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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Towards Shutdownable Agents: Generalizing Stochastic Choice in RL Agents and LLMs

Misaligned artificial agents might resist shutdown. One proposed solution is to train agents to lack preferences between different-length trajectories. The Discounted Reward for Same-Length Trajectories (DReST) reward function does this by penalizing agents for repeatedly choosing same-length trajectories, and thus inc...

Carissa Cullen, Harry Garland, Alexander Roman et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

OOM-RL: Out-of-Money Reinforcement Learning Market-Driven Alignment for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

The alignment of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) for autonomous software engineering is constrained by evaluator epistemic uncertainty. Current paradigms, such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and AI Feedback (RLAIF), frequently induce model sycophancy, while execution-based environments suffer from adver...

Kun Liu, Liqun Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

U-CECE: A Universal Multi-Resolution Framework for Conceptual Counterfactual Explanations

As AI models grow more complex, explainability is essential for building trust, yet concept-based counterfactual methods still face a trade-off between expressivity and efficiency. Representing underlying concepts as atomic sets is fast but misses relational context, whereas full graph representations are more faithful...

Angeliki Dimitriou, Nikolaos Chaidos, Maria Lymperaiou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Bridging Natural Language and Interactive What-If Interfaces via LLM-Generated Declarative Specifications

What-if analysis (WIA) lets users explore hypothetical scenarios by adjusting parameters, applying constraints, and scoping data through interactive interfaces. Current tools fall short: spreadsheet and BI tools require laborious setup, while LLM-generated interfaces frequently misinterpret analytical intent. It remain...

Sneha Gathani, Sirui Zeng, Diya Patel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Where Experts Disagree, Models Fail: Detecting Implicit Legal Citations in French Court Decisions

Applying computational methods to law at scale requires separating genuine legal reasoning from surface similarity. We study this through a concrete task: detecting implicit citations of the French Civil Code, where a court applies a statutory rule without naming it (a post-hoc question about the reasoning a court actu...

Avrile Floro, Tamara Dhorasoo, Soline Pellez et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TeachingCoach: A Fine-Tuned Scaffolding Chatbot for Instructional Guidance to Instructors

Higher education instructors often lack timely and pedagogically grounded support, as scalable instructional guidance remains limited and existing tools rely on generic chatbot advice or non-scalable teaching center human-human consultations. We present TeachingCoach, a pedagogically grounded chatbot designed to suppor...

Isabel Molnar, Peiyu Li, Si Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prototype-Based Knowledge Guidance for Fine-Grained Structured Radiology Reporting

Structured radiology reporting promises faster, more consistent communication than free text, but automation remains difficult as models must make many fine-grained, discrete decisions about rare findings and attributes from limited structured supervision. In contrast, free-text reports are produced at scale in routine...

Chantal Pellegrini, Adrian Delchev, Ege \"Ozsoy et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior

LLM self-explanations are often presented as a promising tool for AI oversight, yet their faithfulness to the model's true reasoning process is poorly understood. Existing faithfulness metrics have critical limitations, typically relying on identifying unfaithfulness via adversarial prompting or detecting reasoning err...

Harry Mayne, Justin Singh Kang, Dewi Gould et al. · 0 citations
#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

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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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