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#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Offline Language-Based Support System for Tactical Decision-Making in Air Combat Operations

An offline language-based support tool is presented to assist pilot training and tactical decision-making in air combat operations. The system, named MATE (Mission Assistant for Training and Evaluation), applies retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to answer natural language questions using content extracted from doctr...

Joao P. A. Dantas · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Measure Before You Train: Typed Decision Models vs. a Classical Baseline vs. a Generative LLM for Routing a Personal Multilingual Inbox

Personal email agents decide, for every message, what it is, whether it is urgent, whether to draft a reply, create a task, or ignore it. Their error rate is rarely measured: the stored labels were written by the system itself. We present Foyer, a self-hosted personal inbox agent in daily use, and a measurement protoco...

Federico Lucca · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EMG Tokenization Preserves Movement Information at a Fraction of the Bitrate

Wireless electromyography (EMG) interfaces must balance electrode coverage against transmission bandwidth. Here, we show that compact EMG tokens substantially reduce payload while retaining information for three-dimensional hand-pose decoding. We evaluate two causal tokenizers fitted without pose labels: an encoder pre...

Raul C. S\^impetru, Amin Olamazadeh, Devon Rohlf et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cognitively Constrained Partners for Zero-Shot Coordination in Real-Time Partitioned Control

Effective human-machine teaming requires agents that coordinate with unpredictable human partners. Reinforcement learning from live human feedback or large behavioural datasets is expensive, while purely simulated training overfits to artificial conventions and fails at Zero-Shot Coordination with real people. We propo...

Ash Simmons, George De Ath, Richard M. Everson · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Contextual Memory Virtualisation: DAG-Based State Management and Structurally Lossless Trimming for LLM Agents

As large language models engage in extended reasoning tasks, they accumulate significant state -- architectural mappings, trade-off decisions, codebase conventions -- within the context window. This understanding is lost when sessions reach context limits and undergo lossy compaction. We propose Contextual Memory Virtu...

Cosmo Santoni · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PAIR-SAFE: A Paired-Agent Approach for Runtime Auditing and Refining AI-Mediated Mental Health Support

LLMs are increasingly used for mental health support, yet they can produce responses that are overly directive, inconsistent, or clinically misaligned. Most risk mitigation approaches rely on implicit alignment through training or prompting, offering limited runtime accountability. We introduce PAIR-SAFE, a paired-agen...

Jiwon Kim, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Dong Whi Yoo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Human-AI Interactions and the Psychological Triad: A Multi-Domain Survey of Cognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Impacts

As human-AI interactions increasingly reshape social and research landscapes, the risks of overreliance, cognitive offloading, and the nuanced degradation of human agency have become more apparent. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a novel conceptual framework based on the psychological triad: cognit...

Omar Al-Refai, Yadira Colunga Reyes, Celeste Riley et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GenXR-Bench: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Interactive XR Development

Coding agents are rapidly advancing from single-file generation to long-horizon repository-scale engineering, yet the evaluation of their capabilities to author interactive extended reality (XR) applications remains an open challenge. Unlike traditional software, XR applications operate within dynamic 3D physical envir...

William Huang, David Li, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Validating the Comparison, Not Just the Scorer: Why Overall Accuracy Can Mislead in Interactive LLM Evaluation

Many LLM studies compare how models respond to different follow-up prompts. For example, one prompt may neutrally ask a model to reconsider, while another insists that an invented film really exists. The difference is used to measure the effect of conversational pressure. An automatic scorer then labels whether each re...

Ancil Crayton · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Privacy Preference Controls for Agentic Systems

A taxonomy of enforceable privacy preferences for agentic systems is developed, informed both by laws and empirical studies of existing privacy tools as well as an audit of 30 leading AI assistants and agent platforms.

Shreya Kochar, Peeranat Sugsavanvit, Vidur Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jun 2026

Empirically Grounded Behavioral Adaptivity for LLM-Based Virtual Patients in Psychotherapy Training

Simulated patients offer a scalable way to train psychotherapy micro-skills such as empathic responding and exploratory probing, but current systems either follow fixed scripts or rely on LLMs that drift unpredictably over long sessions. We present the Adaptive Virtual Patient (AVP), which adapts its disclosure behavio...

Angela Chen, Si-Wei Jin, Catherine Bao et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1

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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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