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  1. The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games

    Aug 10, 2026Fatemeh Seyedin, Adrian Weller, Jinhyuk Yun +1Game TheoryLarge Language Model Agents

    Berlin, Germany · Cambridge, UK · Soongsil University +1

  2. Privileged Solutions or Context-Induced Teacher Behavior? Dissecting On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Aug 10, 2026Yuki Ichihara, Naoto Iwase, Mohammad Atif Quamar +1TeacherPrivileged Context

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Nagoya University · RIKEN AIP

  3. On the use of foundation models in cognitive science

    Aug 7, 2026Raj Sanjay Shah, Alex Warstadt, Michael Frank +1Cognitive ScienceFoundation Model

    Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA · Halcolu Data Science Institute and Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, California, USA · Dept. of Psychology, Stanford University, California, USA

  4. Mobility, Memory, and Network Structure in Agent-Based Models of Convention Tipping and Convergence

    Aug 7, 2026Joe Shymanski, Garrick Springer, Sandip SenAgent-Based ModelConformity

    University of Tulsa

  5. Interaction Creates Dynamical AI Behavior Absent in Isolation

    Aug 7, 2026Bella Xinrui Li, Frank Yingjie Huo, Neil F JohnsonAgent Behavior ModelingArtificial Intelligence Systems

    1Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA

  6. Gaze Behavior in Visual World Experiments Can be Modeled With Off-the-shelf Language-Vision Encoders

    Aug 7, 2026Rahul Murali Shankar, Titus von der Malsburg, Sebastian PadóGaze BehaviorVision Encoders

    Computational Linguistics · University of Stuttgart, Germany · Linguistics

  7. Why Study Emergent Behavior When You Can Regulate It? Aligning Multi-Agent Systems with Reward Prediction

    Aug 7, 2026Assaf Caftory, Almog Zemach, Moshe Butman +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningEmergence

    EfiArazi School of Computer Science, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel · Faculty of Computer Science, The College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel · School of Communication, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel

  8. Beyond the Black Box: Interpretable Models of Human Randomisation Failures

    Aug 7, 2026Ngoc Linh DaoBehavioral Foundation ModelsBlack Box

    Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria

  9. SyncSBC: Decentralized Swarm Behavior Prediction for Synchronized Autonomous Control

    Aug 6, 2026Varun Raveendra, Connor Mattson, Daniel S. BrownSwarmsAgent Behavior Modeling

    Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

  10. Small Foundation Models of Human Cognition and Behaviour

    Aug 5, 2026Nick Oh, Fernand GobetModel SizeCognitive Science

    socius labs · London School of Economics and Political Science

  11. What Language Does and What the Evidence Supports: A Functional Role Taxonomy and Evidence Audit of Language Grounding in Embodied Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Yifan Guo, Chenghao Li, Zhu Wang +6Multilingual AgentsEmbodied

    Northwestern Polytechnical University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  12. Environmental resilience via morphological diversity within machines

    Aug 3, 2026Alice Hein, Josh BongardResilienceCollective Behaviors

    Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington VT & 05405, USA.

  13. Long-Horizon Autonomous Architecture Research with a Language-Model Agent: A Behavioural Case Study

    Aug 3, 2026Aon Safdar, Mohamed SaadeldinLong-Horizon AgentsLanguage-Model Agents

    University College Dublin, Ireland

  14. When Memory Updates but Behavior Does Not: Repairing Implicit Stale Dependencies in Personalized Agent Responses

    Aug 3, 2026Haofei Sun, Lin HeGradient StalenessLong-Term Agent Memory

    The University of Texas at Arlington · The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  15. Post-Training on Office Work Improves Software Engineering: A Behavioral Account of Cross-Domain Transfer

    Aug 3, 2026Logan Ritchie, Sushant Mehta, Liudas Panavas +1Post-TrainingSoftware Engineering

    Surge AI

  16. CALM-AH: An ABAW11-Calibrated Multimodal Ensemble with Reliability-Gated Multi-Expert Consensus for Video-Level Ambivalence and Hesitancy Recognition

    Jul 31, 2026Wenzhuo Sun, Mingjian Liang, Richard Attfield +3Affective ComputingMultimodal Evaluation

    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia · Monash Suzhou Research Institute, Suzhou, China

  17. SERUM: State Extraction and Refinement for User Modeling

    Jul 31, 2026Andy J. Phu, James Mooney, Karin de Langis +2User ModelingEgocentric Video

    Minnesota NLP Lab · University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

  18. Have I Seen You? Embedding Behavior Signals Synthetic Face Dataset Membership

    Jul 31, 2026Paweł Borsukiewicz, Daniele Lunghi, Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo +2Membership Inference AttacksSynthetic Data

    University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  19. Strategy, Not Payoffs: A Behavioural Embedding of Normal-Form Games

    Jul 30, 2026Joshua Caiata, Sreepriya Pulyassary, Xiang Li +1Agent Behavior ModelingEquilibrium

    University of Waterloo

  20. The Convergence Behavior of Adam under Heavy-Tailed Noise

    Jul 29, 2026Yijiang PangAdamStochastic Convex Optimization

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  21. From Representations to Behaviors: Exploring the Person-Situation-Behavior Triad in LLMs

    Jul 29, 2026Ruikang Zhang, Shuo Wang, Qi SuPersonalityAgent Behavior Modeling

    1Peking University, Beijing, China · 2Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

  22. MoMo: Dial Motion Mode in Robot Manipulation with Spatiotemporal Action Tokenization

    Jul 28, 2026Yuhan Hu, Hugues Thomas, Peide Huang +3Robotic ManipulationDiscrete Action Tokenizers

    Apple

  23. CoRenew: A large language model agent-based policy simulation platform for multifamily residential redevelopment

    Jul 28, 2026Yudi Zhang, Yuming Lin, Li Tian +2Multi-Agent SimulationsNegotiation

    Department of Urban Planning, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

  24. Emergent Behaviour in Financial Markets

    Jul 25, 2026Omar Inverso, Emilio Tuosto, Dragisa ZunicEmergenceStrategic Agents

    Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

  25. A Scale-adaptive Vision Model Links C. elegans Neuronal Morphology to Behavior for Neurotoxicity Assessment

    Jul 25, 2026Haochao Ying, Shenchong Lv, Yutao Sun +8MorphogenesisNeurons

    School of Public Health and Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. · State Key Laboratory of Transvascular Implantation Devices and TIDRI, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310009, China. · Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. +5

  26. The Best Programming Language for Tokenmaxxing: An Investigation of Coding Agent Behavior Across Programming Languages

    Jul 24, 2026Zixuan Wu, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Arjun GuhaMultilingual AgentsCoding Agents

    Northeastern University · Wellesley College

  27. Where Facts Go Missing: A Layerwise Taxonomy and Per-Layer Attribution of Information Omission in Air-Gapped LLMAgent Pipelines

    Jul 24, 2026Santhiya RajanOmissionsReasoning Gaps

    Multiverse Computing

  28. CommandLM: Data driven behavior level descriptor for ego vehicles

    Jul 24, 2026Boris Tokic, Constantin Selzer, Fabian B. FlohrAutonomous DrivingScene Reasoning

    1Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany · 2Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

  29. Expert Behavior Prior Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 23, 2026Gong Gao, Weidong Zhao, Xianhui Liu +1Model-Based Reinforcement LearningOffline Reinforcement Learning

    School of Computer Science, Tongji University, China

  30. Refusal-Gated Decoding: Preserving Refusal Behavior Under High-Temperature Sampling

    Jul 22, 2026Phillip Howard, Xin Su, Allen Roush +2RefusalsLarge Language Models Fail

    Thoughtworks

  31. Cortex: Compact Behavior Cloning for Quake with Frozen Visual Features

    Jul 22, 2026Dzmitry MalyshauBehavior CloningAgent Behavior Modeling

  32. The Quadrilateral Loss: Additivity as a Measurable Behavior of Dense Neural Networks

    Jul 22, 2026Antonio Di CeccoRegularizationDifferentiable Optimization

    Universit`a "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti–Pescara, and School of AI.

