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20192026
most citedBeyond Preferences in AI Alignment

31 citations · 95 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.AI2026

CogGym: Towards Large-Scale Comparative Evaluation of Human and Machine Cognition

Lance Ying, Jinzhou Wu, Yingshan Susan Wang +53

Understanding and modeling human intelligence are parallel goals shared by artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science. As AI systems grow increasingly capable, in what ways…

cs.AI2026

Evaluating Rational Contracting in Natural Language

Bhavyesh Sajja, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Roger Zimmermann +1

The emergence of language-based AI agents promises to transform the scope of machine economic activity. Instead of just proposing bids or following hard-coded protocols, such agent…

cs.HC2026

Pragmatic Reasoning in Design

Lance Ying, William Van Uitert, Tan Zhi-Xuan +2

People can often understand and use novel artifacts after only a few interactions, suggesting that design choices communicate underlying affordances and causal structure. We propos…

cs.AI2026

ConMem: Structured Memory-Guided Adaptation in Training-Free Multi-Agent Systems

Zhixun Tan, Qiang Chen, Tairan Huang +2

Recent advances have improved the adaptive capabilities of LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) through memory-, skill-, and learning-based approaches, yet these approaches remain c…

cs.AI2026

An Enigma of Artificial Reason: Investigating the Production-Evaluation Gap in Large Reasoning Models

Mingzhong Sun, Teresa Yeo, Armando Solar-Lezama +1

Studies of human reasoning have shown that people are typically stronger at evaluating reasoning than producing it from scratch. In contrast, large reasoning models (LRMs) are trai…

cs.CL2025

Language-Informed Synthesis of Rational Agent Models for Grounded Theory-of-Mind Reasoning On-The-Fly

Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Katherine M. Collins +6

Drawing real world social inferences usually requires taking into account information from multiple modalities. Language is a particularly powerful source of information in social…