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Over the last thirty years, considerable progress has been made with the development of systems that can drive cars, play games, predict protein folding and generate natural language. These systems are described as intelligent and there has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 David Gamez

Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand. We introduce KinDER, a benchmark for Kinematic and Dynamic…

Agents in the real world must make not only logical but also timely judgments. This requires continuous awareness of the dynamic environment: hazards emerge, opportunities arise, and other agents act, while the agent's reasoning is still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yule Wen , Yixin Ye , Yanzhe Zhang , Diyi Yang , Hao Zhu

Currently, potential threats of artificial intelligence (AI) to human have triggered a large controversy in society, behind which, the nature of the issue is whether the artificial intelligence (AI) system can be evaluated quantitatively.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Feng Liu , Yong Shi

Understanding the world and explaining it with scientific theories is a central aspiration of artificial intelligence research. Proposing theories, designing experiments to test them, and then revising them based on data are fundamental to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Kanishk Gandhi , Michael Y. Li , Lyle Goodyear , Agam Bhatia , Louise Li , Aditi Bhaskar , Mohammed Zaman , Noah D. Goodman

The focus of this paper is to propose a driver model that incorporates human reasoning levels as actions during interactions with other drivers. Different from earlier work using game theoretical human reasoning levels, we propose a dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Cevahir Köprülü , Yıldıray Yıldız

LLM-driven multi-agent-based simulations have been gaining traction with applications in game-theoretic and social simulations. While most implementations seek to exploit or evaluate LLM-agentic reasoning, they often do so with a weak…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vince Trencsenyi , Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis

In order to reach human performance on complexvisual tasks, artificial systems need to incorporate a sig-nificant amount of understanding of the world in termsof macroscopic objects, movements, forces, etc. Inspiredby work on intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ronan Riochet , Mario Ynocente Castro , Mathieu Bernard , Adam Lerer , Rob Fergus , Véronique Izard , Emmanuel Dupoux

Performing tasks in a physical environment is a crucial yet challenging problem for AI systems operating in the real world. Physics simulation-based tasks are often employed to facilitate research that addresses this challenge. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Chathura Gamage , Vimukthini Pinto , Matthew Stephenson , Jochen Renz

Intelligent behaviour in the physical world exhibits structure at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Although movements are ultimately executed at the level of instantaneous muscle tensions or joint torques, they must be selected to…

Research in cognitive science has provided extensive evidence of human cognitive ability in performing physical reasoning of objects from noisy perceptual inputs. Such a cognitive ability is commonly known as intuitive physics. With…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jiafei Duan , Arijit Dasgupta , Jason Fischer , Cheston Tan

To solve difficult tasks, humans ask questions to acquire knowledge from external sources. In contrast, classical reinforcement learning agents lack such an ability and often resort to exploratory behavior. This is exacerbated as few…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Iou-Jen Liu , Xingdi Yuan , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Alexander G. Schwing

Although neural models have performed impressively well on various tasks such as image recognition and question answering, their reasoning ability has been measured in only few studies. In this work, we focus on spatial reasoning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hyunjae Kim , Yookyung Koh , Jinheon Baek , Jaewoo Kang

We introduce CausalVQA, a benchmark dataset for video question answering (VQA) composed of question-answer pairs that probe models' understanding of causality in the physical world. Existing VQA benchmarks either tend to focus on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aaron Foss , Chloe Evans , Sasha Mitts , Koustuv Sinha , Ammar Rizvi , Justine T. Kao

This survey paper examines the recent advancements in AI agent implementations, with a focus on their ability to achieve complex goals that require enhanced reasoning, planning, and tool execution capabilities. The primary objectives of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tula Masterman , Sandi Besen , Mason Sawtell , Alex Chao

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced and are increasingly capable of tackling complex scientific problems, including those in physics. Despite this progress, current LLMs often fail to emulate the concise, principle-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinggan Xu , Yue Liu , Zhiqiang Gao , Changnan Peng , Di Luo

Humans rapidly learn abstract knowledge when encountering novel environments and flexibly deploy this knowledge to guide efficient and intelligent action. Can modern AI systems learn and plan in a similar way? We study this question using a…

As the interest in Artificial Intelligence continues to grow it is becoming more and more important to investigate formalization and tools that allow us to exploit logic to reason about the world. In particular, given the increasing number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francesco Fabiano

Human-like agents must express stable dispositions while adapting to roles, relationships, and norms. We present PsyAgent, a schema-first framework that operationalizes the trait-context interface by coupling a Big Five trait prior with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zibin Meng , Kani Chen

With the rise of machines to human-level performance in complex recognition tasks, a growing amount of work is directed towards comparing information processing in humans and machines. These studies are an exciting chance to learn about one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Christina M. Funke , Judy Borowski , Karolina Stosio , Wieland Brendel , Thomas S. A. Wallis , Matthias Bethge