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  1. What Can Analogy Tell Us About Artificial Consciousness?

    Oct 1, 2026Keith J. Holyoak, Martin M. MontiAnalogyArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles · Brain Injury Research Center, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles

  2. RISED: RubrIcs for agentic multi-environment Selection and sElf-Distillation

    Oct 1, 2026Jingtan Wang, Sirajul Salekin, Young mok Jung +3Mixture-Of-AgentsReward Functions

    National University of Singapore · Work done during an internship at Apple · Apple

  3. Getting Out and Getting Back: World and Behavior Grounding in Real2Sim2Real Co-Training

    Sep 30, 2026Samuel Liu, Youngsun Kim, Martin Matak +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningContextual Grounding

    University of Cambridge · Industrial Next

  4. PrefPI: Preference-Guided Steering into Out-of-Distribution Behaviors

    Sep 30, 2026Seungeun Rho, Wontaek Kim, Danfei Xu +1Robot PoliciesSteering

    School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology

  5. ConflictGuide: AutoResearch Improves When Competing Behaviors Are Made Visible

    Sep 30, 2026Binqian Xu, Qiran Zou, Xiangbo Shu +1Code QualityAdversarial Evaluation

    National University of Singapore · Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  6. RouteRec: Behavior-Guided Sparse Routing for Sequential Recommendation

    Sep 30, 2026Junyeong Song, Jaemin YooSequential RecommendationRecommendation Quality

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Seoul National University Seoul, Republic of Korea

  7. Unlearning Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs with Contrastive Forget Sets

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Tang, Rajiv KhannaLarge Language Model UnlearningDeception

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  8. Wrench-ACT: Enhancing Robot Policies for Contact Rich Behavior Using Direct Wrench Control

    Sep 29, 2026Johannes Hechtl, Yannik Blei, Simon Ball +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesContact Wrench Estimation

    Siemens Research and Predevelopment · Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

  9. Positional choice and robust collective behavior in fish schools: biohybrid experiments and modeling

    Sep 28, 2026Vahagn Grigoryan, Donato Romano, Cesare Stefanini +1Collective BehaviorsFish

    Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE · BioRobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy · Division of Computing and Mathematical Science, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  10. BEHAVE: Functional Behavior Modeling Enables Self-Improving Agents for Hardware Design and Verification

    Sep 28, 2026Yuheng Wu, Berk Gokmen, Sujeeth Jinesh +5Self-Improving AgentsBehavioral Foundation Models

    Stanford University · Workato, Inc.

  11. Behavior-Grounded Semantic Enrichment for Financial Fraud Modeling and Reasoning

    Sep 28, 2026Linbo Shao, Huilin He, Yating Lou +1Fraud DetectionSynthetic Data

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  12. Reachability is not enough: Diagnosing long-range behavior in GNNs

    Sep 27, 2026Filippo Maria BianchiGraph Neural NetworksMessage Passing Neural Networks

    UiT The Arctic University of Norway · NORCE Norwegian Research Centre

  13. Scalable Attribution and Control of Model Behavior During Training

    Sep 27, 2026Sleem AbdelghafarBehavioral Foundation ModelsMulti-Stage Training

    Rice University

  14. Analyzing and Mitigating Cost-Inefficient Behaviors in Coding Agents

    Sep 25, 2026Yiran Hu, Nan Jiang, Shanchao Liang +3Coding AgentsExacerbate Systemic Inefficiencies

    Purdue University

  15. Training-free Behavior Cloning

    Sep 24, 2026Maximilian Adang, Timothy Chen, Lars Osterberg +2Behavior CloningModel Predictive Control

    Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94404, USA.

