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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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Instruction-Conditioned Electromagnetic Spectrum Understanding via Budget-Adaptive Signal Tokenization
Introduces a budget-adaptive tokenization framework that balances token allocation with input length for raw RF signal understanding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, guardrails, robustness, or deployment alignment risks.
Scalable Hierarchical Graph Generation via Soft Community Structure
Presents a three-stage hierarchical generation method for large attributed graphs using recursive soft community decomposition.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaking, hallucinations, or deployment guardrails.
Learning to Plan by Looking Back: Hindsight Hierarchies for Training Reasoning Models
Proposes a training framework that teaches reasoning models to plan by reverse-engineering solution ideas from hindsight examples.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses mathematical reasoning training rather than safety, guardrails, or deployment risks.
Unifying Policy Learning and State Prediction through Spatial Language Modeling
Unifies robotic policy learning and future state prediction using an autoregressive Transformer trained on spatial sequence tokens.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on policy control and trajectory prediction rather than AI safety or reliability guardrails.
Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision
Presents a multi-agent self-supervision method that uses evolutionary workflow optimization and fine-tuning for recursive model self-improvement.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not focus on AI safety, guardrails, or deployment security.
AI-Based On-Board Maritime Object Detection for Earth Observation Payload Data Reduction on Versal Embedded Hardware
Deploys a quantized YOLOX-S detector on embedded hardware for onboard maritime satellite imagery selection and data reduction.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Pertains to onboard data compression rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or alignment.
A Closer Look at Agentic BBO: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Black-Box Optimization
Introduces AgenticBBO-Bench, a benchmark across multiple domains to evaluate LLM agents on black-box optimization under unified finite budgets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on optimization performance rather than safety, alignment, guardrails, or hallucination mitigation.
When Has a Bayesian Neural Network Sampled Enough? Adaptive Inference Time with Statistical Guarantees
Applies confidence sequences to Bayesian neural networks to dynamically allocate Monte Carlo samples per input with statistical guarantees.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses statistical stopping for BNN sampling latency rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Equal-Budget Monte Carlo Tree Search versus Randomized-Restart List Scheduling for DAG Workflows: A Controlled Equal-Budget Computational Study
Reports an equal-budget study finding randomized-restart list scheduling outperforms Monte Carlo Tree Search on DAG workflow scheduling.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not touch upon AI safety or alignment.
VibeEdit: Image Editing with Canvas Instructions
Presents VibeEdit, an image editor conditioned on spatial canvas annotations to perform targeted object additions, modifications, or removals.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaks, or deployment guardrails.
From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation
Introduces Compo and a spatial canvas interface enabling users or agents to guide poster layout and image generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address safety, guardrails, or alignment.
La-Ribo: RNA Co-Design via Geometry-Latent Flow Matching
Proposes La-Ribo, a geometry-latent flow matching framework designed for simultaneous RNA nucleotide sequence and 3D structure co-design.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses biological generative modeling, not AI safety or deployment risks.
AdaCast: Conditional Parameter Generation for Adaptive Time Series Forecasting
Presents AdaCast, a parameter generation method producing input-specific low-rank updates for foundation models in time-series forecasting.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on forecasting adaptation, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Batch Before You Lift: Scalable Topological Deep Learning on Large Graphs
Introduces Cluster-TNN, a mini-batch graph partitioning framework that enables scalable topological deep learning on large graphs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study model safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Real-Time Motion Planning with Dynamic Hazards: Classical vs. Learning-Based Methods
Benchmarks classical planning against learning-based methods in real-time motion planning under deterministic and stochastic rotating hazard fields.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses robot navigation planning rather than AI safety or LLM deployment risks.
How Much Audio Is Left In An Embedding? An Inversion Audit Of Audio Encoders
Audits audio encoders by reconstructing music using a latent diffusion model to quantify signal properties preserved across training objectives.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates representation fidelity in audio encoders, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Syn-Omni: Structured Specialization and Progressive Collaboration for Omnimodal Embeddings
Proposes Syn-Omni, a framework combining modality-expert LoRA paths and progressive routing to balance shared and modality-specific omnimodal embeddings.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not examine AI safety, alignment, or deployment reliability.
DVD: Dynamic Vector Decoding for Efficient MLLM-based Perception
Introduces Dynamic Vector Decoding to efficiently map 2D and 3D perception coordinates into compact discrete tokens for multimodal LLMs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address safety, guardrails, or model alignment.
Unlocking the Regulatory Genome by ARGUS: An Evidence-Constrained Agentic Framework for Interpreting Single Nucleotide Variants
Proposes ARGUS, an agentic framework separating deterministic genomic models from LLM reasoning to interpret noncoding single nucleotide variants reliably.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Applies agents to genomic analysis, not AI deployment safety or alignment.
