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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Benchmarking and Training Reward Models for Cross-Source Evidence Grounding in Search Agents This paper introduces an evaluation framework and reward models to assess how well search agents ground generated answers in retrieved, independent sources. Ranked #361New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies how autonomous search agents ground evidence and resolve conflicting information during multi-step trajectories. | |
| Empowering Edge Agents: A Systematic Analysis of Edge-Cloud Collaboration in LLM Agent Execution This paper presents a benchmark to evaluate performance, resource usage, and privacy trade-offs when language model agents collaborate across edge and cloud environments. Ranked #362New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates edge-cloud collaborative execution strategies and trajectory performance for long-horizon LLM agents. | |
| SkillScreen: High-Recall Screening of Malicious Agent Skills with Decision Models This paper presents a compact decision model designed to screen malicious agent tool skills with high recall directly from specification files. Ranked #363Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Screens malicious agent skills to secure autonomous agent action execution. | |
| Socratic Skill Learning: Interleaving Teaching and Practice for Transferable Agent Skills Introduces Socratic Skill Learning, interleaving expert guidance with student practice to produce reusable and transferable agent skills across tasks. Ranked #364New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops interactive skill learning and execution for LLM agents across diverse task sessions. | |
| Learning Adaptive Deliberation Control for Reliable Recognition with Multi-Agent Language Models Presents ADMA, an adaptive deliberation controller that dynamically adjusts multi-agent critique and coordination to improve reasoning accuracy. Ranked #365Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Presents an adaptive multi-agent deliberation controller for coordination, proposal, and arbitration. | |
| LatentRemedy: Efficient Remedy For Non-Prefix KV Cache Reuse in Multi-Agent Systems LatentRemedy uses task-conditioned latent tokens to allow safe key-value cache reuse across conflicting tasks in multi-agent systems. Ranked #366New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Addresses context sharing and inference execution across interacting agents in multi-agent systems. | |
| Cost-Efficient Privacy Enforcement for Email-Generating LLM Agents under Strategic Information Requests The paper introduces local contract-conditioned rewriting to prevent sensitive data leakage in email-generating language model agents cost-effectively. Ranked #367New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on deploying LLM agents that draft and send external emails autonomously. | |
| The belief-action gap in language model agents The authors examine why language model agents fail by analyzing discrepancies between internal representations of state values and actual action choices. Ranked #368New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates how beliefs and action values cause failures in language model agents. | |
| SchemaWeaver: Accelerating On-Device Mobile Agentic AI via Schema-Guided Parallel LLM Decoding The authors present a parallel decoding method that speeds up on-device tool calling for language model agents without requiring model retraining. Ranked #369Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Accelerates on-device LLM agent tool calling via schema-guided decoding. | |
| MAS-Gate: Unlocking Multi-Agent System Lifecycle via Node-Centric Quantification The paper presents a unified node-centric framework to quantify and manage multi-agent system lifecycles across design, runtime, and post-hoc attribution. Ranked #370New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Proposes a node-centric framework for orchestrating and monitoring multi-agent systems. | |
| Verifier-Harness Co-Evolution for Training-Free Self-Improvement on Open-Ended Tasks The paper proposes a training-free framework that co-evolves an executable verifier program and harness state to self-improve agents on open-ended tasks. Ranked #371Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Enables training-free self-improvement and harness updates for open-ended agents. | |
| Proactive Physical AI through Continuous Observation and Timely Intervention The paper proposes a system for physical AI that continuously monitors environments to identify intervention needs and execute timely actions. Ranked #372New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops an agent that continuously observes the environment to autonomously plan interventions. | |
| Can Agents Truly Forget? Explore Machine Unlearning for LLM Agents Formulates machine unlearning for LLM agents across parametric memory, external persistent storage, and tool-accessible environments. Ranked #373New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies private data unlearning across agent parameters, memory, and tools. | |
| Do Theorem Provers Need Theorem-Proving Agents? mini-Lean-agent: A Coding-Agent Baseline for Lean The paper presents a minimal coding agent baseline for Lean theorem proving using standard bash tooling instead of specialized harnesses. Ranked #374Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Tests whether minimal coding agents can complete multi-step theorem proving. | |
