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2026-08-21 | Xianyun Sun, Chaoyou Fu, Zhengye Zhan...
Recent omni-modal large language models (Omni-LLMs) show great potential as real-time video assistants, which continuously perceive environments and guide users to achieve specific goals. Unlike traditional passive video understanding, interactive assistants should actively combine visual states, user goals, and prior...
2026-08-21 | Zhuoyi Yang, Ian G. Harris, Salar Has...
Self-refinement, typically structured as generation, critique, and revision, is a widely adopted paradigm for improving LLM generation and serves as a core mechanism in many LLM agents. While the three stages involve different cognitive demands, most existing approaches conveniently treat...
2026-08-21 | Xiangzhe Xu, Hanxi Guo, Guangyu Shen,...
Natural-language workflows offer a software-like interface for agents: domain experts can write reusable procedures, and agents can execute them as instructions. This promise is not yet reliable. Workflow descriptions often leave data dependencies implicit, so the executor must infer which...
2026-08-21 | Afonso Baldo, Hugo Pitorro, Areti Vas...
Users increasingly turn to large language models for emotional support, yet little is known about how these models actually conduct a psychotherapy interaction. We introduce an ontology of ten therapeutic moves: compact, function-based categories grounded in the MULTI-60 inventory, validated...
2026-08-21 | Adriana Watson, Marco Bücheler, Grant...
The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading regulatory body in the development of sustainability and privacy regulations. While new regulation requirements vary, many include a documentation artifact to ensure compliance. Notably, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)...
2026-08-21 | Qisheng Lu, Aoyang Fang, Junjielong X...
Existing evaluations of automated root cause analysis (RCA) for microservices assess diagnostic performance mainly by endpoint correctness: whether a method localizes the responsible service. This criterion enables comparison but does not reveal the evidentiary basis of a diagnosis or the...
2026-08-21 | Giovanna Broccia, Julian Frattini, Ch...
Background. Requirements inspection (RI) is a well-established practice for detecting potential defects in requirements artifacts early in the software lifecycle. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have stimulated interest in their potential to support requirements engineering (RE) tasks. However,...
2026-08-21 | Binchi Zhang, Atrisha Sarkar
Strategic depth of reasoning is essential for human interaction of Large Language Models (LLMs) operating in boundedly rational environments. However, existing evaluations are primarily based on canonical games prevalent in pretraining corpora, making it difficult to disentangle true strategic reasoning...
2026-08-21 | Weijun Li, Daniel A. Epstein
People's health and tracking goals frequently change, but most personal informatics systems struggle to adapt, leading people to abandon their data and start over. We propose goal-directed framing, an approach that repositions goals within personal informatics systems. Instead of fixing...
2026-08-21 | Chengxiao Wang, Enyi Jiang, Xiaojing ...
Improving the safety of large language models (LLMs) often comes at the expense of utility, as globally applied safety tuning may affect model responses to both harmful and benign inputs. We propose \textbf{C}ontinuous \textbf{L}at\textbf{E}nt \textbf{A}dapter \textbf{R}outing (CLEAR), a conditional safety...
2026-08-21 | Yichen Jiang, Yueqiao Chen, Dongyu Liu
State-of-the-art multivariate time-series forecasters can model complex temporal and cross-variable dependencies, yet their opaque representations provide limited insight into why a particular forecast is produced. This lack of transparency restricts their use in settings where practitioners must understand and assess...
2026-08-21 | Xuanyu Meng, Jiashuo Sun, Jash Rajesh...
Question answering (QA) over long, connected documents remains challenging because relevant evidence may span multiple entities and their relationships. Existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods typically index documents as raw chunks and retrieve them through embedding similarity. Their performance degrades when...
2026-08-21 | Lekang Jiang, Wenjun Sun, Stephan Goetz
While recent large language models (LLMs) have achieved promising results on individual patent drafting tasks, they fundamentally fail to investigate the core challenge of real-world patent drafting: generating a complete and legally coherent patent application directly from early-stage invention materials....
2026-08-21 | Jiayi Li, Sanjana Menon, Brett Frisch...
As conversational companions, large language models (LLMs) often have access to users' emotional states. We study how this affective context modulates LLM sycophancy in subjective, evaluative interactions, where users share actions or opinions that invite feedback. Drawing on ingratiation theory,...
2026-08-21 | Yongxiang Lyu, Ning Li, Bonian Jia
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are increasingly used in LLMs because sparse activation decouples model capacity from compute cost. However, the large expert parameter footprint often exceeds GPU memory capacity, making inference latency dominated by the host-to-device PCIe transfers for expert loading....
2026-08-21 | Donna Pham
Long documents such as clinical records, legal contracts, and scientific papers are increasingly analyzed with large language models (LLMs). Naturally, feeding the full document to the model for every question can eventually become slow, expensive, prone to hallucination, and it...
2026-08-21 | Natalia Amat-Lefort, Mert Yazan, Aman...
Trust in AI for emotional support is not universal; it is shaped by who users are, where they come from, and what they value. Yet research in this area lacks validated psychometric instruments for assessing user perceptions in affective AI...
