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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · LLMs for code — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Abstracts or full text? Evaluating input scope and computational efficiency in biomedical lay summarization Compares abstract-only versus full-text inputs and few-shot versus fine-tuning approaches for generating biomedical lay summaries. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies biomedical text summarization rather than software engineering code. | |
| SceneWeave: Audience-Guided Scene Exploration for Dramatic Adaptation Introduces a system that generates and compares alternative scene drafts to guide full dramatic script adaptations from prose. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses dramatic scriptwriting rather than computer programming code. | |
| Bias Mitigation in Audio-Enabled LLMs through Adversarial Training and Distillation Methods Applies adversarial training and distillation to remove unwanted gender bias in audio-enabled language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on audio speech bias rather than software code generation. | |
| Behavioral Forgetting Is Not Privacy in Machine Unlearning Demonstrates that machine unlearning often fails to prevent targeted information recovery across alternative multilingual access paths. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies cross-lingual privacy unlearning, not code generation or analysis. | |
| Content associations with answer selection and engagement in supply chain community question answering Analyzes how specific nouns and semantic clusters relate to answer selection and user engagement in logistics question-answering forums. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies logistics Q&A text rather than software programming or code. | |
| N-Gram Memories at Two Bits: Quantizing Lookup Tables in Large Language Models Proposes a compressed representation using Gaussian trellises to quantize conditional memory lookup tables down to two bits. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Targets neural network embedding tables rather than software engineering tasks. | |
| Dynamic ordering in sequence generation in Transformers: experiments on low-resource Tagging scenarios Introduces a non-autoregressive transformer model that dynamically decides tag generation order at inference time for low-resource sequence labeling. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on NLP part-of-speech and CCG tagging, not code synthesis. | |
| TEM: Temporal State Tracking Memory for Large Language Model Agents Presents a training-free framework that tracks changing conversational facts as versioned records to improve agent memory retrieval. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on dialogue memory tracking, not code generation or review. | |
| Learning Speech Attribute Representations via Multi-Teacher Distillation Distills multiple speech attributes from four teacher models into a single shared speech encoder. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on speech processing rather than source code generation. | |
| P2TPO: Structure-Aligned Page-to-Token Credit Assignment for Full-Page Document Parsing Proposes a reinforcement learning credit-assignment method for document parsing models to align rewards with structured page elements. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses document parsing rather than software programming or code generation. | |
| Effectiveness of Hidden-State Probes for Localizing Reasoning Failures Evaluates whether internal hidden-state probes can identify failure modes and pinpoint failing steps in multi-step reasoning traces. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies general mathematical and reasoning traces, not software engineering or code. | |
| Name-Bias in Large Language Models Measures demographic bias related to age, gender, and race based on first names across local language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not cover code generation or software engineering. | |
| Documenting Trofinetide Treatment Phenotypes in Rett Syndrome with a Dual-LLM Consensus Pipeline Applies a dual language model consensus pipeline to extract clinical phenotypes from electronic health records for patients with Rett syndrome. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address code writing or software engineering. | |
| Beyond Context Length: Characterising the Difficulty of Long-Context Reasoning Presents a benchmark that measures long-context reasoning difficulty using evidence scope, dispersion, and reasoning depth. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on software engineering or code generation. | |
| The Right Byte First: How UTF-16 Helps Multilingual Boundary Prediction Studies how using UTF-16 byte order improves boundary prediction and representation efficiency in multilingual byte-level language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual character encodings, not programming. | |
| Patch where the text is new: a compression view of where byte-level models should spend compute Introduces a compression-based patching strategy for byte-level language models that allocates compute where upcoming bytes are unlikely to repeat. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Tests math and general bytes, not code assistant systems. | |
| Unfragmenting Nawatl NMT: Single-Variant Specialization for Masewalkopa Specializes a translation model to a specific indigenous Nawatl variety using a curated dataset and finite-state morphological analysis. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on indigenous language translation, not code generation. | |
| Intern-Decision: Efficient Multimodal Decision Making with Autoregressive Masked Language Modeling Develops small multimodal models that output structured choices using masked language modeling to reduce inference latency in agent tasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address code writing or software engineering tasks. | |
| CLUE: Uncovering Social Context for Pragmatic Understanding Develops a two-stage training approach combining evidence reasoning and reinforcement learning to improve pragmatic social reasoning in conversational models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to programming, software maintenance, or code generation. | |
| Lexical Reference Frames: Interpreting LM Residual Streams in Native Semantics Introduces lexical reference frames to interpret intermediate hidden states in language models using the model's own remaining layers. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software engineering. | |
| EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment Proposes an event-centric framework to align audio and video features when generating detailed video descriptions with language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Has no connection to programming or software tasks. | |
| Hy-Memory-30B-A3B: Attributed Reinforcement Learning for Long-Term Memory Writing Introduces a compact language model trained with distillation and reinforcement learning to manage long-term memory across multiple external frameworks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on software engineering or code generation. | |
| Not X, but When: Diagnosing a Mandarin LLM Writing Tic through Contextual Appropriateness Analyzes the overuse and contextual appropriateness of a common corrective phrasing pattern in Mandarin language model text. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines natural language writing patterns, not code generation. | |
| CAT-alyzing Honesty: Continuous Adversarial Training for Transferable LLM Honesty Presents an adversarial training approach designed to improve language model honesty across diverse benchmarks without degrading core capabilities. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Has no connection to programming or software engineering. | |
| Grid-Bench: Can LLMs Predict How Discrete Worlds Change? Evaluates the ability of language models to predict state changes in discrete spatial grids across sequential operations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to code generation, maintenance, or repair. | |
| MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support Presents an evaluation framework combining simulated mental health patients and expert-developed rubrics to assess conversational language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on mental health conversations, not software development. | |
| Training Reasoning Models to Generate Diverse Scientific Ideas Introduces a set-level reinforcement learning objective to train language models to produce diverse and document-grounded scientific research ideas. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address code writing or software engineering tasks. | |
| OmniVerifier-C1: Decomposed Graded Verifier for Rule-Governed Generative World Modeling Proposes a visual verifier that decomposes complex prompts into sub-questions and assigns continuous scores to improve multimodal evaluation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software engineering. | |
| Reference-Guided Turn-Taking Style Transfer for Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models The paper identifies an internal activation direction in spoken language models to control and transfer conversational turn-taking styles. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not involve code generation, software engineering, or program repair. | |
| Verdict: Encode Once, Decide Many The paper introduces an encoder architecture that processes input once to answer multiple structured classification queries simultaneously. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not evaluate code generation, software maintenance, or program repair. | |
| ARIA: Runtime Inspection and Amendment for Multi-Agent Systems The paper presents a framework and dataset for learning to detect and repair errors during multi-agent system execution. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Targets general multi-agent execution trajectories rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| When Reasoning Traces Conflict with Evidence: How Answer Configuration Shapes Evidence Following The paper analyzes how answering via a separate model call improves evidence adherence when reasoning traces conflict with provided context. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not evaluate or target software engineering or code generation. | |
| Wolof-Adapted Industry-Ready Open-Weight Language Models The paper presents open-weight language models adapted for the Wolof language using instruction tuning, preference alignment, and model merging. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on low-resource language modeling, not coding assistants. | |
| CoTranslator: Reverse to Forward Chain-of-Thought Translator for Reasoning Distillation The paper proposes a method to translate reverse reasoning paths into verified forward chains of thought for distillation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates on mathematics benchmarks, not code generation. | |
| Confidence-Calibrated Inference Expansion for Evaluator-Guided Test-Time Reasoning The paper introduces a confidence-calibrated controller to optimize inference compute and test-time expansion decisions in reasoning models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant General test-time reasoning control, not code-specific assistants. | |
| Evolving Together, Failing Apart: The Skill-Policy Co-evolution Trap in Self-Improving Agents The paper investigates performance vulnerabilities in self-improving agents when their co-evolved skill banks undergo post-deployment drift. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant General agent skill-policy dynamics, not specific to coding. | |
| Probing Negation Understanding in Vision-Language Models With Object Attention The paper analyzes how vision-language models process negation by comparing model attention mechanisms with human eye-tracking data. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on visual negation, not software or code. | |
| Wrong Votes, Right Gradients: Why Majority-Vote Rewards Track Verifiable RL The paper analyzes why reinforcement learning with majority-vote rewards provides effective training gradients despite noisy individual labels. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant General RL gradient analysis, not specific to code generation. | |
| SkillNEO: Non-Elitist Evolutionary Optimization of Agent Skills The paper proposes a non-elitist evolutionary optimization framework that retains and iteratively refines low-reward agent skills using execution feedback. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant General skill acquisition framework, not specific to software engineering. | |
| LEV: Thinking Fast and Deep with Looped Decision Models The paper presents a decision model that performs deeper reasoning by looping its layers instead of generating output tokens. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses general multiple-choice reasoning rather than software engineering code. | |
| Same Context, Different Agents: A Behavioral Study of Semantic Layers, Orchestration and Compaction in Data Agents The paper studies how semantic layers, orchestration, and compaction impact the performance and behavior of data agents across benchmarks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates general data exploration and query agents rather than software code. | |