| Who is the 'I' in AI? Establishing Decentralized Identity and Accountability for Autonomous Agents Proposes a decentralized identity framework using self-sovereign identity principles to establish verification and accountability for autonomous agents. Ranked #375New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Proposes decentralized identity and accountability frameworks specifically for autonomous AI agents. | |
| Overtaught, Underlearned: Learner-Centered Distillation from Multi-Agent Discussion Distills multi-agent discussions into a single student model by grouping redundant reasoning traces and revisiting unlearned examples. Ranked #376New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates distilling multi-agent collaborative discussion trajectories into a single reasoning student model. | |
| EAU: Environment-Agent-User Co-evolution for Training User-Centric Agents Co-evolves the user simulator, environment tools, and rewards during training to improve interactive multi-turn language model agents. Ranked #377New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops a co-evolution framework to train multi-turn, tool-using conversational LLM agents. | |
| SLS-Bench: A Benchmark for Incident Log Summarization with Synthetic Observability Data Introduces a benchmark of synthetic observability data and incident reports to evaluate automated incident log summarization. Ranked #378New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Evaluates language models acting as agents for incident log summarization. | |
| Dream2Discern: Learning from Hard Latent Variants for Runtime Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent Systems The paper presents a runtime auditor that predicts execution failures in multi-agent systems using loss-guided perturbations to identify hard failure cases. Ranked #379New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Presents a runtime auditor predicting terminal failures in LLM multi-agent trajectories. | |
| Computational Reflective Equilibrium for Agentic AI: A Rawlsian Alignment Scaffold for Governance The paper proposes an ethical governance scaffold based on reflective equilibrium to resolve conflicting instructions and policy rules in agentic workflows. Ranked #380New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Designs an ethical alignment and governance scaffold governing agent tool actions and workflows. | |
| Small but Mighty: Test Suites as Improvement Signals for Self-Evolving Agents The paper presents an evolutionary search method that generates small, high-quality test suites to verify code rewrites in self-evolving agents. Ranked #381New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Focuses on verifying and guiding code rewrites for self-evolving language model agents. | |
| HyWe: Unifying Search and Operation for Real-World Hybrid Web Tasks Introduces a 35B model, trajectory pipeline, and benchmark unifying search and browser interaction within a single web agent. Ranked #382New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Builds a unified web agent combining multi-step search and browser interaction. | |
| ReTAC: Residual Test-Time Agentic Computation for Video Spatial Reasoning Presents a multi-agent framework that allocates test-time computation only to unresolved steps for video spatial reasoning tasks. Ranked #383New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Presents a multi-agent test-time framework with planning, tool use, and reflection for spatial reasoning. | |
| REVEAL: Reverse Engineering Agentic Latents from Frontier-Model Traces Extracts reusable local control signals from frontier model traces to guide smaller language model agents without extra target-model training. Ranked #384New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops a framework to guide interactive LLM agent trajectories using frontier-model traces. | |
| Learning to GUIDE the Group: Self-Learning LLM Facilitation Across Multi-Party Tasks Presents a framework for developing language model facilitators that balance group dynamics, psychological safety, and task goals across multi-party conversations. Ranked #385New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates LLM agents taking action to facilitate multi-party interactions across group contexts. | |
| Look Back to Move Forward: Learning to Revisit for Agentic Compositional Image Generation Develops an agentic text-to-image framework allowing agents to revisit and select earlier image states for iterative compositional generation. Ranked #386New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Proposes an agentic framework that plans iterative multi-step editing actions and selects states. | |
| PID-Gated Continual Prompt Adaptation Under Noisy Feedback This paper proposes control-inspired gates to decide when language model agents should adapt their prompts without absorbing noisy user feedback. Ranked #387New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops a PID-gated mechanism for continual instruction adaptation in LLM agents. | |
| SkillFusion: Towards Reliable Multi-Skill Composition for LLM Agents This paper introduces an offline compiler that detects conflicts and merges multiple agent skills into a single coherent capability. Ranked #388New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Presents a compiler to reconcile conflicting skills for LLM agents. | |
| RetryBench: Separating Retry Permission from Recovery Outcomes in GPT Tool Use The paper presents a benchmark evaluating how language model agents handle unauthorized tool call retries after receiving timeouts. Ranked #389New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Analyzes how LLM agents handle tool-call retries and timeout failures. | |
