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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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EvoBelief: Falsifiable World Models for Self-Improving LLM Agents
Presents a framework allowing language model agents to evolve environment dynamics beliefs through falsifiable hypothesis testing.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on belief updating and task planning rather than safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Meta-Reflective Evolution Effectively Improves Production AI Systems
Introduces an evolutionary optimization method using multi-turn reflective mutators to improve production data agents and pipelines.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on performance optimization of production systems rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Efficient Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement via Reinforcement Learning-Based Neural Architecture Search
Uses reinforcement learning-based neural architecture search to discover compact models for audio-visual speech enhancement.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses edge speech enhancement efficiency rather than deployment safety or alignment.
LeWAM: End-to-End World and Action Modeling with JEPAs
Presents an end-to-end joint-embedding predictive architecture that combines world modeling and action flow matching for robot planning and control.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses robotic control and planning efficiency, not deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
COFFEQA: Counterfactual-Guided Few-Shot Distillation for LLM Question Answering
Introduces a counterfactual-guided few-shot distillation framework to train smaller question-answering language models using limited training samples.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses distillation efficiency rather than deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Neural networks are more modular than single neurons suggest
Proposes a hierarchy of modularity to identify functional modular organization in neural networks lacking single-neuron specialization.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates interpretability of neural network representations, not deployment safety or guardrails.
Towards Defining, Measuring, and Leveraging Creativity in AI Applications
Proposes formal mathematical postulates and definitions to measure and operationalize computational creativity across domains.
Peer-reviewed
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Deals with computational creativity theory rather than safety, reliability, or deployment risks.
When Generative Models Act as Simulators
Investigates mappings between generative model latent states and simulator states to enable controllable environment simulation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates simulator mappings rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination mitigation.
Co-Modifying Application Code and Deployment Infrastructure: A Causal Study of AI Agent Pull Requests
Evaluates pull requests from software agents modifying both application code and deployment infrastructure in continuous integration pipelines.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on software engineering PR workflows rather than AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Localized Generative Design of Ship Hulls with Diffusion Models and High-Fidelity Assessment
Applies a reward-directed diffusion model to optimize localized ship hull geometry evaluated by automated fluid dynamics simulations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Concerns fluid dynamics and physical constraints in engineering, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Collaborative Theory of Mind: Learning to Self-Revise by Anticipating User Responses
Trains language models to anticipate user replies and self-revise drafts before responding in multi-turn interactions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on multi-turn user collaboration performance rather than safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
One-Step Text Generation by Seq-Drifting
Proposes a sequence-drifting framework to generate full text sequences in a single forward pass from Gaussian noise.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Investigates one-step text generation architectures rather than deployment safety or robustness.
Mind the Spatial Gap: A Benchmark for Geospatial Reasoning and Constrained Spatial Editing
Presents a benchmark using real urban data to evaluate multimodal language models on spatial reasoning and constrained editing.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Evaluates geospatial reasoning accuracy rather than safety, guardrails, or reliability risks.
OGPO: Offline Goal-conditioned Policy Optimization for Recoverable Vision-Language-Action Models
Introduces an offline goal-conditioned policy optimization method to help vision-language-action models recover from execution deviations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on robotic trajectory recovery rather than AI safety guardrails or jailbreaks.
DeFiRank: Federated Pairwise Ranking for Governance in Decentralized Financial Networks
Proposes a federated pairwise ranking framework for institutions to evaluate decentralized finance participants without sharing transaction data.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Deals with DeFi governance ranking rather than LLM safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
AI-Mediation in Retail Markets: Revenue Effects and Assortment Optimization
Studies the impact of AI shopping assistant mediation on retail product assortment planning and business revenue.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on retail revenue optimization rather than deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination.
Teaching neural decoders with language
Uses natural language class descriptions as supervision to train neural decoders for brain-computer interfaces across multiple modalities.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on BCI decoding performance rather than deployment safety or model alignment.
Collaborative Learning and Reasoning over Model Slices
Develops a collaborative learning framework that splits large language models into smaller heterogeneous slices to mitigate error propagation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies multi-model reasoning collaboration rather than deployment safety or jailbreak prevention.
Learning More by Training Less: Uncertainty-Guided Progressive Contraction for Efficient Reasoning Post-Training
Presents an uncertainty-guided framework to compress reasoning supervision trajectories and reduce reasoning post-training costs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on training efficiency and reasoning quality rather than safety or reliability.
Surfing the Activation Wave: Analyzing the Information and Geometry of LLM Hidden States for Speculative Decoding
Proposes matrix-entropy and kernel alignment criteria to select optimal layer subsets of hidden states for speculative decoding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on inference efficiency rather than safety, reliability, or red-teaming.
MathVis: Can AI Reason through Drawing? A Benchmark for Mathematical Figure Generation
Presents a benchmark to evaluate language models on generating mathematical figures and diagram-assisted reasoning across frontier problems.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses mathematical reasoning evaluation, not deployment safety, guardrails, or robustness.
