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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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| Language Exposure Matters: Distribution and Order in Multilingual BabyLM Pre-training The paper evaluates how language exposure distribution and ordering affect the performance of multilingual models trained with limited data. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software engineering tasks. | |
| Why Generate a Click? Plug-in Decision Heads for Web Agents This paper introduces plug-in decision heads that read action choices directly from visual agent hidden states rather than generating text tokens. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on GUI web navigation, not software code writing. | |
| Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability in NLP: A Critical Survey of Recoverability, Interpretability, and Utility This paper surveys 138 studies on sparse autoencoders in NLP, examining dictionary design, feature recoverability, and practical utility. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not target software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| Gap Detection: Mitigating Homogenization through Demand and Defensibility This paper introduces Gap Detection, an optimization method that identifies unoccupied semantic directions to reduce homogenization in open-ended model answers. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to coding assistants or software repair. | |
| RM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Generative Reward Models This paper presents RM-OPD, a framework that trains domain-specialized reward models via on-policy distillation into a generalist model. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on code synthesis, inspection, or program repair. | |
| TreeSpark: Learning to Draft the Trees You Verify for Speculative Decoding This paper introduces TreeSpark, a framework training semi-autoregressive drafters to generate candidate trees aligned with speculative verification. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses general speculative decoding, not software engineering models. | |
| When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction This paper analyzes career path prediction systems, reporting that explicit skill representations provide marginal improvement over text-only job descriptions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software development. | |
| Scaling Multilingual Mixture-of-Experts: How Language Coverage Changes Capacity and Compute Allocation This paper proposes a joint scaling law evaluating how adding experts in multilingual mixture-of-experts models affects language capacity and loss penalties. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on software engineering or code modeling. | |
| Repairing Speech Access After Text Updates with Frozen Affine Fields This paper introduces AFFIRM, using affine fields on frozen speech models to repair spoken access to recently updated text knowledge. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software tooling. | |
| Anuvani-LID: Robust and Calibrated Spoken Language Identification for Indian Languages This paper introduces Anuvani LID, a dedicated 115M parameter model for spoken language identification across 22 Indian languages. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to programming, software engineering, or code. | |
| Neural POS Tagging for the Low-Resource Saraiki This paper introduces an annotated part-of-speech tagging dataset and evaluates pretrained transformer encoders for the low-resource Saraiki language. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to software development, repair, or coding. | |
| Taking the PULSE of Medical Reasoning: Step-Level Retrieval Timing for Knowledge-Grounded Inference This paper proposes PUlSE, using internal layer representations to detect factual errors and trigger step-level retrieval during medical reasoning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates medical reasoning benchmarks, not code generation. | |
| MMLA-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through RTT and RTMA This paper proposes MMLA-RSI, a recursive self-improvement framework using reasoning-time policy training and authoritative memory adaptation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not focused on coding assistants or software engineering tasks. | |
| Anuvani-Diarization: Zero Shot Speaker Diarization and Annotation Conventions Across 22 Languages This paper presents Anuvani-Diarization, evaluating zero-shot speaker diarization across 22 Indian languages with uncertainty-aware silver supervision. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Not related to code generation or software maintenance. | |
| Do AI Agents Gossip? Evaluative Talk in Human and AI-Agent Online Communities This paper investigates whether gossip discourse naturally emerges in autonomous AI agent online communities compared to human discussion boards. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not evaluate code generation or software engineering. | |
| Lexical Persistence Without Semantic Entrenchment in AI Agent Communities This paper measures semantic drift and stability across AI agent communities, finding higher drift and lower temporal continuity than human forums. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines multi-agent language drift, not programming tools or code models. | |
| Cascaded Retrieval with Cross-Modal Query Refinement for Efficient Visual Document Search This paper proposes SCOUT, a cascaded two-track framework combining visual candidate filtering, offline semantic summaries, and query refinement for document retrieval. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on visual document search, not coding assistants or software engineering. | |
| From Triage to Impact: A Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark for Explainable Persian Hate Speech This paper introduces a multi-hop reasoning benchmark to evaluate fine-grained, explainable hate speech analysis in Persian. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on natural language hate speech analysis, not coding assistants. | |
| FOLD: Position-Free Far Memory with Local Order for Long-Context Speculative Decoding This paper introduces FOLD, a training-free speculative decoding approach treating distant tokens as position-free far memory for long-context generation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with inference acceleration techniques rather than code synthesis or repair. | |
| The COUNT: Counting N-grams Unlocks Scaling on Host Memory and Training-Free Adaptation This paper introduces COUNT, scaling language model memory without training parameters by storing precomputed n-gram counts directly in host memory. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses general language model pretraining efficiency, not software or coding tasks. | |
| Same Claim, Different Interpretations: How LLM Agents Resolve Ambiguity in Scientific Claims This paper proposes Claim Cards to make agent interpretations explicit when verifying ambiguous natural-language scientific claims. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes scientific claim verification agents, not programming or code-generation systems. | |
