Hui Ma
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2026
Don’t Box Me In: Dynamic Cultural Adaptation and Cognitive Tracking for Social Understanding
Chongyuan Dai | Yaling Shen | Shengeng Tang | Hui Ma | Jinpeng Hu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Chongyuan Dai | Yaling Shen | Shengeng Tang | Hui Ma | Jinpeng Hu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Social interaction increasingly takes place in multicultural settings, where individuals may draw on multiple cultural influences and adapt their communicative behavior across contexts. Despite recent advances in equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with social understanding capabilities, existing approaches often model culture as a static demographic attribute, limiting their ability to accommodate hybrid and dynamically expressed communicative preferences. Therefore, in this paper, we propose **DyCAC**, a training-free framework that achieves fluid social alignment by incorporating **Dy**namic **C**ultural **A**daptation with continuous **C**ognitive tracking. Rather than inferring a fixed cultural identity, DyCAC models culturally relevant communicative preferences as a time-varying mixture of population-level cultural reference profiles. This reference-based representation is further calibrated using dialogue-style signals observed in the ongoing interaction, enabling the model to capture both composite cultural influences and turn-level shifts in communicative behavior. In parallel, a memory module driven by Theory of Mind (ToM) continuously tracks the cognitive states of the interlocutor. Extensive experiments on interactive social and cultural benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our approach. The proposed framework outperforms existing baselines, exhibiting enhanced social intelligence and broad adaptability across varied multicultural contexts.
WebUncertainty: Dual-Level Uncertainty Driven Planning and Reasoning For Autonomous Web Agent
Lingfeng Zhang | Yongan Sun | Jinpeng Hu | Hui Ma | Ying Yang | Kuien Liu | Zenglin Shi | Meng Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Lingfeng Zhang | Yongan Sun | Jinpeng Hu | Hui Ma | Ying Yang | Kuien Liu | Zenglin Shi | Meng Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have empowered autonomous web agents to execute natural language instructions directly on real-world webpages. However, existing agents often struggle with complex tasks involving dynamic interactions and long-horizon execution due to rigid planning strategies and hallucination-prone reasoning. To address these limitations, we propose WebUncertainty, a novel autonomous agent framework designed to tackle dual-level uncertainty in planning and reasoning. Specifically, we design a Task Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive Planning Mechanism that adaptively selects planning modes to navigate unknown environments. Furthermore, we introduce an Action Uncertainty-Driven Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) Reasoning Mechanism. This mechanism incorporates the Confidence-induced Action Uncertainty (ConActU) strategy to quantify both aleatoric uncertainty (AU) and epistemic uncertainty (EU), thereby optimizing the search process and guiding robust decision-making. Experimental results on the WebArena and WebVoyager benchmarks demonstrate that WebUncertainty achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines.