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  1. Task-Oriented Communications for Edge-Assisted Multi-View Localization

    Sep 28, 2026Zhengru Fang, Huanhuan Lou, Senkang Hu +5Drone-View Geo-LocalizationMulti-Uav

    Hong Kong JC STEM Lab of Smart City and the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  2. Guardrails or Roadblocks? Effects of Pedagogical Style and Context Awareness in AI Teaching Assistants for Programming

    Sep 24, 2026Madeleine Eastwood, Harshith Narne, Joseph Hilby +3Pedagogical FrameworksAi-Assisted Programming Tasks

    University of Florida Gainesville, FL, United States · University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand

  3. Effects of Assistance Delay on Joint Mechanics and Energetics in Biological Torque Control of a Hip Exoskeleton

    Sep 21, 2026Jimin An, Ryan Lee, Jingshu Peng +2ExoskeletonTorque

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA

  4. SupportCal: Label-Free Calibration of Post-Trained LLMs via Reference Support and Corroboration

    Sep 21, 2026Linhan Luo, Lequan Lin, Dai Shi +3Post-TrainingConfidence Calibration

    The University of Sydney · University of Cambridge · The University of Adelaide

  5. Measuring the Assistant's Harmlessness Preferences on the User Turn

    Sep 20, 2026Jord NguyenChatbotsPreference Alignment Learning

  6. From Visual Feedback to Textual Reviews: A Multi-Agent Vision-Language Framework for Image-Grounded Review Assistance

    Sep 13, 2026Utsav Kumar Nareti, Ayush Bansal, Kumari Priya +4ReviewAssistant

    Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India-801106 · Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India-453552 · NCMI, CSIRO, Australia-2601 +1

  7. DYAD: A Multimodal Dataset of Co-Located Human Assistance

    Sep 8, 2026Akhil Ajikumar, Mahya Qorbani, Sakib Reza +2Multimodal DatasetAssistant

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA · Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

  8. Same Request, Different Boundary: Evaluating Cybersecurity Assistance across Conversational Contexts

    Sep 1, 2026Rui Yang, Yang Hong, Yichao Xu +3Large Language Model SafetyCybersecurity

    Johns Hopkins University

  9. VoiceLongMemEval: Do Assistants Remember How You Sounded?

    Sep 1, 2026Ramit Pahwa, Parivesh Priye, Apoorva BeeduAssistantMemes

    Rivian VW Tech

  10. The Assistant's Ideal Self

    Aug 31, 2026Mert YazanSelfArtificial Intelligence Alignment

    Leiden University · Research conducted at the Digital Minds Research Sprint, August 2026.

  11. Personalized Lower-limb Exoskeleton Assistance via Preference-based Bayesian Optimization

    Aug 10, 2026Xiao-Yin Liu, Guotao Li, Weiqun Wang +1ExoskeletonAssistant

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · CASIA-MUST Joint Laboratory of Intelligence Science and Technology, Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, China

  12. "Many Are My Names": The Anatomy of the Assistant and Its Personas via Sparse Autoencoders

    Aug 8, 2026Adelaide Danilov, Aria Nourbakhsh, Oleksandr Marchenko Breneur +1Role-Playing AgentsAssistant

    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg

  13. WebRider: Persona-Conditioned Intent Controllers for Live-Web Assistance

    Aug 7, 2026Zhi Li, Tao Zhou, Yeqing Li +2Web AgentsWeb

    University of California, Los Angeles · Google

  14. Assistant Placement Aria: A Benchmark for Egocentric Placement Assistance

    Aug 1, 2026Amir Belder, Gonçalo Dias Pais, Refael Vivanti +5AffordancesRobotic Systems

    Reality Labs, Meta inc. and Technion, institute of technology · Sensei, Lisbon, Portugal · Reality Labs, Meta inc. +1

  15. Rethinking LLM-Judged Helpfulness as a Pedagogy Signal: A Pre-Registered Audit Across Tutor Models

    Jul 30, 2026Shuyi Fan, Boyuan Deng, Mengyu Xu +4TutorsPedagogical Frameworks

    Columbia University, USA · Johns Hopkins University, USA · The University of Chicago, USA +4

