ICLR 2026 Past Math & reasoningNeuroscience

ICLR 2026 Workshop - From Human Cognition to AI Reasoning: Models, Methods, and Applications

HCAIR 2026

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Accepted papers (46)

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  1. A Cognitive Lens on Selective Memory in Neural Sequence Models: Surprise, Replay, and Consolidation

    SoHyung Kim, Jea Kwon · PDF
  2. A Cortically Inspired Architecture for Modular Perceptual AI

    Prerna Luthra · PDF
  3. A Framework for Aligning Human Linguistics and AI Perception

    Joseph Charles Bingham · PDF
  4. A Human-inspired Framework for Continuous Spacial Reasoning with Tangram Puzzles

    Yikun Zong, Cheston Tan · PDF
  5. Affective Multimodal Agents with Proactive Knowledge Grounding for Aligned Marketing Dialogue

    Ernie Tian, Xiaofei Han, Yifei Kang, Xuanjing Chen · PDF
  6. Alignment has a Fantasia Problem

    Nathanael Jo, Zoe De Simone, Mitchell L Gordon, Ashia C. Wilson · PDF
  7. Amodal Completion of Occluded Objects in Deep Neural Networks: A Psychophysical Investigation

    Arnav Shakya, Vaibhav Tripathi · PDF
  8. Cognitive Foundations for Reasoning and Their Manifestation in LLMs

    Priyanka Kargupta, Shuyue Stella Li, Haocheng Wang, Dean Light, Jinu Lee, Shan Chen, Orevaoghene Ahia, Kerem Oktar, Thomas L. Griffiths, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jiawei Han, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yulia Tsvetkov · PDF
  9. Cognitive Models as Evaluation Primitives in Humanoid Factors

    Xinyuan Liu, Eren Sadikoglu, Ransalu Senanayake, Lixiao Huang · PDF
  10. CoTZero: Annotation-Free Human-Like Vision Reasoning via Hierarchical Synthetic CoT

    Chengyi Du, Yazhe Niu, Dazhong Shen, Luxin Xu · PDF
  11. Decomposing ARC Programs to Create Simpler Tasks

    Matthew Simpson, Soumya Banerjee · PDF
  12. Democratic ICAI: Debating Our Way to Steering Principles from Preferences

    Kevin Kingslin, Anish Natekar, Ashutosh Ranjan, Vivek Srivastava, Savita Bhat, Shirish Karande · PDF
  13. Detection of Adversarial Intent in Human-AI Teams Using LLMs

    Abed K. Musaffar, Ambuj Singh, Francesco Bullo · PDF
  14. Directional Confusions Reveal Inductive Bias Through Rate–Distortion Geometry

    Leyla Roksan Caglar, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Baihan Lin · PDF
  15. Discovering Differences in Strategic Behavior between Humans and LLMs

    Caroline Wang, Daniel Kasenberg, Kim Stachenfeld, Pablo Samuel Castro · PDF
  16. Do Large Language Models Mentalize When They Teach?

    Sevan K Harootonian, Mark K Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths, Yael Niv, Ilia Sucholutsky · PDF
  17. Do LLMs Share Human-Like Biases? Causal Reasoning Under Prior Knowledge, Irrelevant Context, and Varying Compute Budgets

    Hanna Dettki, Charley M Wu, Bob Rehder · PDF
  18. Evidence of a Cognitive Shift in AI Education: How Students Are Rethinking Human Intelligence?

    Islem Rekik · PDF
  19. Failing to Falsify: Evaluating and Mitigating Confirmation Bias in Language Models

    Ayush Rajesh Jhaveri, Anthony GX-Chen, Ilia Sucholutsky, Eunsol Choi · PDF
  20. From Examples to Solutions: A Cognitive Framework for LLM Code Generation

    Shashwat Saxena, Shreyas Kowshik, Vikhyath Kothamasu · PDF
  21. From Human Intuition to Causal Graphs: A DOLCE-Based Human-Ensembled Neuro-Symbolic Architecture

    Manojshyaam C J · PDF
  22. From Interaction to Abstraction: Using Behavior and Brain Activity to Evaluate How AI Systems Learn Games

    Botos Csaba, Sreejan Kumar, Austin Tudor David Andrews, Rui Ponte Costa, Marcelo G Mattar, Momchil Tomov · PDF
  23. Gemma Needs Therapy: Investigating and Mitigating Emotional Instability in LLMs

    Anna Soligo, Vladimir Mikulik, William Saunders · PDF
  24. Hidden Meanings in Plain Sight: RebusBench for Evaluating Cognitive Visual Reasoning

    Seyed Amir Kasaei, Arash Marioriyad, Mahbod Khaleti, MohammadAmin Fazli, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah, Mohammad Hossein Rohban · PDF
  25. Human-Guided Causal Hypothesis Testing for Remote Sensing Anomaly Detection

    Kaustubha V · PDF
  26. Intelligent Robot Manipulation Requires Self-Directed Learning

    Li Chen, Chonghao Sima, Kashyap Chitta, Antonio Loquercio, Ping Luo, Yi Ma, Hongyang Li · PDF
  27. Know the Patient, Not Just the Disease: Modeling Human Mental States Through Graph-Based Relational Reasoning

    Ratna Kandala, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Niva Manchanda · PDF
  28. Large Language Models Show Signs of Alignment with Human Neurocognition During Abstract Reasoning

    Christopher Pinier, Sonia Acuna Vargas, Mariia Steeghs-Turchina, Dora Matzke, Claire E Stevenson, Michael Nunez · PDF
  29. Learning Transferable Latent User Preferences for Human-Aligned Decision Making

    Alina Hyk, Sandhya Saisubramanian · PDF
  30. Math Takes Two: A test for emergent mathematical reasoning in communication

    Samuel Cooper, Michael Harry Cooper · PDF
  31. Me, Myself, and $\pi$: Evaluating and Explaining LLM Introspection

    Atharv Naphade, Samarth Bhargav, Sean Lim, McNair Shah · PDF
  32. Mechanisms of Introspective Awareness

    Uzay Macar, Li Yang, Atticus Wang, Peter Wallich, Emmanuel Ameisen, Jack Lindsey · PDF
  33. MIND:MULTI-AGENT INFERENCE FOR NEGOTIATION DIALOGUE IN TRAVEL PLANNING

    HUNMIN DO, Taejun Yoon, Ki Yong Jung · PDF
  34. MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

    Shunchi Zhang, Jin Lu, Chuanyang Jin, Yichao Zhou, Zhining Zhang, Tianmin Shu · PDF
  35. MIRROR: Converging Cognitive Principles as Computational Mechanisms for AI Reasoning

    Nicole Hsing · PDF
  36. Multi-shot AutoInterp: Agents Can Explain Complex Features By Refining Explanations

    Kamal Maher, Simon Elias Schrader, Kola Ayonrinde · PDF
  37. Representing expertise accelerates learning from pedagogical interaction data

    Dhara Yu, Karthikeya Kaushik, Bill D Thompson · PDF
  38. TESTING BEHAVIORAL THEORIES OF MOTIVATION IN ATARI AGENTS

    Maria Gabriela Valeriano, Esther Luna Colombini · PDF
  39. The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind

    Andrei Lupu, Timon Willi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster · PDF
  40. The Era of Real-World Human Interaction: RL from User Conversations

    Chuanyang Jin, Jing Xu, Bo Liu, Leitian Tao, Olga Golovneva, Tianmin Shu, Wenting Zhao, Xian Li, Jason E Weston · PDF
  41. Toward a Reasoning Curriculum for Brain-Trained Foundation Models

    Maël Donoso · PDF
  42. Training Emergent Joint Associations: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Creative Thinking in Language Models

    Mukul Singh, Ananya Singha, Aishni Parab, Mansi Uniyal, Pronita Mehrotra, Sumit Gulwani · PDF
  43. Understanding the Anchoring Effect of LLM with Synthetic Data: Existence, Mechanism, and Potential Mitigations

    Yiming Huang, Biquan Bie, Zuqiu NA, Weilin Ruan, Songxin Lei, Yutao Yue, Xinlei He · PDF
  44. When AI Agents Disagree Like Humans: Reasoning Trace Analysis for Human-AI Collaborative Moderation

    Michał Wawer, Jaroslaw A. Chudziak · PDF
  45. WHO PREFERS STRUCTURED REASONING? AI JUDGES DO, DOMAIN EXPERTS SPLIT

    Jordan Rubin · PDF
  46. Wild Guesses and Mild Guesses in Active Concept Learning

    Anirudh Chari, Neil Pattanaik · PDF