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Beyond What to Say: Proactive Utterance Timing with Inner Thoughts for Werewolf Agents
Oct 23, 2026Yoshiki Tanaka, Shuya Uchiyama, Daichi Hamaguchi +1Proactive Agents Game-Playing Agents
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
ProMemAgent: Long-Horizon Proactive Assistance with Context-Aware Prospective Memory from Sensory Perceptions
Oct 19, 2026Lilin Xu, Linyang He, Kaiyuan Hou +4Proactive Agents Long-Horizon Agent Tasks
Columbia University
When Should AI Chime In? Benchmarking Timely Contribution of Proactive Agents in Multi-Party Chat
Oct 19, 2026Ruotong Wang, Brian S. Yu, Xinyi Zhou +5Proactive Agents LLM Agent Evaluation
University of Washington · Boise State University · Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
MemoProAgent: Toward Memory-Driven Proactive Assistance
Oct 15, 2026Shenglai Zeng, Xiao Yang, Tiffany Ma +15Proactive Agents Proactive Assistance
Michigan State University · Meta Reality Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs +3
Stop Training Against Soft Users: Mentalized Adversarial Self-Play for Proactive Dialogue
Oct 15, 2026Zanwu Liu, Dan Zhang, Xiaodi Wang +6Conversational Agents Proactive Agents
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Dongchezu Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China
Proactive Physical AI through Continuous Observation and Timely Intervention
Oct 12, 2026Zhenhua Yang, Jiafeng Liang, Xingyu Zhou +26Proactive Agents Embodied AI
Research Center for Social Computing and Interactive Robotics, Harbin Institute of Technology · Guanxing Technology
Vision: "What Don't I Know About User's Preferences?" How Uncertainty Estimation Improves Proactive Assistant Alignment
Oct 11, 2026Zhiyu An, Ziyi Xuan, Yu Yang +1Proactive Agents User Preference Modeling
University of California, Merced Merced, California, USA · Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA
Jarvis: A Proactive Speech Agent for Multi-Party Conversations
Oct 5, 2026Seunghyun Oh, Hirotaka Hiraki, Shuyue Stella Li +2Conversational Agents Proactive Agents
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, WA, USA · Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
Who Is Your Agent Serving? Provider-Side Indirect Prompt Injection in Proactive Agents
Oct 4, 2026Rui Wang, Chao Wang, Xinchen Wang +3AI Agent Security Indirect Prompt Injection
Hefei University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China
Foundations of Proactive Agents: Principles, Technical Layers, and Proactivity-Gym
Sep 29, 2026Jio Oh, Seunghyun Do, Young-Jun Lee +2LLM Agent Evaluation Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation
KAIST · University of Minnesota
Asking for What Was Never Requested: Horizontal and Vertical Proactivity in Agents
Sep 29, 2026Ido Levy, Asaf Yehudai, Segev Shlomov +2Proactive Agents Proactive Assistance
IBM · Weizmann Institute of Science
Clarify the User or Verify the World? Uncertainty Routing for Proactive Agents
Sep 26, 2026Zhaofeng Li, Xuan Zhang, Xiaokui Xiao +1Proactive Agents Tool-Using Agents
National University of Singapore · Singapore Management University
Robots That Take Initiative: A Framework for Building and Evaluating Proactive Robots
Sep 24, 2026Maithili Patel, Sonia ChernovaHuman-in-the-Loop Evaluation Robotic Policy Evaluation
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Proactive Service Agents: A Unified Decision Framework, Methods, and Evaluation
Sep 3, 2026Yan Tang, Tingyu Cao, Yuanbo Tang +2LLM Agent Evaluation Proactive Assistance
UniCone Team
Clearing the Fog: Towards Installing and Refining Proactive Exploration Capabilities in LLM Agents
Aug 14, 2026Zhizhao Guan, Chen Huang, Ziming Liu +5RL Exploration LLM Agents
Sichuan University · Engineering Research Center of Machine Learning and Industry Intelligence · National University of Singapore +1
VibeLifeBench: Can Your Life Agent Be Proactive and Persistent in a Living World?
Aug 11, 2026Xiaohongshu Dots Studio, Evolvent AIProactive Agents Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation
ProEvent: An Event-centric Benchmark for Proactive Agents
Jul 20, 2026Guanzhen Li, Liangming Pan, Leye WangProactive Agents LLM Agent Evaluation
School of Computing, Peking University
Context Graphs for Proactive Enterprise Agents
Jul 4, 2026Avinash KumarProactive Assistance LLM Agents
ProACT: Towards Breakdown-Aware Proactive Agent in Multi-User Collaboration
