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  1. Geometry-Dependent Bounds for Online Non-Monotone DR-Submodular Maximization

    Sep 30, 2026Vaneet AggarwalSubmodular Functions\Widetilde{\Mathcal{O}}(\Sqrt{T})$ Regret

    Purdue University

  2. Rational Clarification by Assistive Agents via Value-of-Information Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026T. Duy Nguyen-Hien, Yee Whye Teh, Wee Sun Lee +1ClarificationAgentic Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford · Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

  3. Policy Complexity, Reaction Time, and Bounded Rationality in Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 23, 2026James Wu, Chris R. SimsRationalityGeneral Intelligence

    Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, 12180 · Department of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, 12180

  4. Adaptive Shared Control with Online Bounded-Rational Human Behavior Estimation

    Sep 9, 2026Henry Ascencio Trejo, Roel Pieters, Gokhan AlcanAdaptive ControlRationality

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  5. From Prompting to Behavioral Alignment: Personalized LLM Judges for Recommendation Evaluation

    Aug 11, 2026Alireza S. Ziabari, Kat Ellis, Colleen Chan +1Sequential RecommendationLarge Language Model Evaluation

    Netflix Los Angeles, USA · Netflix Los Gatos, USA

  6. Evaluating Rational Contracting in Natural Language

    Aug 11, 2026Bhavyesh Sajja, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Roger Zimmermann +1Multilingual AgentsNegotiation

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore · Department of Computer Science, University of Washington · A*STAR Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing

  7. A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Desiderata, Design, and Likely Behavioral Consequences

    Aug 8, 2026Jobst Heitzig, Ram PothamHuman-Centered FrameworkArtificial Intelligence Safety

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany · Independent

  8. Revealed Rationality: Label-Free Evaluation and Regularization from Representation Theorems

    Aug 5, 2026Isaiah AndrewsRationalityArtificial Intelligence Alignment

    Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and NBER

  9. A game theory for foundation models shows new paths to rational cooperation through similarity inference

    Aug 4, 2026Alexander Meulemans, Maciej Wołczyk, Marissa A. Weis +11Game TheoryCollective Behaviors

    Google, Paradigms of Intelligence Team · Mila - Quebec AI Institute · Université de Montréal +6

  10. Where Reasoning Diverges: Localized Multi-Agent Debate for Multi-Hop Question Answering

    Aug 2, 2026Weijun Gao, Xiang Ding, Haoyang Liu +1Multi-Agent DebateDebate

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2Nagoya University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +1

  11. Cognivia: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Copilot for Evidence-Based Mental Healthcare

    Jul 28, 2026Qi Chen, Siria Xiyueyao Luo, Jian Wang +3Cognitive Behavioral TherapyMental Health

    Sichuan University Sichuan, China · Southwest Petroleum University Sichuan, China · University of Groningen Netherland +3

  12. PlanCraft: Sketch, Refine, and Furnish for Architect-Inspired Progressive 3D Residential Scene Generation

    Jul 26, 2026Pengyu Zeng, Yuqin Dai, Jun Yin +7Floor Plan Generation3D Scene Generation

    Tsinghua University

  13. Infinite Canons: Maximally Self-Similar Melodic Lines and Canons with Infinite Solutions

    Jul 25, 2026Clifton CallenderSymbolic Music GenerationInfinities

    Florida State University

  14. Case study: proving sqrt(2) irrational with LPTP and an LLM

    Jul 23, 2026Fred Mesnard, Étienne Payet, Wim VanhoofTheorem ProvingFirst-Order Logic

    LIM, université de La Réunion, France · Université de Namur, Belgium

  15. Rationalizing Boltzmann Rationality: An Axiomatic Characterization of Entropy-Regularized Policies

    Jul 19, 2026Silviu PitisEntropy Regularized Reinforcement LearningBellman Equation

    University of Michigan

  16. Answer-Conditioned Chains of Thought Degrade Verifiable-Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models

    Jul 16, 2026Jungseob Lee, Seungyoon Lee, Suhyune Son +4LLM Reasoning StrategiesReasoning Skills

