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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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| DUALVIEW: Leveraging Broad and Output-Specific Evidence for LLM-based Multi-Output Text Regression The paper proposes a parameter-efficient method leveraging frozen model representations for multi-output text regression tasks across diverse benchmarks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-output text regression, not code generation. | |
| From Efficiency to Sufficiency: The Cost-Aware Measurement Design Framework for Automated Essay Scoring The paper presents a framework to formalize compute, labor, and workflow costs as core measurement design criteria for automated essay scoring. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on essay scoring, not software engineering code. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on industrial appliance fault diagnostics rather than code. | |
| Qwenfant: Train Big Character-level BabyLMs on Concise Parallel Text The paper presents an approach using character-level tokens, larger models, and synthetic data for the multilingual BabyLM data-efficiency challenge. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual text modeling, not code tasks. | |
| PersEvalBench: Can LLM Evaluators Judge Contextually Appropriate Use of Persona Information? The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether language models can accurately detect appropriate and inappropriate uses of persona information in dialogue. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not evaluate or generate software code. | |
| Truthful and Expected-Payment-Optimal Model Routing in Graph-Based Agentic Workflows The paper formulates task routing across language model providers as an auction mechanism to encourage truthful cost reporting while minimizing context switching. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses procurement auctions in agent workflows, not code generation. | |
| TopicMerge: A Divide and Conquer Approach to Topic Modeling The paper introduces a multi-stage topic modeling pipeline that merges fine-grained document clusters using a language model to balance efficiency and quality. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on document topic modeling rather than program generation. | |
| Counterfactual Gate-Support Decomposition: Separating Selection from Redistribution in Training-Data Filtering The paper proposes an experimental design that separates example selection from mass redistribution to analyze the effects of training-data quality filtering. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on software engineering or code generation. | |
| Target-Token Asymmetry Can Masquerade As Depth Specialization The paper shows that differences in predicted target tokens, such as whitespace, can falsely look like layer specialization across different corpora. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies mechanistic interpretability across token types, not code generation. | |
| Where to Start, How to Move: Analyzing Curricula under GRPO for Long-Horizon LLM Agents The paper analyzes prefix replay curricula and handoff rules under reinforcement learning to improve long-horizon task completion for language model agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multi-step tool-use benchmarks rather than software engineering. | |
| VLX-Go: Robust Embodied Tracking through Multi-Stage Learning and On-Policy Refinement The paper presents a vision-language policy combining pre-aligned representations and multi-stage learning to improve robotic person tracking among distractors. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on robotic visual tracking, not programming code. | |
| Learning What to Keep: Transfer-Aware Personal Skill Learning from User Feedback The paper introduces a framework that decomposes user feedback into atomic rules to retain only reusable preferences for personalizing language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates personalized writing tasks rather than software engineering. | |
| The Sum of All Summaries: PROPALIGN for Graded Proposition Salience Evaluation The paper proposes a multiple-summary metric and dataset to evaluate graded proposition salience across diverse text genres. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies to general text summarization rather than code generation. | |
| ForkGRPO: Efficient Exploration and Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Diffusion Language Models The paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework using intermediate-state branching and segment-level credit assignment for diffusion language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on diffusion model reasoning exploration, not code synthesis. | |
| More Than Seeing: Vision as Scalable Anchors in Native Multimodal Pre-Training The paper studies how visual input signals affect scaling behavior and non-visual reasoning during native multimodal pretraining. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines spatial reasoning and multimodal loss, not software code. | |
| ActICL: Post-Training for Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning The paper proposes an agentic framework enabling multimodal models to identify information gaps and retrieve in-context demonstrations iteratively. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal in-context learning, not code generation. | |
| What Does LALM Post-training Learn? Rethinking Audio Understanding and Reasoning Capabilities The paper analyzes post-training in audio-language models to separate genuine audio reasoning gains from question-format memorization. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates audio reasoning post-training, not code or programming tasks. | |
| AgriJev: Efficient Agricultural Candidate Scoring with Multi-Scale Adapted Models The paper presents adapted small language models designed to directly score agricultural candidate choices in a single forward pass. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Specialized for agricultural domain decision tasks, not software code. | |
| Towards Efficient Simultaneous Inverse Text Normalization with Pretrained Text-to-Text Language Model and Read-Tag-Write Policy The paper develops a streaming end-to-end inverse text normalization architecture using a pretrained text-to-text model with a read-tag-write policy. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses text normalization for speech recognition, not software code. | |
