arxivcs.AI2026-07-17
Interactive Task Alignment as a POMDP
Andy Dai, Zexue He, Zhenyu Zhang, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei
Current benchmarks for language models primarily evaluate execution on fully specified tasks. However, real user tasks are often ambiguous. Users arrive with incomplete, exploratory, or even inconsistent goals, requiring the assistant to first determine the intended task before c…