  33. AI-Driven Surrogate Models for Predicting Electrode-Scale Discharge Behavior in Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Jul 22, 2026Mengda Xing, Jean-Marie Lagniez, Alejandro FrancoLithium-Ion BatteriesSurrogate Models

    CRIL, UA · CRIL, UMR 8188, Université d’Artois, Rue Jean Souvraz SP 18, F-62307 Lens Cedex, France · LRCS +1

  34. Task Competence Is Not Instruction Following: Evaluating Instruction-Conflicting Behavior in Small Language Models

    Jul 21, 2026Mahdiyeh Farajidizaji, Vatsal RainaInstruction-Tuned ModelsInstruction

    Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology · Apta AI, Spark AI Research

  35. Elicitation without Backpropagation: Steering Model Behavior by Optimizing the Latent Posterior

    Jul 21, 2026Garrett Baker, Vinayak Pathak, Daniel Murfet +1PosteriorTransformer Architectures

    Timaeus · CORAL · Monash University

  36. Correct-by-Construction Behavior Tree Synthesis from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications with Application to Robotic Missions

    Jul 21, 2026Jiaheng Dong, Jingyi Huang, Liang HanSignal Temporal LogicLinear Temporal Logics

    Sino-French Engineer School,Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  37. The Story Shapes the Agent: Narrative Priors in LLM Behavior

    Jul 20, 2026Yixuan Wang, James Lester, Shashank SrivastavaArtificial Intelligence PersonasPersona Consistency

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · North Carolina State University

  38. The Autonomous Agency Scale: A Behavioral Framework for Measuring Self-Directed Behavior in AI Systems

    Jul 20, 2026Samuel PresgravesAgent Behavior ModelingCognitive Science

    Independent researcher.

  39. A Diagnostic Framework for AI Agent Behavior

    Jul 19, 2026Xichen Zhang, Yingjie Zhang, Tianshu SunArtificial Intelligence GovernanceDiagnostic Framework

    Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Canada. · Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China. · Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China.

  40. A Generative Partially Specified Finite State Machine Approach to Complex Behaviour Planning

    Jul 17, 2026Kalana Ratnayake, Michael Pritchard, David Hinwood +2Classical PlanningBehavior Tree

    University of Canberra · Collaborative Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia · RMIT University +1

  41. Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

    Jul 16, 2026Weishuai Zeng, Kangning Yin, Xiaojie Niu +15Full-Body Humanoid ControlBehavioral Foundation Models

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Galbot · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory +4

  42. Task-Specific Feature Fusion Method for Multi-Task Affective Behavior Analysis

    Jul 15, 2026Jiajun Sun, Zhe GaoDirect Feature FusionMulti--Task Learning

    Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

  43. A Behavioral State Vocabulary in Sony ERS-111 R-CODE

    Jul 13, 2026Christopher A. TuckerBehavior TreeRobocasa

    Dr. Christopher A. Tucker

  44. How LLM Task-Adaptation Reshapes Alignment: A Multi-dimensional Study of Behavioral and Representational Drift

    Jul 10, 2026James Elcock, William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu +1Large Language Model AdaptationPost-Training

    University of Cambridge

  45. Persona Cartography: Charting Language Model Personality Traits in Weight Space

    Jul 8, 2026Luke Baines, Anton Gonzalvez Hawthorne, Mariia Koroliuk +4PersonalityPersona Consistency

