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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AI agents
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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