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Think Before You Speak: Enabling Training-Free Latent Communication Between Language Models
This paper presents CacheFuse, a training-free technique enabling heterogeneous language models to communicate directly by sharing key-value cache states.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on inter-model communication speed, not deployment safety.
DeepThink: A Conceptual Model for Knowledge-Addressable Recurrent Language Modeling
This paper proposes DeepThink, a conceptual architecture that decouples knowledge capacity, activation width, and recurrent depth in language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Proposes a recurrent model architecture rather than deployment safety mechanisms.
Lüshi-1840: Building and Probing a Knowledge Cutoff for a Classical Chinese Language Model
This paper introduces Lüshi-1840, a pre-modern Chinese language model trained on historical texts to evaluate knowledge cutoffs and hindsight bias.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Explores historical corpus cutoff rather than deployment safety or jailbreaks.
Error Correction in Trained TTT Layers
This paper analyzes prediction-derived error updates and test-time gradient objectives in trained test-time-training layers.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Analyzes architectural inner-loop updates rather than safety or reliability.
Deep Speech Representations Track Word Timing along a Low-Dimensional Circular Trajectory
This paper demonstrates that deep speech representations track word timing along low-dimensional circular trajectories across multiple model architectures.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies acoustic representational geometry, not safety or guardrails.
RIFT: Token Influence Follows the Path of Least Resistance
This paper proposes RIFT, a method using electrical resistance analogies to trace token influence through transformer attention graphs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies mechanistic token influence rather than safety, jailbreaks, or hallucinations.
A Production-Grade, High-Efficiency Agentic RL Framework for Frontier LLMs with Validated Recipes
This paper introduces LoongSage, an asynchronous reinforcement learning framework designed to run multi-turn agent tasks with reduced system overhead.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Covers RL training infrastructure rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Self-Distillation with Verbal Regularization
This paper proposes verbal regularization prompts for on-policy self-distillation to prevent teacher models from taking shortcut reasoning paths.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on reasoning accuracy via distillation, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
HexaBee-4B: Six-Language Translation with Multilingual Answering and Bidirectional Supervision
This paper introduces HexaBee-4B, a translation model trained across six languages using joint multilingual answering and bidirectional supervision.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on translation accuracy rather than AI safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
PersonaFactor: Preference Factors with Dynamic Selection for LLM Personalization
This paper presents PersonaFactors, a framework that distills reusable preference patterns across tasks for dynamic prompt personalization in language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on user personalization performance rather than AI safety or reliability risks.
CultureBot: A Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Exploration of Cultural Heritage Data
This paper introduces an interactive retrieval-augmented framework that combines knowledge graphs and text retrieval to explore digital cultural heritage archives.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Develops a cultural heritage search assistant rather than deployment safety guardrails.
CivWorldBench: Evaluating Language World Models in Structured Multi-Agent Sandbox Worlds
This paper introduces a multi-agent sandbox benchmark to evaluate language models on state inference, forecasting, and intervention prediction.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on predictive world modeling rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
The interpreter as developer: An autoethnographic design study of building a computer-assisted interpreting tool through human-LLM co-creation
This paper presents a case study of an interpreter co-creating a local computer-assisted interpreting tool using large language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on user tool co-creation rather than AI safety or jailbreak defenses.
Ontology-Based Post-Coordinated Expression Assembly: from Clinical Narrative to Queryable Knowledge Graphs
This paper introduces UNIGRAPHE, a deterministic method to assemble clinical text into queryable knowledge graphs conforming to SNOMED CT grammar.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Focuses on ontology-based information extraction rather than AI safety or reliability.
Communication, Vocalisation, and Language
This position paper argues that large language models perform language as social practices rather than building distributed representations of symbols.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Conceptual commentary on language rather than deployment safety, robustness, or guardrails.
Support or Magnitude? Characterizing Neuron Relevance for Instruction Data Selection
This paper examines neuron relevance characterization methods based on magnitude and distribution support for selecting instruction fine-tuning data.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Studies training data selection rather than safety guardrails, hallucinations, or attacks.
Spectral-Driven Adaptive-Rank Optimizer for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
This paper investigates gradient spectral properties during reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to design an adaptive-rank optimizer for reasoning models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Optimizes training dynamics for reasoning rather than assessing safety or reliability vulnerabilities.
Know Yourself and Know Your Neighbour: A Syntactically Informed Self-Supervised Compositional Sentence Representation Learning Framework using a Recursive Hypernetwork
This paper presents a self-supervised recursive hypernetwork framework using parse trees to learn syntactically informed compositional sentence representations.
Peer-reviewed
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses representation learning without evaluating deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
EHR-Bench: A Chinese Multi-Task Benchmark for Recruitment AI
This paper introduces a Chinese multi-task evaluation benchmark covering six recruitment application areas for language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents an operational benchmark rather than focusing on safety, red teaming, or guardrails.
