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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI safety and reliability in deployment — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Learning to Play: Reinforcement Learning and Games
The authors provide a comprehensive textbook covering reinforcement learning methods, game-playing algorithms, and key historical milestones.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Covers reinforcement learning in games, not AI deployment safety.
Generalizable field of view extension for diffusion MRI via conditional flow matching
The authors propose a conditional flow-matching generative model to extend the field of view in diffusion brain MRI scans across scanners.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies medical imaging algorithms, not deployed AI safety or guardrails.
Event-Centric Earthquake Monitoring with a Multi-Station Transformer
The paper presents a multi-station transformer model that jointly detects phase arrivals, locations, magnitudes, and associations for earthquake monitoring.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies seismology, not AI deployment reliability or guardrails.
Cross-View Time-Frequency Diffusion for Extreme-Aware Time-Series Generation
The authors introduce a time-frequency diffusion framework that improves the generation of rare extreme events in time-series data.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on time-series generation, not AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Bottlenecked semantic compression by representation reconstruction
The authors propose a visual token compression framework that reduces computational costs by retaining only visual tokens with high reconstruction residuals.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
ClearNav: Perception-Aligned Quadrotor Flight Using Differential-Physics
The authors present a flight navigation policy for quadrotors that penalizes movement outside the camera view to avoid collisions in cluttered environments.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies physical robot collision avoidance, not generative AI deployment safety.
On Making $\mathrm{SE}(2)$-Invariant Networks Optimal
The paper develops a plug-and-play module for convolutional neural networks that provides optimal rotation and translation invariance based on invariant theory.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents architectural group theory, not AI safety or deployment monitoring.
Reinforcement Learning In Partially Verifiable Environments for Colon Cancer Treatment Planning
The authors formulate colon cancer treatment planning as an interactive reinforcement learning task in settings where actions are only partially verifiable.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on RL decision trajectory optimization, not deployment guardrails or safety.
World-T3: Test-Time Training as Persistent Memory for Real-Time Video World Models
The paper proposes using test-time training memory to maintain consistent long-horizon visual scenes in real-time camera-controlled video world models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not focus on deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
SchemaWeaver: Accelerating On-Device Mobile Agentic AI via Schema-Guided Parallel LLM Decoding
The authors present a parallel decoding method that speeds up on-device tool calling for language model agents without requiring model retraining.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on inference latency rather than safety, guardrails, or robustness.
Large Language Models Extend Known Research But Do Not Create New Research Directions
The study evaluates scientific hypotheses generated by language models, concluding that they extend existing knowledge rather than starting new research directions.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not study deployment safety, jailbreaks, hallucinations, or monitoring.
Know-Thy-Not: Training-Free Targeted Negation in Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models
The paper introduces a training-free technique and benchmark to help vision-language models correctly process and reject negated concepts in text prompts.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on multimodal visual negation representation rather than deployment safety.
Compositional RL: Evaluating and Training LLMs for Collaborative Reasoning
The paper studies how much models contribute to multi-model teams, showing individual test scores do not correlate well with collaborative performance.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not focus on safety, guardrails, or hallucination mitigation.
An FPGA-Based Spiking Neural Network for Spatiotemporal Pattern Learning and Classification
The authors design an FPGA implementation of spiking neural networks that performs both inference and training on-chip without backpropagation through time.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on edge hardware design rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Assessing the Performance of AI Models in Misinformation Detection Using Predefined Social Noise Constructs
The paper evaluates seven machine learning and graph models on detecting misinformation within social media noise from conflict-related tweets.
Peer-reviewed
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on social media misinformation classification rather than LLM deployment safety.
Foundation Models for Event Prediction Across Heterogeneous Event Logs
The paper presents an in-context foundation model architecture for next-event prediction across diverse operational event logs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
YUBI-Real2Sim: 3DGS Scene Verification for Reliable Policy Evaluation
The paper introduces a framework combining 3D Gaussian Splatting and physical simulation to evaluate robot policies using handheld fisheye cameras.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses simulation fidelity for robot policies rather than AI safety guardrails.
Box-WAM: Box Trajectories as Compact State Representations for World Action Models
The paper proposes predicting 3D bounding box trajectories instead of dense video frames as compact representations for world action models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on robotic state representation efficiency, not safety guardrails.
Towards Green AI: Evaluating Energy Efficiency for Quantized LLM Inference
The paper evaluates the energy efficiency, carbon intensity, and accuracy of ten post-training quantization methods across various language models and GPUs.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies energy and carbon metrics rather than safety, hallucinations, or robustness.
TacitVLA: Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models Without Reasoning Latency
The paper proposes a vision-language-action model where action execution avoids inference latency by decoupling from explicit reasoning output at runtime.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on reducing reasoning latency in robotics, not safety guardrails.
Convex-Analytic View of Query Selection for Safety Verification of Markov Decision Processes
The paper presents a convex-analytic framework to select query directions for safety verification in Markov decision processes.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on formal MDP verification rather than LLM safety or guardrails.
