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  1. A Cognition-Emotion-Personality Framework for Modeling Human-Like Awareness and Behavior in Emergency Evacuations

    Jun 28, 2026Zoi Lygizou, Michalis Zervas, Helena G. Theodoropoulou +3PersonalityAgent Behavior Modeling

    Athena Research Centre, Xanthi, Greece · Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

  2. Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering

    Jun 28, 2026Hao Wang, Jiuzhou Lei, Dayou Li +5Behavior CloningRobot Policies

    Texas A&M University · University of Wisconsin · Northwestern University +1

  3. Unleashing Infinite Motion: Scaling Expressive Quadrupedal Motion via Generative Video Priors

    Jun 26, 2026Youzhi Liu, Li Gao, Yifei Qian +3Training-Set Long-Tail MotionsLegged Robots

    Amap, Alibaba Group

  4. Fine-tuning a multimodal large language model for clinician-grade autism behavioral scoring from short home videos

    Jun 25, 2026Mohammadmahdi Honarmand, Parnian Azizian, Aaron Kline +9Autism Spectrum DisorderMultimodal Clinical Data

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA · Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA · Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA +2

  5. Speculative Refinement: A Hybrid Autoregressive Diffusion Decoding Strategy and Its Behavior Across Benchmarks

    Jun 25, 2026Aditi Gupta, Neel Mishra, Kushagra Trivedi +1Autoregressive GenerationAutoregressive Diffusion

    IIIT Hyderabad, India · Microsoft

  6. Inference-Time Robot Behavior Steering through Physically-Aware Reconfiguration of Task-Structure

    Jun 25, 2026Yiyuan Pan, Hanjiang Hu, Shangtao Li +2Robot PoliciesInference-Time Steering

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  7. A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Duncan William CalvertHumanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA, HAL MARCUS COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, US

  8. CoStream: Composing Simple Behaviors for Generalizable Complex Manipulation

    Jun 24, 2026Haonan Chen, Yuxiang Ma, Stephen Tian +7Real-World Manipulation TasksContact-Rich Manipulation

    Harvard University · Stanford University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology +1

  9. MPC-Injection: Biasing Off-Policy Locomotion RL Toward Controller-Induced Behavior Basins

    Jun 24, 2026Roy Xing, Seyoung Ree, Brian PlancherLocomotionImitation Learning

    Dartmouth College · Harvard University

  10. Model Forensics: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment

    Jun 24, 2026Aditya Singh, Gerson Kroiz, Senthooran Rajamanoharan +1Agent Behavior ModelingDigital Forensics

    MATS · Google DeepMind

  11. Compositional Behavioral Semantics for State Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Yivan Zhang, Ziyan Luo, Manuel BaltieriAgent Behavior ModelingSimilarity and Metrics

    The University of Tokyo · RIKEN AIP · Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute +3

  12. Measuring Behavior Portability in Large Language Models

    Jun 22, 2026Tianjia Dong, Nadav Kunievsky, James A. EvansBehavioral Foundation ModelsAgent Behavior Modeling

    Knowledge Lab University of Chicago

  13. A Smart Classroom Behavior Analysis Framework with a New Highly Congested Classroom Dataset

    Jun 19, 2026Wei Xu, Maoxiang Chu, Yuelong Fan +5Yolo26Occlusion

  14. Blame is easier than praise: Measuring off-ball defensive performance in football

    Jun 18, 2026Jonas Bischofberger, Runqing Ma, Pascal Bauer +2LLM Defense MechanismsGround Truth

    Centre for Sport Science and University Sports, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · Vienna Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences (VDS-PhaNuSpo), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria · VfB Stuttgart 1893 AG, Stuttgart, Germany +2

  15. Do as the Romans Do: Learning Universal Behaviors from Heterogeneous Agents

    Jun 16, 2026Caleb Chang, Davin Win Kyi, Natasha Jaques +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningAgent Behavior Modeling