  16. Post-Training Leaves Behavioral Shadows on Unrelated Decisions

    Sep 24, 2026Ziyang Zhang, Yubin Jing, Yuanhao Zeng +3Post-TrainingAgent Behavior Modeling

    Peking University · Georgia Institute of Technology · ShanghaiTech University +2

  17. Thinking Leakage: A Causal Audit of NoThink Post-Training in Hybrid Reasoning Models

    Sep 23, 2026Zehao Liu, Vasant G. HonavarLarge Reasoning ModelsPost-Training

    College of Information Sciences and Technology Pennsylvania State University

  18. Benchmarking Argumentative Behaviour of LLMs: A Study of Defences Against Character Attacks

    Sep 23, 2026Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jaroslaw ChudziakLarge Language Model DecisionsArgumentation Frameworks

    Warsaw University of Technology

  19. Can LLMs Reason About Runtime Behavior? A Repository-Level Dynamic Benchmark

    Sep 23, 2026Hamed Taherkhani, Mohammad Abdollahi, Melika Sepidband +3Large Language Model BenchmarksLLM Reasoning Strategies

    York University Toronto, Canada · The University of Texas at Dallas Texas, USA

  20. Auditability Is Not One Property: Rule Overlap, Behavioural Agreement, and Composition in Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 23, 2026Liu Hung MingModel AuditingBoltzmann Policies

    PARRAWA AI

  21. Who Is Behind the Harness? Fingerprinting LLMs through Agentic Behavior

    Sep 23, 2026Chuyi Wang, Xiaohui Xie, Tongze Wang +2FingerprintCoding Agents

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

  22. Behavior is Not Enough: A Mechanism-Based Evaluation of Social Norm Emergence in LLM Societies

    Sep 22, 2026Rasika Muralidharan, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun AnSocial DynamicsSocial Norms

    Indiana Univeristy Bloomington

  23. What is the Better Curriculum: Controller-Shaped Grasping Behavior for Contact Force-Sensitive Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Ziyan Feng, Zizhao Yuan, Yulong Fu +6Robotic Manipulation PoliciesAgent Behavior Modeling

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  24. A Behavioral Trait Leaks into Preferences: Diagnosing Trait Interference in LLM User Simulators

    Sep 22, 2026Chaehyun Kim, Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang +1User SimulationPreference Alignment Learning

    KAIST Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  25. Conduct Under Pressure: What Sixty Language Models Do When a User Pushes

    Sep 21, 2026Tapan ParikhLanguage ModelingCodebooks

    Cornell Tech

  26. Misaligned Clinical Risk Classification and Cost Asymmetry in Open-Weight Large Language Models

    Sep 21, 2026Star S. D. Liu, Xiyu Ding, Robert B. Barrett +3RiskTrade-Off

    Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA · Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA · National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

  27. Generative Embodied Multiple Behavior Control Systems for Human-like Agents

    Sep 19, 2026Chongyu Bao, Haokai Yang, Yuhan Wang +3Full-Body Humanoid ControlHuman Motion Generation

    University of Bristol · University of Copenhagen · Clemson University

  28. From Parameters to Behaviors: A Survey of Model Fusion for Large Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Shuo Cai, Yanggan Gu, Zihao Wang +8Uncertainty-Aware FusionAgent Behavior Modeling

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +1

  29. Examining the Difference in Human Behavior Between Virtual and Real-World Human-Robot Teaming

    Sep 16, 2026Sean Dallas, Absalat Getachew, Motaz AbuHijleh +4Virtual RealityReal-World

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, United States · College of Innovation & Technology, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502, United States · U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), United States

  30. Neuro-Symbolic Hierarchical Intention Anticipation in Human Behavior

    Sep 15, 2026Farnaz Soleimani, Abdelghani Chibani, Yacine Amirat +1Neuro-Symbolic FrameworkAgent Behavior Modeling

    LISSI · aLISSI Laboratory, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), IUT de Créteil-Vitry, France

  31. InterSocialBench: Benchmarking Human and LLM Preferences for Companion-Robot Social Behavior

    Sep 14, 2026Yaodan Xu, Boyang Guo, Yuqing Gu +4Complex SocietiesAgent Behavior Modeling

