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Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a popular interface for human-AI interaction, supporting information seeking and task assistance through natural, multi-turn dialogue. To respond to users within multi-turn dialogues, the…

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Active inference is a unifying theory for perception and action resting upon the idea that the brain maintains an internal model of the world by minimizing free energy. From a behavioral perspective, active inference agents can be seen as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Pietro Mazzaglia , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

Current approaches to AI training treat reasoning as an emergent property of scale. We argue instead that robust reasoning emerges from linguistic self-reflection, itself internalized from high-quality social interaction. Drawing on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Claudiu Cristian Musat , Jackson Tolins , Diego Antognini , Jingling Li , Martin Klissarov , Tom Duerig

To tackle long-context reasoning tasks without the quadratic complexity of standard attention mechanisms, approaches based on agent memory have emerged, which typically maintain a dynamically updated memory when linearly processing document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Baibei Ji , Xiaoyang Weng , Juntao Li , Zecheng Tang , Yihang Lou , Min Zhang

Model-based reasoning agents are ill-equipped to act in novel situations in which their model of the environment no longer sufficiently represents the world. We propose HYDRA - a framework for designing model-based agents operating in mixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Shiwali Mohan , Wiktor Piotrowski , Roni Stern , Sachin Grover , Sookyung Kim , Jacob Le , Johan De Kleer

Reasoning models have recently shown remarkable progress in domains such as math and coding. However, their expert-level abilities in math and coding contrast sharply with their performance in long-horizon, interactive tasks such as web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xiao Yu , Baolin Peng , Michel Galley , Hao Cheng , Qianhui Wu , Janardhan Kulkarni , Suman Nath , Zhou Yu , Jianfeng Gao

Active perception enables robots to dynamically gather information by adjusting their viewpoints, a crucial capability for interacting with complex, partially observable environments. In this paper, we present AP-VLM, a novel framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Venkatesh Sripada , Samuel Carter , Frank Guerin , Amir Ghalamzan

Robotic manipulation stands as a largely unsolved problem despite significant advances in robotics and machine learning in the last decades. One of the central challenges of manipulation is partial observability, as the agent usually does…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tim Schneider , Boris Belousov , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters

Reasoning and interacting with dynamic environments is a fundamental problem in AI, but it becomes extremely challenging when actions can trigger cascades of cross-dependent events. We introduce a new supervised learning setup called {\em…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuval Atzmon , Eli A. Meirom , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik

Artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific exploration, but most methods automate procedural tasks without engaging in scientific reasoning, limiting autonomy in discovery. We introduce Materials Agents for Simulation and Theory in…

Building machines capable of efficiently collaborating with humans has been a longstanding goal in artificial intelligence. Especially in the presence of uncertainties, optimal cooperation often requires that humans and artificial agents…

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A sequential decision-making agent balances between exploring to gain new knowledge about an environment and exploiting current knowledge to maximize immediate reward. For environments studied in the traditional literature, optimal…

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We study the task of embodied visual active learning, where an agent is set to explore a 3d environment with the goal to acquire visual scene understanding by actively selecting views for which to request annotation. While accurate on some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 David Nilsson , Aleksis Pirinen , Erik Gärtner , Cristian Sminchisescu

Following the pivotal success of learning strategies to win at tasks, solely by interacting with an environment without any supervision, agents have gained the ability to make sequential decisions in complex MDPs. Yet, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ezgi Korkmaz

Abductive reasoning aims to find plausible explanations for an event. This style of reasoning is critical for commonsense tasks where there are often multiple plausible explanations. Existing approaches for abductive reasoning in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Wenting Zhao , Justin T. Chiu , Claire Cardie , Alexander M. Rush

Despite the growing adoption of mixed reality and interactive AI agents, it remains challenging for these systems to generate high quality 2D/3D scenes in unseen environments. The common practice requires deploying an AI agent to collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Qiuyuan Huang , Jae Sung Park , Abhinav Gupta , Paul Bennett , Ran Gong , Subhojit Som , Baolin Peng , Owais Khan Mohammed , Chris Pal , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Abductive reasoning - the search for plausible explanations - has long been central to human inquiry, from forensics to medicine and scientific discovery. Yet formal approaches in AI have largely reduced abduction to eliminative search:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Remo Pareschi

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on massive corpora have shown remarkable success in knowledge-intensive tasks. Yet, most of them rely on pre-stored knowledge. Inducing new general knowledge from a specific environment and performing…

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