| One Block Ahead: Promoting Sampler State in Diffusion Language Models The paper proposes a decoding algorithm that denoises consecutive blocks concurrently by promoting sampler states in diffusion language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant General diffusion language model decoding, not specialized for code. | |
| Diagnosing and Correcting Reward Hacking in Verifiable Instruction Following The paper analyzes reward hacking in verifiable instruction following and introduces a likelihood bonus method to maintain answer quality. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant General instruction-following alignment, not focused on software code. | |
| A Unified Response Framework for Questions and Tutoring Dialogues The paper presents an item response theory framework to jointly evaluate student performance on standard questions and tutoring dialogue subtasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes math educational dialogues, not software engineering or code. | |
| GraphRAG-LTM: A Layered Threat Modeling Framework for Attacks on Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation The paper introduces a threat modeling framework examining adversarial query demotion and graph edit attacks on graph-based RAG systems. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on GraphRAG retrieval security, not code models. | |
| INTACT: Inducing Latent Reasoning on a Frozen Backbone The paper presents a method using an external encoder to induce latent soft-token reasoning on frozen language model backbones. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant General mathematical and reasoning acceleration, not code-specific modeling. | |
| Moral Combat: Exploiting Moral Foundations Theory to Jailbreak LLMs The paper introduces a multi-agent framework that reframes harmful requests using Moral Foundations Theory to test model jailbreak vulnerabilities. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses safety jailbreaks, not software engineering or code models. | |
| PA1-OPD: One-Step Prefix-Augmented On-Policy Distillation for Language Model Pretraining The paper proposes a prefix-augmented distillation method providing one-step student branch feedback during language model pretraining. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Pretraining distillation technique, not specialized for code LLMs. | |
| PN-Mix: Pair-Norm Guided Mixed-Precision Key Cache Quantization for Efficient Long-Output LLM Inference The paper proposes a pair-norm guided mixed-precision quantization method for key caches during long-output transformer inference. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant General LLM KV cache quantization method, not specific to software engineering. | |
| Twenty Days Later: A Pre-Registered Test of History-Based Forecasts of Brand Mentions in Gemini Answers The paper reports a pre-registered test measuring the stability of history-based forecasts for model brand mentions over twenty days. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes general model brand mentions, unrelated to software code tasks. | |
| Are We Really Measuring Forgetting? Pitfalls in Evaluating Machine Unlearning for Multimodal LLMs The paper identifies evaluation pitfalls in multimodal machine unlearning and introduces a benchmark grounded in real-world knowledge. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines multimodal unlearning benchmarks, not software or code assistants. | |
| J-tau: A Fully Localized Japanese Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction The paper introduces a localized Japanese benchmark for evaluating tool-using conversational agents in customer-support scenarios. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on customer support agents, not code generation or software repair. | |
| Selective Reasoning for Typed Decision Models: When to Start, Read, and Stop The paper proposes an interface for typed decision models that selectively invokes and interrupts reasoning to balance accuracy and latency. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on logical reasoning interruption, not software engineering or code. | |
| Beyond Distribution Matching: Selective Margin Preservation for Supervised Fine-Tuning The paper introduces a soft margin preservation target for supervised fine-tuning to retain non-target token rankings. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant General fine-tuning technique evaluated on math and code, not specialized code methods. | |
| Share the Symbol, Not the Vector: Training-Free Fact Communication Across Language Models The paper proposes a training-free interface for heterogeneous language models to communicate facts using shared symbolic word indices. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Explores neural communication between models, not code generation or analysis. | |
| BANGLAPLAN: A Benchmark for Constraint-Based Planning and Decision-Making in Bangla The paper introduces a 1,000-problem benchmark for constraint-based planning and decision-making in the Bangla language. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates natural language schedule/route planning, not program synthesis. | |
| RouteWeaver: Weaving Mode Selection and Execution into Unified LLM Routing The paper introduces a unified routing framework that learns both execution mode selection and model assignment across diverse tasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant General LLM routing framework tested broadly, not specialized software engineering tools. | |
| Beyond State Capacity: Why Retrieval Breaks in Mamba The paper analyzes retrieval failures in Mamba architectures under query-first settings and explores token representations and selection gates. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Investigates state-space model retrieval limits, not code generation or tools. | |
| MakSafe: A Spatiotemporal Semantic Framework for Formal Specification and Compliance Checking of Road Vehicle Safety Rules The paper presents a formal spatiotemporal framework to specify and verify road vehicle safety rules across continuous trajectories. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not about code generation or software engineering agents. | |
| Beyond Reachability: A Relation-Semantic Reasoning Framework for Biomedical Multi-hop QA The paper proposes a relation-semantic reasoning framework to resolve disconnects between answer reachability and valid paths in biomedical graphs. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation. | |
| Qwen-MT-Lumen at WMT2026: Instruction-Specialized Translation via Quality-Aware Training and On-Policy Distillation The paper presents a four-stage training pipeline combining preference optimization and distillation for instruction-following machine translation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to software coding. | |
| Likelihood Is Not Authorship: Can We Reliably Measure Human Contribution in AI-Assisted Writing? The paper reveals vulnerabilities in prompt-predictability metrics used to estimate human contribution in AI-assisted writing. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on text authorship attribution, not code generation. | |
| More Methods, Better Agents? A Reality Check on Self-Distillation in Agentic Reinforcement Learning The paper benchmarks ten self-distillation methods in agentic reinforcement learning across varied model sizes, tasks, and computational costs. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates web/science agent environments, not code generation. | |
| JetSpec++: Foresight Parallel Drafting with Self Refinements The paper introduces a speculative decoding system combining self-refinement and pipelined drafting to reduce wall-clock generation time. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation or software engineering. | |
| Evolve Together, Fall into Place: How Social Scaffolding Shapes Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems The paper investigates how team composition and organizational interdependence affect performance in self-evolving multi-agent systems. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Codebase understanding is only one test task; core focus is multi-agent systems. | |
| Delta Tokenizer: Reference-Identical Tokenization of Session Deltas and Segment-Parallelism for Long Prompts on Multicore CPUs The paper introduces a CPU front-end tokenizer that encodes only session deltas to speed up multi-turn inference. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on tokenizer serving systems, not code LLMs. | |
| Model vs. User: Whose Values Prevail? Inference-Time Value Alignment in Multi-Turn Conversations The paper studies the durability of inference-time value steering in multi-turn conversations when user and model values conflict. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation. | |
| MAPLE: A Multi-Axis Parametric Knowledge Extraction Lens for LLM Evaluation The paper presents a diagnostic evaluation framework to measure how inference-time techniques affect parametric knowledge extraction in models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on code or programming. | |
| EGCForest: Structured Agent Memory Organization for Enterprise Group Chats The paper proposes a multi-view hierarchical memory framework to improve information retrieval from enterprise group chats. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on enterprise chat retrieval, not code generation. | |
| OpenTWBench (Open Taiwan Benchmark): Taiwan-Domain Knowledge Evaluation for Large Language Models, and How the Measurement Apparatus Shapes the Score The paper introduces a two-part benchmark to evaluate language models on general and examination knowledge concerning Taiwan. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not about coding LLMs. | |
| SEA-HELM Audio: Evaluating Multilingual ASR-LLM Pipeline Performance Across SEA-HELM Subsets The paper presents an audio evaluation benchmark assessing accuracy drops between speech-input and text-input pipelines in Southeast Asian languages. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation. | |
| RCCM: Diagnosing Gains and Harms in Reasoning-Prompt Transfer The paper analyzes question-level variations and prompt-execution mismatches when transferring reasoning prompts across different language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on coding or software engineering. | |
| Beyond Benchmark Accuracy: A Diagnostic Test for LLM Chemical Prediction The paper proposes a diagnostic test hiding target identity to evaluate structure-property chemical reasoning in language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on chemical prediction, not software code. | |
| Not All Criteria Matter: Importance-Aware Criteria Weighting for Rubric-Based LLM Evaluation The paper introduces a method that weights rubric criteria through pairwise model comparisons to improve evaluation accuracy. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or repair. | |
| MolHop: Scaffold-Hopping Molecular Design with Agentic Reinforcement Learning The paper presents an agentic reinforcement learning framework that navigates organized chemical spaces for cross-scaffold molecular discovery. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies RL to chemical design, not software code. | |
| 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. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on code generation or software engineering. | |
| To Reason but Not to Stop: Understanding and Recovering Pruned Large Reasoning Models The paper shows pruned reasoning models fail by looping, proposing an activation steering method to restore proper termination. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates reasoning on code benchmarks, but primary focus is pruning. | |
| Choosing the Number of Attention Heads from Intrinsic Dimension: A Small-Scale Study The paper tests a heuristic to set the number of transformer attention heads using the intrinsic dimension of token representations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or programming assistants. | |
| SoK: Grading Open-Text Legal Answers, from Law School Exams to Trustworthy Rubric Judges The paper systematizes grading requirements for open-text legal exams and compares eight evaluation paradigms using human and model judges. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates legal essay answers, not code or software engineering. | |
| Gray-Box Hallucination Detection in LLMs with Token Identities The paper introduces a lightweight gray-box hallucination detector combining token probabilities with vector representations of token identities. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on coding assistants or software maintenance. | |
| FACES: Fine-grained Gated Semantic Alignment for Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation The paper introduces a gated semantic alignment framework with multi-source rewards to improve multimodal emotional support conversations. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to programming, software maintenance, or code. | |
| What Is a Clarification? Estimating Model-Dependent Input Ambiguity The paper formalizes clarification criteria to estimate model-dependent input ambiguity based on accessible and valid answers. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Uses Text-to-SQL as an evaluation setting, not code generation. |
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