Reference Wording Shapes Retrieval of Robot Task Instructions
The paper investigates how indexed instruction wording affects the performance of lexical rankers for robot task retrieval in manipulation benchmarks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address deployment safety, jailbreaking, or red teaming.
FlashVSR+: Efficient Video Super-Resolution via Hybrid Attention and Reward-Yield Distribution Matching
The paper presents an efficient video super-resolution method using hybrid attention and reward-yield distribution matching distillation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on super-resolution quality and speed rather than safety guardrails.
Benchmarking Self-Supervised 3D Medical Vision Foundation Models and Transferability Estimation
The paper benchmarks twenty-three self-supervised 3D medical vision foundation models across segmentation, classification, and regression tasks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on benchmark transferability across medical tasks, not safety risks.
Chasing Label Shifters: A Change-Aware Framework for Dynamic Graph Node Classification
The paper analyzes why dynamic graph neural networks fail on evolving nodes and introduces a change-aware classification framework.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not evaluate AI safety, hallucinations, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
RAN-JEPA: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Energy-efficient Mobile Network Control
The paper introduces an action-conditioned world model that separates observation representation learning from intervention learning for mobile network energy control.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on energy-efficient mobile network control rather than AI safety.
Taming Softmax at the Limits of Muon: A Unified Approach through Hilbert Geometry
The paper applies Hilbert geometry to constrain activation shifts in softmax layers for stable optimizer updates in language model heads.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates mathematical optimization metrics rather than deployment safety or robustness.
Revisiting the 16x Pretraining Compute Gap between Diffusion and Autoregressive Language Models
The paper re-evaluates the pretraining compute scaling laws between diffusion and autoregressive language models using modern diffusion training designs.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Does not address safety, guardrails, hallucinations, or deployment reliability.
Tanawpamana: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Philippine Cultural Heritage Sites
The paper introduces a dataset and benchmark to evaluate vision-language models on recognizing and answering questions about Philippine cultural heritage sites.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Assesses cultural knowledge coverage rather than safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Morphology-aware deep learning predicts colorectal cancer survival from whole-slide images
The paper introduces a morphology-aware contrastive learning framework to predict five-year colorectal cancer survival from whole-slide pathology images.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on clinical outcome prediction, not AI deployment safety guardrails.
OpenDepth: Repurposing Image Editing Priors for Robust Open-World Monocular Depth Estimation
The paper presents a monocular depth estimation method that uses image editing priors to improve geometric consistency under environmental perturbations.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses computer vision robustness, not AI alignment or safety guardrails.
RELAY: Selective Self-Distillation with Adaptive Hand-off for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
The paper proposes a rubric-based reinforcement learning method combining selective teacher distillation with an adaptive hand-off to standard optimization.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on optimization dynamics rather than safety guardrails or reliability.
4LC: 4D Latent Cache for Efficient Conditioning in Dynamic World Modeling
The paper introduces a 4D latent cache to reuse static and dynamic visual representations for efficient conditioning in video generation models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses video generation efficiency rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
RoTA-Bench: Evaluating 3D Spatial Reasoning through Interactive Projection Alignment
Introduces RoTA-Bench to evaluate vision-language models on 3D spatial reasoning through interactive object rotation to match target 2D silhouettes.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates spatial reasoning accuracy, not safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
DeltaTTG: Training Multi-Turn Agents with a Token-to-Go Progress Meter
Introduces DeltaTTG, a method using predicted remaining token count as a progress signal to allocate advantages in multi-turn reinforcement learning.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Aimed at task completion optimization rather than safety or reliability.
PrT-Flow: Probability-Tractable Flow Matching for Reinforcement Learning
Proposes PrT-Flow, an invertible flow matching method that enables exact action probability computation for reinforcement learning in robotics.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on robotics action density estimation, not AI deployment safety.
Cowork-Gym: Synthesizing Interactive Work Environments at Scale
Introduces Cowork-Gym, a framework synthesizing multi-tool collaborative work environments and user simulations to train enterprise agents.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on agent task capability and benchmark performance, not safety guardrails.
Encounter-Driven City-Scale Human Mobility Generation with Large Language Models
Introduces EncounterMob, an LLM-based framework that generates human mobility trajectories while preserving both individual routines and multi-person encounter patterns.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses mobility generation rather than AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Dynamic K-Head: Difficulty-Supervised Budget Selection for Continuous Latent Reasoning
Proposes Dynamic K-Head, a question-conditioned budget selector that sets continuous latent reasoning steps based on input difficulty.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on reasoning efficiency, not deployment safety or robustness.
Stable Token-level Scheduling for Serverless LLM Inference
Proposes Token Window Pacing, a serverless scheduling framework that regulates request admissions at the token level to reduce inter-token latency.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses system latency and throughput rather than safety, jailbreaks, or alignment.
