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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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| Auditing Escalation Reliability in Healthcare LLM Agents: A Perturbation-Controlled Benchmark of Workflow-State Failures Introduces an episode-level healthcare benchmark to audit how reliably language model agents escalate actions when facing workflow disruptions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on clinical workflows, not software engineering or code. | |
| Bias Control and Injection for Multi-Agent Aggregation The paper proposes a test-time aggregation method using bias control and injection to resolve disagreements among reasoning language model agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates mathematical reasoning, not software code generation. | |
| DocPilot: Interactive Agent Orchestration and Training for Long Visual Document Understanding The paper presents an agent orchestration framework that trains smaller language models to navigate, inspect, and reason over long multimodal documents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Uses code execution as a tool, not software engineering. | |
| ESG-Kor: A Korean Dataset for ESG-related Information Extraction and Practical Use Cases The paper presents a Korean dataset extracted from corporate sustainability reports to support information extraction on environmental, social, and governance topics. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Targets corporate ESG documents, not code generation or repair. | |
| Do Agents Need a New Kind of Paper? SPRA: Structured Paper Representation for Agents Creates a structured schema that converts research papers into connected scientific entities to improve retrieval-augmented generation for autonomous agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on scientific literature representations, not software engineering, code synthesis, or repair. | |
| Trajectory-Level Speculation with Semantic Verification for Tool-Using Agents Introduces a framework where a small model drafts tool-use trajectories and a larger model verifies them in single prefill passes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates general tool-use agents, not specialized code generation or software engineering repair. | |
| Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation Introduces a benchmark and evaluation to test whether language models can successfully generate coherent nonlinear narratives. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with natural language storytelling, not code generation, repair, or software engineering. | |
| Decomposing Brain-LLM Alignment with Interpretable Semantic Representations Decomposes the alignment between language model activations and human brain scans using neurocognitively grounded semantic property representations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates fMRI neural predictions, not code or software engineering. | |
| SCRIBE: Scalable Contextual Representations of Interpretable Brain-Grounded Semantics Introduces a framework using language models to construct context-sensitive semantic representations that align with human brain activity during language comprehension. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Deals with brain semantic representations, not code generation. | |
| DialFork: Going Beyond Factuality to Evaluate Procedural Hallucination in Conversational Agents The authors present a benchmark to evaluate conversational agents that follow correct factuality but violate procedural task steps. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates dialogue flows, not software engineering or code generation. | |
| Rethinking the Role of Tool Graph Memory in Multi-Turn Tool Use The authors analyze tool graph memory in multi-turn agents and find that stored transitions provide little benefit over baselines. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates tool use generally rather than software engineering code models. | |
| The Self-Improvement Problem The paper formalizes the theoretical limits of automated gates evaluating self-improvement updates in autonomous agent code. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses theoretical self-improvement limits, not software development tools. | |
| Human Interventions as Labels: Localizing, Steering, and (Sometimes) Editing the Computations Behind LLM Agent Failures The paper uses human interventions to localize and steer computations behind agent failure to decide between acting and clarifying. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Examines agent ask-vs-act decisions, not code generation or repair. | |
| FIRM: Fisher-Informed Retention Merging for Federated LLM Unlearning The authors introduce a Fisher-informed adapter merging method to maintain retained task performance during federated language model unlearning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies federated unlearning, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Retrieved but Not Read: Understanding Why Search-Augmented LLMs Fail to Use Available Evidence The paper analyzes why search-augmented language models produce outdated answers even when relevant evidence is retrieved. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on web search QA, not software engineering. | |
| Reliable Knowledge Acquisition for Continual Learning Agents Proposes a structured knowledge admission and verification system to prevent continual learning agents from storing harmful past experience entries. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates general task streams rather than code generation tasks. | |
| In the Guise of Correction: How Framing and Cultural Adaptation Erode LLM Safety on Real-World Criminal Cases Presents a benchmark based on real criminal cases showing how correction framings and cultural adaptations bypass safety guardrails. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on criminal prompt compliance, not coding assistants or software repair. | |
| RoleQ: Role-Aligned Scales for Converting Language Models to Ternary Proposes a structural scaling method based on transformer unit roles to convert language models to ternary weights effectively. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Quantization framework for LLMs, not code generation or program repair. | |
| Selection Is Not Learning: Choosing Model Futures The paper separates task generation from model update inheritance to avoid compounding errors in self-evolving language model loops. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies general self-training dynamics rather than code generation or software maintenance. | |
| Momentum, Commentary Tone, and Earnings Surprise in LLM Financial Forecasts The paper tests how language models weigh price momentum, commentary tone, and earnings surprises when forecasting financial outcomes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates financial numerical forecasting rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| FAOPs: Normal Forms and an Algebra for AI Agent Workflows The paper provides a formal algebraic framework and normal forms to structure and audit enterprise AI agent workflows. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on agent workflow architecture rather than code generation or program repair models. | |