    University of Washington · NVIDIA

  16. Towards Understanding and Measuring COGNITIVE ATROPHY in LLM Behaviour

    Jun 16, 2026Abeer Badawi, Moyosoreoluwa Olatosi, Negin Baghbanzadeh +5Agent Behavior Modeling

    York University, Canada · Vector Institute, Canada · Dalhousie University, Canada +3

  17. SAE Interventions are Unreliable: Post-Intervention Recovery of Suppressed Behavior

    Jun 16, 2026Mingyue Cui, Linghui Shen, Xingyi YangSparse Autoencoder FeaturesLatent Feature Interventions

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  18. Embodiment Shapes Rolling Behavior in a Multimodal Infant Model

    Jun 16, 2026Leon Philipp, Francisco M. López, Jochen TrieschSensorimotor ExperienceMotion Imitation

    Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany · University of New South Wales, Australia · Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

  19. Dissecting model behavior through agent trajectories

    Jun 16, 2026Gaurav Gupta, Vatshank Chaturvedi, Jun Huan +1Agent HarnessAgentic Benchmarks

    AWS AI Labs

  20. Bistable by Construction: Wall-Clock-Calibrated State Monitors Have No Moment-Detection Regime at Agent Cadence

    Jun 15, 2026Manvendra ModgilRuntime EnforcementState-Tracking

    Modint Intelligence

  21. Agent trajectories as programs: fingerprinting and programming coding-agent behavior

    Jun 15, 2026Hamidah OderinwaleCoding AgentsReal-Tool Benchmarks

    Work done with support from Taste Labs

  22. Understanding the Behaviors of Environment-aware Information Retrieval

    Jun 15, 2026Ruifeng Yuan, Chaohao Yuan, David Dai +4Retrieval-Augmented Generation PipelinesAgent Behavior Modeling

    1Fudan University · 2Alibaba DAMO Academy · 3Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  23. Pride and Prejudice: Toward an Information-Theoretic Framework for Mutually Communicative Driver Behavior Modeling

    Jun 15, 2026Tingjun Li, Nan Xu, Shuo Feng +3PersuasionMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    State Key Laboratory of Automotive Chassis Integration and Bionics, Jilin University, 5988 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130025, Jilin, China · Department of Automation, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Engineering, Brock University, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, L2S3A1, Ontario, Canada +1

  24. The Truth Stays in the Family: Enhancing Contextual Grounding via Inherited Truthful Heads in Model Lineages

    Jun 14, 2026Miso Choi, Seonga Choi, Mincheol Kwon +3Large Language Model ReliabilityMultimodal Large Language Models

    Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Kakao Mobility Corp., Seongnam, Republic of Korea

  25. Can Causal Models Enhance Robot Navigation? Online Causal Adaptation for Real-Robot Navigation

    Jun 14, 2026Zhitao Liang, Alex Mitrevski, Emmanuel Dean +1Robot NavigationObstacle Avoidance

    Division for Systems and Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  26. Hierarchical Generative Agents for Simulating Sequential Human Behavior

    Jun 12, 2026Maria G. Mendoza, Lucas Waldburger, Jin Lee +1Cognitive ScienceAgent Behavior Modeling

    University of California, Berkeley

  27. TacStyle: Personalizing Tactile Robot Policies using Structured Behavior Representations

    Jun 12, 2026Kevin Robledo, Matías I. Torres Galaz, Kumar Dixhant Rai +3Robot PoliciesBehavior Tree

    Department of Computer Science California State University, Northridge · Department of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge

  28. OdysSim: Building Foundation Models for Human Behavior Simulation

    Jun 12, 2026Xuhui Zhou, Weiwei Sun, Weihua Du +6User SimulationBehavioral Foundation Models

    Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute

  29. Harsher on Male? Evaluating LLMs on Gender-Asymmetric Moral Framing Across Diverse Conflict Scenarios

    Jun 12, 2026Guangzong Si, Dong Wang, Zhenhao Li +3Moral ReasoningLarge Language Model Decisions

    University of Science and Technology of China · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

  30. HARBOR: Heading Analysis and Reconstruction from Behavioral Observation and Radar

    Jun 12, 2026Joao P. A. Dantas, Paulo F. Silva Filho, Jelton A. Cunha +1Ship DetectionSynthetic Aperture Radar

    Institute for Advanced Studies, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

  31. Automated reproducibility assessments in the social and behavioral sciences using large language models

    Jun 11, 2026Tobias Holtdirk, Pietro Marcolongo, Anna Steinberg Schulten +7ReproducibilityEffect Sizes

    1LMU Munich, Munich, Germany · 2Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany · University of Maryland, College Park, USA +1

  32. EurekAgent: Agent Environment Engineering is All You Need For Autonomous Scientific Discovery

    Jun 11, 2026Amy Xin, Jiening Siow, Junjie Wang +5Agentic DiscoveryAutonomous Agents

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · School of Information, Renmin University of China

  33. Nous: An Attempt to Extract and Inject the Cognition Behind Prediction-Market Behavior

    Jun 11, 2026Haowei QianLarge Language Model ForecastingCognitive Science

    Independent Researcher

  34. Rethinking Psychometric Evaluation of LLMs: When and Why Self-Reports Predict Behavior

    Jun 10, 2026Rafal Kocielnik, Pengrui Han, Peiyang Song +5PersonalityPsychometric Properties

    Caltech · UIUC · University of Cambridge

  35. Implicit Neural Representations of Individual Behavior

    Jun 10, 2026Andrew Kang, Priya NarasimhanNeural PoliciesNeural Representations

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

  36. SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior

    Jun 10, 2026Zhiyu Chen, Zihan Guo, Bo Huang +4Agent Skill RetrievalSkills

    Tongji University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Sun Yat-sen University +1

  37. Steering Multirobot Behavior via Closed-Loop Affine Activation Editing

    Jun 9, 2026Satyajeet Das, Darren Chiu, Shashank Hegde +1Robot PoliciesMulti-Robot Systems

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

  38. Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task

    Jun 9, 2026Mosh Levy, Yoav Goldberg, Asa Cooper SticklandLarge Language Model ForecastingReasoning Trajectory

    Bar-Ilan University · Constellation · UK AI Security Institute +1

  39. ParaBridge: Bridging Paralinguistic Perception and Dialogue Behavior in Speech Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Yuxiang Wang, Qinke Ni, Shengbo Cai +3Paralinguistic CuesSpeech Language Models

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · 2Tencent Hunyuan · 5Tsinghua University +2

  40. Trace2Policy: From Expert Behavior Traces to Self-Evolving Decision Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Junli Zha, Jinbo Wang, Chao Zhou +1Large Language Model Policy OptimizationExpert Demonstrations

    SF Express

  41. Mobility Anomaly Generation using LLM-Driven Behavior with Kinematic Constraints

    Jun 9, 2026Yueyang Liu, Joon-Seok Kim, Andreas ZüfleMobilityKinematics

    Emory University, Atlanta, USA

  42. Interpretable Crisis Behavior Analysis Using Mobility and Social Media Data

    Jun 8, 2026Muhammad Hamza Arshad Majeed, Sidahmed Benabderrahmane, Talal RahwanCrisisCovid-19

    New York University (NYUAD), Division of Science, Computer Science Department

  43. Guided Discovery of New Behaviors using Diffusion Policies

    Jun 7, 2026Dian Yu, Sebastian Sanokowski, Majid KhadivDiffusion PoliciesRobot Policies

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich

  44. More Yap Less Meaning: Uncovering Self-Improvement Behavior in SLMs

    Jun 7, 2026Marina Igitkhanian, Erik ArakelyanSmall Large Language ModelsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    American University of Armenia · NVIDIA

