3 papers
cs.CY2026
Playing Games with My Heart: An Evaluation of AI Companion Apps
Maribeth Rauh, Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Matias Duran +7
The use of chatbots for various forms of companionship is growing rapidly, raising a myriad of questions about simulated relationships, emotional dependence, and psychological harm…
cs.AI2026
TopoBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Hard Topological Reasoning
Mayug Maniparambil, Nils Hoehing, Janak Kapuriya +5
Solving topological grid puzzles requires reasoning over global spatial invariants such as connectivity, loop closure, and region symmetry and remains challenging for even the most…
cs.CV2025
Understanding Space Is Rocket Science -- Only Top Reasoning Models Can Solve Spatial Understanding Tasks
Nils Hoehing, Mayug Maniparambil, Ellen Rushe +2
We propose RocketScience, an open-source contrastive VLM benchmark that tests for spatial relation understanding. It is comprised of entirely new real-world image-text pairs coveri…