| Multi-SFT: Permissively-Licensed Multilingual Instruction-Following The paper introduces a commercially permissive multilingual instruction dataset covering five European languages to train open language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Covers general multilingual instruction following, not software engineering or code-specific LLM tasks. | |
| Explaining the Roles of Experts in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs for Personalization The paper personalizes mixture-of-experts models and analyzes which specialized experts encode distinct user-specific features. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on personalization and interpretability, not software code LLMs. | |
| Believed but Not Said: Measuring Hidden Belief Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Discussions The paper demonstrates that a single adversarial agent can cause benign models in multi-agent discussions to quietly adopt false beliefs. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies multi-agent factual QA, not code generation or repair. | |
| EMO: A Closed-Loop Test-Time Computation Framework via Alternating Context Optimization and Logits Steering The paper proposes an alternating context optimization and logit steering framework to adapt language model outputs at test time. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on test-time optimization theory, not code generation. | |
| Mosaic: Multi-Session Agentic Reinforcement Learning The paper introduces a hierarchical reinforcement learning method designed for agentic tasks that span multiple interaction sessions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates general agent trajectory optimization, not code generation. | |
| Change the Number, Change the Answer: Assessing Rating Scale Sensitivity in LLM-Based Text Scoring The paper evaluates how choices in rating scale design systematically alter text evaluation scores produced by large language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates text scoring scales, not code generation or repair. | |
| AutoSFT: An Agentic System for Automated Data Research in Supervised Fine-Tuning The paper introduces a multi-agent system to automate data curation and dataset editing for supervised fine-tuning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on supervised fine-tuning data curation, not coding assistants. | |
| HTN-Orchestrate: A Hierarchical Task Network Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration The paper introduces a hierarchical task network framework that separates multi-agent planning from execution scheduling. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates multi-agent planning frameworks rather than code generation. | |
| Beyond Downstream QA: Rethinking How We Evaluate Agent Memory The paper presents a benchmark that isolates agent memory evolution from downstream retrieval and generation failures. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Studies agent memory benchmarks, not software engineering or code generation. | |
| Training-Free On-Policy Distillation The paper presents a closed-form, training-free approach to merge specialized fine-tuned models into a single student using forward passes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Presents a general distillation algorithm, not specific software engineering LLMs. | |
| Language Is a Security Surface for Agent Guards The paper evaluates 19 safety guards across multiple non-English languages to measure how translation alters step-level safety decisions for agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual agent security, not programming or code synthesis. | |
| Librarian Agents: Training LLMs to Curate Long-Context Workspaces that Anticipate Future Queries The paper trains language model agents to reorganize unstructured document collections into structured workspaces to speed up future multi-document queries. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Focuses on document workspace structuring rather than code generation or repair. | |
| AI Consilium: a Benchmark of LLM Clinical Multidisciplinary Second Opinions The authors develop a clinical benchmark evaluating language model pipelines for generating multidisciplinary second opinions on complex medical cases. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Applies to clinical diagnosis, not programming or code synthesis. | |
| Knowledge That Is Linear Before Fine-Tuning Generalizes After It The authors study why certain linearly represented facts in language models support generalization to new relations after fine-tuning while other recalled facts do not. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Investigates representation linearity, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Learning Self-Orchestration in Decentralized Agent Swarms The authors present a market-based post-training framework that allows decentralized agent swarms to learn both action policies and coordination mechanisms without central orchestration. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Addresses multi-agent swarm coordination rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| Twice Upon a Time: Complementary Representations for Time-Series Reasoning The authors propose combining line plots and normalized delay embeddings to provide complementary visual representations for time-series reasoning in language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Analyzes time-series reasoning rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| Evaluation Awareness Beyond English: Do LLMs Act Differently When Tested in Indic Languages? The authors evaluate how language models alter their refusal behavior when informed they are being monitored in English and five Indic languages. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | Not relevant Evaluates multilingual safety behavior, not code generation or software engineering. | |
| Reliability without Validity: A Systematic, Large-Scale Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge Models Across Agreement, Consistency, and Bias The paper evaluates twenty-one language models used as judges across three benchmarks, finding widespread discrepancies between agreement metrics and underlying validity. PreprintOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | LLMs for code via blog · 16 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Does not study software engineering, code generation, or repair. | |
| When Knowledge Changes: Metamorphic Testing of RAG Systems with Mutations The paper proposes a metamorphic testing method with mutation operators to evaluate how retrieval-augmented generation systems handle changing document corpora. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | LLMs for code via acm · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on testing RAG consistency rather than coding models. | |
| CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs The authors introduce CharXiv, a benchmark of realistic scientific charts designed to test descriptive and reasoning capabilities in multimodal language models. PreprintOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | LLMs for code via blog · 15 Oct, 15:11 | Not relevant Evaluates visual chart reasoning rather than software code generation. | |
| A Technical Survey of Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Large Language Models This survey provides an algorithmic overview and failure mode analysis of reinforcement learning techniques applied to language models. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | LLMs for code via acm · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Surveys general RL techniques for LLMs rather than code-specific models. | |
| SELF-IMPROVED INTENT ALIGNMENT VIA POST HOC ... Summary pending (next check). Could not confirmPreprint | LLMs for code via openreview · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Waiting for check | |
| A Systematic Study of Deprecated Android API Usage Updates This paper analyzes deprecated Android application programming interfaces and derives patterns to study how developers update them. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Empirical study on Android API deprecation without focusing on LLMs for code. | |
| Systematic Detection of Energy Regressions in Software Version Histories This paper introduces an approach to detect statistically significant software energy consumption regressions across commits in version histories. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Addresses software energy regression detection without involving LLMs for code. | |
| Taming the Online Software Engineering Tongue: Detecting and Reducing Offensive Language in Software Communities This paper develops machine learning models to detect, explain, and suggest alternatives for offensive language in online developer communities. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Focuses on detecting offensive language in online forums, not code generation. | |
| Verifying deployed bytecode against executable EVM semantics, with exact gas and no added axioms The paper presents a Lean 4 framework to verify deployed Ethereum bytecode directly against executable virtual machine semantics. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Formal verification using Lean 4, not language models for code. | |
| Typechecking without Minimum Types: Finite Bases and Backward Checking for $F_{<:}^{\top}$ The paper proves that typechecking is decidable for explicitly annotated terms in System F-sub-top without minimum types. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Theoretical programming language type theory, not LLMs for code. | |
| Can LLMs Access their World Knowledge for Event Prediction? The authors introduce DescribeEvent to show that language models can forecast temporal events when using natural-language descriptions and symbolic labels. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines temporal event forecasting, not software programming or code tasks. | |
| Joint Subspace Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context Decoding The paper introduces a token-level sparse attention method using a learned query-key subspace and an indexed kernel to accelerate long-context decoding. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on attention kernel efficiency, not software engineering or coding. | |
| Crossing the Gender Binary: Modelling Gendered Reference in Science Fiction and General Fiction The paper analyzes gendered reference replacements across science fiction and general fiction corpora using a masked language model. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies literary fiction corpora, not software engineering or code. | |
| Tracing Morphology, Semantics, and Divergence in Language Acquisition The paper analyzes intermediate training checkpoints to trace when language models acquire morphological structures versus semantic embeddings during pretraining. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes linguistic acquisition in LLMs, not programming or code synthesis. | |
| Pre-Trained Language Models as Zero-Shot Tools for Social Science Research The paper examines using pre-trained language models without task-specific training for social science record linkage and demographic inference from names. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies models to record linkage and demographic inference, not programming. | |
| Similar Models, Broken Odds: Where Luce's Axiom Fails in Chatbot Arena The paper shows that the Bradley-Terry model fails on Chatbot Arena for similar models, and introduces a parameter-efficient correction for ties. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on general chatbot evaluation, not software engineering or code. | |
| DecisionRobust: Benchmarking Robustness for JEV Style Decision Models Across Text and Vision The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating the robustness of typed decision models against text, image, and prompt injection attacks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates decision models on text and vision, not software code generation. | |
| From Qualitative Text to Integrated Evidence: The Parallel-Then-Integrated (PTI) Procedure The paper presents a four-step methodological procedure to integrate ontology-guided coding and topic modeling representations of qualitative text data. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies to qualitative interview coding, not code generation or software tools. | |
| Fantastic Metrics and How to Find Them: Meta-Evaluating Metrics for Multi-lingual Style-Personalized Generation The paper proposes a regression-based meta-evaluation framework and benchmark to assess text evaluation metrics for multilingual style-personalized generation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies to text generation, not software code or programming tasks. | |
| How to Evaluate When You Don't Know How to Evaluate? Choosing Reliable Setups for Base Language Model Benchmarking The paper investigates base language model benchmarking setups to identify evaluation configurations that produce consistent, non-random, and monotonic performance signals. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on base language model evaluation rather than code. | |
| NEPSEE: A Double-Annotated Benchmark for Nepali Sentiment Analysis The paper presents a double-annotated sentiment dataset for Nepali and evaluates several open-source and commercial language models on it. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on sentiment analysis, not software development code. | |
| Weighted Ensemble Sampling for Rare-Event Estimation in Language Models The paper introduces a training-free sampling framework that uses internal model activations to efficiently estimate rare failure probabilities in language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not evaluate or generate programming code. |
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