  16. Corrigible Assistance in One Round: Pragmatic-Pedagogic Best Response

    Jul 29, 2026Elle Lazarski, Jaime Fernández FisacHuman-Robot CollaborationAgentic Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University, USA

  17. Judge-dependent safety gains and model-specific helpfulness costs of evidence-sufficiency prompting in clinical LLMs

    Jul 20, 2026Koyar AfrasyabLarge Language Model JudgesOverconfidence

    Kinvectum AB, Sweden

  18. AdaHome: An Adaptive Smart Home Assistant using Local Small Language Models

    Jul 20, 2026Eu Jin Lim, Zhaoxing Li, Sebastian SteinSmart HomesLarge Language Model Personalization

    University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom

  19. From Perception to Assistance: Open-Vocabulary Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 19, 2026Murilo Vinicius da Silva, Ricardo V. Godoy, Juliano Negri +3Robotic ManipulationRgb-Depth Cameras

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil · Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil · Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

  20. Vision-Language Assistant for Emotional Reactions to Risky Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Harine Choi, Eun Hak Lee, Zhengzhong TuHuman DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77840, College Station, Texas, United States · School of Railway Operation Systems, Kyungil University, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea

  21. KnowAct-GUIClaw: Know Deeply, Act Perfectly, Personal GUI Assistant with Self-Evolving Memory and Skill

    Jul 14, 2026Yunxin Li, Jinchao Li, Shibo Su +7Graphical User Interface AgentsAgentic Framework

    Lychee Team∗, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

  22. Vinci2: Providing Proactive Assistance in Continuous Egocentric Videos

    Jul 13, 2026Gong Sitong, Tianyu Yan, Caixin Kang +6Egocentric VideoArtificial Intelligence Assistants

    Dalian University of Technology · Alaya Lab · The University of Tokyo

  23. The Path to Self-Evolving Clinical Systems: Scaling Medical Agents from Assistance to Autonomy

    Jul 13, 2026Chunzheng Zhu, Lei Tian, Bohan Tan +15Self-EvolutionRate Scaling

    1Hunan University · 2ByteDance · 3Duke University +6

  24. CGS: Configurable Graph Summarization with Bounded Neighborhood Loss and Query Support

    Jul 13, 2026Shubhadip Mitra, Sona Elza Simon, C Oswald +2SummarizationAssistant

    Blue Yonder India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India · Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India · Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirapalli, India +2

  25. Provably Optimal Learning Algorithms for Assistance Games

    Jul 9, 2026Nivasini Ananthakrishnan, Mark Bedaywi, Michael I. Jordan +2Optimal LearnerMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    University of California, Berkeley

  26. HELP: Human-Efficient Large-Scale Robot Post-Training with Rollout Segmentation

    Jul 8, 2026Shaopeng Zhai, Qi Zhang, Tianyi Zhang +5Humanoid RoboticsRollout

    Continuous Learning Team, Shanghai AI Laboratory

  27. Phoneme-Level Mispronunciation Screening in Polish-Speaking Children with an Explainable Assistant

    Jun 23, 2026Milosz Dudek, Daria Hemmerling, Kamil Kwarciak +9Pronunciation AssessmentScreening

    AGH University of Krakow, Cracow, Poland · SoftServe, Cracow, Poland · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Poland +1

  28. A specialized reasoning large language model for accelerating rare disease diagnosis: a randomized AI physician assistance trial

    Jun 23, 2026Haichao Chen, Songchi Zhou, Zhengyun Zhao +28Rare DiseaseReasoning Skills

    Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · Department of Ophthalmology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. · Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. +19

  29. When Does Intrinsic Self-Correction Help? A Task-Sensitive Analysis

    Jun 22, 2026Elroy Stav, Dvir Berlowitz, Maayan Orner +1Iterative Self-CorrectionAssistant