  45. Beyond Linear Activation Steering: Invertible Latent Transformations for Controlling LLM Behavior

    Jun 7, 2026Tuc Nguyen, Thai LeLinear Activation SteeringSteering

    Indiana University Bloomington, USA

  46. Representational Similarity and Model Behavior in Multi-Agent Interaction

    Jun 5, 2026Yujin Potter, Seun Eisape, Shiyang Lai +6CooperationSimilarity and Metrics

    University of California, Berkeley · The University of Chicago, Knowledge Lab · Santa Fe Institute +2

  47. Automated 3D Kinematic Monitoring for Circadian Activity and Anomaly Detection in Juvenile Fish

    Jun 5, 2026Chih-Wei Huang, Chang-Wen Huang, Chung-Ping Chiang +1Fish3D Generation

    AI Research Center, National Taiwan Ocean Univ., Keelung City 20224, Taiwan. · Dept. of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean Univ., Keelung City 20224, Taiwan. · Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung City 20224, Taiwan.

  48. Entropy-Based Observability for AI Agent Behavior

    Jun 4, 2026Olasimbo Ayodeji ArigbabuArtificial Intelligence AgentsPartial Observability

  49. Agentic Safety is an Epistemic Property, Not a Behavioral One

    Jun 2, 2026Charles L. Wang, Keir Dorchen, Peter JinArtificial Intelligence SafetyEpistemic Integrity

    1Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · 2Pelagic Platforms

  50. Decomposing how prompting steers behavior

    Jun 2, 2026Fan L. Cheng, Nikolaus KriegeskorteInstruction-Tuned ModelsSteering

    Columbia University

  51. Self-Regulation through Communication in Evolved Neural Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Joshua NunleyPredator-Prey ModelsSelf-Evolving Agents

    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  52. BehaviorBench: Modeling Real-World User Decisions from Behavioral Traces

    Jun 1, 2026Liangwei Yang, Jielin Qiu, Zixiang Chen +9User ModelingBehavioral Foundation Models

    Salesforce AI Research

  53. Greener Than Humans? Environmental Attitudes in Large Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026Stefanie Kunkel, Tilman Hartwig, Marcus Voss +2SustainabilityEnvironment

    Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ Centre for Geosciences, Berliner Straße 130, 14467 Potsdam, Germany · German Environment Agency, Wörlitzer Platz 1, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany · Birds on Mars, Marienstraße 10, 10117 Berlin, Germany

  54. Tracking the Behavioral Trajectories of Adapting Agents

    Jun 1, 2026Jonah Leshin, Manish Shah, Ian TimmisAgentic EvaluationsSkills

    Project VAIL, San Francisco, CA, USA

  55. Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

    Jun 1, 2026Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner +3Reinforcement Fine-TuningDexterous Manipulation

    Technical University of Darmstadt · Zuse School ELIZA · University of Oxford +2

  56. CRAB-Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents under Complex Task Dependencies and Human-aligned User Simulation

    Jun 1, 2026Danqing Wang, Akshay Sivaraman, Lei LiUser SimulationAgentic Benchmarks

    Carnegie Mellon University

  57. Understanding LLM Behavior in Multi-Target Cross-Lingual Summarization

    May 31, 2026Sangwon Ryu, Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang +4Cross-Lingual TransferSummarization

    GSAI, POSTECH · LMU Munich · MCML +2

  58. Diagnosing LLM Arbitration Behavior over Pre-evidence Epistemic States in RAG-based Fact-Checking

    May 31, 2026Yuxi Sun, Wenbo Shang, Wei Gao +2Fact-CheckingLarge Language Model Reliability

    Hong Kong Baptist University · Singapore Management University

  59. Position: Good Embodied Reward Models Need Bad Behavior Data

    May 31, 2026Ran Tian, Yilin Wu, Andrea BajcsyRobotic Data AcquisitionAgent Behavior Modeling

    UC Berkeley · NVIDIA Research · Carnegie Mellon University

  60. Prospect-Theory Behavior from Bellman Optimality in MDPs with Catastrophic States

    May 31, 2026Yujiao ChenConditional-Value-At-RiskMarkov Decision Processes

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA 02139, USA