    Xdream Robotics

  32. Shallow Beliefs: Synthetic document finetuning does not inoculate against emergent misalignment from reward hacking

    Sep 14, 2026Arun Jose, Julian StastnyEmergent MisalignmentExploitation

    Astra Fellowship · Redwood Research

  33. The Mechanics of a Swarm: A Reproducible External Reconstruction of an Unintended Agent-Coordination Episode on a Third-Party Wiki

    Sep 14, 2026Philipp Lütje (Philflow, Schenefeld, Germany)Multi-Agent CoordinationSwarms

    Philflow, Schenefeld, Germany

  34. Behavior Quotient Learning for Low-Rank Adaptation of LLM Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Pengyang Zhou, Xiaobin Tu, Zhengxi Liu +7Low-Rank Adaptation FrameworkLow-Rank Adaptation Adapters

    Alibaba Cloud

  35. When Faster VLA Deployment Changes Closed-Loop Behavior: Task Success-Latency Analysis of SmolVLA Across PyTorch and ONNX Variants

    Sep 12, 2026Rafiqul IslamVision-Language-Action FrameworkInference Latency

    Independent Researcher

  36. A Mathematical Theory of Pragmatic Information

    Sep 10, 2026Kai Niu, Ping ZhangInformation-Theoretic LimitsTheory

    Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education · State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

  37. ViBe: Visual Behavior Adaptation for Perceptive Humanoid Whole-Body Control

    Sep 9, 2026Lokesh Krishna, Sarvesh Venkatesan, An Zhang +1Whole-Body ControlVisuomotor Control

    University of Southern California

  38. Copying explains the collective behavior of AI agents in the wild

    Sep 8, 2026Giordano De Marzo, Nicola Alboré, David GarciaCollective BehaviorsStrategic Agents

    University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany · Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy · Intesa Sanpaolo, Data & Artificial Intelligence Office, Turin, Italy +1

  39. A Three-Tier Persona Vector for Controllable User Simulation in Agentic Evaluation

    Sep 8, 2026Rahul Khedar, Eshita, Sneha Teja Sree Reddy Thondapu +6Artificial Intelligence PersonasPersonality

    PayPal AI

  40. Beliefs and Behavior in Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Alex Smolin, Bryan WilderLLM Reasoning StrategiesBehavioral Foundation Models

    Department of Economics Toulouse School of Economics · Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University

  41. Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know II? A Fully Behavioral, Non-Cognitive Measure of Epistemic Honesty

    Sep 7, 2026Ali Şenol, H. Russell Bernard, Huan LiuEpistemic IntegrityCognitive Diagnosis

    Department of Computer Engineering, Tarsus University, Tarsus 33400, Mersin, Türkiye · School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI), Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ 85281, USA · Institute for Social Science Research and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

  42. Large-Scale User Behavior Analysis in Multimodal AI-Assisted Manual Task Execution

    Sep 7, 2026Rafael Ferreira, Diogo Tavares, Diogo Glória-Silva +2Interaction DesignAgent Behavior Modeling

    NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal · NOVA LINCS, Portugal

  43. Necessary or Sufficient? Evaluating LLM Explanations With Behavioural Evidence

    Sep 4, 2026Urja Pawar, Rajitha Ramanayake, Nabeel Kemal +6Large Language Model DecisionsExplainable AI Methods

    BNY

  44. Can Large Language Models Anticipate Behavioral Responses to Social Policies? A Case of Pension Enrollment Prediction among China's Flexible Workers

    Sep 4, 2026Yumiao Li, Peixin Liu, Donglin Di +2Large Language Model Policy OptimizationAgent Behavior Modeling

    School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Actuarial Science and Risk Management, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA · School of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  45. Where Reliability Lives: Experimental Localisation of Behavioural Properties in an Agent System

    Sep 2, 2026Timothy Marsden, Matthew Collecutt, James MarsdenProduction Agentic SystemsEpistemic Integrity