    1Korea University · 2Zoom Communications · 3Yonsei University

  17. Generalizing Preference-based Reinforcement Learning: a Rationality Model for Incomparability

    Jul 13, 2026Simone Drago, Marco Mussi, Leonardo Bianconi +1Reward FunctionsRationality

    Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  18. Pure Nash Equilibria under the Affine Mechanism: A Potential Game of Exaggeration

    Jun 27, 2026Jason Jisen Li, Young Wu, Yancheng Zhu +2Nash EquilibriumRationality

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

  19. Tractable Reasoning and Conjunctive Query Answering for Defeasible DL-Lite under Rational Closure

    Jun 23, 2026Giovanni Casini, Umberto StracciaRecursive ReasonerRationality

    CNR - ISTI · University of Cape Town · Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, CNR - ISTI, Pisa, Italy +1

  20. Artificial collectives of specialists and generalists excel at different tasks

    Jun 18, 2026John Meluso, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Christoph Riedl +1Multi-Agent CommunicationCollective Behaviors

    Cornell University · University of Vermont · Santa Fe Institute +1

  21. Neetyabhas: A Framework for Uncertainty-Aware Public Policy Optimization in Rational Agent-Based Models

    Jun 3, 2026Janani Venugopalan, Gaurav Deshkar, Rishabh Gaur +2Epidemiological ModelsAgent-Based Model

    Engineering for Research (e4r), Thoughtworks Technologies, Binarius Building, Deepak Complex, Shastrinagar, Yerawada, Pune, Maharashtra, India - 411006

  22. A Practice Auditing Framework for Large Language Model Use: Collective Empiricism, Pseudo-Rational Cognition, and Governance of AI-Generated Content

    Jun 2, 2026Yang Zhao, Yingshuo Li, Zeyu ZhangModel AuditingHuman-Ai Interaction

    School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology

  23. Sample Complexity and Decision-Theoretic Guarantees for Bayesian Model Averaging over Decision Trees with Catalan-Exponential Priors

    May 31, 2026Livija Jakaite, Vitaly SchetininDecision TreesModel Selection

    School of Computing and Engineering University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

  24. The Representation-Rationalizability Tradeoff in Reward Learning

    May 29, 2026Jing Dong, Yaoliang Yu, Pascal PourpartReinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackReward Functions

    Vector Institute · University of Waterloo & Vector Institute

  25. Rationalize: Shared Semantic Reasoning for Human-AI Alignment

    May 28, 2026Aritra Dasgupta, Naga Datha Saikiran Battula, Avina Nakarmi +3Artificial Intelligence AlignmentHuman-Ai Collaboration

    New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, USA

  26. In LLM Reasoning, there is Irrationality on top of Value Misalignment

    May 26, 2026Kejiang Qian, Fengxiang HeLarge Language Model AlignmentLLM Reasoning Strategies

    University of Edinburgh

  27. Greedy or not, here I come: Language production under vocabulary constraints in humans and resource-rational models

    May 14, 2026Thomas Hikaru Clark, Sihan Chen, Laura NicolaeLinguisticsGreedy Algorithm

    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT · Department of Economics, Harvard University

  28. Bounded-Rationality, Hedging, and Generalization

    May 14, 2026Pedro A. OrtegaGeneralization BoundsRationality

    Daios Technologies

  29. Modeling Bounded Rationality in Drug Shortage Pharmacists Using Attention-Guided Dynamic Decomposition

    May 13, 2026Yaniv Eliyahu Amiri, Noah Chicoine, Jacqueline Griffin +1Sequential Decision MakingRationality

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

  30. Faithful or Fabricated? A Causal Framework for Rationalization Bias in LLM Judges

    May 13, 2026Riya Tapwal, Abhishek Kumar, Carsten MapleLarge Language Model JudgesRhetoric

    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi · The Alan Turing Institute, London, U.K. · Warwick Manufacturing Group University of Warwick, U.K.