JoyInside-VLM-Agent: Product-Conditioned Multimodal Policy Learning for Embodied Agents
Introduces a multimodal embodied agent policy learning framework using trajectory construction, distillation, and token-level evidence routing.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses policy task performance rather than safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or red-teaming.
MotionCoach: Constructing Multimodal Guidance for Video Professional Motion Editing
Proposes a multimodal agent providing grounded prompts and video clips to guide video editing models in professional sports motions.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on motion editing quality rather than safety, robustness, or alignment risks.
SmartSalesBench: A Resistance-Aware Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Sales Agents
Introduces a multi-turn conversational benchmark to evaluate sales agents against resistant, psychologically grounded buyer personas.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Evaluates commercial sales performance and persistence rather than safety or guardrails.
Beyond Semantic IDs: Finite-Beam Reachability and Continuous-Query Generation in Generative Recommendation
Proposes continuous-query generation paradigms to eliminate reachability constraints caused by finite-beam decoding over discrete semantic IDs in recommendation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on recommender retrieval reachability, not AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Work2Skill: Capturing Human GUI Experience for Reusable Agent Skill Induction
Introduces a framework and multimodal dataset of human desktop demonstrations to induce reusable skills for computer-use agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses GUI task automation rather than deployment safety, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
What Should SFT Learn? Conditional Information Gain for Generalizable Post-Training
Introduces an information-theoretic framework to reweight supervised fine-tuning data based on conditional information gain.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses generalization during SFT rather than safety, hallucination mitigation, or robustness.
Benchmarking Embedding Geometries and Clustering Algorithms for Unsupervised Patent Claim Classification
Compares hyperbolic and Euclidean embeddings for unsupervised patent representation to improve cross-category prior-art discovery.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address safety, jailbreaking, red-teaming, or model guardrails.
Hindsight Structured Advice Distillation: Steering Executor Agents with Advisors Trained on Their Failures and Task Characteristics
Trains an advisor model on past failures to add dynamic, structured guidance to frozen language model agent prompts.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Deals with domain-specific agent guidance rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Scaling Empowered Agents
Presents a scalable method to maximize agent empowerment by guiding agents toward states affording numerous executable skills.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on intrinsic motivation in RL rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Generalized Proximal Policy Optimization: Unifying LLM RL Algorithms from the Perspective of Divergence
Proposes a generalized f-divergence trust-region framework to unify and stabilize reinforcement learning algorithms for LLM post-training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on general RL mathematical theory and convergence rather than safety alignment or guardrails.
EmbodiedCLBench: Evaluating Continual Learning for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents
Presents a simulation benchmark evaluating how embodied agents continually acquire basic skills and recombine them for complex tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on skill generalization in embodied settings rather than AI safety or reliability.
Don't Guess, Just Ask: Evaluating Interactive Requirement Clarification for Repository-Level Software Development
Introduces a benchmark to evaluate how effectively LLMs clarify ambiguous user requirements in repository-level software development tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses requirement ambiguity in software engineering rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
GeoGR: Spatial-Semantic Token Compression and Group Routing for Efficient 3D VLMs
Proposes spatial-semantic token compression and layer routing to accelerate 3D vision-language model inference across multi-view inputs.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on computational efficiency rather than model safety, reliability, or guardrails.
CoBe: A Benchmark For Conversational Counterfactual Text Editing
Presents a conversational benchmark testing whether models can edit text under counterfactual changes while preserving unaffected factual details.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Evaluates causal text modification rather than safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or deployment risks.
Travel Back To Move Forward: Retrospective Exploration and Evolving for Long Horizon Agents
Introduces a framework allowing agents to rewind long-horizon environments to earlier states while retaining learned exploratory knowledge.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on task-completion search policies rather than safety guardrails or adversarial robustness.
Evolving Creatives with Clicks: CTR-Driven Advertising image Editing via Attribute Disentanglement and Preference Alignment
Proposes an advertising image editing method that identifies and selectively refines visual attributes driving click-through rates.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Optimizes marketing conversion metrics rather than model safety, security, or robustness.
LongHarness: Advancing Agentic Reasoning over 100M-Token Corpora via Stateful Evidence Management
Presents an agent harness that coevolves evidence and conclusions to improve reasoning across 100-million-token document corpora.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on information retrieval and reasoning state tracking rather than safety or guardrails.
SWEAR: Section-Wise Efficient Audio Reasoning via Self-Rated Difficulty
Presents a difficulty-aware framework that allocates reasoning steps across sections to improve efficiency in large audio-language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses inference efficiency and token allocation rather than safety, guardrails, or alignment.
VETR: Execution-Grounded Self-Improving Agent for Symbolic Graphics Reasoning
Introduces a recursive self-improvement agent framework that refines symbolic graphics programs using execution traces and runtime state changes.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on symbolic graphics reasoning and refinement rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Continually Post-training Small Models via Synthetic Self-distillation
Proposes a synthetic self-distillation method using a slightly larger aligner to enable continual post-training in small language models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses catastrophic forgetting in small models rather than AI safety, guardrails, or red teaming.
Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QA
Designs a modular multi-agent pipeline separating search, verification, and reading for multimodal document question answering.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on QA accuracy and retrieval orchestration rather than safety, guardrails, or reliability.
Looking Ahead and Back: Anticipatory Generative Modeling for Road-Network Trajectories
Introduces an anticipatory generative modeling approach for road networks to improve realistic next-transition selection in trajectory generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses urban trajectory generation rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or alignment risks.
Competence-Aware Orchestration for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
Presents a framework that dynamically adjusts role activation and multi-agent collaboration based on the model backbone's query-specific competence.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate safety, jailbreaks, prompt injection, or alignment defenses.
Quality, Not Just Outcome: A Structural Scoring Framework for Selecting Coding-Agent Trajectories for Supervised Fine-Tuning
Presents a structural scoring framework to select high-quality coding agent trajectories for supervised fine-tuning based on interaction efficiency.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on training data selection rather than deployment guardrails or safety red-teaming.
RoleWorld: Knowledge Transfer in World Modeling with Functional Role Abstractions
Proposes a symbolic world modeling method using functional role abstractions to transfer interaction dynamics across environments for LLM agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study AI safety risks, prompt injections, guardrails, or hallucination.
AdaC-GRPO: Towards Mastering Long-Horizon Visual Sudoku Puzzles via Adaptive Curriculum Learning
Introduces an adaptive curriculum reinforcement learning method to train multimodal models on long-horizon visual Sudoku reasoning tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address safety, guardrails, prompt injection, or alignment risks.
JANUS: Enhancing Long-Horizon Autonomous Research with Co-Evolving World Models
Proposes JANUS, using a co-evolving world model to predict, verify, and guide exploration paths in autonomous scientific research.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study AI safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or red-teaming reliability.
Does Learning Recurrent Networks Matter in Partially Observable RL?
Investigates whether frozen recurrent networks can provide sufficient memory for partially observable reinforcement learning without end-to-end training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not examine safety guardrails, red teaming, hallucination, or prompt injection.
Beyond Actions: Learning Future Operation Targets for Vision-Language-Action Models
Introduces AFCE, training vision-language-action policies to predict future physical effects rather than raw action chunks directly.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address LLM safety risks, guardrails, hallucination, or adversarial attacks.
ReSFlow: Rectifying Categorical Flows on Statistical Manifolds for One-Step Generation
Introduces ReSFlow, rectifying categorical flows along geodesic trajectories on statistical manifolds to enable one-step discrete generation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not cover AI alignment, security attacks, guardrails, or safety deployment.
Tabular Foundation Models Are Effectively Shallow
Analyzes tabular foundation models and shows most transformer layers can be replaced with affine translators without sacrificing performance.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate jailbreaks, prompt injections, safety guardrails, or alignment.
Agent4Spec: An LLM-based Agentic System to Optimize API Specifications through Automated Validation and Market Analysis
Presents Agent4Spec, a multi-agent framework that automatically validates OpenAPI syntax errors and identifies functional API gaps through market analysis.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study security attacks, prompt injection, or safety guardrails.
BoundaryEvo: Data-Model Co-Evolution at the Capability Boundary for Long-Chain Reasoning Distillation
Proposes BoundaryEvo, dynamically adapting training data around a student model's evolving capability boundary during long-chain reasoning distillation.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not evaluate safety, robustness, jailbreaks, or red-teaming deployments.
PRIME: Pre-Retrieval Index Modeling Enhancement for Structured Document Retrieval-Real
Proposes PRIME, an index-side optimization framework using semantic restructuring and deterministic metadata synthesis to improve document retrieval.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not investigate safety guardrails, red-teaming, jailbreaks, or alignment failures.
Masked Diffusion Language Agents for Tool-Integrated Chemical Reasoning
Introduces ChemDiffAgent, applying masked diffusion to plan tool use and reasoning trajectories bidirectionally for chemical problem-solving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not investigate safety risks, prompt injections, guardrails, or alignment vulnerabilities.
AlphaNIST: Emergent Assembly Skills from Binary Task Rewards
Evaluates whether robotic manipulation agents can learn complex multi-step assembly skills purely from sparse binary task rewards.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study LLM safety, guardrails, hallucinations, or deployment red-teaming.
ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents
Introduces ProgramGym, a framework providing verifiable sandbox environments and black-box test feedback for training long-horizon program reproduction agents.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on software engineering capability rather than AI safety guardrails, alignment, or jailbreaks.
RegulaTutor: A Theory-Informed Framework for Long-Term Personalized Learning
Presents RegulaTutor, a personalized tutoring framework that grounds instructional policies in explicit cognitive and self-regulated learning theories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses pedagogical instructional policies, not AI safety risks, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
In-Context Learning for System Identification: Probabilistic Formulation, Long-Sequence Handling, and Benchmark Validation
Develops a probabilistic transformer meta-learning architecture to perform zero-shot system identification directly from long training sequence contexts.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on control theory system identification rather than LLM safety, guardrails, or reliability risks.
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