{
  "id": 5168,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27699v1",
  "title": "Bridging Values and Behavior: A Hierarchical Framework for Proactive Embodied Agents",
  "summary": "Current embodied agents are often limited to passive instruction-following or reactive need-satisfaction, lacking a stable, high-order value framework essential for long-term, self-directed behavior and resolving motivational conflicts. We introduce \\textit{ValuePlanner}, a hierarchical cognitive architecture that decouples high-level value scheduling from low-level action execution. \\textit{ValuePlanner} employs an LLM-based cognitive module to generate symbolic subgoals by reasoning through ab",
  "authors": "Chunhui Zhang, Yuxuan Wang, Aoyang Qin, Yi-Long Lu, Kunlun Wu, Yizhou Wang et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-30T10:43:55.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:35.572Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5168",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27699v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}