| MolLean: A Process-Verifiable Language for Chemical Reasoning This paper introduces MolLean, a verifiable language and tool interface that grounds chemical reasoning in formal state transitions and explicit checks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Develops a formal language for chemistry, not general software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| ChronoCulture: Evaluating Cultural Awareness Across Time in Large Language Models This paper introduces ChronoCulture to evaluate how well language models capture temporal changes in cultural attitudes across 72 countries. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates cultural attitudes in general language models, not code generation models. | |
| AdaRSI: On-Demand Recursive Self-Improvement for Embodied Agents This paper introduces AdaRSI, an on-demand recursive self-improvement framework for embodied agents that isolates and fine-tunes only persistent sub-step failures. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Uses a coding agent internally, but main contribution is embodied robotic policy improvement. | |
| Lost in Translation: Why Lower Bias Scores Don't Mean Fairer Models This paper evaluates multilingual bias audits across ten language models, showing that lower stereotype scores often reflect translation artifacts rather than fairer behavior. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies linguistic bias in multilingual models, not code LLMs or software tasks. | |
| ReaDy: Recurrent States as Dynamic Context for Speculative Drafting in Hybrid Linear Attention Large Language Models This paper presents ReaDy, a speculative decoding method using hybrid linear attention recurrent states to provide position-specific context during drafting. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on decoding acceleration rather than code generation or software maintenance. | |
| Manacá-1B-Instruct-2: Reproducible Safety Alignment for a Native Brazilian-Portuguese LLM. Negative DPO Results, a Controlled Composition Scan, and a Silent Failure Mode of the LLM Judge Documents safety alignment methods, negative preference tuning outcomes, and automated judge limitations for a Portuguese language model. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Aligns a general-purpose language model, not a coding-specific LLM. | |
| Latent Compaction with Test-Time Training Compresses long-context key-value caches using test-time training on generic document prompts without task-specific labels. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses long-context attention efficiency rather than code generation or software engineering. | |
| Evaluating Large Language Models for Multilingual Abstractive Summarization: A Comprehensive Study of English and Bengali Evaluates closed and open models on English and Bengali abstractive summarization using lexical metrics, factuality checks, and automated judges. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates general language models on Bengali and English text, not code. | |
| Who Should We Listen to More? Welfare-Aware Preference Acquisition for Pluralistic Alignment Introduces a welfare-aware objective to allocate limited human feedback across diverse individuals when training pluralistic alignment models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Pertains to human preference feedback rather than software engineering or code models. | |
| Graph Coarsening Enables Escaping Local Optima in Compute-Constrained Nonconvex MAX-CUT Combines spectral graph coarsening with continuous relaxation to find high-quality solutions for compute-constrained MAX-CUT problems. Peer-reviewed | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on combinatorial graph optimization rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| Smart Alone, Blind Together: Why Accuracy Fails to CertifyTheory of Mind in Multi-Agent Teams Argues that inferential accuracy fails to evaluate agent coordination safely because correlated errors can compound into costly team actions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Deals with multi-agent coordination rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| Beyond Aggregate Accuracy: Item-Level Transitions in Prompt Optimization Introduces a prompt optimization framework that monitors item-level regressions and recoveries rather than relying solely on aggregate accuracy. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies prompt optimization across domains rather than code generation or software engineering tools. | |
| GroundGUI: GUI Grounding by High-Quality Data and Distillation-to-Reinforcement Learning Presents a large graphical user interface grounding dataset and a combined distillation and reinforcement learning training method for agents. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on user interface grounding rather than source code generation or software engineering. | |
| Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models Surveys dataset design, construction methods, and evaluation protocols for improving spatial reasoning in multimodal language models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Surveys spatial vision datasets without relevance to software code or program repair. | |
| From Copying to Composition: How Language Models Develop In-Context Learning Analyzes how language models develop in-context learning by separating simple demonstration copying from multi-token rule composition across training checkpoints. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines general prompt comprehension rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| Unlocking Structured Pruning for Reasoning Language Models via Attention-Preserving MLP Trimming The paper proposes a training-free structured pruning method that trims multilayer perceptron layers while preserving attention mechanisms for reasoning tasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Addresses general mathematical reasoning rather than software engineering or code generation. | |
| Plant Memory: Technical Language Processing and a Verified Maintenance Ontology for Agent-Accessible Failure Knowledge from SAP PM Work Orders The paper presents a system using technical language processing to transform industrial maintenance work order records into an ontology. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies NLP to industrial maintenance logs rather than code generation or repair. | |
| CAFE: Confining Feature Distillation to Language-Routed Adapters for Compact Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition The paper proposes confining feature distillation loss to language-routed adapters to balance performance in compact multilingual speech recognition models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Concerns speech recognition, not software engineering or code generation. | |
| MA-Bench: Measuring Operational Planning in Language Models The paper introduces a benchmark assessing language models on operational planning from incomplete, complex, and contradictory military document sets. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on operational planning from text packets, not code generation or software repair. | |
