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22 papers

cs.AI2026

Fix the Mind, Not the Move: Interpretable AI Assistance via Knowledge-Gap Localization

Ayano Hiranaka, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Stefanos Nikolaidis +2

AI assistants in human-AI collaboration often correct suboptimal human actions through behavioral feedback (e.g., alerts or steering-wheel nudges in assistive driving). Such interv…

cs.CY2026

Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions

Saleh Afroogh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Petra Ahrweiler +46

This study provides a cross-disciplinary examination of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches-focusing on deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs…

cs.RO2026

Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons

Anthony Liang, Yigit Korkmaz, Jiahui Zhang +14

General-purpose robot reward models are typically trained to predict absolute task progress from expert demonstrations, providing only local, frame-level supervision. While effecti…

cs.RO2026

When a Robot is More Capable than a Human: Learning from Constrained Demonstrators

Xinhu Li, Ayush Jain, Zhaojing Yang +2

Learning from demonstrations enables experts to teach robots complex tasks using interfaces such as kinesthetic teaching, joystick control, and sim-to-real transfer. However, these…

cs.LG2026

Value Explicit Pretraining for Learning Transferable Representations

Kiran Lekkala, Henghui Bao, Sumedh A. Sontakke +2

Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose \textit{Value Explicit Pretraining}…

cs.HC2026

Vibrotactile Preference Learning: Uncertainty-Aware Preference Learning for Personalized Vibration Feedback

Rongtao Zhang, Xin Zhu, Masoume Pourebadi Khotbehsara +3

Individual differences in vibrotactile perception underscore the growing importance of personalization as haptic feedback becomes more prevalent in interactive systems. We propose…