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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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| MADBench: Benchmarking the Security of Multi-Agent Debate This paper presents a benchmark to evaluate how adversarial attacks affect reasoning security in multi-agent debate systems. Ranked #675New testPreprint8/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 12 Oct, 18:09 | On-topic Evaluates how multi-agent debate interactions handle adversarial attacks. | |
| Where Do AI Coding Agents Fail? An Empirical Study of Failed Agentic Pull Requests in GitHub The paper analyzes 33,000 GitHub pull requests to examine why AI coding agent contributions succeed or fail. Ranked #676Surprising resultPeer-reviewed8/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 18 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Analyzes how autonomous AI coding agents perform and fail in real-world software deployments. | |
| Demystifying LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents Proposes Agentless, an agent-free approach to software development issues that compares favorably against autonomous software engineering agents. Ranked #677Surprising resultPeer-reviewed8/10 suggestedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Examines multi-step autonomous software agents versus non-agentic baselines on SWE-bench. | |
| Defeating Prompt Injections by Design The paper introduces a system layer that separates control flow from untrusted data to protect language model agents against prompt injection attacks. Ranked #678New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed8/10 suggestedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 13 Oct, 06:19 | On-topic Develops a defense architecture to protect agentic systems executing untrusted tools and workflows. | |
| Specifying the Delegated-Autonomy Boundary: Requirements Engineering for Agentic AI This paper introduces specification templates to define operational boundaries, authority, and oversight for autonomous software agents. Ranked #679New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed8/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 15 Oct, 06:19 | On-topic Proposes frameworks for specifying delegated autonomy boundaries in AI agent workflows. | |
| AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Applications and Challenges The paper provides a conceptual taxonomy and review distinguishing task-specific AI agents from collaborative agentic AI systems. Ranked #680New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed7/10 suggestedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 12 Oct, 16:38 | On-topic Provides a conceptual taxonomy and architectural analysis comparing AI Agents and Agentic AI systems. | |
| Sufficiently Advanced Agents Are Indistinguishable from Erlang: An Operational Mapping from OTP to Multi-agent LLM Systems Maps Erlang and OTP fault-tolerance principles onto multi-agent LLM systems to evaluate supervisory reliability architectures. Ranked #681New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed7/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Maps supervision and reliability patterns from Erlang/OTP directly to multi-agent LLM systems. | |
| AgentChaosBench: Benchmarking External Fault Detection and Localization in Agentic Systems Introduces AgentChaosBench, a benchmark for detecting and localizing injected runtime boundary faults in LLM-based multi-agent applications. Ranked #682New testPeer-reviewed7/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Introduces a benchmark evaluating runtime fault detection across inter-agent calls and tool use. | |
| Agentic Software Porting: Lessons from the CHERI-PIT The paper shares eight lessons from building an agent pipeline that ports legacy C/C++ code to memory-safe CHERI hardware architectures. Ranked #683Surprising resultPeer-reviewed7/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 13 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Reports practical deployment lessons from building an LLM agent pipeline for automated software porting. | |
| Graphectory Viewer: A Tool for Process-Centric Analysis of Agentic Software Trajectories The paper introduces an interactive web-based tool for analyzing and visualizing execution trajectories of software engineering agents. Ranked #684New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed6/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 18 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Presents an interactive analysis tool to inspect multi-step planning and actions in software agents. | |
| Does Architecture Matter? Comparing Multi-agent Workflows for Filtering and Prioritizing Static Analysis Findings Compares four multi-agent workflow architectures to determine how coordination structure affects filtering of static analysis alerts. Ranked #685Surprising resultPeer-reviewed6/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Investigates multi-agent workflow architectures and agent coordination for filtering static analysis findings. | |
| FadeMem: Biologically-Inspired Forgetting for Efficient Agent Memory Proposes an agent memory architecture that uses biologically inspired adaptive decay functions to selectively retain and forget context. Ranked #686New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed6/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | On-topic Proposes an adaptive forgetting memory architecture specifically designed for autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Extender: A Multi-agent System for Code Extensibility Review This paper introduces a multi-agent system that evaluates code extensibility and detects SOLID design violations through automated code extension. Ranked #687New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed6/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 14 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Introduces a multi-agent system of AI agents cooperating to review code extensibility. | |
| Graph of Agentic Thoughts: Bridging Agentic Reasoning and Explainability through Graphs The paper proposes a graph-based framework that integrates multi-agent decisions, rationales, and memory transitions to improve assistant explainability. Ranked #688New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed5/10 suggestedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 17 Oct, 06:24 | On-topic Proposes a graph-based framework to track decisions and explainability across multi-agent workflows. | |