Learn from Move: the Next Step for GUI Agents
This paper introduces an environment benchmark and exploration framework to help graphical user interface agents learn unfamiliar interaction dynamics.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on GUI agent exploration capability rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
A Bethe-Ansatz Source of Early Token Correlations: A marginal-preserving construction for parallel proposals
This paper constructs joint token probability laws from physics models to improve speculative verification in parallel language model decoding.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Purely mathematical study of token decoding dynamics, not safety.
TPPO: Tracking-Value PPO For Language Model Reasoning
This paper proposes a cumulative value parameterization method for reinforcement learning to improve credit assignment in multi-step language reasoning.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on RL optimization for reasoning accuracy, not safety or guardrails.
The Bell Boundary of Shared Representations
This paper uses Bell's theorem bounds to analyze capacity limits and task interference in multi-task shared representations.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Theoretical analysis of task interference, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Event Memory and Narrative Dynamics: A Large Language Model Framework for Multidimensional State Spaces
This paper presents a language model framework to extract event representations from autobiographical narratives into geometric state spaces.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Applies models to cognitive memory research, not AI safety or deployment robustness.
Predicting Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviour on Reddit: A Survival Analysis of Linguistic and Behavioural Signals
This paper uses survival analysis on Reddit text and activity to predict when users will seek mental health support.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies user behavior prediction on Reddit rather than AI system safety and reliability.
Beyond Model Bias: Cross-Entropy Based Rankings in Literary and Academic Texts Remain Stable across Small Language Models
This paper studies cross-entropy surprisal metrics, showing that predictability rankings of texts remain consistent across multiple small language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies cross-entropy rankings without focusing on safety, hallucination, or guardrails.
AD4EDU: Benchmarking University Lecture Audio Description across Accessibility Standards, Metrics, and Learner Preferences
This paper introduces a benchmark and rule-based metric for generating and evaluating audio descriptions in university slide lectures.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on educational accessibility benchmarks rather than safety or red-teaming.
UZHCL_for_the_win at Touche: Encoder Fine-Tuning, Synthetic Augmentation, and an Underpowered Encoder-LLM Comparison
This paper evaluates encoder fine-tuning and synthetic data augmentation for fallacy detection and argument classification on Reddit discussions.
Peer-reviewed
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses argument classification rather than AI safety or system guardrails.
Gluing Local Contexts into Global Meaning: A Sheaf-Theoretic Decomposition of Transformer Representations
This paper proposes a mathematical framework using cellular sheaves to isolate phrasing-invariant content representations in transformer language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Theoretical interpretability study not directly focused on safety guardrails or robustness.
DuoDiscover: Scaling Autonomous Discovery Beyond the Evaluation Bottleneck
The paper proposes an agent framework that discovers lightweight proxy evaluators to bypass costly benchmark evaluations during autonomous engineering discovery.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses optimization efficiency rather than safety risks, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
Soft Teacher Forcing
The paper proposes combining teacher-forced embeddings with soft tokens to improve supervised fine-tuning on reasoning datasets without changing inference.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses training techniques for reasoning, not safety, guardrails, or alignment.
MLAfication: Efficiently Enabling High-Fidelity MLA for Modern LLMs
The paper introduces an attention conversion method enabling multi-head latent attention on modern architectures with reduced memory footprints.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses memory and throughput efficiency, not AI safety or alignment.
Online LLM Personalization from Pairwise Preferences Across Users
The paper formulates online language model persona personalization as a dueling bandit problem using sequential pairwise user preferences.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on style personalization rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
Nufo: A Benchmark for Ewe Automatic Speech Recognition
The paper introduces a 174-hour speech benchmark and evaluates baseline models on Ewe automatic speech recognition.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
UMCR: Universal Medical Concept Recognition through Guideline Integration and Agentic Linking
The paper introduces a framework combining guidelines and agentic linking to ground medical concepts across diverse text types and ontologies.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Aimed at ontology linking accuracy rather than safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
PIG: Parallel Inconsistency Guidance for Accelerating Diffusion Language Models
The paper introduces a lightweight guidance model to estimate parallel decoding inconsistency and accelerate diffusion language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on inference acceleration rather than safety or reliability risks.
Evaluating Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: Event Temporal Relation Extraction with Allen's Interval Algebra, Logical Consistency, and Relative Time in Narratives
The paper evaluates five language models on extracting complete interval networks of relative temporal events from narratives.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies linguistic reasoning benchmarks rather than deployment safety or jailbreaks.
Distilling Text LMs into Speech-to-Speech LMs by Matching Internal Text Predictions
The paper proposes a knowledge distillation method that transfers text language model capabilities to speech-to-speech models using internal text interfaces.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on cross-modal knowledge distillation, not safety or deployment guardrails.
Scaling Inference-Time Compute with Teams of Coding Agents
The paper studies compute allocation across multi-agent coding teams to identify Pareto-optimal trade-offs between cost and performance.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on cost and performance trade-offs, not safety or guardrails.
