"When to Hand Off, When to Work Together": Expanding Human-Agent Co-Creative Collaboration through Concurrent Interaction

This paper introduces CLEO, a system enabling real-time collaborative context awareness for human-agent co-creation, and presents a decision model derived from two user studies that clarifies when designers should delegate, direct, or work concurrently with AI agents based on process visibility and interaction patterns.

Kihoon Son, Hyewon Lee, DaEun Choi, Yoonsu Kim, Tae Soo Kim, Yoonjoo Lee, John Joon Young Chung, HyunJoon Jung, Juho Kim2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Rigidity-Aware Geometric Pretraining for Protein Design and Conformational Ensembles

This paper introduces RigidSSL, a rigidity-aware self-supervised learning framework that pretrains on static and dynamic protein structures using a bi-directional flow matching objective to jointly optimize geometric understanding and conformational dynamics, thereby significantly improving protein designability, novelty, and the modeling of realistic conformational ensembles.

Zhanghan Ni, Yanjing Li, Zeju Qiu, Bernhard Schölkopf, Hongyu Guo, Weiyang Liu, Shengchao Liu2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Exploring Human-in-the-Loop Themes in AI Application Development: An Empirical Thematic Analysis

This paper presents a multi-source qualitative study that identifies four key themes—AI Governance and Human Authority, Human-in-the-Loop Iterative Refinement, AI System Lifecycle and Operational Constraints, and Human-AI Team Collaboration and Coordination—to address the fragmented operational guidance for structuring human roles and oversight in AI application development.

Parm Suksakul, Nathan Kittichaikoonkij, Nakhin Polthai, Aung Pyae2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

From Toil to Thought: Designing for Strategic Exploration and Responsible AI in Systematic Literature Reviews

Through an exploratory design study with researchers, this paper identifies key friction points in systematic literature reviews and introduces ARC, a design probe that integrates multi-database search and transparent AI assistance to reduce administrative burden and enable strategic, verifiable scholarly exploration.

Runlong Ye, Naaz Sibia, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Tingting Zhu, Carolina Nobre, Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Michael Liut2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Traversal-as-Policy: Log-Distilled Gated Behavior Trees as Externalized, Verifiable Policies for Safe, Robust, and Efficient Agents

This paper proposes "Traversal-as-Policy," a framework that distills sandboxed execution logs into verifiable Gated Behavior Trees to replace implicit LLM policies with explicit, state-conditioned macro traversals, thereby significantly improving success rates, eliminating safety violations, and reducing computational costs across diverse autonomous agent benchmarks.

Peiran Li, Jiashuo Sun, Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing, Tianfu Fu, Suofei Feng, Chaoqun Ni, Zhengzhong Tu2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Omni-C: Compressing Heterogeneous Modalities into a Single Dense Encoder

The paper introduces Omni-C, a single dense Transformer encoder that compresses heterogeneous modalities (text, audio, and image) into shared representations via unimodal contrastive pretraining, thereby eliminating the parameter overhead and routing complexity of Mixture-of-Expert architectures while achieving comparable performance with significantly reduced memory usage.

Kin Wai Lau, Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman, Lai-Man Po, Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

JAWS: Enhancing Long-term Rollout of Neural Operators via Spatially-Adaptive Jacobian Regularization

The paper introduces JAWS, a probabilistic regularization strategy that dynamically modulates Jacobian constraints based on local physical complexity to resolve the contraction-dissipation dilemma, thereby enabling memory-efficient, short-horizon optimization to achieve superior long-term stability and accuracy in neural operator rollouts for dynamical systems.

Fengxiang Nie, Yasuhiro Suzuki2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Human-Data Interaction, Exploration, and Visualization in the AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper examines how the rapid advancement of AI, particularly with foundation models and unstructured data, introduces new challenges in latency, scalability, and interpretability for human-data interaction, arguing for a paradigm shift that redefines human-machine roles and integrates cognitive and perceptual principles to build more effective, human-centered analytical systems.

Jean-Daniel Fekete, Yifan Hu, Dominik Moritz, Arnab Nandi, Senjuti Basu Roy, Eugene Wu, Nikos Bikakis, George Papastefanatos, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Guoliang Li, Lingyun Yu2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

EigenData: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Platform for Function-Calling Data Synthesis, Auditing, and Repair

The paper introduces EigenData, a self-evolving multi-agent platform that automates the synthesis, auditing, and repair of high-quality function-calling training data, demonstrating its effectiveness by systematically correcting the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard (BFCL-V3) to achieve model rankings that better correlate with human judgments of functional correctness.

Jiaao Chen, Jingyuan Qi, Mingye Gao, Wei-Chen Wang, Hanrui Wang, Di Jin2026-03-09✓ Author reviewed 🤖 cs.AI

Towards Efficient and Stable Ocean State Forecasting: A Continuous-Time Koopman Approach

This paper demonstrates that the Continuous-Time Koopman Autoencoder (CT-KAE) serves as a lightweight, stable, and efficient surrogate model for long-horizon ocean state forecasting, outperforming autoregressive Transformer baselines by maintaining bounded errors and consistent large-scale statistics over 2083-day rollouts while enabling resolution-invariant predictions.

Rares Grozavescu, Pengyu Zhang, Mark Girolami, Etienne Meunier2026-03-09🔬 physics.app-ph