| AgentExecutor: Partial Code Execution via Agentic Context Generation The paper presents a multi-agent framework that dynamically generates execution context to enable partial code execution. Ranked #689New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed5/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Proposes an LLM multi-agent framework that iteratively plans and acts to execute partial code. | |
| On Resilience in Multi-agent Systems for Software Engineering Proposes a conceptual framework to evaluate the resilience of LLM-based multi-agent systems in software engineering tasks. Ranked #690New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed4/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Evaluates resilience, recovery, and disruption handling in LLM-based multi-agent systems. | |
| AGENTIC LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF ARCHITECTURES, REASONING, AND MULTI-AGENT COLLABORATION The paper reviews architectures, reasoning methods, and multi-agent collaboration strategies for agentic language models. Ranked #691Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 14 Oct, 06:20 | On-topic Reviews architectures, reasoning, and multi-agent collaboration for agentic language models. | |
| Decompose to Conquer: A Multi-agent LLM Pipeline for Requirements Engineering and Software Design Introduces READ-MAS, a multi-agent system using retrieval-augmented generation to decompose requirements engineering and software design. Ranked #692Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Proposes a multi-agent pipeline of specialized collaborative agents for requirements and software design. | |
| MOSAICO: A Multi-agent Infrastructure for Collaborative LLM-Powered Software Engineering Presents MOSAICO, an orchestration infrastructure for coordinating specialized collaborative LLM agents across software engineering tasks. Ranked #693Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 16:29 | On-topic Presents an orchestration infrastructure for coordinating communities of specialized LLM agents. | |
| Agentic Hyperautomation: A Distributed Architecture for Scalable AI-Driven Workflows This paper presents a multi-agent framework where a central model coordinates specialized agents and tools for business workflow automation. Ranked #694Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | On-topic Presents a multi-agent LLM framework for enterprise workflow hyperautomation. | |
| A Workflow-Driven Multi-agent Architecture for Requirements Engineering This paper presents a multi-agent architecture using structured states and human checkpoints to manage software requirements engineering workflows. Ranked #695Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 15 Oct, 06:19 | On-topic Proposes a workflow-driven multi-agent architecture coordinating specialized LLM agents for requirements engineering. | |
| Assessing Planning Algorithms for Structuring LLM-Derived Workflows in Agentic AI Systems The paper evaluates five planning algorithms for breaking down complex goals into executable workflows in agentic AI systems. Ranked #696Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Directly compares planning algorithms for structuring task workflows in agentic AI systems. | |
| Multi-Agent Educational System With a Single Large Language Model: an Ablation Study of Memory Configurations and Efficiency The paper evaluates token usage, runtime, and energy consumption across four different memory setups for single-model multi-agent educational systems. Ranked #697Peer-reviewed0/10 suggestedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | On-topic Examines multi-agent systems driven by an LLM with focus on memory design and operational efficiency. | |
| 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. | |
| Reliability without Validity: A Systematic, Large-Scale Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge Models Across Agreement, Consistency, and Bias The paper evaluates twenty-one language models used as judges across three benchmarks, finding widespread discrepancies between agreement metrics and underlying validity. PreprintOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 16 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Evaluates LLM judges, not agent planning or tool use. | |
| An adaptive strategy to help students in e-Learning systems using competency-based ontology and agents The paper proposes an adaptive strategy using software agents and competency-based ontologies to assist students in e-learning platforms. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2011) Older paper (2011) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Summary contains only IEEE boilerplate text without paper content. | |
| MMH-STA: A Macro-Micro-Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Attention Method for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction in Unsignalized Roundabouts The paper presents a spatio-temporal attention framework to predict trajectories of multiple mixed agents in unsignalized traffic roundabouts. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2023) Older paper (2023) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Addresses vehicle trajectory prediction, not LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| InsightChain - AI Agent For Data Driven Supplier Discovery and Analysis The text contains publisher metadata and page navigation text without readable abstract details about the InsightChain supplier discovery agent. Not a research paperPeer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Summary contains only IEEE boilerplate text without paper content. | |
| Self-Healing AI Systems Using Multi-Agent Learning The paper presents an autonomous framework using multiagent reinforcement learning to monitor, diagnose, and recover from failures in production AI systems. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 16 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Uses classical reinforcement learning agents, not language model planning agents. | |
| CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs The authors introduce CharXiv, a benchmark of realistic scientific charts designed to test descriptive and reasoning capabilities in multimodal language models. PreprintOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 15 Oct, 15:11 | Not relevant Focuses on multimodal chart understanding benchmarks, not autonomous AI agents. | |
| A Technical Survey of Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Large Language Models This survey provides an algorithmic overview and failure mode analysis of reinforcement learning techniques applied to language models. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 15 Oct, 15:07 | Not relevant Broad survey of reinforcement learning methods for LLMs, not AI agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Uses LLM prompting pipelines, not multi-step autonomous planning agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Evaluates video generation models, not multi-step tool-using agents. | |
