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  1. Mimir: Physics-Grounded LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Irrigation Control

    Oct 1, 2026Yimeng Liu, Mi Zhang, Younsuk Dong +1Action SelectionWater

    Michigan State University · Ohio State University

  2. Code Owns the Simulation, Jev Owns the Evaluation

    Oct 1, 2026Yaodong Yang, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma +4Action Selection

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Tianjin University · Shanxi University +3

  3. In CEM, a World Model Is Also a Proposal Mechanism

    Oct 1, 2026Oliver Obst, Frieder StolzenburgModel SelectionWorld Models

    UNSW Sydney · Harz University of Applied Sciences

  4. WorldAuditBench: Interactive 3D World Auditing with Multimodal Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Ziyan Jiang, Jingbo Yang, Jiabao Ji +53D WorldMultimodal Agents

    UC Santa Barbara · MIT CSAIL · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

  5. Code to Control: Synthesizing Parameterized Reactive Controllers

    Sep 30, 2026Zergham Ahmed, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chris Bates +1Llm-Driven Code SynthesisReactive

    Harvard University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

  6. Learning to Explore Hidden Kinematics for Articulated Object Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Ruiyao Liu, Boshu Lei, Zhuoyang Pan +1Articulated KinematicsReal-World Manipulation Tasks

    GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  7. D-JEPA: A Decision-Aligned Latent World Model

    Sep 21, 2026Shuaijun Liu, Chengyu Wu, Qifu Wen +5Latent World ModelsWorld Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Boston University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  8. Beyond Visual Quality: A Study of Test-Time Planning with World Action Models

    Sep 21, 2026Jianhao Yuan, Yu Yuan, Benjamin Ramtoula +5Action SelectionWorld Model Planning

    University of Oxford · Purdue University · UWE Bristol

  9. From Prediction to Decision: World-Model-Guided Action Selection for Continuous Pile Excavation

    Sep 14, 2026Ailing Zhang, Fan Gao, Song Zhang +3World ModelsAction Selection

    1Tsing-AI (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. · 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University. · 3Shanghai Ocean University.

  10. From Monolithic Blending to Agentic Orchestration: Dynamic Response for Conversational Assistants at Scale

    Sep 4, 2026Cen Mia Zhao, Peng Wang, Chuan Shi +6OrchestrationResponses

    Airbnb, Inc.

  11. STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework

    Aug 10, 2026Hanlin Jiang, Jionghao Huang, Shaofei Li +6Incident ResponsePlanning

    Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, Ministry of Education · Southeast University · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  12. ChronoState: Hidden Elapsed-Time Conditioning for Temporal-State Action Selection in Frozen-Backbone Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Sam Siavoshian, Omar Ramadan, Amir K. Saeed +3ChronosFrozen Language Model

    Independent Researcher, California, USA · Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA

  13. Bootstrap-Conditioned Action Selection with Tabular Foundation Models

    Aug 6, 2026Devansh Gupta, Shiv Tavker, Dmitry Efimov +3Contextual Bandit FrameworkIn-Context Learning

    Amazon Science

  14. Good Rankers, Bad Objectives: Bilinear Contrastive Critics under Expressive Policy Search

    Jul 29, 2026Ayushman Singh, Siddharth AphaleAction SelectionContrastive Learning

    Stanford University

  15. StARS: Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via a Recommender System-Driven Approach

    Jul 23, 2026Erencem Ozbey, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Jin Huang +1Human-Robot InteractionAction Selection

    Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye · University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  16. How to Guide LLM Generation: Dual-Surrogate Guided Search for Automated Heuristic Design

    Jul 15, 2026Yuhan Wang, Chaoda Peng, Xingyu Wu +2Automated Heuristic DesignArtificial Intelligence Search

    College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University · Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University

  17. COLMAR: Cooperative View Policy Learning for Multi-Agent Active 3D Reconstruction

    Jul 15, 2026Phu Pham, Damon Conover, Aniket Bera3D ReconstructionMulti-Objective Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

  18. Strategic Buying Agents

    Jul 6, 2026Mingyang Fu, Ming HuAgentic CommerceDynamic Pricing

    Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

  19. EgoGapBench: Benchmarking Egocentric Action Selection in Multi-Agent Scenes

    Jul 1, 2026Jihyeok Jung, Jeewu Lee, Sanghyeop Kim +2Egocentric DatasetEgocentric Vision

    KAIST AI · Sogang University · Ministry of Science and ICT

  20. Ask the World Before Acting: Environment Probing for Calibrated Agent World Models

    Jun 30, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiWorld ModelsAction Selection

    Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · LocationMind, Tokyo, Japan

  21. Constraint Tax in Open-Weight LLMs: An Empirical Study of Tool Calling Suppression Under Structured Output Constraints

    Jun 24, 2026Fangzheng Li, Aimin Zhang, Chen LvTool InvocationCall

    1Focus AI Center, Focus Technology Co., Ltd. · 2Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  22. One-to-Two Acting: A Novel Framework for Single-arm Agent Action Expansion to Dual Arms

    Jun 18, 2026Youbin Yao, Nieqin Cao, Mingyan Li +3Bimanual ManipulationMultimodal Action Distributions

    1Chongqing University, Chongqing, China · 2Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China · 3Lumos Roboticss