    Taniwha AI

  46. H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control

    Sep 1, 2026Danze Chen, Zeqing Wang, Ziyue Lin +2Video World ModelsHuman Motion Generation

    Tencent · National University of Singapore · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  47. User Representation via Cross Multi-source Behavior Pre-training for Mobile Games

    Sep 1, 2026Chengqi Yang, Yiran Qiao, Feng Liu +7User ModelingPretraining

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, Beijing, China. · OPPO Research Institute, Shenzhen, China +1

  48. EEG-AS: Instance-Level Foundation Model Selection for EEG Foundation Models via Behavior Reconstruction

    Sep 1, 2026Yunzhen Zhang, Ruoxi Piao, Hasan Onur Keles +1Electroencephalography Foundation ModelsElectroencephalography

    Duke Kunshan University · Ankara University

  49. A Human-AI Theorem Connecting Spontaneous and Field-Induced Mechanisms of Collective Behavior in One Dimension

    Aug 31, 2026Weiguo YinHuman-Ai CollaborationSpatial Photonic Ising Machines

    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  50. Controlling Refusal Behavior of LLMs via Stiefel-Constrained Rotation Steering

    Aug 31, 2026Kirill Bunin, Dmitry Bylinkin, Vladimir Aletov +3Linear Activation SteeringSteering

    1Basic Research of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (BRAIn Lab) · 2Kandinsky Lab · 3Innopolis University

  51. Using Grounded Theory for Agent Behavior Analysis at Scale

    Aug 31, 2026Zhuoran Lu, Yangyang Yu, Zhuoyan Li +5Qualitative ResearchAgent Behavior Modeling

    1Purdue University · 2Stevens Institute of Technology · 3Cornell University +2

  52. How do World Models and Policies Compose in LLM Agents? A Joint Spectral and Behavioral Account

    Aug 30, 2026Ruize Xu, Xiao Yu, Yujin Tang +2Large Language Model AgentsWorld Models

    Dartmouth College · Columbia University

  53. Learning Generalizable Behaviors for Terminal Agents

    Aug 23, 2026Yihang Yao, Bo Pang, Xuan Phi Nguyen +3Agentic Reinforcement LearningAgentic Benchmarks

    Salesforce AI Research · Carnegie Mellon University

  54. Modeling Human Behavior with Type Vectors Using AI

    Aug 18, 2026Matthew O. Jackson, Benjamin S. Manning, Yutong Xie +2Behavioral Foundation ModelsAgent Behavior Modeling

    Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, Monash University · Moblab · MIT, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy +2

  55. Behavioral Reprogramming of Open-Weights Models: Cognitive Plasticity and Alignment Bounds

    Aug 13, 2026Lucia MalíčkováAgent Behavior ModelingImproved Generalization

    National Supercomputing Centre, Slovakia.

  56. PatientAct: Theory-Grounded Mental Health Client Simulation

    Aug 13, 2026Sahand Sabour, TszYam NG, Yaqian Chen +3Simulated PatientsUser Simulation

    The CoAI Group, DCST, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China · Counseling and Psychological Development Guidance Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  57. Not All Nudges Land: Behavioral Controllability and Elaboration Quality in AI-Supported Journaling

    Aug 12, 2026Nadia Mehjabin, Henry Kautz, Subigya NepalNudgesAgent Behavior Modeling

    Department of Computer Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, USA

  58. Located but Not Releasable: Silent Gate Inversion and Bounded Linear Release

    Aug 12, 2026Xining XunReleaseSuppression

    Tsingjiao Information Science (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

  59. Localizing Safety Alignment: MLP Layers and Mid-Network Blocks Encode Refusal Behavior in Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Mingyu Zong, Sampad Mohanty, Bhaskar KrishnamachariSafety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

    Department of Computer Science University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90007

  60. Your LLM, Your Style: Behavioral Mode Axes for LLM Behavioral Control

    Aug 11, 2026Haoze Liu, Run Liu, Haiying Xu +6PersonalityAgent Behavior Modeling

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1