Machine Learning Meets High-Energy Nuclear Physics: From Pattern Recognition to Physics-Integrated Discovery
Surveys recent developments in physics-integrated machine learning applications across high-energy nuclear physics experiments and simulations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not focus on LLM safety, reliability guardrails, or alignment.
Multi-Agent Egocentric World Model with Fine-Grained Embodied Interaction
Presents ME-World, an egocentric world model generating synchronized multi-agent first-person video streams with fine-grained physical interactions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate safety, red teaming, or operational guardrails.
Learning Probabilistic Logic Programs with Functional Gradient Guided Language Models
Introduces grasp, a framework combining functional gradient boosting with LLM proposal generation to learn probabilistic logic programs from relational data.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety, red teaming, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability.
Looking Inside LLMs: Small-World Connectivity as a Signature of Reasoning Performance
Analyzes attention-head activation graphs to show that small-world connectivity correlates with reasoning performance in large language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on internal attention network topology rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
A Structural Theory of Cognitive Representation and Problem Solving,Contexts, Invariance, and the Knowledge Space
Proposes a formal structural framework defining context formation, abstraction, and invariance operations for cognitive representation and problem solving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Theoretical cognitive representation paper; does not address deployment safety or guardrails.
Prior or Feedback? What an LLM Uses When Adapting Neural Operators
Investigates whether LLM scientific agents rely on task priors or experimental feedback when configuring neural operator adaptations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Examines adaptation feedback mechanisms rather than deployment safety, jailbreaking, or guardrails.
Prediction-Powered Data Fusion for Treatment Effect Estimation
Develops a framework fusing small randomized controlled trials with large observational data to improve treatment effect estimation precision without bias.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety guardrails, hallucination, or alignment in deployment.
RiCo: Neural Simulation of Rigid-Body Interactions via Local Contact Reasoning
Presents RiCo, a neural physics simulation method that models rigid-body interactions via sparse local contact surface reasoning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not explore AI safety, reliability guardrails, or alignment.
ContiLNN: Mitigating Slice Sampling Discontinuity with Liquid Neural Networks for Medical Image Restoration
Proposes ContiLNN, which uses closed-form continuous-time modules to improve cross-slice continuity and restoration in 2D medical imaging.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not investigate AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Can AI Agents Learn Their Way to the Top? Evaluating Heuristic Learning in a Long-Running Game Agent Competition
Introduces AAArena, a benchmark evaluating how AI agents revise executable code policies across 12 adversarial games under fixed budgets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study safety alignment, jailbreaking, or deployment guardrails.
Overcoming Prior Barriers: Supervised Fine-Tuning under Long-Tail Distribution
Analyzes long-tail concept learning during supervised fine-tuning using a theoretical prior barrier metric to guide data needs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address deployment safety, jailbreak robustness, or guardrails.
Distilling Routed 3D Privilege for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Distills geometric privilege into vision-language models during training to improve spatial reasoning without inference overhead.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not examine AI safety, guardrails, or deployment alignment.
HANS: A Handwritten Answer Sheet Dataset for Noisy Hybrid Document Parsing
Introduces an annotated dataset of handwritten student answer sheets with complex formulas, text, tables, and noise artifacts.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
ARC: A Reasoning Recipe for Robot Foundation Models
Presents a method to improve zero-shot robot foundation model performance using causal reasoning traces generated from demonstrations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety guardrails, jailbreak prevention, or deployment alignment.
GeoReform: Reflective Formalization Evolution for Multimodal Geometry Problem Solving
Proposes an evolutionary framework that optimizes geometric diagram formalizations to improve multimodal geometry problem solving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on math diagram reasoning accuracy rather than AI safety or reliability guardrails.
HRIL: Learning Multimodal Synergy via Higher-Order Tensor Modeling
Proposes a higher-order tensor modeling framework to preserve synergistic cross-modal interactions in self-supervised multimodal representations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, hallucination, guardrails, or robustness.
SpaceFlow: Locally Controllable 3D Generation
Introduces a training-free 3D generation pipeline enabling local geometric and appearance control using 3D primitives.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
LeWAM: A JEPA World Action Model with Diffusion-Steering-Based MPC
Presents a bidirectional JEPA world action model with diffusion-steering model predictive control for robot state tracking and planning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate or design deployment guardrails, safety alignment, or jailbreak defenses.
MAMHOI: Factorizing Scene-Aware Human-Object Interaction through Affordances
Factorizes scene-aware human-object interaction generation into motion-affordance prediction and affordance-conditioned motion synthesis.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address AI safety, jailbreaking, red-teaming, or model reliability.