Everyone Was Right: Lexical Representations in Language Models Are Both Abstract and Holistic
The paper investigates lexical representations in transformer models by decomposing representations into item, class, and interaction components.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on linguistic representations, not safety or deployment reliability.
EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation
The paper proposes an edge-cloud collaboration framework that selectively delegates complex agent steps from local models to cloud models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on compute efficiency and orchestration rather than safety guardrails.
TDR: Tagalog Diacritic Restoration Dataset
The paper introduces an annotated dataset and retrieval approach for Tagalog homograph diacritic restoration.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability.
Facts Don't Speak Louder than Words: The Behavioral Essence of Long-CoT Distillation
The paper studies long chain-of-thought distillation and argues improvements stem from structured reasoning patterns rather than factual correctness.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on distillation performance rather than AI safety or reliability.
StateHarness: Maintaining Evolving Project State for Long-Horizon Coding Agents
The paper presents a runtime framework that tracks evolving repository state and dependencies to assist long-horizon coding agents.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Aimed at coding agent capability and state tracking, not safety guardrails or alignment.
DisaggKD: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Teacher-Student Disaggregation and a Fused Loss
The paper proposes disaggregating teacher and student models across separate nodes with a fused loss to accelerate knowledge distillation.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Concerns training efficiency rather than safety, jailbreaks, or hallucination mitigation.
Worth Their Weights? Evaluating Generative Models for Discourse Parsing
The paper compares discriminative and generative language models for rhetorical structure parsing and elementary discourse unit segmentation.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates discourse parsing accuracy rather than safety risks or guardrails.
RALI@iKAT 2026: Retrieval-aware User Profile Denoising via Personalized Conversational Dense Retrieval
The paper presents a retrieval-aware denoising method for conversational user profiles to improve personalized dense retrieval.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Deals with profile noise in search rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
Encoding Context into LLM Weights: What Makes It Context?
The paper investigates methods for encoding context into model weights so that language models properly apply the temporary context during subsequent inference.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses architectural context handling rather than deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
Understanding Machine Taste: Aesthetic Agreement Across Foundation Models in K-pop
The paper analyzes aesthetic judgments by foundation models on K-pop music videos to measure inter-model consensus across audio and visual modalities.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies creative aesthetic ranking rather than safety, robustness, or guardrails.
Geometric Structure Predicts Per-Example Neighborhood Loss Under PCA Truncation
The paper analyzes geometric properties of text embeddings to predict how many nearest neighbors an individual example loses under dimensionality reduction.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses embedding geometry and compression rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
More Reader Data or a Better Teacher? Updating a Model of Crowd Highlights in Late 2026
The paper compares direct prompting, model-distilled supervision, and larger reader datasets for predicting user text highlighting behavior on web pages.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on user preference modeling rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Many Right Answers, One Training Example: Removing Responder Noise from GRPO for LLM Recommenders
The paper proposes ReMaRk, a reinforcement learning method that trains recommender models using all available reader replies simultaneously to reduce variance.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on training efficiency for recommenders rather than safety guardrails or hallucination.
Beyond Belief Nesting: Rethinking Higher-Order Theory of Mind in Large Language Models
The paper introduces HopToM, a benchmark testing whether higher-order theory-of-mind tasks in language models genuinely evaluate nested reasoning rather than shortcuts.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies perspective reasoning capabilities rather than safety risks, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Full-duplex Spoken Language Modeling with Discrete Diffusion
The paper presents Diffuplex, a full-duplex spoken language model that separates speech timing from content generation using discrete diffusion.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on latency and spoken dialogue architecture rather than safety or guardrails.
Where Words Begin and End
The paper evaluates audio forced aligners and fine-tunes Whisper to predict human-aligned word boundaries across read, conversational, and telephone speech.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates word boundary timing accuracy rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
Prefilling-dLLM v2: Learned Chunk Routing for Long-Context Diffusion Language Models
The paper proposes a training approach that uses learned chunk routing to speed up long-context diffusion language model processing.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on architectural efficiency rather than deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
Swiss4Arg: A Parallel Dataset for Multilingual Argument Mining across Swiss National Languages
The paper introduces Swiss4Arg, a multilingual argument mining dataset based on official Swiss voting brochures across four national languages.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on linguistic argument extraction rather than safety or alignment guardrails.
Text-Only vs. Image-Aware VLM Judges for Manga Translation Evaluation
The paper evaluates whether providing page images to vision-language models improves the detection of errors in Japanese-English manga translation.
Peer-reviewed
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on translation evaluation accuracy rather than AI safety or reliability risks.
Batch-Paced: Fixed-Budget Batch Decoding in Discrete Diffusion Language Models
The paper proposes Batch-Paced, a method that dynamically allocates decoding compute across batched requests to improve discrete diffusion language model inference.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses inference efficiency rather than safety, guardrails, or jailbreak prevention.
Fish Audio Drama 3 Technical Report
The paper introduces Fish Audio Drama 3, an open-source text-to-speech model designed for multi-character dialogue, long-form synthesis, and iterative voice revision.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not focus on deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
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