Jul 4, 2026Shu Yang, Difei Xu, Jiaxin Pei +1LLM Agent Evaluation Proactive Assistance
1PRADA Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · 2Stanford University
Proactive Systems in HCI and AI: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Jun 23, 2026Nima Zargham, Sharon Ferguson, Jaisie Sin +2Proactive Agents Human-AI Interaction
University of Toronto Toronto, Canada · University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada · Carleton University Ottawa, Canada
Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance
Jun 3, 2026Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap +14AI Agent Benchmarks LLM Planning
Meta Reality Labs · Meta Superintelligence Labs
Perceive Before Reasoning: A Pre-Reasoning Perception Framework for Efficient and Reliable Proactive Mobile Agents
Jun 2, 2026Zhijie Ding, Weinan Hong, Zicheng Zhu +6Efficient Multimodal Inference Proactive Assistance
HyperAI Team, Xiaomi Corporation · Zhongnan University of Economics and Law · 1HyperAI Team, Xiaomi Corporation +5
Ask Now, Use Later: Benchmarking the Proactivity Gap in Long-Lived LLM Agents
May 27, 2026Bin Wu, Guanyun Zou, Bingbing Wang +2Proactive Assistance LLM Agent Memory
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) +1
Anticipate and Learn: Unleashing Idle-Time Compute in Proactive Agents
May 25, 2026Haoyi Hu, Qirong Lyu, Xianghan Kong +7Proactive Agents AI Agent Evaluation
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Tencent
ProActor: Timing-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Task Scheduling Agents
May 24, 2026Lei Ding, Bin He, Chenguang Wang +1Proactive Assistance Conversational Agents
University of California, Santa Cruz · 2Zillow Group
$π$ -Bench: Evaluating Proactive Personal Assistant Agents in Long-Horizon Workflows
May 14, 2026Haoran Zhang, Luxin Xu, Zhilin Wang +11Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation AI Agent Benchmarks
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Fudan University +7
Agentic Coding Needs Proactivity, Not Just Autonomy
May 7, 2026Nghi D. Q. Bui, Georgios EvangelopoulosProactive Agents AI Coding Agents
Google Labs
Ask Only When Needed: Proactive Retrieval from Memory and Skills for Experience-Driven Lifelong Agents
Apr 22, 2026Yuxuan Cai, Wei Li, Jie Zhou +4Lifelong Learning Agents LLM Agent Skill Learning
School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai · Shanghai AI Laboratory
Context: Proactive Goal-Directed Intelligence via Composable Sandboxed Programs, Declarative Wiring, and Structured Interaction
Apr 21, 2026Gregory MagarshakAI Agent Governance LLM Agent Orchestration
Qbix, Inc. & Intercoin, Inc. · New York, USA · Also with IE University NYC.
PASK: Toward Intent-Aware Proactive Agents with Long-Term Memory
Apr 9, 2026Zhifei Xie, Zongzheng Hu, Fangda Ye +10Proactive Agents Agentic AI
NTU · Pask-Core · NUS

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Beyond What to Say: Proactive Utterance Timing with Inner Thoughts for Werewolf Agents

Yoshiki Tanaka, Shuya Uchiyama, Daichi Hamaguchi, Michimasa Inaba

The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Proactive Agents Game-Playing Agents Multi-Turn Dialogue Management Large Language Model-Based Role-Play Simulation

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Participating in a conversation involves not only deciding what to say but also whether to speak at all. This judgment carries even greater significance in environments like the Werewolf game, where participants' interests conflict, because both utterances and silence are subject to interpretation and assessment by others. Therefore, determining when to speak, as well as what to say, is crucial for an LLM agent playing the Werewolf game. In this study, we introduce a Werewolf AI agent developed for the Anytime Utterance Track of the AIWolfDial shared task. Our system builds on the existing Inner Thoughts framework, which determines utterance timing during conversations by generating internal thoughts and evaluating the value of each thought for expression at that moment. Since existing methods were designed for general dialogue, we have redesigned the system specifically for the competitive environment and incomplete information setting of Werewolf games. We call our adapted method Adversarial Inner Thoughts. Through experiments involving analysis of self-play logs and human evaluations, we analyze and discuss the effectiveness of our approach.