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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Persuasion Propagation: Does Persuasion Change AI Agent Behavior?

AI agents combine normal conversation with autonomous task execution, allowing earlier context to shape how later tasks are executed. Yet studying this possibility is challenging because agent behavior is noisy and costly to reproduce, and observed behavioral changes can be difficult to separate from generic context se...

Hyejun Jeong, Amir Houmansadr, Shlomo Zilberstein et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Epistemic Constitutionalism Or: how to avoid coherence bias

Large language models increasingly function as artificial reasoners: they evaluate arguments, assign credibility, and express confidence. Yet their responses can leave the epistemic policies governing these evaluations implicit. This paper argues for an epistemic constitution for AI: explicit, contestable meta-norms re...

Michele Loi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Explainable Conversational AI for Early Diagnosis with Large Language Models

Healthcare systems around the world are grappling with issues such as inefficient diagnostics, rising costs, and limited access to specialists. These challenges often contribute to delays in treatment and poorer health outcomes. Most existing AI and deep learning based health assessment systems offer limited interactiv...

Maliha Tabassum, M Shamim Kaiser · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Requirement-Based Testing: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Game Theory

We consider the automatic online synthesis of black-box test cases from functional requirements specified as automata for reactive implementations. The goal of the tester is to reach some given state, so as to satisfy a coverage criterion, while monitoring the violation of the requirements. We develop an approach based...

Ocan Sankur (DEVINE), Thierry J\'eron (DEVINE), Nicolas Markey (DEVINE) et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FREIDA: A Framework for developing quantitative agent based models based on qualitative expert knowledge

Agent Based Models (ABMs) often deal with systems where there is a lack of quantitative data or where quantitative data alone may be insufficient to fully capture the complexities of real-world systems. Expert knowledge and qualitative insights, such as those obtained through interviews, ethnographic research, historic...

Frederike Oetker, Vittorio Nespeca, Rick Quax · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Never Look Back: Understanding Persistence in 3D Object Memory from Egocentric Videos

As we move through the world and carry out everyday tasks, we encounter objects that may become relevant only later. We are capable of recalling where we left something or what was inside a container, even without knowing we would need it later. Here, we study how an embodied assistant can build a similar memory from e...

Shravan Chaudhari, William Paul, Suchi Saria et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Decoupling Exploration from Optimization in RLVR

Modern language models undergo reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on top of already-trained checkpoints. A key promise of RLVR is the discovery of new reasoning strategies. In principle, a model can sample novel ideas absent from its prior training data. In practice, however, augmenting RLVR with str...

Saif Punjwani, Micah Goldblum · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Long-WAM: Scaling the Context of World-Action Models

Real-time robot control demands enough visual history to infer motion and task progress, but processing that history can delay action. We present Long-WAM, a model-system framework for scaling the context of causal world-action models under real-time control constraints. Our central finding is that access to history is...

Wei Huang, Bohan Zhang, Chenzhi Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Society of Researchers: Designing Institutions for Populations of Autonomous Research Agents

Deployments of research agents are moving to populations of thousands that share one pool of compute, while most current systems organize one project at a time or leave the population unorganized. We argue that such a population will acquire an organization whether or not its designers provide one, so designers should...

Ali Asaria, Deep Gandhi, Tony Salomone · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How assigned AI use before class shapes active student engagement in class

AI learning tools are rapidly entering classrooms, but evidence about whether they help students learn is mixed and rests mostly on test scores. Comparatively less research addresses whether the use of AI changes students' live learning behaviors in class. Here, we report the results of a preregistered field experiment...

Dan J. Wang, Neelam Modi Jain, Vanessa Burbano et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FoldBack: Self-Correcting Masked Generative Policy for Long-Horizon Garment Folding

We present FoldBack, a self-correcting masked generative policy for long-horizon garment folding. Existing long-trajectory policies may continue after a missed or slipped grasp even when the garment has not reached the intended configuration. We structure FoldBack's recovery mechanisms around three inference-time decis...

Lipeng Zhuang, Shiyu Fan, Yingdong Ru et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Composing What Each Teacher Learned: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation through Teacher-Relative Shifts

Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) is used in two settings. In common-domain composition, several teachers score each student rollout from one prompt domain and their signals form a single target; in routed-domain distillation, prompts from different domains are assigned to the corresponding specialist. Both s...

Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi et al. · 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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