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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BehaviorFormer: Discovering Behavioral Patterns via Clusterable Next-Token Prediction

Discovering behavioral patterns in open-ended games is challenging due to the lack of clear objectives or ground-truth annotations. In this work, we extend a next-token prediction Transformer with the deep clustering algorithm DCSS to learn meaningful representations with well-separated clusters. In a controlled Minecr...

Tobias Schneider, Danial Fahrner, Soren Antebi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Latent World Action Model for GUI Agents

Pixel-space world models have recently emerged as a promising approach for GUI agents, predicting future screens prior to execution and subsequently re-perceiving them for action selection. However, this two-stage paradigm faces two key challenges in GUI environments: (L1) the high computational cost of pixel reconstru...

Seungjun Yu, Hojun Choi, Seojeong Park et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Showing versus Doing: Teaching by Demonstration

People often learn from others' demonstrations, and inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) techniques have realized this capacity in machines. In contrast, teaching by demonstration has been less well studied computationally. Here, we develop a Bayesian model for teaching by demonstration. Stark differences arise when de...

Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, James MacGlashan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EmoXpt: Analyzing Emotional Variances in Human Comments and LLM-Generated Responses

The widespread adoption of generative AI has generated diverse opinions, with individuals expressing both support and criticism of its applications. This study investigates the emotional dynamics surrounding generative AI by analyzing human tweets referencing terms such as ChatGPT, OpenAI, Copilot, and LLMs. To further...

Shireesh Reddy Pyreddy, Tarannum Shaila Zaman · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Knowing the User Is Not Knowing What We Established: Grounding Awareness in Personal Agents

Personal-agent memory has largely focused on learning what users know, prefer, and want. However, knowing the user does not necessarily mean knowing what the user and the agent have established together. An assistant's proposal should not become an authorized instruction merely because it is remembered. We introduce Gr...

Jiajun Chen, Xinyue Chen, Yicheng Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CompanionSafe: From Multi-turn Safety Evaluation to Guardrails for AI Companions

AI companions provide users with emotional support and ongoing companionship, but their sustained relational interactions also introduce distinct safety risks. Prior work largely targets general harms or specific companion platforms and risk categories, while relying on manually collected conversations, limiting scalab...

Xinyang Liao, Lingyu Li, Kaicheng Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Safety for Whom? Benchmarking Understanding Beyond Refusal in Egocentric Multimodal Assistants

Egocentric multimodal assistants see through the user's eyes and guide what the user does next, so their outputs directly shape physical actions, including those that affect bystanders. Yet existing safety evaluations do not distinguish whom a response would harm, and score only whether a model refuses. Pooling all har...

Yewon Han, Jisu Jeon, Suhyun Choi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Get In, Decide, Prove: A Merchant-Side Readiness Benchmark for Agentic Commerce

AI agents now browse and buy on people's behalf, and benchmarks measure how well the agents perform. Far less is known about the other side of the transaction: whether a merchant's website lets an agent in, publishes terms precise enough to decide a purchase, and leaves evidence of what was agreed. This paper presents...

Adrian de Valois-Franklin, Alexander Bogdan, Anas Ibrahim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GUIDE: Computationally Augmented Consensus for Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines

Maintaining up-to-date clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is essential for evidence-based medicine, but rapid evidence growth and complex expert consensus formation limit timely updates. We developed GUIDE, a multi-agent copilot system for human-AI collaborative guideline generation and updating. GUIDE delegates labor...

Yuanfan Lin, Jie Di, Xujin He et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Vision: "What Don't I Know About User's Preferences?" How Uncertainty Estimation Improves Proactive Assistant Alignment

Proactive Smart Assistants (PSAs) increasingly use general knowledge, learned patterns from group-level data, patterns from individual user's data, and recent sensor observations to anticipate which action a user may prefer. Existing systems typically select actions from predicted user preference likelihoods, but these...

Zhiyu An, Ziyi Xuan, Yu Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Using Evidence-Centered Design to Guide Prompt Engineering in Measurement: An Illustration with Automated Essay Scoring

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, particularly large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used in educational settings for tasks such as item generation, automated scoring, and feedback delivery. The quality of these outputs depends not only on the AI model but also on how users construct the promp...

Jia-Wei Xiong, Cheng Tang, Hong Jiao 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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