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Foundation model (FM)-based AI agents are rapidly gaining adoption across diverse domains, but their inherent non-determinism and non-reproducibility pose testing and quality assurance challenges. While recent benchmarks provide task-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mohammed Mehedi Hasan , Hao Li , Emad Fallahzadeh , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

LLM agents in markets present algorithmic collusion risks. While prior work shows LLM agents reach supracompetitive prices through tacit coordination, existing research focuses on hand-crafted prompts. The emerging paradigm of prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yingtao Tian

Prompt optimization in compound AI systems is statistically indistinguishable from a coin flip: across 72 optimization runs on Claude Haiku 4.5 (6 methods $\times$ 4 tasks $\times$ 3 repeats), 49% score below zero-shot; on Amazon Nova Lite,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xing Zhang , Guanghui Wang , Yanwei Cui , Wei Qiu , Ziyuan Li , Bing Zhu , Peiyang He

We present AutoStan, a framework in which a command-line interface (CLI) coding agent autonomously builds and iteratively improves Bayesian models written in Stan. The agent operates in a loop, writing a Stan model file, executing MCMC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Oliver Dürr

Maintaining reliable UI test suites in large-scale enterprise applications is a persistent and costly challenge. We present an industrial case study of a multi-agent autonomous testing system evaluated using anonymized execution data from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hyukjoo Lee

Commercial insurance underwriting is a labor-intensive process that requires manual review of extensive documentation to assess risk and determine policy pricing. While AI offers substantial efficiency improvements, existing solutions lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Joyjit Roy , Samaresh Kumar Singh

Reproducing computational research is often assumed to be as simple as rerunning the original code with provided data. In practice, missing packages, fragile file paths, version conflicts, or incomplete logic frequently cause analyses to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Syed Mehtab Hussain Shah , Frank Hopfgartner , Arnim Bleier

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly match or surpass human experts in biomedical signal interpretation. However, their effective integration into clinical practice requires more than high predictive accuracy. Clinicians must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stefan Kraft , Andreas Theissler , Vera Wienhausen-Wilke , Gjergji Kasneci , Hendrik Lensch

Lung cancer patients frequently experience breakthrough pain episodes, with up to 91% requiring timely intervention. To enable proactive pain management, we propose a hybrid machine learning and large language model pipeline that predicts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yipeng Zhuang , Yifeng Guo , Yuewen Li , Yuheng Wu , Philip Leung-Ho Yu , Tingting Song , Zhiyong Wang , Kunzhong Zhou , Weifang Wang , Li Zhuang

Understanding how artificial agents model internal mental states is central to advancing Theory of Mind in AI. Evidence points to a unified system for self- and other-awareness. We explore this self-awareness by having reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Michael Petrowski , Milica Gašić

Large language models are increasingly deployed not as single assistants but as committees whose members deliberate and then vote or synthesize a decision. Such systems are often expected to be more robust than individual models. We show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hajime Shimao , Warut Khern-am-nuai , Sung Joo Kim

Modern web test suites rot. A UI refactor breaks locators, a timing change causes race conditions, and within weeks developers abandon the suite entirely. This paper presents an AI-driven autonomous testing framework that addresses these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Vinil Pasupuleti , Siva Rama Krishna Varma Bayyavarapu , Shrey Tyagi

This paper addresses the critical challenge of mesa-optimization in AI safety by providing a formal definition of agency and a framework for its analysis. Agency is conceptualized as a Continuous Representation of accumulated experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Eduard Kapelko

Machine learning is now ubiquitous in societal decision-making, for example in evaluating job candidates or loan applications, and it is increasingly important to take into account how classified agents will react to the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Dravyansh Sharma , Alec Sun

The pursuit of autonomous agents capable of temporally coherent planning is hindered by a fundamental flaw in current vision-language models (VLMs): they lack cognitive inertia. Operating on isolated snapshots, these models cannot form a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pei Liu , Qingtian Ning , Xinyan Lu , Haipeng Liu , Weiliang Ma , Dangen She , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang , Jun Ma

Objective: This paper introduces a patient simulator for scalable, automated evaluation of healthcare conversational agents, generating realistic, controllable interactions that systematically vary across medical, linguistic, and behavioral…

The purpose of the study presented herein is to develop a machine learning algorithm based on natural language processing that automatically detects whether a patient has a cardiac failure or a healthy condition by using physician notes in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Thanh-Dung Le , Rita Noumeir , Jerome Rambaud , Guillaume Sans , Philippe Jouvet

Background: Oral histories from 9/11 responders to the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks provide rich narratives about distress and resilience. Artificial Intelligence (AI) models promise to detect psychopathology in natural language, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Youngseo Son , Sean A. P. Clouston , Roman Kotov , Johannes C. Eichstaedt , Evelyn J. Bromet , Benjamin J. Luft , H Andrew Schwartz

Automatic diagnosis (AD), a critical application of AI in healthcare, employs machine learning techniques to assist doctors in gathering patient symptom information for precise disease diagnosis. The Transformer-based method utilizes an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Huimin Wang , Wai-Chung Kwan , Kam-Fai Wong , Yefeng Zheng

For severely affected COVID-19 patients, it is crucial to identify high-risk patients and predict survival and need for intensive care (ICU). Most of the proposed models are not well reported making them less reproducible and prone to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Mahbubunnabi Tamala , Mohammad Marufur Rahmanb , Maryam Alhasimc , Mobarak Al Mulhimd , Mohamed Derichee