2026-08-21 | Yinan Liu, Zihan Zhou, Zichun Jin, Xi...
Predictive political question answering (QA), such as predicting how a political actor will vote, goes beyond factual lookup. External political resources offer rich historical evidence, but rarely contain the answer itself. Existing LLM augmentation methods, including actor-profile-based simulation and knowledge...
2026-08-21 | Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung
The rise of agentic AI enables LLMs to access diverse user data, raising critical privacy concerns. Prior work on contextual privacy studies whether LLMs regulate information disclosure according to context-dependent norms. However, acceptable disclosure boundaries may vary across users even...
2026-08-21 | Oleg Grynets, Oleksii Ilchuk, Dariia ...
This paper investigates cross-agent specification portability using Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration as a controlled software transformation task. The study combines two experimental stages. First, a specification-first migration pipeline was evaluated on 1,006 PL/SQL files, of which 623 were successfully regenerated and 380...
2026-01-07 | Ruiyi Guo, Bodong Zhang
Artificial intelligence governance exhibits a striking paradox: while major jurisdictions converge rhetorically around concepts such as safety, risk, and accountability, their regulatory frameworks remain fundamentally divergent and mutually unintelligible. This paper argues that this fragmentation cannot be explained solely by...
2026-01-07 | Tom Deckenbrunnen, Alessio Buscemi, M...
The EU AI Act adopts a horizontal and adaptive approach to govern AI technologies characterised by rapid development and unpredictable emerging capabilities. To maintain relevance, the Act embeds provisions for regulatory learning. However, these provisions operate within a complex network...
2026-01-06 | Simon Chesterman
This essay examines the evolving concept of legal personality through the lens of recent developments in artificial intelligence and the possible emergence of superintelligence. Legal systems have long been open to extending personhood to non-human entities, most prominently corporations, for...
2026-01-03 | Wenbo Wu, George Konstantinidis
Trust and Reputation Management Systems (TRMSs) are critical for the modern web, yet their reliance on subjective user ratings or narrow Quality of Service (QoS) metrics lacks objective grounding. Concurrently, while regulatory frameworks like GDPR and HIPAA provide objective behavioral...
2025-12-29 | Jake Hartnell, Eugenio Battaglia
Current DAO governance praxis limits organizational expressivity and reduces complex organizational decisions to token-weighted voting due to on-chain computational limits. This paper proposes verifiable off-chain computation (leveraging Verifiable Services, TEEs, and ZK proofs) as a framework to transcend these constraints...
2025-12-26 | Sunil Arora, John Hastings
Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems are increasingly used in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and government, where they handle large volumes of personal and regulated data. However, these systems introduce distinct risks related to security, privacy, and regulatory compliance...
2025-12-22 | Shaun Khoo, Jessica Foo, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Agentic AI systems present both significant opportunities and novel risks due to their capacity for autonomous action, encompassing tasks such as code execution, internet interaction, and file modification. This poses considerable challenges for effective organizational governance, particularly in comprehensively identifying,...
2025-12-21 | Yang Ni, Tong Yang
Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI chatbots are increasingly used for emotional and mental health support due to their low cost, immediacy, and accessibility. However, when safety guardrails are triggered, conversations may be abruptly terminated, introducing a distinct form of...
2025-12-20 | Wei Meng
This paper tackles practical challenges in governing child centered artificial intelligence: policy texts state principles and requirements but often lack reproducible evidence anchors, explicit causal pathways, executable governance toolchains, and computable audit metrics. We propose Graph-GAP, a methodology that decomposes...
2025-12-19 | Lucia Velasco, Charles Martinet, Henr...
This policy memo examines the evolution of the international AI Summit series, initiated at Bletchley Park in 2023 and continued through Seoul in 2024 and Paris in 2025, as a forum for cooperation on the governance of advanced artificial intelligence....
2025-12-19 | Robin Schimmelpfennig, Mark Díaz, Vin...
Over a billion users across the globe interact with AI systems engineered with increasing sophistication to mimic human traits. This shift has triggered urgent debate regarding Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human characteristics to synthetic agents, and its potential to induce...
2025-12-18 | Otman A. Basir
Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly deployed in domains that shape human behaviour, institutional decision-making, and societal outcomes. Existing responsible AI and governance efforts provide important normative principles but often lack enforceable engineering mechanisms that operate throughout the system lifecycle. This...
2025-12-18 | A. Talha Yalta, A. Yasemin Yalta
Growing concerns about fairness, privacy, robustness, and transparency have made it a central expectation of AI governance that automated decisions be explainable by institutions and intelligible to affected parties. We introduce the Smart Data Portfolio (SDP) framework, which treats data...
2025-12-17 | Atte Ojanen, Johannes Anttila, Thilo ...
The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present unique challenges for policymakers that seek to govern the technology. In this context, the Delphi method has become an established way to identify consensus and disagreement on emerging technological issues among experts...
2025-12-16 | Francesca Gomez, Adam Buick, Leah Fer...
Frontier AI developers operate at the intersection of rapid technical progress, extreme risk exposure, and growing regulatory scrutiny. While a range of external evaluations and safety frameworks have emerged, comparatively little attention has been paid to how internal organizational assurance...