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Bar-Ilan University · Independent Researcher

  30. Assistron: Bayesian Shared Autonomy with Off-the-shelf Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 22, 2026Pinhao Song, Ze Fu, Yutong Hu +1Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsTeleoperation

    KU Leuven, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Research unit Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics · KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Research unit Processing Speech and Images

  31. Does Mixture-of-Experts Actually Help Inference on Consumer and Edge Hardware? An Empirical Study

    Jun 19, 2026Alfarizy Alfarizy, Hung Truong Thanh Nguyen, René Richard +2Mixture-Of-Expert InferenceMixture-Of-Experts

    Analytics Everywhere Lab, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada · TSAI Lab, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

  32. Abstention-Aware Personalized Object Rearrangement via Uncertainty-Guided LLM Assistance

    Jun 15, 2026Sam Collin, Ali AyubConceptual ReorganizationAffordances

    Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada

  33. When Does Mixing Help? Analyzing Query Embedding Interpolation in Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    Jun 11, 2026Tongyao Zhu, Chao-Ming Huang, Min-Yen KanRetrieval LayerRetrievers

    National University of Singapore

  34. Understanding helpfulness and harmless tension in reward models

    Jun 11, 2026Eshaan Tanwar, Pepa AtanasovaProgress Reward ModelingValue Alignment

    University of Copenhagen

  35. Helping Figures Tell their Story! Paper-Grounded Video Generation Explaining Complex Scientific Figures

    Jun 10, 2026Ishani Mondal, Javad Baghirov, Jordan Boyd-GraberLong Video GenerationScientific Figure

    University of Maryland, College Park

  36. Improving Human Diving Endurance with a Field-Deployable, Untethered Exoskeleton

    Jun 10, 2026Zhihao Zhou, Zhenmeng Ju, Rui Yang +8Underwater RobotsExoskeleton

  37. SpAArSIST: Sparsified AASIST for Efficient and Reliable Anti-Spoofing

    Jun 10, 2026Anton Firc, Vojtěch Staněk, Zbyněk Lička +2SpoofingSelf-Supervised Learning

  38. SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping

    Jun 3, 2026Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Xiaofeng Xiong +1ExoskeletonFinger

    SDU Soft Robotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  39. When Helping Hurts and How to Fix It: Multi-Agent Debate for Data Cleaning

    Jun 1, 2026Chirag Parmar, Akshat Mehta, Henglin Wu +2Multi-Agent DebateDebate

    1Meta Platforms, Inc.

  40. LLMs as Teaching Assistants for Mathematics Exam Grading: Reliability, and Practical Usability

    Jun 1, 2026Aastha Sapkota, M. G. Sarwar MurshedGradingPreliminary Study

    Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, USA

  41. The Assistant as a Privileged Persona: A canonical reference in cross-persona self-recognition

    May 30, 2026Asvin GArtificial Intelligence PersonasAuthorship

    Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

  42. The Curse of Helpfulness: Inverse Scaling Law in Robustness to Distractor Instructions via DistractionIF

    May 28, 2026Zeli Su, Zhankai Xu, Tianlei Chen +4Large Language Model Reinforcement LearningInstruction-Tuned Models

    Minzu University of China, Beijing, China · Ant Group, Hangzhou, China · Renmin University of China, Beijing, China +1

  43. An LLM-Based Assistance System for Intuitive and Flexible Capability-Based Planning

    May 27, 2026Luis Miguel Vieira da Silva, Nicolas König, Felix GehlhoffLarge Language Model PlanningClassical Planning

    Institute of Automation Technology, Helmut Schmidt University

  44. R2V Agent: Teaching SLMs When to Ask for Help

    May 15, 2026Raghu Vamshi Hemadri, Humaira Firdowse Mohammed, Rishabh Maheshwary +5Large Language Model RoutingCp-Agent

    New York University Tandon School of Engineering · University of California, San Diego · ServiceNow Research +3

