The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) is dedicated to the rapid dissemination of important research results to the global artificial intelligence (AI) community. The journal’s scope encompasses all areas of AI, including agents and multi-agent systems, automated reasoning, constraint processing and search, knowledge representation, machine learning, natural language, planning and scheduling, robotics and vision, and uncertainty in AI.

Vol. 85 (2026)

Published: 2026-01-27

A Comprehensive Survey of Agents for Computer Use: Foundations, Challenges, and Future Directions

Pascal J. Sager, Benjamin Meyer, Peng Yan, Rebekka von Wartburg-Kottler, Layan Etaiwi, Aref Enayati, Gabriel Nobel, Ahmed Abdulkadir, Benjamin F. Grewe, Thilo Stadelmann

Understanding AI Trustworthiness: A Scoping Review of AIES & FAccT Articles

Siddharth Mehrotra, Jin Huang, Xuelong Fu, Roel Dobbe, Clara I. Sánchez, Maarten de Rijke

Scalable Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning with Fairness Guarantees using Lorenz Dominance

Dimitris Michailidis, Willem Röpke, Diederik M. Roijers, Sennay Ghebreab, Fernando P. Santos

Generalised Merge and Shrink Abstractions for Temporal Planning

Martim Brandao, Amanda Coles, Andrew Coles, Rebecca Eifler

Understanding the Process of Human-AI Value Alignment

Jack McKinlay, Marina De Vos, Janina A. Hoffmann, Andreas Theodorou

A Review of Pseudo-Labeling for Computer Vision

Patrick Kage, Jay C. Rothenberger, Pavlos Andreadis, Dimitrios I. Diochnos

Average Reward Reinforcement Learning for Omega-Regular and Mean-Payoff Objectives

Milad Kazemi, Mateo Perez, Fabio Somenzi, Sadegh Soudjani, Ashutosh Trivedi, Alvaro Velasquez

Label-Aware Pseudo-Training Sample Generation for Text Classification

Arash Yousefi Jordehi, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Owen Rambow

Procedural Fairness in Machine Learning

Ziming Wang, Changwu Huang, Ke Tang, Xin Yao

General Supervised Learning Framework for Open World Classification

Sai Krishna Theja Bhavaraju, Mohammad Amin Basiri, Charles Nicholson

ℵ-IPOMDP: Mitigating Deception in a Cognitive Hierarchy with Off-Policy Counterfactual Anomaly Detection

Nitay Alon, Joseph M. Barnby , Stefan Sarkadi , Lion Schulz, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Peter Dayan

Qiana: A First-Order Formalism to Quantify over Contexts and Formulas with Temporality

Simon Coumes, Pierre-Henri Paris, François Schwarzentruber, Fabian Suchanek

Score Function Gradient Estimation to Widen the Applicability of Decision-Focused Learning

Mattia Silvestri, Senne Berden, Gaetano Signorelli, Ali İrfan Mahmutoğulları, Jayanta Mandi, Brandon Amos, Tias Guns, Michele Lombardi

Abductive Reasoning in Expansions of Belnap-Dunn Logic

Meghyn Bienvenu, Katsumi Inoue, Daniil Kozhemiachenko

Quantifying Query Fairness Under Unawareness

Thomas Jaenich, Alejandro Moreo, Alessandro Fabris , Graham McDonald, Andrea Esuli, Iadh Ounis, Fabrizio Sebastiani

Satsuma: Structure-Based Symmetry Breaking in SAT

Markus Anders, Sofia Brenner, Gaurav Rattan

Asymptotically Fair and Truthful Allocation of Public Goods

Pouya Kananian, Arnesh Sujanani, Seyed Majid Zahedi

Scaling Neuro-symbolic Problem Solving: Solver-Free Learning of Constraints and Objectives

Marianne Defresne, Romain Gambardella, Sophie Barbe, Thomas Schiex

Nearly Equitable Allocations Beyond Additivity and Monotonicity

Siddharth Barman, Umang Bhaskar, Yeshwant Pandit, Soumyajit Pyne

Backward Monte Carlo Tree Search: Charting Unsafe Regions in the Belief-Space

Anil Yildiz, Esen Yel, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Kyle Wray, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Stefan J. Witwicki
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