RoboRSI: Stable, efficient, and reusable robot self-evolution in complex real-world environments
Presents a top-down skill refinement system for robot self-improvement through structured execution feedback and reusable modular skills.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
The core contribution is robotic capability refinement, not deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Bi-FORK: Generative Modeling of High-Dimensional Bifurcating Systems
Proposes a generative flow matching method with repulsion-guided sampling to model one-to-many bifurcation trajectories in physical systems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Not related to AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
BrickBench: Evaluating Agentic Brick Design
Introduces a benchmark and environment for evaluating coding agents on text-conditioned LEGO design with physical and discrete assembly constraints.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety risks, red-teaming, or guardrails.
On the estimation and validity of AI time horizons---a statistical look at the METR plot
Recomputes METR task time horizons using splines and item-response theory to examine the validity of AI difficulty curves.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies benchmark metric validity rather than deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
AutoIndexer: Flexible-Order Decoding by Training Causal Models on Chains of Edits
Introduces a generative model that allows flexible post-hoc text editing through learned insertion, substitution, and deletion operations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Not focused on safety, security, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Know What You Don't Know: Agentic Data Synthesis by Evolving Generation Space for Closed-Loop Learning
Proposes a multi-agent framework that evolves the data generation space using learner feedback to synthesize agent training trajectories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses training data generation rather than AI safety or guardrails.
SpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire
Presents a benchmark evaluating agentic large language models on long-horizon strategic reasoning in the game Slay the Spire.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies gameplay strategy and evaluation rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Beyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents
Introduces behavioral self-rewarding to refine reinforcement learning feedback for software engineering agents by comparing execution trajectories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on code debugging performance rather than security vulnerabilities or deployment safety.
Self-Preservation in Language Models
Investigates self-preservation in language models by using task banks to steer synthetic replay during continual instruction tuning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies catastrophic forgetting rather than safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Mesh-Native Tokenisation: Retrofitting Foundation Models to Unstructured Data
Proposes a mesh-native tokenization approach to adapt foundation model architectures to unstructured scientific simulation data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Not related to deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Machine Learning and Time-Series Foundation Models for Day-Ahead Electricity Forecasting in a University Building
Benchmarks machine learning and pretrained foundation models for day-ahead electricity forecasting in a university building.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Not related to AI safety, hallucination, or adversarial robustness.
CLEAT: Learning Value-Guided Clarification for Interactive Agents
Co-trains an interactive agent's task policy with a clarification-value controller to optimize when to ask follow-up questions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies interactive task execution and intent clarification rather than safety risks or guardrails.
Kronecker Product Attention: Memory-Efficient KV Compression via Structured Factorization
Introduces a key-value cache compression method representing attention activations as sums of compact Kronecker products.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address safety, reliability, or guardrails.
MagicBeanStalk: Escaping the RLVR Zero Advantage Trap with Recursive Data Synthesis
Analyzes zero-advantage training plateaus in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards and proposes recursive data synthesis to address them.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates RLVR training dynamics rather than deployment safety, jailbreaks, or red-teaming.
Incremental Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Human-in-the-Loop Decision Support
Evaluates an incremental retrieval-augmented generation framework that progressively populates its knowledge base from human decision precedents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses human-in-the-loop decision support, but main focus is RAG workflow rather than safety or guardrails.
Recurrent Harness for Agentic Continual Learning
Proposes a recurrent harness framework that uses streaming feedback to revise textual memory for continual agent learning.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on continual learning performance rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
GeoFitBench-LLM: A Benchmark for Assessing Large Language Models' Capabilities in Geospatial Data Requirements Elicitation for Geo-Analytic Tasks
Introduces a benchmark evaluating language models on eliciting geospatial data requirements and constraints from natural language requests.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not focus on safety, jailbreaks, prompt injection, or guardrails.
KITE: A Knowledge-Injected Temporal Encoder for Time-Series Event Forecasting
Develops a temporal encoder injecting engineering domain priors to forecast rare, high-cost events in multivariate time series.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Covers industrial time-series forecasting rather than AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving in Road Construction Zones Using Human-in-the-Loop Driving Data
Constructs a multimodal simulator dataset and trajectory prediction model for autonomous driving in urban roadway work zones.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Deals with vehicle trajectory forecasting rather than AI safety, guardrails, or LLM reliability.
Faithful and Complete LLM-Assisted Automated Construction of Hierarchical Hardware Knowledge Graphs
Introduces an automated pipeline using language models to construct hierarchical knowledge graphs from complex hardware datasheets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Deals with datasheet information extraction rather than deployment safety or alignment.
Semantic Views: Certified Reuse of LLM Labels Across Semantic Queries
Presents a certified semantic filtering technique that reuses prior model labels to reduce language model calls in database queries.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on query optimization and sample bounds rather than AI safety or guardrails.
Representation Alignment from a Few Paired Data via Distilled Optimal Transport
Aligns independently pretrained unimodal encoders using a few paired anchors and distilled entropic optimal transport.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on multimodal embedding alignment rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or robustness.
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