  45. Beyond AI as Assistants: Toward Autonomous Discovery in Cosmology

    May 14, 2026Licong Xu, Thomas BorrettArtificial Intelligence ScientistsCosmology

    Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK · Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK · Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK

  46. VISTA: A Generative Egocentric Video Framework for Daily Assistance

    May 11, 2026Yu-Hsiang Liu, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi YenVideo AgentEgocentric Video

    Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  47. Quantifying the Utility of User Simulators for Building Collaborative LLM Assistants

    May 10, 2026Joseph Suh, Ayush Raj, Minwoo Kang +1User SimulationRole-Playing Agents

    UC Berkeley

  48. AssistDLO: Assistive Teleoperation for Deformable Linear Object Manipulation

    May 7, 2026Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Kay Pompetzki +1TeleoperationDeformable Linear Objects

    TU Darmstadt, Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Computer Science Department, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany · Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Carl-Legien-Straße 30, 63073 Offenbach/Main, Germany · German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Research Department: Systems AI for Robot Learning; Hessian.AI; Robotics Institute Germany (RIG); Centre for Cognitive Science, Hochschulstr. 10, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany

  49. An Empirical Study of Proactive Coding Assistants in Real-World Software Development

    May 7, 2026Lehui Li, Ruixuan Jia, Guo-Ye Yang +1Ai-Assisted Programming TasksUser Simulation

    College of AI, Tsinghua University, China · Fitten Tech Co., Ltd., China

  50. When Can Voting Help, Hurt, or Change Course? Exact Structure of Binary Test-Time Aggregation

    May 7, 2026Yi LiuMajority VotingExact

    York University

  51. When Helpfulness Becomes Sycophancy: Sycophancy is a Boundary Failure Between Social Alignment and Epistemic Integrity in Large Language Models

    May 6, 2026Jiechen Li, Catherine A. Barry, Rishika Randev +3SycophancyEpistemic Integrity

    Duke University Durham, NC 27708 · ∗These authors contributed equally.

  52. Personalized Digital Health Modeling with Adaptive Support Users

    May 3, 2026Zhongqi Yang, Mahkameh Rasouli, Neda Mohseni +3HealthcareParameter-Efficient Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine · Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California, Irvine · Thrive AI Health +1

  53. Assistance Without Interruption: A Benchmark and LLM-based Framework for Non-Intrusive Human-Robot Assistance

    May 2, 2026Yuedi Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Wanqi Zhou +4Human-Robot InteractionAssistant

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

  54. Helpfulness Hurts: Domain-Dependent Degradation of Mid-Trained Compassion Values Under Post-Training

    Apr 30, 2026Jasmine Brazilek, Juliana SeawellPost-TrainingPretraining

    †Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML)

  55. SHAPE: Unifying Safety, Helpfulness and Pedagogy for Educational LLMs

    Apr 24, 2026Sihang Zhao, Kangrui Yu, Youliang Yuan +2TutorsLarge Language Model Safety

    Center for Data Science, New York University Shanghai · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University · School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  56. Learning to Seek Help: Dynamic Collaboration Between Small and Large Language Models

    Apr 20, 2026Hang Zeng, Xiangyu Liu, Yong Hu +5CollaborationAssistant

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · WeChat Tencent, Beijing, China · State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, United States.

  57. PEARL: Self-Evolving Assistant for Time Management with Reinforcement Learning

    Jan 17, 2026Bingxuan Li, Jeonghwan Kim, Cheng Qian +4ScheduleAssistant

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Viven

  58. User Perceptions vs. Proxy LLM Judges: Privacy and Helpfulness in LLM Responses to Privacy-Sensitive Scenarios

    Oct 23, 2025Xiaoyuan Wu, Roshni Kaushik, Wenkai Li +2PrivacyLarge Language Model Responses

    Fujitsu Research of America, Inc. · Carnegie Mellon University

  59. Safe Learning Under Irreversible Dynamics via Asking for Help

    Date pendingBenjamin Plaut, Juan Liévano-Karim, Hanlin Zhu +1Markov Decision ProcessesIrreversibility

    Division of Computer Science University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA