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  1. Game-Guided Skill Discovery through Self-Play for Playable Agent Control

    Sep 30, 2026Seungeun Rho, Jeonghwan Kim, Xue Bin Peng +1Unsupervised Skill DiscoveryHuman-To-Robot Transfer

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Simon Fraser University and NVIDIA

  2. Emergent Specialization in Populations of Self-Supervised Collaborative Vision Experts Without a Shared Gate or Cross-Agent Gradients

    Sep 29, 2026Aram Davtyan, Pablo Acuaviva, Sebastian Stapf +1Decentralized LearningPretraining

    u b University of Bern Computer Vision Group, Institute of Computer Science University of Bern, Switzerland

  3. Emergence, Not Bandwidth: Physical Coupling and the Limits of Learned Multi-Agent Communication

    Sep 28, 2026Mihir Chauhan, Aniket BeraMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Agent Communication

    IDEAS Lab, Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  4. Population Physics, Population Problems: Safety and Emergence in LLM Societies

    Sep 27, 2026Adrian de WynterCollective BehaviorsSelf-Organization

    Microsoft & The University of York

  5. Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space

    Sep 24, 2026Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia Passaro, Serena Auriemma +1Semantic RepresentationsSyntactic Structure

    CoLingLab, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa · Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

  6. Upholding Robustness in Federated Learning: Trends, Emerging Strategies, and Research Opportunities

    Sep 23, 2026Pravija Raj P, Ashish Gupta, Andrea Augello +1Federated LearningCyberattacks

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE · Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy · Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA

  7. Nonequilibrium Phases of Repulsive Self-Attention: Chaos, Attention Condensation, and Emergent Locality

    Sep 23, 2026Qucheng Gao, Zuyi Yang, Xiao ChenAttractorsChaos

    Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA

  8. Two Global Crops Suffice: Locating Semantic Emergence in DINO-Style Self-Supervised Learning

    Sep 23, 2026Basavaraj Sunagad, Artur Jesslen, Adam KortylewskiSelf-Supervised LearningDino

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · University of Freiburg

  9. Emergi-PersonaOS: A Persona Agent Operating System for Situational Adaptation and Controllable Evolution

    Sep 23, 2026Haoluan Fu, Keni Chen, Xinyu Jia +3EmergenceRapid Adaptation

    Emergi Lab of Qianzhen Digital Tech, China · Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

  10. 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

  11. G-NAC: Graph Neural Automata Clustering via Emergent Domain Formation

    Sep 21, 2026Keith Miller, Tristan CrawfordGraph Neural NetworksEmergence

  12. On Emergent Capabilities and Model Merging

    Sep 21, 2026Luca Zhou, Emanuele RodolàContinual Model MergingEmergent Misalignment

    Sapienza University of Rome · Paradigma

  13. Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 15, 2026Deepak Akkil, Tamer Abuelsaad, Karthik Vikram +5EmergenceStress Testing

    Emergence AI

  14. Why LLM Agents Collapse Without Oversight: The Enforcement Gap as the Mechanism Behind Emergence World Failures

    Sep 14, 2026Yuhang WangFrontier Large Language Model AgentsEnforcement

    Fudan University

  15. Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers

    Sep 14, 2026Gary B. Parker, John Asaro, Jim O'ConnorAgile LocomotionGait Dynamics

    Connecticut College, New London CT 06320-4125, USA

  16. Role differentiation as ignition of a collective information engine: Structuration in Agent Populations

    Sep 12, 2026Maximilian Puelma TouzelCollective BehaviorsStrategic Agents

    Mila–Quebec AI Institute, 6666 St. Urbain Ave., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  17. A Dominant Supplier Slows Recursive Drift More Than It Steers It

    Sep 10, 2026Yangze Liu, Zhongyi HanCollapseEcosystems

    Shandong University

  18. Emergent Charging Coordination in Electric Delivery Fleets

    Sep 7, 2026Javier Vales-Alonso, Juan J. AlcarazElectric VehiclesDemand Response

    Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

  19. Efficient Exploration Is Enough

    Sep 7, 2026Mikel Malagón, Jon Vadillo, Josu Ceberio +2Efficient ExplorationAgentic Discovery

    University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) · University of Alberta · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute +2

  20. Factors Influencing the Emergence of Dependency Length Minimization in Neural Agent Simulations

    Sep 5, 2026Yuqing Zhang, Tessa Verhoef, Gertjan van Noord +1Multi-Agent SimulationsEmergence

    Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands · Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  21. Characterizing Privacy Risks of Quantum Machine Learning with Emergent Quantum-Native Access

    Sep 4, 2026Liou Tang, James Joshi, Ashish KunduQuantum Machine LearningPrivacy

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Cisco Research, San Jose, CA, USA

  22. A Case Study on Emergent Cheating and Whistleblowing in Autonomous Research Swarms

    Sep 3, 2026Davide Paglieri, Logan Cross, Tim Genewein +3SwarmsSingle-Agent

    Google DeepMind

  23. Emergence of Fibrations, Compression, and Symmetry Breaking in Artificial Neural Networks

    Sep 1, 2026Osvaldo M Velarde, Lucas C Parra, Alireza Hashemi +1SymmetryCompressed Model

    Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, NY, 10031, NY, USA. · Biomedical Engineering Department, City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, NY, 610101, NY, USA.

  24. 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

  25. Sparse Competition during Training For the Emergence of Specialized Modules

    Aug 31, 2026Baptiste Rossigneux, Karim HarounNeuronsModular Framework

    Univ. Rennes · Inria, IRISA · University of Paris 8

  26. The Hermon Moment: AI Self-Transcendence and Its Human Narration

    Aug 31, 2026Alexei GrinbaumEmergenceComplex Societies

    CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

  27. 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

  28. "More Is Different'' in Neural Circuits: Algebraic Emergence of Effective Theories in Canonical Recurrent Motifs of Biological Neuronal Networks

    Aug 31, 2026Nima DehghaniNeural CircuitsNeurons

    McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAa)

  29. On the Structural Limits of Machine Learning Decision Systems: An Information-Theoretic, Interaction-Based, and Stochastic-Dynamical Perspective

    Aug 13, 2026Nestor R. Barraza, Gabriel PenaFundamental LimitsProbabilistic Inference

    Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología. · Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería.

  30. Semantic Lenia: Emergence of Homeostatic Solitons within the Semantic Space of Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Yoshihiko KayamaSyntactic StructureEmergence

    BAIKA Women’s University 2–19–5, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

  31. Stay or Stray - A Dynamical Systems Viewpoint of Popularity Bias

    Aug 11, 2026Sarvesh Shashidhar, Lankireddy Prabhat, Arpit Agarwal +3Sequential RecommendationDynamical Systems

    Centre of Machine Intelligence & Data Science Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA · Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India +3

  32. Toward a Theory of Value in AI Alignment

    Aug 10, 2026Andrew Smart, Shazeda Ahmed, Jackie Kay +3Artificial Intelligence AlignmentHuman Values

    1Google Research · 2UCLA · 3Google Deep Mind +2

  33. The CASE Framework: A Multi-Disciplinary Control Architecture for Governing Enterprise Agentic AI

    Aug 10, 2026Srinivas Telukunta, Georgios Nektarios Lilis, Lucio BaronArtificial Intelligence GovernanceEmergence

    Cornell University · Johns Hopkins University · AI71

  34. 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

  35. CEDAR: Agent-Orchestrated Tree Search for Goal-Directed Optimization of Complex Systems

    Aug 7, 2026Yingtao TianMonte Carlo Tree SearchTree Search

    Sakana AI, Tokyo, Japan

  36. Mathematical Principles and Experimental Discoveries of the Emergence of Symbolic Patterns in Artificial Neural Networks

    Aug 7, 2026Quanshi Zhang, Qihan Ren, Siyu LouNeuro-Symbolic FrameworkNeural Network

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  37. Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models

    Aug 6, 2026Thomas H. Costello, Nathaniel Rabb, Michael Nicholas Stagnaro +2CrisisConversational Context

    Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 · Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA · Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA +2

  38. Convergent Evolution in Neural Representation Space: Emergent Order in Deep Belief Networks

    Aug 6, 2026Patrick Krauss, Achim Schilling, Andreas Maier +2Modern Deep NetworksNeural Network Training

    Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Group, Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany · Neuromodulation and Neuroprosthetics, University Hospital Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Germany · Neuroscience Lab, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany +1

  39. Emergence of Reputation-Based Cooperation in LLM Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Kazuya Horibe, Kenji Itao, Wataru ToyokawaCooperationLarge Language Model Agents

    RIKEN · RIKNE

  40. Cross-Layer Interaction under Weight-Space Ablation: A Closed-Form Attention Jacobian Bound and a Test on a Real Pretrained Model

    Aug 4, 2026Abdallah KhemaisCross-Layer InteractionsAblation

    ISITCOM, University of Sousse

  41. Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates

    Aug 3, 2026Maya OkawaDebateConformity

    CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University · Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group, NTT Research, Inc.

