3 papers
cs.AI2026
Position: Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests
Manuel Cherep, Nikhil Singh, Pattie Maes
Artificial agentic systems increasingly operate as behavioral systems by interacting with dynamic environments, pursuing goals, and adapting over time. Yet, current evaluation meth…
cs.CV2026
Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?
Manuel Cherep, Pranav M R, Pattie Maes +1
The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models (VLMs). These agents make visual decisio…
cs.AI2026
A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
Manuel Cherep, Chengtian Ma, Abigail Xu +3
Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on our behalf. These decisions range from ou…