| Google Earth AI Geospatial Reasoning Agent: Capabilities and a Systematic Evaluation The paper presents Google Earth AI's geospatial reasoning agent along with evaluation benchmarks for complex multi-step geospatial workflows. Ranked #390New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Introduces a geospatial reasoning agent that decomposes queries and orchestrates tools. | |
| SpecForge: Recursive Self-Improvement for Coding Agents via Behavioral Specifications The paper presents a self-improvement method where coding agents refine natural-language behavioral specifications using execution-verified tests. Ranked #391New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops a self-improvement search loop for autonomous coding agents. | |
| When Skills Remain But Access Fails: Factorized Skill Memory for Continual Skill Internalization This paper investigates catastrophic forgetting in continual agent skill learning and proposes a factorized memory architecture to preserve procedural execution. Ranked #392Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies how language model agents retain and execute procedural skills continually. | |
| State Representation Shapes Long-Horizon Agent Learning and Transfer: An Empirical Study This empirical study evaluates how compact versus full state representations affect the ability of language model agents to learn long-horizon workflows. Ranked #393Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies how state representations affect long-horizon action learning and tool workflows in agents. | |
| Self-Evolving Visual Agent via Margin Reward This paper introduces a self-evolution framework that trains visual agents to invoke tools using reinforcement learning and unlabeled images. Ranked #394New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Presents a self-evolving visual agent that learns multi-step tool invocation. | |
| What Survives When Activation Steering Is Used as Memory This paper evaluates the capabilities and limitations of using activation steering vectors as an agent memory mechanism. Ranked #395Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Investigates activation steering as an internal memory mechanism for persistent agent experiences. | |
| SkillForgeBench: Evaluating Agent Reliability Grounded in Agent Skill Specifications This paper introduces a benchmark that uses agent skill specifications to evaluate the reliability and procedural correctness of AI agents. Ranked #396New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Introduces a benchmark evaluating LLM agent reliability and execution across complex sandboxed workflows. | |
| WorkBorne: Discovering Agentic Tasks from Real-World Artifact Transitions This paper presents a framework for discovering and synthesizing terminal-based agent tasks grounded in real-world artifact transitions. Ranked #397New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops synthetic terminal environments and interactive tasks for long-horizon agent execution. | |
| RASSG: Repair-Aware Semantic Survival Gating for Streaming Tool Execution The paper proposes an execution-gating method to safely launch and cancel tool calls early during live speech recognition before user self-corrections. Ranked #398New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Designs gating mechanisms for agents to execute and cancel tools during streaming speech. | |
| ixi-sLM: On-Device sLM for AI Call Agent Service The paper presents techniques to adapt and quantize a small language model for on-device deployment in phone call agent services. Ranked #399New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Deploys a specialized on-device small model acting as an autonomous call assistant. | |
| MemDuet: Learning Dual-Process Memory for Long-Context Reasoning The paper introduces a dual-process memory framework coordinating small and large models for efficient long-context reasoning. Ranked #400New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Presents a dual-process memory agent coordinating small and large models for multi-step reasoning. | |
| Can LLM Agents Efficiently Identify Appliance Faults? Insights From Diagnosing a Simulated Appliance The paper evaluates the ability of language model agents to diagnose appliance faults using a simulated appliance benchmark based on sensor data. Ranked #401New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Evaluates LLM agents iteratively diagnosing faults using simulated sensor tools. | |
| 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. Ranked #402Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Studies memory and continual knowledge acquisition for foundation model agents. | |
| Jev-LiteMAS: Separating Decisions from Generation in Multi-Agent Workflows The paper proposes a framework that replaces generative model calls with lightweight decision models for routing and reviewing in multi-agent workflows. Ranked #403New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17 | On-topic Develops a framework separating workflow routing and review from generation in multi-agent systems. | |
| EvalBuilder: Can LLMs Build Efficient Benchmarks? The paper presents a framework to evaluate whether language model agents can build lower-cost benchmark tests that match reference evaluations. Ranked #404New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Studies LLM agents performing multi-step planning to build proxy evaluation benchmarks. | |
| Lifted State Policy Optimization: Internalizing Self-Correction through Transition Geometry The paper proposes a policy optimization method that treats reasoning transitions as learned coordinates in an energy space to internalize self-correction. Ranked #405Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Internalizes step-level self-correction and transition reasoning in reasoning policies. | |
| One Task, Many Interfaces: Simple Cross-Interface Consistency Training Improves LLM Agent Robustness Introduces a self-supervised consistency loss across varied tool interfaces to make language model agents robust against notation and naming changes. Ranked #406Surprising resultPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Addresses LLM agent robustness and function calling across interface perturbations. | |
| MCAIR: Monitoring and Correcting Agent Unfaithfulness via Internal Representations The paper proposes a runtime monitoring method to detect and correct language model agents that deviate from intended procedures without reporting it. Ranked #407New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Monitors LLM agents during multi-step tool execution to detect and correct unfaithful reports. | |
| Measuring and Reducing Unusable Replies of LLM Agents The paper measures whether requester users can understand multi-step agent replies and evaluates how explicit constraints improve reply usability. Ranked #408New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Investigates whether user-facing replies produced by multi-step LLM agents are usable. | |
| Divergent Paths: Learning an Outcome-Predictive Representation of LLM Agent Trajectories The paper learns trajectory embeddings to predict the success or failure of language model agents early during execution. Ranked #409New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Learns outcome-predictive trajectory representations across benchmarks for multi-step LLM agents. | |
| AtomSearch: Evidence-Grounded Tree Search for Agent Skill Optimization The paper proposes a tree search method that optimizes agent skills through contrastive atomic rule editing and execution memory. Ranked #410New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Proposes tree search optimization for editable agent skills to complete tasks over multi-step executions. | |
| Explorer-Zero: Improving Self-Play for Long-Horizon Tasks with Decomposable Verifiable Rewards This paper proposes a self-play reinforcement learning framework that automatically generates tasks and intermediate verifiable rewards for long-horizon agent training. Ranked #411New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Trains LLM agents to accomplish long-horizon tasks via self-play and environment interactions. | |
| Teaching Agents in their Own Style: Blackbox Teacher Distillation for Web Agents This paper presents a distillation method where a teacher model minimally edits a student web agent's reasoning traces at failure points. Ranked #412New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Introduces a distillation method to train web agents using action-level editing. | |
| ReproBAIT: Can coding agents build their own biological AI tools? This paper introduces a benchmark evaluating whether coding agents can reimplement and train biological AI tools from published scientific papers. Ranked #413New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Evaluates autonomous coding agents executing multi-step tool design and implementation workflows. | |
| PRISMATIC : Prescription Risk Inspection System for Multi-Agent Treatment Interaction in Clinical Decision-Making This paper proposes a multi-agent system designed to reduce clinical medication errors through dynamic collaborative coordination. Ranked #414New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Presents a collaborative multi-agent architecture coordinating clinical treatment planning. | |
| EvoProbe: Evaluation-Driven Benchmark Evolution for LLM Agents The paper introduces an evaluation framework that diagnoses bottlenecks and dynamically regenerates benchmark tasks for language model agents. Ranked #415New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Evaluates and evolves benchmark tasks specifically for LLM agents. | |
| Evaluating Agentic Capabilities Before Post-Training: An End-to-End Approach The paper presents an evaluation framework to test the interactive agentic capabilities of base language models before post-training. Ranked #416New testPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Develops scaffolds to evaluate agentic behaviors like editing and recovery. | |
| L3M: A Verifiable Harness and Runtime for Self-Extending and Self-Improving Agents The paper presents a Lean 4 runtime allowing self-extending agents to run verified computations across tools without constant human oversight. Ranked #417New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Presents a verifiable runtime harness for multi-agent workflows, tool execution, and state persistence. | |
| Beyond Retrieval: Evidence Access and Event Aggregation in Agent Memory The paper introduces an event ledger and executable aggregation framework to help agents accurately query and summarize trajectory history. Ranked #418New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Develops executable aggregation for long-term agent memory and planning histories. | |
| MemCode: Discrete Semantic Representations for Long-Term Agent Memory The paper introduces a discrete codebook representation that pairs associative indexing with vector search for long-term agent memory. Ranked #419New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Improves long-term cross-session memory for LLM autonomous agents. | |
| Whose turn is it? Context-guided model routing for stateful agents The paper investigates context-aware model routing rules across turns in stateful multi-step agent applications. Ranked #420New way to see a problemPreprint6/10 suggested | AI agents via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | On-topic Develops context-guided model routing specifically for multi-turn, stateful agent environments. |
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