MedEvo: Medical Reasoning Evolution through Knowledge Navigation
Proposes MedEvo, an iterative training framework that repairs multimodal medical reasoning trajectories using minimal hints and taxonomy-guided feedback.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on diagnostic task accuracy rather than safety guardrails or reliability.
zPocket: Better Pocket Finding with Frozen Co-Folding Features
Introduces the PocketWatch benchmark and zPocket, an approach training pocket-prediction heads on frozen representations from protein co-folding models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on computational drug discovery rather than AI deployment safety.
LeanPRM: Lean-Grounded Process Supervision for Natural Language Proof Verification
Presents LeanPRM, a method using the Lean proof assistant to generate step-level correctness labels for training natural-language mathematical proof verifiers.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses proof verification accuracy rather than deployment safety.
Understanding Gene Expression-to-Image Learning: Spatial Structure and Information Fidelity
Studies the trade-off between spatial smoothness and gene-level fidelity when mapping single-cell RNA sequencing profiles to images for neural networks.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Concerns biological data representations rather than AI safety.
A Node Embedding Framework for Model-Centric Conformance Checking in Process Mining
Introduces a graph embedding and Procrustes alignment framework to provide a bounded metric for evaluating discovered process models against ground truth.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses process mining metrics rather than AI safety or reliability.
Where Small Mistakes Matter: Quantifying State Criticality for Imitation Learning
Develops SCRIM, a method quantifying state criticality in imitation learning by measuring downstream value degradation under bounded action perturbations.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on policy optimization in imitation learning rather than AI safety.
Adaptive-Group Process Rewards for GUI Agents
Introduces an adaptive-group process reward framework that partitions GUI trajectories into subgoals to provide intermediate credit assignment for reinforcement learning.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Targets policy optimization efficiency rather than safety or reliability.
ECG-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Targeted Electrocardiogram Waveform Evolution
Proposes a recursive self-improvement framework for electrocardiogram analysis models combining verified synthetic waveform edits with targeted intervention selection.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on specialized biomedical signal learning rather than deployment safety.
TSRL: Trigger-based Supervised Reinforcement Learning for Continual Agent Training
This paper proposes a training framework that triggers supervised fine-tuning specifically on failure states during reinforcement learning to prevent agent forgetting.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on capability retention rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
CoCA: Criterion-Aware Credit Assignment for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning
This paper proposes a credit-assignment method that uses rubric evaluation outcomes to allocate token-level advantages during reinforcement learning.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Concerns general RL training rather than safety alignment or guardrails.
Explore with Memory, Learn without It: In-Context Exploration and Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning
This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach that uses in-context dynamic memory during rollouts and self-distillation to accelerate reasoning exploration.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Targets reasoning efficiency rather than safety or reliability risks.
Train for Many, Update with One: Improving Multi-Sample Reasoning via Fenchel-Bregman Posterior Learning
This paper introduces a posterior learning approach that improves multi-sample reasoning coverage by updating models using single posterior draws.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on optimization efficiency, not safety or guardrails.
DuplexAct: How Interactive Are Frontier Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models?
This paper presents a benchmark with an action taxonomy to evaluate the interactive conversation capabilities of full-duplex spoken language models.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates conversational flow rather than AI safety or reliability.
HiSTOR: Structured Treatment-outcome Representation Learning for High-Dimensional Longitudinal Data
This paper proposes an end-to-end framework integrating nonlinear dimension reduction with longitudinal counterfactual prediction for high-dimensional observational data.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Covers causal treatment estimation rather than AI deployment safety or guardrails.
Coupled Harness--Model Evolution for Scientific Equation Discovery
This paper presents a coupled evolution framework that co-adapts an executable tool library and a model's policy for scientific equation discovery.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Targets scientific equation fitting rather than AI safety or guardrails.
I3L: Iterative Interactive Imitation Learning for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
This paper presents a system combining interactive human corrections with iterative policy retraining for long-horizon whole-body mobile robot manipulation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses robotic manipulation failures rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Degrees of Freedom in Multi-Agent Coordination: Between Centralized and Decentralized Regimes
This paper introduces a framework that quantifies delegation flexibility to analyze the spectrum between centralized and decentralized multi-agent coordination.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies agent coordination trade-offs rather than safety guardrails or alignment risks.
Instructions Are Evidence, Not Objectives: Measuring Outcome Alignment of Agents
This paper introduces an approach and benchmark for evaluating whether language model agents can infer unstated true requirements instead of following incomplete instructions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Addresses instruction completeness and intent discovery rather than safety guardrails or red-teaming.
Autonomous 3D Visual-Thermal Inspection for Utility-Scale Solar Farms
This paper presents an autonomous system combining LiDAR SLAM, visual imagery, and thermal sensing to inspect under-panel components of solar farms.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Covers hardware defect inspection rather than AI model safety and guardrails.
Efficiently Learning To Reason or Not to Reason: Root-token Policy Optimization for Adaptive Thinking
This paper presents an optimization method that trains models to decide when to invoke reasoning tokens, reducing unnecessary thinking overhead.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses on compute efficiency and adaptive thinking rather than AI safety or alignment.
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