| Learning to Read Out: Unembedding Dynamics in Language Model Pretraining The paper investigates when language models learn capabilities by tracking unembedding matrix dynamics during pretraining using parameter-trajectory crosscoding. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on pretraining unembedding dynamics, not software code tasks. | |
| ReviewPilot: A Multi-Agent System for Screening and Data Extraction in Systematic Reviews Presents a multi-agent system for paper screening and data extraction in systematic literature reviews following standard guidelines. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies to systematic biomedical literature reviews, not software engineering. | |
| PremiseCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of Human and AI Peer Reviews Combines language models and lightweight decision models to fact-check statements in peer reviews against original manuscripts. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with natural language peer reviews rather than software code. | |
| A Jury, Not an Electorate: Label-Free Reliability Estimation for Ensembles of Language Models Estimates language model ensemble member reliability from unlabeled agreement patterns using an expectation-maximization jury formulation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies question-answering ensembles rather than code synthesis or software engineering. | |
| MemComposer: Learning to Assemble Memories for LLM Agents via Reinforcement Learning Uses reinforcement learning to train an agent module that selects, sizes, and orders retrieved memories for downstream tasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on agent memory assembly rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| ToolBottleneckBench: Measuring Tool-Agent Performance under Controlled Pressures and Fixed Harness Budgets Measures tool-agent performance failures under controlled harness limits such as completion caps and tool menu visibility. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies tool-agent harnesses on enterprise tasks rather than software development or coding. | |
| Planning Commitment of LLM under Partial Observability Analyzes trade-offs between aggressive and conservative planning horizons in language models operating under partial observability. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes planning algorithms and PDDL generation rather than software coding or repair. | |
| Kolab: Benchmarking Human-Agent Collaboration in Long-Horizon Workflows Introduces a dataset benchmarking human-agent interaction and collaboration across long-horizon professional workflows. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers professional long-horizon tasks across occupations rather than code generation or repair. | |
| When Judges Agree and Are Wrong: Consistency-Accuracy Dissociation as a Blind Spot for Label-Free Evaluation Examines failure modes in label-free evaluation where models reach high consistency across perturbations while generating identical incorrect answers. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on QA evaluation metrics rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| CoSTA: Compressed Speech Token Adaptation for Efficient Spoken Dialogue Models Presents a framework that decouples speech generation and synthesis token spaces to speed up spoken dialogue model inference. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with speech token adaptation rather than code generation or software tooling. | |
| CARE-SD: Explainable Reasoning Architecture for Local SLM Self-Disclosure Analysis in Textual Data Develops a structured explainable reasoning architecture to extract sensitive self-disclosures from cybersecurity interviews using local small language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes interview transcripts rather than software code generation or repair. | |
| Language Models Share a Readout Bottleneck in Working Memory Analyzes working memory error patterns in language models to show that failures stem from readout interference rather than target retrieval. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates N-back memory tasks rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| Judging the Judges: Confidence and Disagreement in Rubrics as Rewards Proposes an ensemble framework that weights judge confidence and masks disagreements when training models with rubrics as rewards. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on general scientific and medical QA, not software engineering. | |
| Who May Release an Agent's Promise? Standing over Commitments in Multi-Party Chat Studies whether conversational agents correctly enforce authorization rules when users attempt to cancel prior agent commitments to others. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-party conversation, not code generation. | |
| Entertain, then Cancel: How Thinking Makes Reasoning Models Read Some and Or Literally Examines how extended reasoning steps lead language models to interpret everyday logical terms strictly literally instead of inferring pragmatic meaning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on natural language pragmatics, not software code. | |
| Representation Redistribution in Sparse Autoencoders Analyzes how prompt variations redistribute internal feature activations in sparse autoencoders and traces their impact on downstream model decisions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not address coding tasks or software engineering. | |
| System1-Arena: Which Decisions Can Be Left to System 1? Introduces a benchmark evaluating single-forward-pass discrete decision models versus generative reasoning models across diverse closed-loop tasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant SWE-bench is merely a subcomponent of a broad decision benchmark. | |
| Behavioral Compositionality of Sparse Autoencoder Representations Introduces a metric to measure how non-linearly features learned by sparse autoencoders interact during downstream model behaviors. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not evaluate code generation or software engineering. | |
| TRACER: Trajectory-Aware Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents Proposes a trajectory-aware retrieval method that indexes tool sequences in a trie to cut token costs and improve selection accuracy. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Does not focus on code generation or software engineering. |
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