| Into the Unknown: Benchmarking AI agents on open scientific research problems The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate whether frontier language model agents can execute open scientific research and produce follow-up papers. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates scientific research paper generation rather than software engineering or code assistants. | |
| ListQA: A Benchmark for Evaluating List-Formatted Factual Knowledge Retrieval in Large Language Models The paper introduces an evergreen benchmark to evaluate the ability of language models to retrieve and format multi-element factual lists. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not address software engineering, code generation, or programming assistants. | |
| Titan-Llama: Retrofitting Pre-trained LLMs with External Neural Memory Modules The paper presents a method to retrofit attention models with hierarchical test-time neural memory modules to improve long-context inference efficiency. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Does not focus on code generation, software assistants, or program repair. | |
| Do Syntax Heads Influence Model Behavior? The paper analyzes whether syntactic attention heads in transformers play a direct causal role in syntactic language predictions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes linguistic syntax heads rather than code generation or program repair. | |
| Copy-Paste Language Models The paper proposes adding an explicit copy-paste prediction head to language models to improve in-context retrieval and copying efficiency. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Proposes a general language modeling head rather than software engineering code models. | |
| MemeTrace: A Multimodal LLM-Based Agent for Safety-Aware Meme Provenance Analysis The paper presents a multimodal agent designed to trace the origin, spread, and potential safety risks of online memes. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on meme moderation rather than software development or code generation. | |
| Whose Data, Whose Benchmark? A User-Centric Framework for Auditing Evaluation Resources The paper introduces a framework to audit cultural, geographic, and user-representation biases embedded within popular machine learning benchmarks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Audits general evaluation benchmarks rather than code generation or software engineering tools. | |
| LLM-jp-4 Technical Report The paper details the development, training data criteria, and performance of the open Japanese sovereign models, LLM-jp-4. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Introduces a general sovereign language model rather than tools for software engineering. | |
| Steering Vectors for Competing Ethical Frameworks Are Interchangeable: A Competing-Target Test for Activation Steering The paper introduces a test showing that steering vectors designed for competing ethical frameworks behave interchangeably in open-weight models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Analyzes ethical steering vectors, not code generation or program repair. | |
| Tail Competition Explains Scaling in Best-of-N Sampling for Verifiable Problems The paper analyzes Best-of-N sampling as an extreme-value competition between tails of correct and incorrect responses to explain reward hacking. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Theoretical analysis of reward modeling, not code assistants or software repair. | |
| Seeing, Maintaining, and Learning: The Evolution of Multimodal Agent Memory The paper provides an analytical framework for how multimodal agents form, represent, and adapt memory over long-horizon tasks. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal agent memory, not code generation or repair. | |
| Beyond Corrected Actions: Training LLM Agents on Textual Critiques The paper proposes a fine-tuning method that trains language model agents using textual expert critiques alongside corrected actions. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates web and retail agents, not software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| Evaluating Compressed Memory: Dependence, Utility, and Content Benefit The paper evaluates whether language models genuinely benefit from compressed memory by comparing them against memory-free baseline models. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies passage memory utility in QA, not code generation. | |
| ELARSpeech: A 30K-Hour Dataset Across 675 Underrepresented Languages for Long-Tail Multilingual Speech Technologies The paper introduces a speech dataset spanning 675 underrepresented languages to support speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on multilingual speech data, not software engineering or code. | |
| KoAGE: Do Large Language Models Know, Learn, and Coin Korean Neologisms? The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how well language models recognize, infer, and coin newly emerging Korean terms. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Evaluates natural language neologisms, not software code generation. | |
| Vision-Language Models Integrate Conflicting Evidence Like Biased Bayesian Observers The paper proposes a Bayesian cue-combination model to explain how vision-language models integrate conflicting visual and textual evidence. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Studies vision-language perception rather than code generation or repair. | |
| Recursive Formation and First-Class Reuse of Compositional Capabilities The paper introduces a framework for recursively composing, verifying, and persistently reusing modular agent capabilities across diverse problem domains. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on abstract formal capabilities, not software engineering or code LLMs. | |
| How Do LLMs Understand Legal Philosophy? Diagnosing Legal-Philosophical Reasoning in LLMs The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate how well language models understand legal philosophy and apply it to legal reasoning. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Examines legal philosophy reasoning rather than software code generation. | |
| Structure-Preserving Document-Level Data Augmentation via Discourse Parsing The paper introduces a document-level data augmentation method using discourse structure parsing to preserve logical flow during text generation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Applies to text summarization and QA, not software code. | |
| Retrieve What Helps, Only When It Helps: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Selective Retrieval-Augmented Machine Translation The paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework that decides when and what external knowledge to retrieve for machine translation. Preprint | LLMs for code via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06 | Not relevant Focuses on machine translation rather than code generation or repair. |
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