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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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Web$hell: A Unified Interface for Agentic Web Access
Proposes Web$hell, a unified interface combining broad information gathering, browser interactions, and evidence management for web-based agents.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on agent interface efficiency and tool execution rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
CNN-Transformer with Sigmoid Label for High-Resolution Sub-Degree DOA Estimation
Combines a CNN-Transformer network with a continuous sigmoid label encoding to overcome grid quantization errors in direction-of-arrival estimation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Covers signal processing label encodings, not AI safety, robustness, jailbreaks, or guardrails.
Local Diagnostics of Learned Event Representations for Anomaly Detection at the HL-LHC
Evaluates neural embedding and diagnostic strategies to interpret detected anomalies in high-luminosity collider particle physics data.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses particle physics anomaly detection rather than AI deployment safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Rollout-Time Intervention: Unlocking Agentic Reinforcement Learning Beyond Policy Limits
Proposes Rollout-Time Intervention to convert failed agent trajectories into successful off-policy training signals during reinforcement learning.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on improving agent task performance via RL interventions rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
Collective Autonomous Vehicle Routing Needs Social Awareness for Coexistence with Human Drivers
Incorporates marginal-cost rewards into multi-agent reinforcement learning to reduce autonomous vehicle travel times without worsening human driver delays.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with traffic congestion externalities rather than language model deployment safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Agentic Large Language Models
Presents a textbook providing an overview of the concepts, architectures, and interactions of agentic large language models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Presents a general survey of agentic models rather than a targeted safety, security, or robustness study.
SqueezeBench: Saturation-Resilient Evaluation of Mathematical Capability
Introduces SqueezeBench, a saturation-resilient benchmark for formal mathematical reasoning where new accepted proofs dynamically raise the target bounds.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses benchmark saturation in formal mathematics, not AI safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Branching On-Policy Distillation
Introduces BranchOPD, which branches student rollouts from shared prefixes at uncertain decision points to improve on-policy distillation efficiency.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Optimizes distillation training efficiency without studying deployment safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Humanize MLE Agents: Multi-Agent Session Alternation Beyond Single-Agent Limits
Presents a framework alternating multi-agent sessions across context resets to overcome reasoning degradation in long-horizon machine learning engineering.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses context degradation and agent session management, not safety guardrails or deployment risk mitigation.
Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning
Presents Explanatory World Models, using language model causal explanations to redistribute reinforcement learning rewards across distant actions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on long-horizon RL optimization, not deployment safety, guardrails, or hallucination prevention.
Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Model with Heterogeneous Evidence Integration for Clinical Prognosis
Proposes PRISM, a multimodal clinical prognostic model combining patient records with retrieved population-level embedding memory banks.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Presents a diagnostic clinical model without addressing safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or hallucination mitigation.
Causal Effect Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Strict Hierarchy of Criteria
Formalizes a theoretical hierarchy of identifiability criteria for estimating causal effects across equivalence classes of causal graphs.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on theoretical causality rather than LLM safety, guardrails, hallucination, or deployment risks.
Beyond Domain-Routed Supervision: Cross-Teacher Guarding for Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation
Proposes Road MOPD, using non-routed teachers as cross-domain critics to resolve gradient conflicts in multi-teacher on-policy distillation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses optimization gradient conflicts in distillation, not safety, guardrails, jailbreaks, or deployment monitoring.
Constructing Pareto Frontiers of Optimal Reasoning Termination Methods for Overthinking in Reasoning Models
Develops Step-wise Truncation Probing and termination strategies to quantify and mitigate accuracy degradation from overthinking in reasoning models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on overthinking token efficiency and accuracy trade-offs rather than deployment safety or guardrails.
MENTOR: Learning from Failure with On-Policy Pedagogical Intervention
Presents MENTOR, a multi-agent framework that intervenes adaptively during failed reasoning rollouts to prevent zero-reward collapse in RLVR.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on preventing zero-reward collapse during RL training rather than deployed safety guardrails.
AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs
Proposes AudioTETRIS, a training-free token pruning framework that uses acoustic transition signals to compress audio representations efficiently.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Optimizes audio LLM inference efficiency rather than addressing safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Humanize Olympiad Agents: A Multi-Session Workflow for Olympiad Problem Solving with Solve, Review, Wiki, Verify
Introduces HOA, a multi-session LLM agent framework coordinating review, wiki knowledge, and verification for complex Olympiad problem solving.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on mathematical problem solving performance rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Model-agnostic Knowledge Augmented Machine Learning for Weakly Annotated Bioimaging Data
Proposes a model-agnostic method to integrate biological domain knowledge into machine learning models trained on weakly annotated bioimaging.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses biomedical image classification rather than deployed AI safety guardrails or red-teaming.
Learning Size Independent Constraint Models from Input Data and Positive and Negative Example Solutions
Presents a constraint acquisition tool that synthesizes size-independent constraint programs from input data and example solutions.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with inductive logic and constraint programming rather than deployed AI safety or reliability.
SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data
Introduces SelectArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate tabular feature selection methods across real-world domain datasets and contemporary models.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on tabular feature selection accuracy rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or guardrails.
Pretraining and Test-Time Training Budgets Matter for ARC: A Controlled Study of VARC and TRM
Evaluates how pretraining and test-time training computational budgets affect ARC benchmark performance across two distinct reasoning model architectures.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes performance scaling on abstract reasoning tasks without addressing AI safety or deployment risks.
A Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Tuning of Specialized Neural Network Models
Presents a multi-agent LLM framework that automatically tunes specific internal algorithm components while preserving overall neural network structures.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on automated hyperparameter and architecture coding rather than safety guardrails or alignment.
A Step Harder, Not a Step Too Far: The Benefits and Limits of Curriculum Difficulty Progression in GRPO
Proposes a dynamic curriculum for GRPO that re-estimates sample difficulty to progressively transition policy training toward harder problems.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies curriculum progression for GRPO optimization rather than safety guardrails, jailbreaks, or monitoring.
Not All Dimensions Are Equal: Outlier-Aware Attention Linearization with Grouped Quadratic Kernels
Presents Outlier-Aware Attention Linearization, using quadratic approximations to retain outlier dimensions during efficient Transformer attention evaluation.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses inference efficiency rather than deployed AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient is Nearly Minimax-Optimal
Introduces Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient, proving near-optimal sample complexity under weak gradient domination using first-order updates.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on generic RL theoretical convergence rates rather than AI safety or alignment risks.
A Baseline Assessment for the Agentic Web Technology Stack
Benchmarks combinations of language models, communication protocols, and agent frameworks on web interaction tasks.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on system stack evaluation rather than safety vulnerabilities, guardrails, or jailbreaks.
Adaptive DHiSparse: Speculative Decoding over a Load-Adaptive KV Hierarchy
Combines load-adaptive hierarchical key-value caching with speculative decoding to accelerate long-context language model serving.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses system performance and throughput rather than safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Amortized Counterfactual Prediction with Graph Neural Networks
Presents a graph neural process framework to answer counterfactual queries directly from observational data without prior causal graph discovery.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Presents general causal inference without focusing on deployed AI safety, guardrails, or alignment.
LAPT-Scale: Scaling Embodied Policies with Latent Action Pre-Training on Human Videos
Pre-trains embodied robot policies on human egocentric videos using learned continuous latent action representations.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not study safety, guardrails, jailbreaks, or deployment reliability risks.
Orthros: Phase-Aware Heterogeneous Attention for Efficient Transformers
Proposes an attention mechanism that switches from linear complexity during prefilling to full attention during token decoding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Optimizes computational complexity of attention rather than safety or reliability guardrails.
Matched-Context Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training
Constructs context-matched preference comparisons from sibling rollouts to improve credit assignment during language model agent training.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on task performance training rather than AI safety, robustness, or guardrails.
When Edge Independence Fails: Joint Graph Diffusion with Latent Sociability Priors
Introduces a latent sociability prior to mitigate edge-independence issues in discrete graph diffusion models.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses graph generative modeling theory rather than AI safety, alignment, or guardrails.
DualQuant: Dual-scale Calibration-free Weight-and-Activation Quantization for LLMs
Proposes a calibration-free post-training quantization method that jointly optimizes weight and activation scaling for 4-bit model inference.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses model compression and hardware speedups rather than safety or guardrails.
ReplaySSM: Cache SSM Inputs, Not State
Replaces frequent state memory updates in state-space models by caching inputs and periodically checkpointing state during decoding.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on runtime throughput optimization rather than AI safety or alignment.
MC-EvoBench: Auditing Experience-Driven Self-Improvement in Minecraft Agents
Introduces a controlled Minecraft benchmark to evaluate whether embodied agents acquire persistent, transferrable skills across environment resets.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Studies self-improvement capabilities rather than safety risks, hallucination, or guardrails.
SpatialASM: Internalizing Active Mentalization for Spatial Reasoning
Trains vision-language models to perform active spatial reasoning through novel-view generation and simulated mentalization trajectories.
Preprint
AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on spatial reasoning capabilities rather than deployment safety, alignment, or guardrails.
Studying Comics at Scale with Artificial Intelligence: The PAGE Framework and Three Studies of American Comics and Japanese Manga
Applies vision-language models and structured annotation to parse and analyze historical comic books and manga at scale.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on cultural analytics rather than AI safety, red-teaming, or reliability.
Revisiting Tabular Deep Regression: Objectives and the Limits of Global Early Stopping
Evaluates regression objective functions and global early stopping limits across neural network backbones and established tabular datasets.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Addresses training objectives for tabular data rather than AI safety or deployment guardrails.
Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
Tests language models on graph-based information retrieval and navigation using the Wikipedia Game across multiple languages and citation datasets.
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AI safety and reliability in deployment
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Does not address safety, hallucination, guardrails, or deployment reliability issues.
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