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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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Recursive Self-Improvement in Unified Multimodal Models
The authors introduce a training loop where multimodal models use text and visual abilities alongside program execution to generate their own training data.
PreprintOlder paper (2026)
Older paper (2026) — discussed this week
AI agents
via blog · 18 Oct, 06:22
Not relevant
Focuses on unified multimodal model training loops rather than autonomous agents.
Zero-RAG: Towards Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Zero Redundant Knowledge
The paper introduces a method to reduce redundant external knowledge retrieval by estimating what a language model already knows.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025)
Older paper (2025) — discussed this week
AI agents
via blog · 17 Oct, 06:24
Not relevant
Focuses on retrieval corpus pruning, not multi-step agent planning or tool use.
A Survey of Secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation
This survey paper reviews attacks, defenses, and evaluation methods across 135 studies on secure retrieval-augmented generation systems.
PreprintOlder paper (2026)
Older paper (2026) — discussed this week
AI agents
via blog · 17 Oct, 06:24
Not relevant
Survey focuses on RAG security rather than multi-step autonomous agent workflows.
SAJD: Self-Adaptive Jamming Attack Detection in AI/ML Integrated 5G O-RAN Networks
This paper introduces an adaptive framework to detect radio jamming attacks within machine learning integrated 5G Open RAN architectures.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025)
Older paper (2025) — discussed this week
AI agents
via ieee · 17 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Focuses on telecommunication closed-loop control, not LLM planning agents.
Reimagining Peer Review Process Through Multi-Agent Mechanism Design
This position paper proposes multi-agent reinforcement learning and mechanism design to reform academic peer review processes.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026)
Older paper (2026) — discussed this week
AI agents
via acm · 17 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Applies multi-agent mechanism design to human peer review systems.
A Survey of AI for Materials Science: Foundation Models, LLM Agents, Datasets, and Tools
This paper surveys foundation models, agent systems, datasets, and computational tools applied to materials science discovery.
Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025)
Older paper (2025) — discussed this week
AI agents
via acm · 17 Oct, 06:19
Not relevant
Broad materials science survey where agents are only covered in passing.
Robust Multi-Agent Pursuit with Preemptive Communication via Reachability-Based Control Barrier Functions
This paper presents a control and communication framework using reachable sets and barrier functions to guarantee multi-agent safety during intermittent communication.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Addresses control barrier functions in robotics, not LLM-based autonomous agents.
Auditable and Deployable Multi-Agent Motion Planning via Posetal Games from Legal Guidelines
This paper introduces a posetal game framework for auditable multi-agent motion planning under partially ordered legal constraints.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Covers classical robotic game theory, not LLM-based planning agents.
Feasibility Ceilings Before Learning: Sizing and Timing Bounds for Drone-Mesh Interception
This paper establishes analytical geometric bounds on coverage probability and timing uncertainty for multi-agent drone meshes intercepting approaching objects.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Analyzes geometric drone interceptor bounds rather than LLM tool use or multi-agent planning.
Learning Rational Strategies for Temporal Objectives in Multi-Agent Systems
Analyzes rational strategy synthesis and equilibrium guarantees for stochastic multi-agent systems with probabilistic temporal logic objectives.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:18
Not relevant
Theoretical multi-agent RL synthesis, not language model agents or planning.
CascadeLedger: Counterfactual Auditing of Information and Resource Integrity in LLM Cascades
Introduces an auditing framework that checks counterfactual execution traces to ensure language model routing uses only legitimate information.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on routing and cache integrity in LLM cascades, not agentic planning.
TurboMamba: Faster Inference, Faster Training, and Better Prediction with Lexical Memory
Proposes a hybrid architecture combining global state-space modeling with local transformer attention and lexical memory for efficient inference.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Not about autonomous multi-step planning or tool use agents.
APRiL: An Open-ended Benchmark for Chinese Social Awareness in Large Language Models
Presents a benchmark with open-ended tasks and rubrics to assess social awareness and response generation in Chinese.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Evaluates social conversation response rather than autonomous tool-using agents.
Gibbs-Gap Policy Optimization for Off-Policy RL with Verifiable Rewards
Introduces an off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm for language models using verifiable rewards without importance sampling weights.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on RL optimization theory rather than agentic planning or tools.
PEDBench: Can Speech Models Detect Phonetic Errors?
Introduces a benchmark combining natural, scripted, and synthetic audio to evaluate phonetic error detection in speech models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Does not evaluate autonomous tool-using agents or multi-agent planning.
Does Morphological Correctness Matter for Tokenization? A Scrambled Control Study in Tagalog
Tests whether linguistically accurate morpheme boundaries in tokenizers improve translation performance compared to scrambled control segmentations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Not about autonomous agents or multi-step agent planning.
CogDrift-4D: Hierarchical Multimodal Modeling of Temporal Behavioral Decay for MCI Detection
Proposes a hierarchical multimodal transformer to model long-term behavioral changes across multi-session interactions for cognitive impairment detection.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Not about autonomous multi-step planning or tool-using agents.
Task-Centric Multimodal Learning for Cognitive Impairment Detection
Evaluates a multimodal screening method using voice, video, and text from voice-assistant interactions to detect cognitive impairment.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Not focused on autonomous multi-step planning or tool use agents.
VELD-QA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Evidence Grounding and Question Answering in Long Documents
Presents a benchmark with human-annotated visual evidence to evaluate retrieval and question answering across long documents.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents a QA dataset rather than multi-step autonomous agent architectures.
One Bias Score, Two Factors: How Mitigations Affect Option Bias in Multiple-Choice Evaluation
Deconstructs multiple-choice option bias in language models into two factors tracking answer flips and positional skew.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on multiple-choice evaluation metrics, not autonomous planning agents.
Can LLMs Anticipate Their Cruxes?
Explores methods to extract the underlying decisive sub-questions that drive language model decisions across diverse generated outputs.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes decision rationale distributions rather than autonomous agent systems.
Learning When to Think: Utility-Guided Adaptive Reasoning for Efficient Text Retrieval
Proposes an adaptive reasoning framework that supervises intermediate retrieval states and stops reasoning steps dynamically to cut latency.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on retriever reasoning rather than autonomous agent tool use.
INCONVENIENT: A Benchmark to Assess LLM Generalization Capabilities from Convenience Samples
Introduces a benchmark to test model generalization under systematic convenience sampling biases in tabular data.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Introduces a distribution shift benchmark, not agent planning or tool use.
SHIP: Structured and Hierarchical Insight with Privacy
The paper proposes SHIP, an architecture for extracting structured differentially private representations from text for analytical queries.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on privacy-preserving representation synthesis, not autonomous agents.
Multimodal AI Detection for Math-Heavy Scientific Text
The paper examines AI-generated text detection in scientific papers by combining visual formatting, PDF text, and LaTeX representations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on AI text detection rather than autonomous planning agents.
Compression Does Not End at Selection: Post-Selection Positional Geometry for Sparse KV Caches
The paper proposes RoPERelay to reorganize positional geometry and rotary embeddings after sparse KV cache token eviction.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Addresses KV cache positional geometry, not autonomous multi-step agents.
From Observation to Intervention: Distilling Self-Generated In-Context Demonstrations via Executable Causal Intervention
The paper introduces a causal intervention framework to distill transferable self-generated in-context learning demonstrations.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies in-context demonstration selection, not multi-step agent planning.
Automatic Sentence Completion Using Bengali Audio Speech with a Transformer-Based Early Speech Recognition System
The paper presents an automated speech recognition and sentence completion system to assist dementia patients speaking Bengali.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents assistive speech models, not autonomous planning LLM agents.
From Long Context to Selective Memory:A Survey of Memory-Centric Compression for Large Language Models
The paper surveys memory-centric compression techniques for managing inference resources and context windows in large language models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Surveys context compression across tasks rather than autonomous agent architectures.
Beyond Retrieval Failure: Understanding Why LLMs Miss Evidence in Multi-Hop RAG
The paper introduces ExecutionRAG to show how search drift causes apparent retrieval failures in multi-hop question answering.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Examines multi-hop retrieval dynamics rather than general agent execution environments.
KBS: A Korean Benchmark Suite for Foundation Model Evaluation
The paper introduces the Korean Benchmark Suite to evaluate foundation models across six natural language capabilities.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents an evaluation suite, not agentic planning or multi-agent workflows.
What Should We Remove? Evaluating the Reliability and Costs of RLVR Data Decontamination
The paper audits data decontamination methods on math corpora to quantify false removals and benchmark leakage risks.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Audits training datasets rather than multi-step agent planning or tools.
LLM-Based Weak Annotation for Cybersecurity Tweet Classification: A Teacher-Student Framework
The paper presents a teacher-student framework using language models for weak annotation to classify cybersecurity tweets.
Peer-reviewed
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Covers weak supervision for classification, not LLM planning or agent systems.
Isolating a Language Model's Judgment with a Label-Free Subspace
The paper proposes isolating internal model judgments from instruction formatting variations using a label-free hidden state subspace.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes internal representations, not autonomous agentic workflows or tool use.
TimeCap: A Scalable Open-Source Pipeline for Captioning Wearable Health Time-Series Data
The paper introduces TimeCap, an open deterministic pipeline for generating signal-grounded captions from wearable health time-series data.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on wearable time-series captioning, not autonomous multi-step LLM planning.
Making every stage of medical device document assessment with large language models deterministic
The paper evaluates output non-determinism in commercial language model deployments during medical device regulatory compliance assessments.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on deterministic document processing, not multi-step agent tool use.
VALCON: Benchmarking and Enhancing Value Consistency in Large Language Models via Dual-Role Variation
The paper introduces VALCON to evaluate and improve value consistency when language models alternate between generator and evaluator roles.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies dual-role value alignment consistency, not multi-step agent planning or tools.
PocketTSLM: Deploying an On-Device Soft-Prompt Time-Series Language Model for Privacy-Preserving Smartphone Reasoning
The paper presents PocketTSLM, deploying an on-device soft-prompt time-series language model on smartphones for personal health data.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with on-device sensor reasoning, not multi-step tool-using agents.
ZoomCap: Evidence-Routed Visual Zooming for Recoverable Visual Information Transfer
The paper introduces ZoomCap, an adaptive visual zooming and evidence-routing framework to improve fine-grained image captioning supervision.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on visual captioning and zooming, not autonomous agent workflows.
Hybrid Generative-Tagging Decoding for Efficient Product Attribute-Value Extraction
The paper introduces a hybrid generative-tagging architecture to improve efficiency and coverage in product attribute and value extraction.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Develops a decoding architecture for catalog extraction, not agent planning.
VoteGEO-Bench: Measuring the Impact of Generative Engine Optimization on Electoral Visibility
The paper presents VoteGEO-Bench to measure how rewriting web content influences information visibility in generative search engine election queries.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies search engine visibility manipulation, not LLM agent systems.
QuasiLeak-Bench: Evaluating LLM-Based Privacy Detectors on Policy-Conditioned Quasi-Evidence Group Recovery
The paper introduces QuasiLeak-Bench to evaluate whether privacy detectors can identify distributed quasi-identifiers governed by disclosure policies.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents a benchmark for privacy detection, not autonomous agent planning or tools.
Ranking and Partitioning of Attention Heads for Sparse and Continual Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning
The paper studies ranking and partitioning attention heads by gradient norm for sparse and continual reinforcement learning fine-tuning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on parameter-efficient RL fine-tuning, not multi-step agent planning.
Emotion Is Not External Knowledge: Internal Attention Signals for Affective State Reasoning
The paper presents an internal attention boosting method to improve how language models infer implicit conversational affective states.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Investigates internal attention head routing, not autonomous agentic systems.
RenoLayout: Unified Floorplan Renovation and Furniture Layout for Constraint-Aware Residential Design
The paper introduces RenoLayout to generate residential renovation floorplans and furniture layouts under structural and physical constraints.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on CAD floorplan generation, not multi-step LLM agent systems.
