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Overreliance on AI in Information-seeking from Video Content

It is found that AI assistance increases accuracy by 3-7% when participants viewed the relevant video segment, and by 27-35% when they did not, while efficiency increases by 10% for short videos and 25% for longer ones, and self-reported confidence in answers remains stable across all three conditions.

Anders Giovanni Møller, Elisa Bassignana, Francesco Pierri et al. · 2 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Dec 2025

TxSum: User-Centered Ethereum Transaction Understanding with Micro-Level Semantic Grounding

TxSum is formulated, a new domain-grounded NLP task for DeFi transaction explanation, and MATEX, a grounded multi-agent framework for high-stakes transaction explanation is introduced, which achieves the strongest overall explanation quality.

Zifan Peng, Jingyi Zheng, Yule Liu et al. · 1 citation

Beyond Pixels: Exploring DOM Downsampling for LLM-Based Web Agents

D2Snap, an algorithm to downsample the DOM, premised on preserving actionability and actionability-discriminating features, is proposed and evaluated using a snapshot-variant web agent (GPT-4o) on a dataset sampled from Online-Mind2Web.

Thassilo M. Schiepanski, Nicholas Piël · 4 citations

Rating the Pitch, Not the Product: User Evaluations of LLMs Reflect Expectations More Than Performance

After interaction, users are still rating the pitch, not the product: user-elicited LLM evaluations, including the preference data driving public leaderboards, measure expectation management at least as much as the model itself.

Robert D. Morabito, Tyler McDonald, C. Viswanath et al. · 0 citations

Pearmut: Human Evaluation of Translation Made Trivial

Pearmut is introduced, a lightweight yet feature-rich platform that makes end-to-end human evaluation as easy to run as automatic evaluation and enables reliable human evaluation to become a practical, routine component of model development and diagnosis rather than an occasional effort.

Vilém Zouhar, Tom Kocmi · 11 citations · ⚡2
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Augmenting Interviewer Judgments of Patient Experience with Automatic Language Analysis

A clinician-support framework in which post-session interviewer ratings are combined with automatic language-based predictions to estimate patient-reported interaction quality in free clinical interviews is evaluated, suggesting that automatic language analysis and interviewer judgment capture complementary aspects of...

Ao-Wen Shi, Michal Balazia, Danilo Postin et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

How Mental Health Self-Disclosure Becomes Visible: Evidence from Eight Conditions on Reddit

People share mental health diagnoses on social media, yet how such language becomes visible around their self-disclosure, and whether community engagement tracks it, remain unexamined across conditions. We analyze 89,605 Reddit posts from 739 users across eight conditions, removing each user's diagnosis disclosure and...

Renkai Ma, Lingyao Li, Shan-Ting Chen et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

You Shouldn't Have Asked: A Pragmatics-Inspired Taxonomy for Evaluating LLM Refusals

This work proposes the first taxonomy of LLM refusals that is grounded in pragmatic theory and finds that although models differ in how they refuse, their refusals are overall explicit and strongly morally evaluative, with interactional repair occurring mainly through offering or providing safer alternatives instead of...

Ruo-Xuan Li, Pin-Qiao Wang, Sheng Li et al. · 1 citation

Toward Cultural Alignment: Human-Centered Evaluation of Multimodal AI Stories Across Five African Communities

It is found that cultural alignment depends not simply on recognizable cultural markers, but on how those markers fit social, linguistic, procedural, and visual context, and how those markers fit social, linguistic, procedural, and visual context.

Millicent Ochieng, F. D. M. A. Ali, Elizabeth A. Ankrah et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Toward Postural State Classification in Immersive VR with Multimodal Data and Explainability Analysis

Comparing machine learning and deep learning models for classifying postural states in VR under visual perturbations suggests that multimodal sensing, temporal deep learning, and explainable AI can support reliable classification of balance-related instability in VR.

N. Anjum, M. Pavel, Robert Gonzalez et al. · 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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