| 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 | AI agents via ieee · 15 Oct, 06:19 | Not relevant Applies evolutionary optimization to LLM prompts, not multi-step agent systems. | |
| Thoth: Mid-Training Bridges LLMs to Time Series Understanding This paper presents a mid-training method, corpus, and benchmark to help language models understand and reason about time series data. PreprintOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via openreview · 14 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on time-series mid-training without multi-step agent planning. | |
| Unit Test Generation using Generative AI : A Comparative Performance Analysis of Autogeneration Tools This paper compares the quality and coverage of unit test cases generated by ChatGPT against an automated generation tool. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2023) Older paper (2023) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 14 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Evaluates ChatGPT for unit test scripts without multi-step agent architectures. | |
| MAPS: Multi-Fidelity AI-Augmented Photonic Simulation and Inverse Design Infrastructure This paper introduces an open-source infrastructure and benchmark for multi-fidelity AI-assisted photonic simulation and inverse design. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 14 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Deals with photonic simulation infrastructure, not AI agent architectures. | |
| Focus Session: Stepping Stones Towards Domain Acceleration Using AI-Driven High-Level Synthesis Design This paper examines challenges and recent machine learning approaches for automating FPGA high-level synthesis hardware design. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 14 Oct, 06:18 | Not relevant Focuses on FPGA high-level synthesis rather than AI agents. | |
| AI-Enhanced Data Encryption Techniques for Cloud Storage The paper compares traditional cloud encryption methods with artificial intelligence based encryption techniques across several performance metrics. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 12 Oct, 18:40 | Not relevant Discusses AI-enhanced encryption techniques rather than multi-step planning or autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Stability Analysis of Time-varying Networks Based on Persistent Homology The paper proposes a persistent homology metric to evaluate the topological and structural stability of time-varying social networks. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via acm · 12 Oct, 18:07 | Not relevant Studies dynamic social networks, not LLM-based autonomous agents. | |
| Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey The paper reviews retrieval-augmented generation paradigms and examines frameworks across retrieval, generation, and modular components. PreprintOlder paper (2023) Older paper (2023) — discussed this week | AI agents via missed · 12 Oct, 17:43 | Not relevant Paper focuses on RAG paradigms, not autonomous planning agents. | |
| SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models The paper presents an 8-bit weight and activation post-training quantization technique that migrates activation outliers to weights. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2022) Older paper (2022) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 12 Oct, 16:38 | Not relevant Focuses on post-training quantization for LLMs rather than autonomous agent systems or planning. | |
| AlignQuant: Tile-Aligned Mixed-Precision Quantization for Efficient LLM Generation The paper introduces a post-training mixed-precision quantization method using GPU-compatible 2D weight tiles for efficient inference. PreprintOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 12 Oct, 16:38 | Not relevant Focuses on post-training quantization hardware kernels rather than multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones The paper presents an open-source multimodal language model combining a small language backbone with vision encoders for efficient inference. PreprintOlder paper (2023) Older paper (2023) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 12 Oct, 16:38 | Not relevant Focuses on compact vision-language model architecture rather than autonomous planning or agent tool use. | |
| Judge Reliability Harness: Stress Testing the Reliability of LLM Judges The paper introduces an open-source library to construct validation suites that stress test the reliability of LLM judges. PreprintOlder paper (2026) Older paper (2026) — discussed this week | AI agents via blog · 12 Oct, 16:38 | Not relevant Focuses on testing the reliability of LLM judges rather than designing autonomous planning agents. | |
| MoPD: Mixture-of-Prompts Distillation for Vision-Language Models Introduces a mixture-of-prompts distillation method to transfer knowledge from hard prompts to soft prompts, improving generalization on unseen classes. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Proposes a prompt distillation technique for VLMs, not multi-step tool-using or planning agents. | |
| CTC-Assisted LLM-Based Contextual ASR Uses coarse CTC decoding to filter relevant hotwords into LLM prompts for improved contextual speech recognition on rare words. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Focuses on speech recognition decoding, not multi-step autonomous LLM agents. | |
| Zero-shot LLM-guided Counterfactual Generation: A Case Study on NLP Model Evaluation The paper introduces a zero-shot LLM pipeline to generate counterfactual examples for stress-testing NLP models. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2024) Older paper (2024) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:30 | Not relevant Uses zero-shot prompting to create counterfactual data, not multi-step agent planning or tool use. | |
| SAEC: Scene-Aware Enhanced Edge-Cloud Collaborative Industrial Vision Inspection with Multimodal LLM The paper proposes an edge-cloud collaborative inspection framework using multimodal LLMs dynamically scheduled based on scene complexity. Peer-reviewedOlder paper (2025) Older paper (2025) — discussed this week | AI agents via ieee · 12 Oct, 16:29 | Not relevant Proposes an edge-cloud scheduling framework for vision models rather than multi-step LLM planning agents. |
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