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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.
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| Who's Behind the Text? Robust Model Authorship Attribution The paper proposes a likelihood-based attribution method to identify the source model of machine-generated text under distribution shifts. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not investigate retrieval-augmented generation or external document grounding. | |
| 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. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses general agent trajectories rather than retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| DAGFormer: Global Topology Prediction for Transformer Cross-Layer Connections The paper proposes a Transformer architecture that plans dynamic cross-layer connections globally across the model based on input tokens. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses layer routing in Transformers, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Sparse Autoencoders Are a Shared Coordinate System for Symbolic Matching The paper uses sparse autoencoders to establish a shared coordinate system for matching symbols across heterogeneous neuro-symbolic systems. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies symbolic matching across knowledge systems, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Model What Matters: Decision-Guided Selective World Modeling for Language Agents The paper proposes a decision-guided co-training method that selectively filters observation units to improve world modeling for language model agents. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on reinforcement learning world modeling, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| HACHIMI-II: From Role-Play to Learner Behavior Modeling for Faithful Student Simulation The paper simulates student behavior by modeling individual learner history and constraining simulated actions via a third-person prediction harness. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on student behavioral simulation, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| 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. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies reply usability in agent communication, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Interlock: From Local Correctness to Task Completion in Long-Horizon Agents The paper proposes a graph-based task synthesis framework to help long-horizon agents satisfy inter-dependent constraints and achieve complete task outcomes. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent task synthesis, not retrieval-augmented generation architectures. | |
| Function-Space Temporal Self-Distillation for Policy Optimization The paper introduces a single-policy optimization framework combining privileged adaptation with stored historical next-token distributions for language model reasoning. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses RL training optimization, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Articulation Upper Bounds for Language Models The paper introduces prompt optimization and recovery measurement tools to evaluate the limits of transmitting concepts between scaling language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval or external knowledge augmentation. | |
| Recognizing Dialogue Ambiguity via Candidate Set Visual Grounding This paper introduces a task and benchmark for tracking candidate sets of referent objects across ambiguous interactive dialogue turns. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Grounds text to image candidates, not external RAG. | |
| Mitigating Video Hallucinations via Attention-Guided Representation Perturbation This paper presents a training-free contrastive decoding framework using attention-guided perturbations to reduce hallucinations in video language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on external retrieval or RAG mechanisms. | |
| Does the Linguistic Register of Thinking Matter? Wenyan as a Compact Reasoning Register for Chinese LLMs This paper investigates using Classical Chinese as a compact intermediate reasoning register to reduce token length in Chinese language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve external retrieval or document grounding. | |
| 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. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on information retrieval or RAG architectures. | |
| Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning This paper trains language models using reinforcement learning to generate explicit perception-to-action rules for theory-of-mind reasoning tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve external retrieval or knowledge grounding. | |
| Rationale Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching for Distributional Continuous Latent Reasoning This paper presents a flow matching method to distill diverse continuous latent reasoning distributions from multiple chain-of-thought rationales. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not cover external knowledge retrieval or grounding. | |
| Frustratingly Easy Majority Voting Using Length Conditioning The paper proposes weighting majority voting responses using a length-conditioned prior adapted at test time without model fine-tuning. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or grounding. | |
| Does Machine Translation Retain Media Bias? The paper investigates whether machine translation systems preserve or neutralize media bias across languages. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation or external knowledge retrieval. | |
| 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. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent skill optimization rather than retrieval-augmented document generation. | |
| A Strong Harness Narrows the Model Gap: A Comparative Evaluation for Legislative Document-to-XML Conversion The paper evaluates harnesses for legislative document conversion, showing structured multi-agent pipelines narrow performance gaps between models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates harness structuring for XML parsing, not retrieval systems. | |
| Designing Textual Interfaces To Enhance Llm Reasoning On Audio-Visual Question Answering The paper compares three textual interface designs for optimizing prompts in multimodal audio-visual question answering systems. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies prompt optimization rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| AFCS: Atomic-Fact-Conditioned Synthesis for Factual Knowledge Pretraining The paper proposes a synthetic data pipeline that extracts atomic facts from source texts to guide factual pretraining for language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates parametric pretraining knowledge rather than runtime retrieval augmentation. | |