  23. Environment-Grounded Automated Prompt Optimization for LLM Game Agents

    Jun 16, 2026Rean Clive Fernandes, Lukas Fehring, Theresa Eimer +2Automatic Prompt OptimizationAgentic Optimization

    Lamarr institute for ML and AI TU Dortmund University · Leibniz University Hannover · L3S Research Center

  24. CCKS: Consensus-based Communication and Knowledge Sharing

    Jun 10, 2026Jinyuan Zu, Xiaowei Lv, Yongcai Wang +5Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningDecentralized Learning

    School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China · State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Systems and Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · The Information Science Academy, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing 100043, China +1

  25. Distilling LLM Reasoning into an Interpretable Policy Tree for Human-AI Collaboration

    Jun 7, 2026Beiwen Zhang, Yongheng Liang, Guowei Zou +2Large Language Model Policy OptimizationHuman-Ai Collaboration

    Sun Yat-sen University

  26. From Reward-Hack Activations to Agentic Risk States: Context-Calibrated Mechanistic Monitoring in LLM Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Patrick Wilhelm, Odej KaoAgentic Reinforcement LearningLarge Language Model Agents

    Distributed Operating Systems, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany · BIFOLD - Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Berlin, Germany

  27. Entropy-Based Observability for AI Agent Behavior

    Jun 4, 2026Olasimbo Ayodeji ArigbabuArtificial Intelligence AgentsPartial Observability

  28. Cross-Environment Neural Reranking for Sample-Efficient Action Selection in Text-Based Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Kan ShaoAction SelectionBert-Based Models

    Jinglue Technology Development (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. Nanjing, China

  29. TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation

    May 25, 2026Sizhe Zhao, Shengping Zhang, Shuo Yang +3Robotic ManipulationInference-Time Steering

    Harbin Institute of Technology, China · Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai) Qingdao Research Institute, China · Iray Technology co., Ltd., Shandong, China +1

  30. Know You Before You Speak: User-State Modeling for LLM Personalization in Multi-Turn Conversation

    May 23, 2026Jiani Luo, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yang Zhang +4Large Language Model PersonalizationPersonalization

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +1

  31. Offline Contextual Bandits in the Presence of New Actions

    May 18, 2026Ren Kishimoto, Tatsuhiro Shimizu, Kazuki Kawamura +6Contextual Bandit FrameworkOff-Policy Learning

    Institute of Science Tokyo · Yale University · Sony Group Corporation +1

  32. Think Twice, Act Once: Verifier-Guided Action Selection For Embodied Agents

    May 12, 2026Nishad Singhi, Christian Bialas, Snehal Jauhri +4Mllm-BasedAction Selection

    Technical University of Darmstadt & hessian.AI

  33. OLIVIA: Online Learning via Inference-time Action Adaptation for Decision Making in LLM ReAct Agents

    May 11, 2026Sheldon Yu, Junda Wu, Xintong Li +6Large Language Model AgentsPersonalized Large Language Model Agents

    UC San Diego · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Adobe Research

  34. Efficient Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Precomputed Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles

    May 10, 2026Himanshu Gupta, Paul Motter, Aritra Chakrabarty +5Multi-Robot Motion PlanningAction Selection

    Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder · Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder · Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, CO, USA

  35. Sequential Strategic Classification with Multi-Stage Selective Classifiers

    May 5, 2026Ziyuan Huang, Lina Alkarmi, Mingyan LiuSequential Decision MakingStrategic Agents

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48105

  36. cotomi Act: Learning to Automate Work by Watching You

    May 4, 2026Masafumi Oyamada, Kunihiro Takeoka, Kosuke Akimoto +5Browser AgentAutomated

    NEC Corporation

  37. DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute

    Apr 26, 2026Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9Action SelectionLong-Horizon Agents

    University of Maryland · New York University · Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)

  38. What Capable Agents Must Know: Selection Theorems for Robust Decision-Making under Uncertainty

    Mar 3, 2026Aran NayebiPartially Observable Markov Decision ProcessNext-State Prediction

    Machine Learning Department and Neuroscience & Robotics Institutes, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

  39. ProAct: A Benchmark and Multimodal Framework for Structure-Aware Proactive Response

    Feb 3, 2026Xiaomeng Zhu, Fengming Zhu, Weijie Zhou +8Multimodal AgentsAction Selection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong SAR, China · Tencent, Shenzhen, China · Futian Laboratory, Shenzhen, China +1

  40. Deep Active Inference with Diffusion Policy and Multiple Timescale World Model for Real-World Exploration and Navigation

    Oct 27, 2025Riko Yokozawa, Kentaro Fujii, Yuta Nomura +1Robot NavigationDiffusion Policies

    School of Integrated Design Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan

  41. Verifier-free Test-Time Sampling for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 7, 2025Suhyeok Jang, Dongyoung Kim, Changyeon Kim +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsAction Selection

    1KAIST · 3RLWRLD · 2Seoul National University

  42. Reward-Centered ReST-MCTS: A Robust Decision-Making Framework for Robotic Manipulation in High Uncertainty Environments

    Mar 7, 2025Xibai WangRobotic ManipulationAction Selection

    NeuroQuant Labs Limited Hong Kong SAR, China

  43. Learning to Visually Connect Actions and their Effects

    Jan 19, 2024Paritosh Parmar, Eric Peh, Basura FernandoFine-Grained Video UnderstandingSelf-Supervised Learning

    Institute of High-Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore