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arXiv2026

The Policy Deficit in AI x Social-Emotional Learning Research

As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into social-emotional learning (SEL) initiatives, the need for evidence-based policy has become paramount. We systematically reviewed 65 peer-reviewed papers that examine the intersection of AI and SEL to investigate how these studies articulate policy implications. Our analysis revealed a substantial "policy deficit" in the current AI x SEL literature: nearly three-quarters of the studies did not mention policy implications at all. Using the "WH-question" framework (Who, What, Why, When/Where, and How), we map the policy implications narratives present in the literature and show that they often lack the specificity and actor-oriented guidance required for effective evidence-informed policymaking. We find a significant association between publication venue and policy engagement, suggesting that current academic incentive structures may prioritize technical innovation and pedagogical feasibility over explicit engagement with governance and regulation. This study identifies a "techno-solutionist" trap, where technical potential is foregrounded while the institutional conditions for responsible implementation remain under-specified. We conclude by proposing a shift from "implication-as-afterthought" to "implication-as-methodology" and offer a set of actionable guidelines for researchers, editors, reviewers, and policymakers to bridge the gap between AI innovation and educational governance. Rather than presenting policy as a generic ethical horizon, we argue that AI-SEL studies should systematically specify Who should act, What actions are recommended, Why these actions are needed, When and Where they apply, and How strongly they are framed, thereby strengthening the translation of AI x SEL innovation into educational policy and practice.

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arXiv2026

AgentRx: Diagnosing AI Agent Failures from Execution Trajectories

AI agents often fail in ways that are difficult to localize because executions are probabilistic, long-horizon, multi-agent, and mediated by noisy tool outputs. We address this gap by manually annotating failed agent runs and release a novel benchmark of 170 trajectories across 11 diverse task settings, including structured API workflows, incident management, and open-ended web/file tasks. Each trajectory is annotated with a critical failure step and a category from a grounded-theory derived, cross-domain failure taxonomy. To mitigate the human cost of failure attribution, we present AgentRx, an $\textit{automated diagnostic framework}$ that pinpoints the critical failure step in a failed agent trajectory. It synthesizes constraints, evaluates them step-by-step, and produces an auditable validation log of constraint violations with associated evidence; an LLM-based judge uses this log to localize the critical step and category. AgentRx improves step localization by 75% on average over prior work, while providing failure category attribution.

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arXiv2026

The Fake Friend Dilemma: Relational Trust and the Political Economy of Conversational AI

As conversational AI systems become a larger part of the media landscape, they raise questions about whose interests they serve and the risks they may pose to users. These systems do more than provide information: they increasingly offer advice and companionship through interfaces that can appear supportive and socially responsive. A pressing concern is that users may form perceived social relationships with these systems and place relational trust in them, even when the interests shaping interactions do not fully align with their own. The Fake Friend Dilemma (FFD) describes the problem that follows: the same relational trust that makes conversational AI useful can also leave users open to manipulation and exploitation when institutional interests conflict with their own. Drawing on work on relational trust, AI alignment, extractive design, and the political economy of communication, the paper considers how the FFD can manifest through product sales, propaganda and biased information, surveillance, and behavioral nudging. It also considers possible structural and technical mitigation strategies. The FFD is not simply about AI misleading users. The problem it surfaces is that the trust people place in these systems can itself become a resource for institutional actors seeking to influence behavior or extract information. The FFD is therefore as much a problem of media governance and political economy as it is a technological one.

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arXiv2026

Overreliance on AI in Information-seeking from Video Content

The ubiquity of multimedia content is reshaping online information spaces, particularly in social media environments. At the same time, search is being rapidly transformed by generative AI, with large language models (LLMs) routinely deployed as intermediaries between users and multimedia content to retrieve and summarize information. Despite their growing influence, the impact of LLM inaccuracies and potential vulnerabilities on multimedia information-seeking tasks remains largely unexplored. We investigate how generative AI affects accuracy, efficiency, and confidence in information retrieval from videos. We conduct an experiment with around 900 participants on 8,000+ video-based information-seeking tasks, comparing behavior across three conditions: (1) access to videos only, (2) access to videos with LLM-based AI assistance, and (3) access to videos with a deceiving AI assistant designed to provide false answers. We find that AI assistance increases accuracy by 3-7% when participants viewed the relevant video segment, and by 27-35% when they did not. Efficiency increases by 10% for short videos and 25% for longer ones. However, participants tend to over-rely on AI outputs, resulting in accuracy drops of up to 32% when interacting with the deceiving AI. Alarmingly, self-reported confidence in answers remains stable across all three conditions. Our findings expose fundamental safety risks in AI-mediated video information retrieval.

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arXiv2026

Plant-Inspired AI: Plants as Inspiration for Novel Problem Formulations, and Two Case Studies

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been inspired by studies of biological intelligence. Reinforcement learning, for instance, drew inspiration from studies involving animal learning and is now a powerful paradigm for solving many real-world problems. Recently, plant biologists have uncovered a wide range of complex behaviors in plants that enable them to flexibly adapt to variable environments. Here, we argue that such behavior can motivate new AI frameworks encompassing a range of problems overlooked by existing problem-solving frameworks such as supervised learning, tree search, and constraint satisfaction. We illustrate this idea with two examples of intelligent problem-solving in plants: (1) leaf mimicry in Boquila trifoliolata, a vine capable of altering its leaves' morphology to resemble those of multiple host trees simultaneously; and (2) coordinated root-shoot growth, wherein plants allocate resources across organ systems exploring distinct environments. While leaf mimicry is highly specific to Boquila, coordination of root-shoot growth is shared across most plants. For both examples, we capture underlying computational principles and identify problems fitting these frameworks that are currently unaddressed by AI. Finally, we outline preliminary task formulations and discuss how these formulations may be applied to non-plant problems.

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arXiv2026

TCS-BENCH: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Generative AI Theoretical Computer Science Research Ability

We introduce TCS-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on research-level Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) proof generation. TCS-Bench consists of theorem-proving tasks from papers published at top theoretical computer science venues (STOC, FOCS, and SODA). Each task provides the necessary context to derive a self-contained proof for a target result. We evaluate state-of-the-art models on this benchmark. We verify the correctness of generated proofs via a verification agent, and further benchmark the verifier against human-expert proof judgements on a set of target statements and generated proofs pairs. Our reference verifier achieves over 90% accuracy on the expert labeled set.

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arXiv2026

AgenticNet: Utilizing AI Coding Agents To Create Hybrid Network Experiments

Traditional network experiments focus on validation through either simulation or emulation. Each approach has its own advantages and limitations. In this work, we present a new tool for next-generation network experiments created through Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding agents. This tool facilitates hybrid network experimentation through simulation and emulation capabilities. The tool supports three main operation modes: pure simulation, pure emulation, and hybrid mode. AgenticNet provides a more flexible approach to creating experiments for cases that may require a combination of simulation and emulation. In addition, AgenticNet supports rapid development through AI agents. We experimentally evaluate the tool and present an approach to verify the generated code.

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arXiv2026

When Less is More: Understanding When Token Filtering Helps and Fails in AI-generated Text Detection

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has made AI-generated text detection increasingly critical. Existing zero-shot detectors assume that more token-level evidence leads to more reliable detection. However, our empirical study challenges this consensus: fewer tokens sometimes work better, retaining only 40% can yield optimal performance, yet this benefit is not universal. Using the Entropy Gap Score (EGS), we introduce top-$k$ cumulative probability filtering as a diagnostic probe. Across three representative settings, filtering exhibits strikingly different behaviors. We analyze EGS via typical set theory and quantify its dynamics through entropy calibration and distribution analysis. We find that filtering helps for weak source LMs, where low-entropy tokens are harmful, but fails for strong source LMs, where they are not notably harmful. Our work provides the first systematic analysis showing that some tokens are not merely uninformative but systematically harmful due to entropy miscalibration, revealing a two-sided trade-off in token-level detection.

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arXiv2026

TUE-Detector: A Tool-Using Expert MLLM-Based Detector for AI-Generated Videos

AI-generated video detection, which aims to distinguish AI-generated videos from real ones, has recently received increasing research attention. To perform this task reliably, a key challenge lies in accurately identifying subtle-yet-measurable unnatural artifacts. In this work, we address this challenge from a novel perspective of tool-mediated evidence discovery and propose Tool-Using Expert MLLM-based AI-generated Video Detector (TUE-Detector), a novel framework for AI-generated video detection. TUE-Detector trains a general MLLM into a task-tailored tool-using expert detector that learns to invoke suitable tools, collect concrete evidence of unnaturalness, and reason over the evidence for reliable detection. Meanwhile, TUE-Detector further introduces novel designs to equip the expert detector with high-quality and suitable tools. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.