  42. TIDES: A Longitudinal Bilingual Dataset for Modeling Multi-Party Social Dynamics

    Aug 3, 2026Heechan Lee, Jeonggyu Kang, Junho Myung +3Conversational DatasetsMultimodal Dataset

    KAIST1 · SkillBench2

  43. Extrapolating the emergence of Hamiltonian chaos with random-feature Hamiltonian neural networks

    Jul 31, 2026Jaesung ChoiHamiltonianNeural Network

    Center for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea

  44. Learning to Trace Seiberg Dualities

    Jul 30, 2026Jonathan J. Heckman, Shani Meynet, Alessandro Mininno +1Effective Field TheoryDuality

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA

  45. The Kinetics of Training: A Driven-Nucleation Rate Law for Emergence, Plasticity Loss, and Circuit Control in Language Models

    Jul 29, 2026Lei DongPlasticityCircuits

    Independent Researcher

  46. When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning

    Jul 28, 2026Tao Wang, Hudson Hou, Yingdong Hu +7Scalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Spirit AI · Peking University +3

  47. Forecasting the Emergence and Evolution of Crash Hotspots: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Proactive Traffic Safety

    Jul 27, 2026Jingwen Zhu, Keshu Wu, Pei Li +3Accurate Traffic ForecastingAccident Source Term Evaluation Code

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, United States · Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States · Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States

  48. Emergent Behaviour in Financial Markets

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

    Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

  49. The Boundaries of Automation: A Theory of Persistent Human Participation

    Jul 23, 2026Fares Fourati, Hinrich Schütze, Eyke Hüllermeier +1Human-Ai CollaborationHuman Agency

    TU Darmstadt · LMU Munich, MCML · TU Darmstadt, ATHENE

  50. CGMap: A Geospatially Aware Deep Learning Framework for Crop Gap Mapping Using UAV

    Jul 21, 2026Karan Sharma, Rajiv Ranjan, Dinesh Kumar +1Agricultural MonitoringObject Detection

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Plaksha University, Mohali, India

  51. Planning as Emergent Behavior in Reinforcement Learning with Relational Hidden States

    Jul 20, 2026Armin SommerModel-Free Reinforcement LearningHidden States

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  52. From Feasibility to Desirability: Plan, Learn, Adapt (PLA) Framework for Personalized On-Device Itinerary Generation

    Jul 17, 2026Himel Dev, Tanmoy Sen, Madhusudan Basak +1JourneyPersonalization

    Tech LLC · University of Virginia · University of Massachusetts Amherst

  53. The Energy Society: A Simulation Environment for Studying Agent Cooperation under Survival Pressure

    Jul 16, 2026Lucas Bergholdt Hansen, Federico Torrielli, Filippo Tonini +1CooperationMulti-Agent Coordination

    University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark · University of Turin Torino, Italy

  54. SeeSE3: Emergence of 3D Space in Vision Features

    Jul 15, 2026Caroline Chen, Sayna Ebrahimi, Fedor Kitashov +4Visual Inertial OdometrySelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Google DeepMind

  55. The Emerging Paradigm of Geospatial Foundation Models: From Pre-Training to Agentic Reasoning

    Jul 13, 2026Shelley CazaresGeospatial Foundation ModelsWireless Foundation Models

    Google Public Sector, Washington DC 20001, USA

  56. Forgetting Our Way to Shared Meaning: Effects of Forgetting on Conceptual Alignment in a Non-Partnership Coordination Game

    Jul 13, 2026Landon Liu, Mary Kelly, Alan TsangEmergenceForgetting

    Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University · Department of Cognitive Science, Carleton University · Department of Computer Science, Carleton University

  57. Emergent Generalization by Representation Learning in Artificial Neural Networks

    Jul 11, 2026Hardik Rajpal, Dan GoodmanNeural CircuitsNeural Network

    1I-X Centre for AI in Science, Imperial College London, W12 0BZ, UK · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK

  58. Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions

    Jul 11, 2026Cem Suulker, Thomas Mack, Qingzheng Cong +4Soft RoboticsColonoscopy

    School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.

  59. Architecture Generalization with MetaNCA

    Jul 8, 2026Meet Barot, Daniel Berenberg, Sina KhajehabdollahiNeural Cellular AutomataBrain-Inspired Synergistic Framework

    Mythos Scientific, New York, USA · Independent Scholar

  60. Statistically Meaningful Geometry and Gauge Symmetry Breaking: A Geometric Foundation for Scientific Discovery and Intelligence Emergence

    Jul 3, 2026Bing Cheng, Yi-Shuai Niu, Howell Tong +1EmergenceScientific Discovery

    Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), Beijing, China · Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK +3