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#natural language process... Book Open access Apr 2026

MemeBridge: A Dataset for Benchmarking and Mitigating the Bidirectional Cultural Gap in Meme Interpretation

MemeBridge, a curated dataset centered on U.S.-originated memes, is introduced, designed to capture two complementary perspectives: how Chinese participants interpret these memes, and how U.S. participants anticipate how people from other cultures might misunderstand them.

Hangxiao Zhu, Ming Jiang, Yu Zhang · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

ToSCA: Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning on Temporal and Strategic Abstractions of Conversational Agents

A two-level hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) framework for conversational agents that bridges the gap between existing token-level and utterance-level RL methods and introduces a dual-granularity reward mechanism that combines the utterance-level satisfaction score with token-level intrinsic self-consistency a...

Xiaoyu Wang, Qing-Qing Gu, Yue Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

NeuroPriv: Adversarial Representation Learning for Privacy in Wearable EEG Systems

It is shown that commonly used EEG features can reveal participant identity and demographic attributes in addition to supporting the intended cognitive task, motivating purpose-limited representations and explicit privacy auditing in wearable neurohealth systems.

Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta, Bhawana Chhaglani, Prashant J. Shenoy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Jul 2026

Anamnesis: An Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Backstory-Conditioned Survey Simulation

Anamnesis produces opinion distributions that more closely match real-world survey data than standard persona-prompting baselines, offering a transparent, reproducible, and open-source alternative to proprietary simulation services.

Song Yu, Joseph Suh, Serina Chang et al. · 0 citations

DigitalCoach: Communication and Grounding Gaps in Human and Agentic Computer Use Coaching

DigitalCoach, a multimodal dataset of 72 human expert-novice computer use coaching sessions consisting of 22,752 dialogue turns grounded in 28.1 hours of screen and input event recordings across five software applications, evaluates whether state-of-the-art models can teach humans how to use computers.

Meng Chen, An-Ya Ji, Tsung-Han Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Apr 2026

Self-EmoQ: Plutchik-Guided Value-based Planning to Drive Streaming Emotional TTS

An emotion-planning framework that determines the emotion prior to the textual generation, grounding the downstream emotional TTS in a streaming manner, and finally implements an entire streaming pipeline for real-time deployment.

Yue Zhao, Hongyang Li, Yong Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2025

Individualized Algorithmic Advice as a Strategic Signal on Competitive Markets

This experiment examined how algorithmic advice affects human behavior in a classic economic game with a unique, non-collusive, and analytically traceable equilibrium, finding that algorithmic advice can function as a strategic signal, shaping coordination even without explicit communication.

T. Rebholz, Maxwell Uphoff, Christian H. R. Bernges et al. · 0 citations

Unsupervised Partner Design Enables Robust Ad-hoc Teamwork

We introduce Unsupervised Partner Design (UPD), a population-free multi-agent reinforcement learning method for robust ad-hoc teamwork. UPD generates training partners on-the-fly and selects them adaptively based on a learnability criterion, removing the need for pre-trained partner populations or manual parameter tuni...

Constantin Ruhdorfer, Matteo Bortoletto, Victor Oei et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Designing Proactive Thought Partners for Writing

These findings show that participants configured proactive support through prospective planning, used suggestions for both idea generation and self-monitoring, and valued lightweight visual representations alongside non-directive rhetorical framing for non-intrusive interventions.

Chao Zhang, Abe Davis, Chih-Wei Chen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GazeRefine: Expert Gaze as a Test-Time Prompt for Training-Free Medical Image Segmentation

The results show strong performance on colonoscopy images and competitive performance on prostate MRI, supporting gaze-guided prototype refinement as a promising approach for segmentation-label-efficient, human-in-the-loop medical image segmentation.

M. Benyahia, Marouane Tliba, M. A. Kerkouri et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Disclosure-Gated User Simulation for Companion-Agent Evaluation

A disclosure gate conditioning information release on the companion agent's behaviour is answered, with a disclosure gate conditioning information release on the companion agent's behaviour: its state is a ladder of five ordered gates, merged onto three observable depth layers.

Yaozhong Liu, Yu He · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 5, 2026

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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