DPA-MoE: A Runtime Precision Control Framework for MoE Inference
Introduces a dynamic precision control framework that allocates weight chunks to mixture-of-experts models during inference.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Presents a runtime precision framework, not agent planning or tool execution.
Calibration Language Shapes Block-Influence Pruning in Multilingual Language Models
Analyzes how calibration language choices affect block-influence depth pruning rankings in multilingual language models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies Transformer block pruning, not autonomous planning or agent tool use.
Beyond Invariance: Factor-wise Selective Treatment of Shifts for Multimodal Learning
Proposes a factor-wise representation framework to selectively treat different distribution shifts in multimodal machine learning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on multimodal distribution shifts, not autonomous agent planning.
Identifying Effective Strategies in Prompt Evolution for Stress and Emotion Prediction
Evaluates prompt optimization methods and identifies effective prompting strategies for social media stress and emotion classification.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on prompting strategies for classification, not autonomous agentic workflows.
HyCo: Hybrid Drafting for Cost-Efficient Mobile-Cloud Speculative Decoding
Introduces a hybrid speculative decoding framework splitting draft tasks between mobile neural processing units and cloud servers.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies speculative decoding inference, not autonomous agent planning or tools.
SITAR: A Situational Distortion Metric for Automatic Speech Recognition Evaluation
Develops a lightweight situational distortion metric to evaluate speech recognition errors based on practical conversational severity.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Introduces an ASR evaluation metric, not LLM agent systems.
Translation Circuit Discovery and Targeted Optimization for Low-Resource Multilingual Translation
Identifies translation circuits in multilingual models and optimizes fewer than five percent of parameters for low-resource translation.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on translation circuits, not multi-step agent planning or tools.
Writability and the Pathway: A Controlled Study of Knowledge Injection into Addressed Memory
Conducts a controlled evaluation of direct knowledge injection into addressed conditional memory modules across small and production models.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on memory module knowledge injection, not multi-step agent planning or tools.
Waypoint-OPD: Transferring RL-Induced Policy Shifts via Gated On-Policy Distillation
Gates reinforcement learning policy-shift distillation using intermediate checkpoints to ensure student models only learn consistent teacher shifts.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Proposes an RL distillation algorithm, not autonomous planning agents.
ContextLift: Breaking the Spurious Correlation Behind Conditional Emergent Misalignment
Introduces a data augmentation method that breaks spurious contextual correlations causing emergent misalignment during domain finetuning.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on alignment fine-tuning, not autonomous tool-using agents.
Spurious Attention Heads in Vision Transformers: Mechanistic Identification of Annotation-Driven Bias in Medical Chest X-Ray Analysis
Identifies a specific vision transformer attention head that spuriously attends to medical image corner text instead of lung pathology.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Analyzes vision transformer attention heads, not autonomous AI agents.
When Does "Post-Call" Begin? An Availability Contract for Earnings-Call NLP Benchmarks
Proposes an availability framework to identify and resolve within-event timing mismatches in earnings-call financial NLP benchmarks.
Peer-reviewed
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Deals with financial disclosure timing, not agent tool use or planning.
Enhancing Multimodal RLVR with Pairwise Token Contrast and Adaptive Trajectory Confidence
Improves reinforcement learning credit assignment in multimodal reasoning using pairwise token contrast and adaptive trajectory confidence.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Focuses on training reward credit assignment, not multi-step agent actions.
Diffusion Language Models as Open Quantum Systems
Frames diffusion language models as open quantum systems to enable text generation conditioned on superpositions of prompts and thoughts.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Proposes a quantum formulation of diffusion text generation, not agents.
No Single Tokenizer Feature Reliably Predicts Downstream Language Model Performance
Shows across 200 models that proposed intrinsic tokenizer metrics do not reliably predict downstream language model performance.
Preprint
AI agents
via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
Not relevant
Studies tokenizer metrics, not autonomous planning agent architectures.
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