  31. Semantic Reward Collapse and the Preservation of Epistemic Integrity in Adaptive AI Systems

    May 12, 2026William ParrisEpistemic IntegrityRationality

    BDB Labs / BagelTech · San Diego, California, USA

  32. Are Compact Rationales Free? Measuring Tile Selection Headroom in Frozen WSI-MIL

    May 12, 2026Hyun Do Jung, Jungwon Choi, Soojung Choi +2Rationality

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea · Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea · Department of Integrative Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea +2

  33. Can MLLMs Reason About Visual Persuasion? Evaluating the Efficacy and Faithfulness of Reasoning

    May 9, 2026Naeun Lee, Hyunjong Kim, Sunghwan Choi +2PersuasionTool-Grounded Reasoning

    Seoul National University

  34. Mitigating Cognitive Bias in RLHF by Altering Rationality

    May 7, 2026Tiffany Horter, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni +1Reinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackRationality

    University of Oxford · Brown University

  35. AlphaCrafter: A Full-Stack Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Sectional Quantitative Trading

    May 7, 2026Yishuo Yuan, Jiayi Sheng, Sirui Zeng +2Algorithmic TradingRationality

    Nanjing University

  36. Language Game: Talking to Non-Human Systems

    May 5, 2026Yanbo Zhang, Michael LevinMultilingual AgentsLanguage Pairs

    Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA · Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

  37. Double Rectified Linear Unit-based Modular Semantics for Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Framework

    May 4, 2026Gianvincenzo Alfano, Sergio Greco, Lucio La Cava +2Argumentation FrameworksRationality

    Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and System Engineering University of Calabria, Italy

  38. Intervention Complexity as a Canonical Reward and a Measure of Intelligence

    May 4, 2026Brendan McCaneGeneral IntelligenceIntelligence

    School of Computing University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand

  39. LLMs Should Not Yet Be Credited with Decision Explanation

    May 1, 2026Wenshuo WangLarge Language Model DecisionsExplainable AI Methods

    School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, China

  40. Active Inference: A method for Phenotyping Agency in AI systems?

    Apr 25, 2026Philip Wilson, Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin +4Artificial Intelligence GovernanceArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Independent Researcher · Department of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK · Laboratoire d’Analyse Cognitive de l’Information, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada +4

  41. Satisfying Rationality Postulates of Structured Argumentation Through Deductive Support -- Technical Report

    Apr 23, 2026Marcos Cramer, Tom FrieseArgumentation FrameworksRationality

    asecunet Security Networks AG · TU Dresden

  42. How LLMs Might Think

    Apr 2, 2026Joseph Gottlieb, Ethan Kemp, Matthew TragerLLM Reasoning StrategiesRationality

    Dept. of Philosophy, Texas Tech University · Dept. of Philosophy, New York University · Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Matthew Trager

  43. Why That Robot? A Qualitative Analysis of Justification Strategies for Robot Color Selection Across Occupational Contexts

    Mar 30, 2026Jiangen He, Wanqi Zhang, Jessica K. BarfieldAnthropomorphismRationality

    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA · University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

  44. Delegation and Verification Under AI

    Mar 3, 2026Lingxiao Huang, Wenyang Xiao, Nisheeth K. VishnoiDelegationRationality

    Nanjing University · Yale University

  45. Meta-learning ecological priors from large language models explains human learning and decision making

    Aug 28, 2025Akshay K. Jagadish, Mirko Thalmann, Julian Coda-Forno +2Cognitive ScienceMeta-Learning

    Institute for Human-Centered AI, Helmholtz Computational Health Center, Munich, Germany · Computational Principles of Intelligence, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany · Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany +1

  46. Empirical Computation: Prompting versus Programming

    Mar 13, 2025Eric Tang, Jing Liu, Marcel BöhmeEmpirical StudyRationality

    CMU, USA · MPI-SP, Germany

  47. Translationese as a Rational Response to Translation Task Difficulty

    Date pendingMaria KunilovskayaTranslation QualityCross-Lingual Transfer

    University of Technology Nuremberg · Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University

  48. Strategic Type Spaces

    Date pendingOlivier Gossner, Rafael VeielRationalityIncomplete

    CNRS–École Polytechnique and London School of Economics · University of Texas at Austin