| MultiPartyTurnBench: Benchmarking Floor Control in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogue The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate conversational floor control, turn completion, and interruptions in multi-party spoken dialogue systems. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses conversational floor control, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Cross-Model In-Context Neurofeedback Reveals (Limited) Activation Control in LLMs The paper uses in-context neurofeedback sessions to evaluate whether language models can intentionally control their internal activations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies internal representations, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| HEM-Med: A Hierarchical Agentic Memory Framework for Safe Multi-Center Medication Recommendation The paper introduces a hierarchical memory agent framework for multi-center medication recommendation that accounts for hospital differences and drug safety constraints. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with structured memory modules, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds The paper presents a benchmark evaluating whether conversational agents agree on verifiable plans that satisfy both parties' private conditions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent negotiation and coordination, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Scaling Multilingual Safety and Reasoning Evaluation through Reasoning-Guided Translation The paper introduces a reasoning-guided translation framework to scale multilingual safety and reasoning benchmarks while preserving original task meanings. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve retrieval-augmented generation or external document grounding. | |
| CSWBench: Evaluating Context-Sensitive Code-Switching in Creative Writing The paper introduces a benchmark and evaluation framework assessing context-sensitive code-switching by language models in creative writing tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates multilingual creative writing, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| TreeFlex: Agents Navigating Their Own Search Trees The paper proposes a framework where an agent policy navigates a global search tree by alternating between reflection and execution roles. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses agent search tree navigation, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| From Unreliable to Usable: Decomposing Failure Modes and Confidence Signals in LLM Entity Extraction - Evidence from Cyber Threat Intelligence The paper evaluates failure modes and confidence calibration across frontier and lightweight language models during entity extraction from cyber threat intelligence reports. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on document entity extraction without retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| SwarmRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Scientific Agent Swarm The paper presents a recursive self-improvement framework using scientific agent swarms that mutate hypotheses and recombine code based on experimental feedback. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent swarm evolution, not document retrieval. | |
| Equal CER, Unequal Damage: Severity-Weighted Character Error Rate for OCR Proposes a severity-weighted character error rate that charges text transcription errors based on their practical impact on reader understanding. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. | |
| VASPO: Self-Distillation with Privileged Value Estimation Combines privileged teacher signals with value estimation in policy optimization to provide denser token-level supervision for reasoning tasks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve external retrieval or RAG systems. | |
| PrismaCoder: Pushing the Boundaries of Open Multimodal Code Intelligence through Decomposed Rubric Synthesis Introduces a decomposed rubric synthesis method to create training data for open multimodal models that generate visual code artifacts. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not cover document retrieval or RAG architectures. | |
| PerSo: Investigating Facets of LLMs' Social Intelligence in Real-World Persuasion Scenarios Introduces a benchmark based on real online discussions to evaluate both cognitive and behavioral persuasion skills in language models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not involve external document retrieval or grounding. | |
| Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting Shows that periodically clearing agent search history and restarting from the top candidate prevents automated research agents from plateauing. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on search state forgetting, not RAG. | |
| 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. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on agent interface robustness, not external document retrieval. | |
| LayoutDM: Discrete Diffusion Model for Controllable Layout Generation This paper proposes a discrete diffusion model for controllable visual layout generation under structural element constraints. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2023) Older paper (2023) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Covers bounding box generation, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Automated Non-Functional Requirements Generation in Software Engineering with Large Language Models: A Comparative Study This paper evaluates the ability of language models to generate non-functional requirements from functional software specifications. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant About non-functional requirement extraction, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| MAGE: A Multi-Agent Engine for Automated RTL Code Generation This paper introduces an open-source multi-agent system designed to generate, verify, and debug hardware description code. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on Verilog code generation, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Video-Bench: Human-Aligned Video Generation Benchmark This paper introduces an evaluation benchmark using multimodal models to assess generated videos across human preference dimensions. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant About video generation benchmarking, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| REvolution: An Evolutionary Framework for RTL Generation driven by Large Language Models This paper combines evolutionary computation with language models to optimize register-transfer level hardware code for correctness and efficiency. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant About RTL code generation, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| A Survey of Synthetic Data Generation for Machine Learning This paper surveys synthetic data generation and data augmentation techniques for machine learning with an emphasis on healthcare. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2021) Older paper (2021) — discussed this week | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Focuses on synthetic data generation, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Understanding and Mitigating Training Instability in Large-Scale Recommender Systems: A Cascade Perspective The paper analyzes training instability cascades in large recommender systems and proposes targeted gradient, weight, and loss interventions. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses recommendation system training instability, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| EVISTA: Unified Multimodal Video Search with Evidence-Aware Temporal Path Optimization The paper introduces a multimodal video retrieval system that optimizes temporal paths to locate ordered events across video, text, and audio. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal video keyframe search, not RAG or knowledge-intensive LLM retrieval. | |
| A Stateful Research Information Infrastructure for Scientific Discovery The paper introduces an infrastructure that organizes scientific works as persistent, stateful research objects to maintain continuity across tools. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Presents data infrastructure for scientific objects, not retrieval-augmented generation or grounding mechanisms. | |
| MoSAIC: Learning DAG Scheduling Heuristics from Optimal Schedules through Motif-Aware Recovery and LLM-Guided Reasoning The paper introduces a framework that uses language models to extract task-scheduling priority functions from optimal solver solutions on directed acyclic graphs. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on DAG scheduling heuristics rather than text retrieval or knowledge grounding. | |
| Toward Explainability in Multimodal Recommendation The paper reviews explainability methods and evaluation metrics in multimodal recommender systems, categorizing approaches into modality and post-hoc explanations. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Surveys explainability in multimodal recommender systems, not retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Federated Semantic Residuals for Multimodal Recommendation The paper proposes a federated recommendation adapter that adds bounded semantic residual scores to on-device collaborative filtering models. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies federated multimodal recommender systems rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Pathwise Alignment for Collaborative Filtering: Bilateral Conditional Flow Regularization The paper uses conditional flow matching during training to regularize matrix factorization embeddings across sparse user interactions in collaborative filtering. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals with collaborative filtering algorithms, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Rethinking Evidence Modeling: Context-Coupled Graph Learning for Multimodal Recommendation The paper presents a context-coupled graph learning method that jointly models collaborative and multimodal item relations for recommendation systems. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on graph-based multimodal recommendation systems rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| UniSGR-V2: Stepwise Target-Side Feature Anticipation and Crossing for Generative Recommendation The paper proposes a generative recommendation framework that reconstructs continuous target-side features during autoregressive decoding to improve ranking accuracy. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on generative recommendation systems, not retrieval-augmented generation for language models. | |
| Tackling the Modality Inhibitance Effect with Wavelet-based Modality Integration in Multi-modal Recommendation The paper introduces a wavelet-based integration method to resolve performance degradation caused by feature redundancy in trimodal recommender systems. Peer-reviewed | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal recommendation algorithms rather than retrieval-augmented generation for language models. | |
| From a Large-Scale Teacher to Efficient Multimodal Students for Search Relevance Prediction The paper distills an LLM-based search relevance judge into smaller multimodal student models for efficient e-commerce search evaluation. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies e-commerce search relevance prediction rather than retrieval-augmented generation. | |
| Tracing Money Flows in the Multi-Token Cryptocurrency Network The paper develops a transaction-aware graph method to trace multi-token fund flows and asset transformations across cryptocurrency networks. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes cryptocurrency transaction network graphs, not retrieval-augmented generation or document search. | |
| The Scored Population, the Operating Point, and the Pipeline: Three Objects That Decide What an Open-Web Event System Looks Like The paper studies how pipeline selection and scored populations introduce evaluation blind spots in open-web event admission systems. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Analyzes web event extraction and admission pipelines rather than grounding language models with external knowledge. | |
| Mitigating Popularity Bias in Sequential Recommendations with Sparse Prior-Regularized Objective The paper proposes a sparse prior-regularized objective that makes popularity bias correction context-dependent during sequential recommender model training. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on recommender systems popularity bias rather than retrieval-augmented generation for language models. | |
| From Volpiano to Pixels: 30,000 Lines of OMR Ground Truth for Medieval Chant The paper introduces an optical music recognition dataset and pipeline linking medieval chant manuscript images to musical target tokens. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant About optical music recognition, not retrieval-augmented generation systems. | |
| Web Scale on a Budget: Tail-Aware Retrieval Evaluation This paper introduces a tail-aware evaluation method that estimates web-scale image retrieval performance using small random distractor samples. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on instance image retrieval benchmarks, not RAG for language models. | |
| Does System One Transfer? Calibrated Typed-Decision Models, Label Budgets, and Translation for Indonesian Regional Languages The paper evaluates the cross-lingual transfer, calibration, and translation sensitivity of fast typed-decision models on regional Indonesian languages. Preprint | Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Studies text classification and confidence routing, not retrieval-augmented generation. |
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