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arXiv2026

Thesis Proposal: Toward a Human-Centered and Perspective-Aware Framework for Reproducible ML Evaluation and AI Alignment

Humans play a vital role at every stage of AI development, from data collection and curation to model development and evaluation. However, humans often disagree with each other and sometimes with themselves over time. It is essential to take disagreement into account when building human-centered AI systems, especially in domains where it is prevalent, such as AI safety, content moderation, or sentiment analysis. Disagreement often arises from subjective human opinion and can vary with one's identity, beliefs, and social environment. Despite this, current LLM evaluation approaches frequently rely on aggregating labels (often via plurality voting) to represent consensus, thereby obscuring minority perspectives. By failing to account for human disagreement, these evaluation methods contribute to the reproducibility crisis in AI. Human feedback is also crucial for ensuring that AI systems align with human values. For these systems to be trustworthy, it is critical to ensure that they reflect diverse human values and perspectives. In this thesis proposal, we present a human-centered and perspective-aware framework for reproducible ML evaluation and AI alignment.

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arXiv2026

FACT: A Forensic Agent with Compiled Tool-Use Trajectories for AI-Generated Image Detection

AI-generated image detection is increasingly open-world: new image generators produce highly realistic images that make visual artifacts harder to identify. Existing detectors usually rely on a fixed set of forensic cues, so a detector that works well for one generator family may fail on another. We introduce FACT (Forensic Agent with Compiled Tool-use Trajectories), which learns an image-conditioned tool-use policy for forensic analysis. Instead of applying a fixed detector, FACT decides which forensic tools to call, interprets the returned evidence, and stops when sufficient evidence has been collected. FACT follows an Evolve--Distill--Refine pipeline: it evolves an execution-verified forensic skill, compiles the skill into action--observation tool-use trajectories, distills them into a compact agent, and refines the policy with cost-aware GRPO. Across two internal and four public benchmarks, FACT achieves the best performance among all compared methods, including on recent unseen generators, deepfakes, and manipulated images.

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arXiv2025

How Real Is AI Tutoring? Comparing Simulated and Human Dialogues in One-on-One Instruction

Heuristic and scaffolded teacher-student dialogues are widely regarded as critical for fostering students' higher-order thinking and deep learning. However, large language models (LLMs) currently face challenges in generating pedagogically rich interactions. This study systematically investigates the structural and behavioral differences between AI-simulated and authentic human tutoring dialogues. We conducted a quantitative comparison using an Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) coding scheme and Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA). The results show that human dialogues are significantly superior to their AI counterparts in utterance length, as well as in questioning (I-Q) and general feedback (F-F) behaviors. More importantly, ENA results reveal a fundamental divergence in interactional patterns: human dialogues are more cognitively guided and diverse, centered around a "question-factual response-feedback" teaching loop that clearly reflects pedagogical guidance and student-driven thinking; in contrast, simulated dialogues exhibit a pattern of structural simplification and behavioral convergence, revolving around an "explanation-simplistic response" loop that is essentially a simple information transfer between the teacher and student. These findings illuminate key limitations in current AI-generated tutoring and provide empirical guidance for designing and evaluating more pedagogically effective generative educational dialogue systems.

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arXiv2026

From High-Dimensional Spaces to Verifiable ODD Coverage for Safety-Critical AI-based Systems

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential for operational performance, its deployment in safety-critical domains such as aviation requires strict adherence to rigorous certification standards. Current EASA guidelines mandate demonstrating complete coverage of the AI/ML constituent's Operational Design Domain (ODD) -- a requirement that demands proof that no critical gaps exist within defined operational boundaries. However, as systems operate within high-dimensional parameter spaces, existing methods struggle to provide the scalability and formal grounding necessary to satisfy the completeness criterion. Currently, no standardized engineering method exists to bridge the gap between abstract ODD definitions and verifiable evidence. This paper addresses this void by proposing a method that integrates parameter discretization, constraint-based filtering, and criticality-based dimension reduction into a structured, multi-step ODD coverage verification process. Grounded in gathered simulation data from prior research on AI-based mid-air collision avoidance research, this work demonstrates a systematic engineering approach to defining and achieving coverage metrics that satisfy EASA's demand for completeness. Ultimately, this method enables the validation of ODD coverage in higher dimensions, advancing a Safety-by-Design approach while complying with EASA's standards.

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arXiv2026

Complexity and Scale in AI-Assisted Workflow Management: A Federated Learning Case Study

Federated learning over medical images is a demanding workflow application. Each round fans out across parallel client jobs and converges on an aggregation step that feeds the next round. At scale this yields 101 sub-workflows and 2,679 jobs on GPUs at four sites, which takes an expert months to build, mostly on workflow mechanics rather than science. We ask how far AI assistance can automate such workflows. An LLM agent, grounded in a released plugin of Pegasus-specific skills, first produces a reviewable specification of checkable constraints and acceptance criteria, then generates the executable workflow. A validation loop repairs runtime failures, checks code against those constraints, and regenerates the implementation from the specification alone. We evaluate three LLM agents, report end-to-end runs on the FABRIC testbed, and show how conformance checking against the specification caught three silent errors that failure-driven debugging missed, including one that trained 1,700 jobs on random tensors.

