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  1. What Wins a Vote? Formatting, Length, and Lexical Diversity in the French Compar:IA LLM Arena

    Oct 1, 2026Simonas Zilinskas, Maayeesha Farzana, Christophe BenaventRankingMajority Voting

    Compar:IA · Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

  2. Rethinking Legibility in Social Robot Hallway Navigation: Impact of Intent Representation and Human Distraction

    Sep 30, 2026Pranav Goyal, Andrew Stratton, Christoforos MavrogiannisRobot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

    University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

  3. Reader Proficiency Shapes Layer-wise Surprisal Profiles

    Sep 29, 2026Akio Hayakawa, Horacio SaggionReadabilityProficiency

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

  4. MSTypography: Multi-character Semantic Typography via Balancing Word Legibility and Object Recognizability

    Sep 29, 2026Xinye Yang, Xinding Zhu, Kai Fang +4Few-Shot Font GenerationOptical Character Recognition

    Zhejiang University of Technology · Zhejiang Lab

  5. Beyond Readability: Evaluating Task Information Recoverability

    Sep 29, 2026Yiwei LiuReadabilityMultiple Vision Tasks

    School of Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  6. Beyond Legibility: Benchmarking Visual Text Rendering and In-Place Editing in Unified Video Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Ziying Zhang, Litao Li, Junchao Liao +4Text-To-Video Generation ModelFew-Shot Font Generation

    Alibaba Group · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University

  7. Assessing Readability with LLMs: The Role of Reasoning and Few-Shot Prompting

    Sep 21, 2026Raphaël Thieffry, Matej MartincReadabilityRole

    Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France · Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  8. A Probe Shift Is Not a Fairness Fix: The Limits of Representation Steering in Speech Models

    Sep 16, 2026Nicolas Bourrel, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos SpanakisSpeakerSpeech Encoder

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences Maastricht University

  9. Analyzing Traditional and Neural Approaches to Multilingual Readability Assessment

    Sep 11, 2026Joshua Wong, Chris TannerReadabilityTransformer Architectures

    Harvard University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Kensho Technologies in Cambridge, MA, USA

  10. Lagged Coupling: Internal Representations Become Readable Before They Become Causal

    Sep 1, 2026Xining XunReadoutCausal

    Tsingjiao Information Science (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

  11. Language Proficiency Assessment from Eye Movements in Naturalistic Passage Reading

    Aug 31, 2026Shachar Frenkel, Ido Falah, Omer Shubi +1Eye TrackingProficiency

    Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  12. Reconstructing Historical Manuscripts through MSI: The Potential of Contrast in Assessing Image Quality and Legibility

    Aug 13, 2026Anna BregerImage Quality AssessmentHistorical Manuscripts

    Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  13. Floor, Ceiling, and the Fusion Gap: How Much of Crowd Reading Attention Can Machines Predict?

    Aug 3, 2026Kazuki Nakayashiki, Keisuke WatanabeReadabilityCeiling

    Glasp Inc.

  14. PlainMedScale: A Corpus of Multi-Level Simplified Medical Texts in German and English

    Aug 2, 2026Bruno Brocai, Ilaria Papagno, Mayumi OhtaReadabilityMultilingual Healthcare Q&A

    Heidelberg University German Linguistics · Heidelberg University Translation Studies · Heidelberg University SFB 1671

  15. Operational Proto-Introspection in Looped Language Models: Process-Quality Taps, Executable Branching, and the Readout-Control Boundary

    Jul 20, 2026Jan KirinReadoutIntrospection Adapters

  16. Designing Agent-Ready Websites for AI Web Agents: A Framework for Machine Readability, Actionability, and Decision Reliability

    Jul 13, 2026Said Elnaffar, Farzad RashidiWeb AgentsWeb

    Independent Researcher London, ON, Canada · UFR Informatique Université Paris Cité F-75013 Paris, France

  17. Training, Reading, and Editing Legible Transformers

    Jul 9, 2026Mark OskinTransformer ArchitecturesModel Activations

    School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington

  18. LEXIC: Lightweight On-Device Decoding of Reading Comprehension from Eye Movements

    Jul 9, 2026Sumin Lee, Kyeonghun Kim, Subeen Lee +5ReadabilityGaze Behavior

    Seoul National University · OUTTA · NVIDIA

  19. Input Pathways Shape Few-Shot, Not Zero-Shot, Binding in Tiny Transformers: A Fully-Enumerable Study

    Jul 6, 2026Yoshiyuki OotaniTransformer ArchitecturesFew-Shot Learning

    Independent Researcher

  20. HULAT2 at MER-TRANS 2026: Governed Multi-Agent Simplification for Spanish Easy-to-Read Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Lourdes Moreno, Paloma Martínez, Marco Antonio Sanchez-Escudero +1Multilingual AgentsReadability

    Computer Science and Engineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Av. Universidad, 30, Leganés, 28911, Spain

  21. Visualizing High-Dimensional Graph Embeddings via Informed Multi-View Projections

    Jun 30, 2026Ya Ji, Xuefeng Li, Timo Brand +4VisualizationGraph Representations

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Seattle · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany

  22. Legible and Intuitive Multi-modal Robot State and Intent Communication Validated in Online and Real-world Studies

    Jun 23, 2026Tim Schreiter, Jens V. Rüppel, Andrey Rudenko +2Human-Robot InteractionRobot Systems

    Chair of Perception for Intelligent Systems, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) · Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University, Sweden

  23. Energy-Based Transformers as Predictors of Reading Difficulty

    Jun 22, 2026Jakub Dotlacil, Ece TakmazEnergy-Based TransformerReadability

    Utrecht University

  24. Can LLMs Control Readability? A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for CEFR-Controlled Arabic Generation

    Jun 20, 2026Nour Rabih, Chatrine Qwaider, Ted BriscoeArabic Natural Language ProcessingReadability

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

  25. Large Language Models Do Not Always Need Readable Language

    Jun 18, 2026Jiayi Zhu, Haoxuan Peng, Junxi Wang +3Readability

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · The University of Sydney · Hefei University of Technology +2

  26. Combining Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation with LLMs for Reading Content Recommendations

    Jun 12, 2026Sooyeon Kim, Piotr S. MaciągText GenerationReadability

    Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland

  27. Seeing the Hivemind: A Consensus-Aware Interaction Technique for Mitigating AI Homogenization

    Jun 8, 2026Muhammad Haris Khan, Joel westerCreativityHuman-Ai Collaboration

    University of Copenhagen Denmark

  28. What Is My Robot Thinking? Design Considerations for Transparent and Trustworthy Shared Autonomy

    Jun 5, 2026Atharv Belsare, Zohre Karimi, Connor Mattson +2TransparencyDisclosures

    Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. · Robotics Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

  29. LLM Agent-Assisted Reverse Engineering with Quantitative Readability Metrics

    Jun 5, 2026Neil Archibald, Ruben ThijssenReverse EngineeringDisassembly

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia

  30. Towards the Readability of LLM-Generated Codes through Multitask Representation Engineering

    Jun 4, 2026Huifan Gao, Liuhua He, Yinghui Pan +4ReadabilityMulti--Task Learning

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China +3

  31. Digital-to-Physical Transfer of Adversarial Patches for Aerial Vehicle Detection

    May 29, 2026Jung Heum Woo, Eun-Kyu LeeDrone DetectionAerial Dataset

    School of Information Technology Incheon National University Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea

  32. Scaling Accessible Mathematics on arXiv: HTML Conversion and MathML 4

    May 15, 2026Deyan Ginev, Brian Caruso, Bruce Miller +2ReadabilityMath Problems

    arXiv, Cornell Tech, New York NY, USA · National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA

  33. The Readability Spectrum: Patterns, Issues, and Prompt Effects in LLM-Generated Code

    May 13, 2026Hengzhi Ye, Fengyuan Ran, Weiwei Xu +1Code GenerationReadability

    Peking university · Beijing, Beijing, China · Wuhan University +1

  34. Machine Learning Research Has Outpaced Its Communication Norms and NeurIPS Should Act

    May 9, 2026Ajay Mandyam Rangarajan, Jeyashree KrishnanJournalReadability

    Independent Researcher · Institute for Computational Biomedicine, University Hospital Aachen

  35. Algospeak, Hiding in the Open: The Trade-off Between Legible Meaning and Detection Avoidance

    May 7, 2026Jan Fillies, Ronald E. Robertson, Jeffrey HancockLinguisticsDeception

    Stanford University Stanford, California, USA

  36. One Perturbation, Two Failure Modes: Probing VLM Safety via Embedding-Guided Typographic Perturbations

    Apr 28, 2026Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Sanket MendaparaSafety AlignmentFew-Shot Font Generation

    Cisco Systems

  37. Zero-shot Large Language Models for Automatic Readability Assessment

    Apr 27, 2026Riley Grossman, Yi ChenReadabilityMethodology

    New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ

  38. Can "AI" Be a Doctor? A Study of Empathy, Readability, and Alignment in Clinical LLMs

    Apr 22, 2026Mariano Barone, Francesco Di Serio, Roberto Moio +4EmpathyReadability

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, Naples, 80125, Italy. · Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania ”Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Leonardo Bianchi, Naples, 80131, Italy. · Department of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2309 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, 60201, IL, United States.

  39. Probing for Reading Times

    Apr 20, 2026Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Francesco Ignazio Re +4ReadabilityEye Tracking

    ETH Zürich · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · University College London

  40. An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via Surprisal

    Apr 20, 2026Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Taiga Someya +2SurprisalLinguistics

    ♠The University of Tokyo · ♡NINJAL · ♢NII LLMC +1

  41. Human vs. Machine Deception: Distinguishing AI-Generated and Human-Written Fake News Using Ensemble Learning

    Apr 10, 2026Samuel Jaeger, Calvin Ibenye, Aya Vera-Jimenez +1Fake News DetectionFake News

    School of Data Science and Analytics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA · Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA · Department of Mathematics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

  42. LLM surprisal is necessary but not sufficient to capture English garden-path effects: Evidence from joint latent modeling of reading paradigms

    Feb 4, 2026Dario Paape, Tal Linzen, Shravan VasishthSurprisalReadability

    Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam · Department Linguistik, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24–25, D-14476, Germany. · Center for Data Science/Department of Linguistics, New York University

  43. Text-Conditioned Background Generation for Editable Multi-Layer Documents

    Dec 19, 2025Taewon Kang, Joseph K J, Chris Tensmeyer +4Precise EditingHigh-Fidelity Conditional Generation

    University of Maryland at College Park, United States · Adobe Research, United States