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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reading the Room: Foundations, Design, and Challenges of Normative Competence in LLMs

Human communities are governed by normative systems: shared standards that produce \textit{norms} dictating acceptable behavior, enforced through community sanctioning. Aligning increasingly autonomous AI systems with these norms is a central alignment challenge, complicated by the fact that norms are vast in number, c...

Andrea Wynn (Nathan), Harsh Satija (Nathan), Seokhyun (Nathan) et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Supervised Keyframe Discovery for Horizon-Invariant Behavior Cloning

Behavior cloning (BC) in non-Markovian environments is a challenging problem because policies have to reason over contextual information over long horizons. Existing policy architectures rely on recurrent or attention-based mechanisms to capture long-term dependencies. However, recurrent models suffer from hidden-state...

Prabin Kumar Rath, Omkar Patil, Nakul Gopalan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

On the Clock: Towards Punctual and Productive Time-Budgeted AI Agents

We study whether small LLM agents can operate effectively under explicit wall-clock time budgets by both respecting the allocated runtime and using available time productively. We evaluate Qwen3.6-27B on five competitions from MLE-Bench Lite and Qwen3-4B on Zork I (Jericho), two agentic benchmarks where additional comp...

Aaron Wang, Neelabh Madan, Vlad Sobal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Whose Ground Truth? Embracing Ambiguity in Human-Centered AI

As AI systems increasingly interact with people and make decisions about them, understanding human interpretations becomes an important part of developing human-centered AI. Conventional machine learning and AI systems are largely developed under the assumption that a single definitive ground truth exists, with variabi...

Jingyao Wu, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Per R{\aa}dberg Nagb{\o}l et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Plan-and-Patch: Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Planning

Planning is increasingly important for long-horizon agents, where successful execution requires coordinating subgoals, tool use, and intermediate outcomes over many steps. Yet assumptions made during planning may be invalidated by the environment, tools may return unexpected results, or actions may fail. Effective agen...

Syamantak Kumar, Jiang Guo, Hassan Hamad et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Speaking the Navigator's Language: Trajectory-Grounded Instruction Translation for Frozen Aerial VLN Agents

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents are typically trained on detail-rich, trajectory-aligned commands, whereas users issue short, intent-driven instructions; on a frozen OpenFly navigator, this \emph{instruction gap} drops success rate (SR) from $31.03\%$ to $11.33\%$. To scale translator training, we pr...

Xi Chen, Zhe Liu, Xiaogang Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Harness as the Only Mutable Surface: Compliance-Bounded Self-Evolution of LLM Agents in Credit Pipelines, with a Measured Admission Gate

Self-improving LLM agents can adapt a credit pipeline to a changed rule, but an agent that rewrites itself destroys the artefact a supervisor reviews: a named change, a recorded test, an approval. We argue that self-evolution is reviewable only if it is confined to the runtime harness (instruction text, tool-call logic...

Ravil Akhtyamov · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Verification and Self-Improvement in Agentic AI: Foundations and Limits

Agentic AI systems can improve by searching longer, receiving additional support, or modifying how they propose and verify outputs. A performance score does not distinguish these mechanisms. We compare these changes through bounded verification with hidden terminal randomness. A stage specifies admissible transcripts,...

Chien-Ping Lu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Agent-Controlled Forgetting for Tool-Using Agents: Reversible Context Curation in Practice

Tool-using agents repeatedly carry observations whose useful content can be much smaller than their original payload. We study agent-controlled forgetting: the acting model selects previously observed tool results, replaces each with a short note at its original position, and retains the exact original in a recoverable...

Jan-Peter Franke · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Synthesis Through Simulation: Generating Coherent Enterprise Data via Scalable Agent-System Interaction

Tool-calling agents have become central to enterprise AI, yet training and evaluating them at scale remains severely constrained due to business and legal restrictions on enterprise systems, data, and database schemas. Tabular data synthesis offers a natural alternative, but its effectiveness is fundamentally limited b...

Yipeng Li, Ashutosh Hathidara, Jane Lo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Explainable Header-Centric Framework for Large-Scale Semantic Table Interpretation and Data Quality Assessment

Knowledge Graph (KG) quality depends not only on downstream graph validation, but also on the quality of tabular metadata used before integration. In metadata-only Semantic Table Interpretation (STI), where cell values are unavailable, noisy, or unsuitable, column headers become a critical source of semantic evidence f...

Marcelo Valentim Silva, Hannes Herrmann, Valerie Maxville · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Book Oct 2026

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development, Applications and Security

Abstract This chapter is devoted to highlighting aspects of the development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) models and their current use. Special attention is paid to the role of AI in creativity and intellectual property. It is noted that AI can act as a tool directly involved in the creative pro...

Oleksandra Oliynychuk, Jacek Paluszak · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Sep 29, 2026

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

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