Preprint | AI agents via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28 | Not relevant Focuses on vision model interpretability rather than autonomous multi-step agents. |
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