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arXiv2026

Transfiver: Human-AI Co-Inference through a Shared Editable State

Long-term human-AI interaction is difficult because the information that guides inference is updated implicitly by the model and is not directly inspectable or controllable by the user. We introduce the TRANSparent Framework for Interactive, Verifiable, Editable Representation (Transfiver), an architecture for human-AI co-inference through a shared editable state. Its central idea is that interaction-specific information is maintained in a single persistent state $(S_t)$ that both the model and the human update. Transfiver distinguishes two modes of state evolution. In an implicit stream update, the model interprets ongoing interaction and decides whether new information revises an existing state item or creates a new one. In an explicit directed edit, a human inspects and modifies an addressed item. Both act on the same underlying state, so a human correction changes the state that subsequent computation reads, rather than adding another instruction or separate record. The architecture separates shared parameters $(θ)$, learned before ordinary use, from the persistent state $(S_t)$, which evolves during deployment without parameter retraining. Extending Transfiver to rich natural-language, relational, and large-scale shared states remains open.

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arXiv2026

Unpacking Interaction Profiles and Strategies in Human-AI Collaborative Problem Solving: A Cognitive Distribution and Regulation Perspective

This study adopts an integrated distributed cognition and regulation of learning perspective to examine the collaboration patterns and dynamics of human-AI collaboration when college students collaborating with AI for complex problem-solving. Through cluster analysis, three distinct collaborative problem-solving modes were identified in this study: Delegated Reasoning (DR), Concerted Interpretation (CI), and Delegated Elaboration (DE). This study found that the DR group achieved the highest task performance, significantly outperforming the CI group. Additionally, the semantic similarity between human and AI discourse was notably the highest in the DR group. In contrast, the CI group reported significantly greater use of self-regulation strategies. These findings uncover a critical tension between the efficiency of the distributed system and the depth of human learners regulatory engagement. Insights from this study offer valuable implications for the future design of AI-empowered educational tools and student-AI collaborative learning frameworks.

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arXiv2026

AI-Native Orchestration in the 6G Continuum: Evolving Operator Platforms with Agentic AI

As Sixth-Generation (6G) networks evolve towards a seamless Cloud-Edge-Internet of Things (IoT) continuum, autonomous orchestration across distributed compute and network domains becomes critical. Future 6G services will span multiple administrative and operator domains, making federation essential for ubiquitous, ultra-low-latency service continuity beyond individual footprints. This complexity demands AI-native mechanisms supporting intent-driven automation and closed-loop management. While the GSMA Operator Platform (OP) provides the architectural blueprint for multi-operator federation and network capability exposure, and the ETSI Software Development Group OpenOP (SDG OOP) offers a primary open-source reference implementation, current frameworks are limited by stateless API interactions and lack native intelligence. This paper proposes an Agentic-driven Intelligence extension for the GSMA OP architecture, using the OOP as the reference framework. We introduce an AI-native orchestration layer where autonomous agents manage persistent service contexts and enable closed-loop control via CAMARA APIs. By integrating a Declarative Monitoring and Alerting System (DeMAS) into the OOP stack and establishing a decentralised agent negotiation protocol, the proposed architecture enables real-time, intent-driven resource optimisation and autonomous cross-domain conflict resolution across federated domains. We validate our approach through a representative 6G use case involving Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) coexistence, demonstrating that an agentic OP framework autonomously reconciles stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) while enhancing infrastructure energy efficiency. Our findings establish a scalable blueprint for cross-domain Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) models that align standardised exposure with 6G autonomous requirements.

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arXiv2026

MusGU+: Toward a Musician-Centered Evaluation Framework and Discovery Tool for Generative Music AI

Generative music systems are increasingly presented as tools that democratize music creation, yet their practical suitability for musicians remains underexplored. Prior work includes openness-focused evaluation frameworks, such as MusGO (Music-Generative Open AI), as well as qualitative studies of musicians' experiences with generative systems. However, these approaches do not support systematic comparison or early-stage discovery of models for creative use. Motivated by such limitations, we introduce MusGU+, a musician-centered evaluation framework organized around three dimensions: Adaptability, Usability, and Controllability. Together, these capture whether a model can be feasibly trained or fine-tuned on personal data, integrated into real-world music workflows, and controlled in musically meaningful ways. We evaluate 10 representative generative music systems and present an interactive discovery tool that enables musicians to explore and filter models according to these criteria. While MusGO remains valuable for promoting responsible research practices, MusGU+ supports informed selection and practical adoption of generative systems by musicians.

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