The Social Intelligence Gap: Can AI Understand What’s ‘Normal’?

New research reveals that large language models struggle with everyday reasoning that relies on understanding unwritten social rules and contextual cues.

New research reveals that large language models struggle with everyday reasoning that relies on understanding unwritten social rules and contextual cues.

As conversational AI systems become increasingly complex, ensuring their reliability requires a shift towards systematic and automated quality assurance.

A new framework bridges the gap between natural language and robotic action, allowing robots to perform complex tasks based on spoken instructions.
This tutorial offers a unified approach to integrating reasoning capabilities into information retrieval, moving beyond simple pattern matching to address complex information needs.

New research shows artificial intelligence can generate burger recipes that satisfy human palates while prioritizing sustainability and nutrition.
![The framework synthesizes complex problem-solving capabilities through a three-stage process-skill acquisition from diverse data, agentic supervised fine-tuning mirroring expert reasoning with dynamic skill pruning, and multi-granularity reinforcement learning-guided by a structured reasoning flow [latex]Draft \to Check \to Refine \to Finalize[/latex] and curriculum-based skill distribution to generate challenging problems for downstream solver training.](https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03279v1/x3.png)
Researchers have developed a new method for creating increasingly complex reasoning problems to better train artificial intelligence systems.

New research demonstrates how leveraging human physiological data and off-policy evaluation can significantly improve the performance and usability of reinforcement learning agents in collaborative robotic systems.

A new framework uses intelligent software to automatically build comprehensive databases from scientific papers, accelerating materials science research.

A new benchmark assesses how well autonomous agents can independently arrive at established scientific findings, revealing significant hurdles to automating the full research cycle.

Researchers have developed a model-based control framework to navigate the complexities of high-degree-of-freedom continuum soft robots.