    LASR Labs · ENS Paris-Saclay and MATS · UK AI Security Institute

  46. Infinite Worlds with Versatile Interactions

    Jul 8, 2026Zelin Gao, Qiuyu Wang, Jiapeng Zhu +17Interaction DataAgent Harness

  47. Diagnosing and Calibrating Tool-Call Boundary Drift in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

    Jul 8, 2026Jiabin Shen, Guang Chen, Chengjun MaoAware Heterogeneous Multi-Teacher Multimodal On-Policy DistillationAgent Behavior Modeling

  48. Large Behavior Model: A Promptable Digital Twin of the Retail Customer

    Jul 8, 2026Wachiravit Modecrua, Krittin Pachtrachai, Touchapon KraisingkornBehavioral Foundation ModelsLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    Amity Research and Application Center (ARAC), Amity AI Holdings Co., Ltd.

  49. Prompting Complexity: Shortest Prompts for Texts and Behaviors in LLMs

    Jul 7, 2026Adrian CosmaInstruction-Tuned ModelsText Analysis and Detection

    Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)

  50. You Frame It: How Conceptual Representations Shape LLM Detection and Reasoning about Antisemitism

    Jul 6, 2026Katharina Soemer, Helena MihaljevićHate Speech DetectionAgent Behavior Modeling

    Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany · HTW Berlin, Germany

  51. Revealing Hidden Model Behaviors with Task-Specific Self-Reports

    Jul 3, 2026Taras Kutsyk, Bartosz ZielińskiIntrospection AdaptersAgent Behavior Modeling

    1Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science · 2Jagiellonian University, Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences

  52. Controllable Sim Agents with Behavior Latents

    Jul 2, 2026Juanwu Lu, Junyu Zhu, Ziran WangMicroscopic Traffic SimulationsLearning-Based Control

    Purdue University · University of Tokyo

  53. The Model Organism Lottery: Model Organism Interpretability Strongly Depends on Training Methodology

    Jul 1, 2026Andrzej Szablewski, Gabriel Konar-Steenberg, Raffaello Fornasiere +2InterpretabilityMechanistic Interpretability

    1LASR Labs

  54. Dynamic Prediction of Alternating Recurrent Events via Neural Network

    Jun 29, 2026Abigail Loe, Susan Murry, Zhenke WuRecurrenceNeural Network

    Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. · Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

  55. Behavior Prompting Policy: Demonstrations as Prompts for Manipulation

    Jun 29, 2026Austin Patel, Ben Pekarek, Joel Enrique Castro Hernandez +1Robot-Free DemonstrationsVisuomotor Policy

    Stanford University · University of California, Berkeley

  56. From Detecting Agency to Doing Work: Self-Caused Credit Builds a Durable Behavioral Self in a Minimal Spiking Agent

    Jun 29, 2026Haoliang HanStep-Level CreditLong-Term Agent Memory

    Institute of Biomedical Strategy, China Pharmaceutical University

  57. MirrorCode: AI can rebuild entire programs from behavior alone

    Jun 29, 2026Tom Adamczewski, David Owen, David Rein +4Coding AgentsAgent Behavior Modeling

    1Epoch AI · 2METR · 3Prime Intellect +2

  58. Building Multi-Task Agentic LLMs via Two-Phase Distillation

    Jun 29, 2026Huaijie Wang, Shusheng Xu, Yi Wu +1Residual DistillationArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Tsinghua University · Ant Group

  59. From Trait to Behavior: A Cognitive-Affective Personality System (CAPS) Perspective on Multi-Homing Intention in AIGC Platforms

    Jun 29, 2026Xuchao Zhang, Jihye LeeSocial InfluenceGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    School of Design, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

  60. Mechanistically Eliciting Latent Behaviors in Language Models

    Jun 28, 2026Andrew Mack, Nina Panickssery, Alexander Matt TurnerModel ActivationsAgent Behavior Modeling

    †Principles of Intelligence · ‡Anthropic · §Independent