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Humanly: A Configurable and Traceable Environment for Human-AI Collaborative Writing
Shenzhe Zhu*, Haoqian Zhang*, Xu Yang*, Jingyu Tang, Yi Nian,Xiaoxue Du, Shu Yang, Alex Pentland, Joachim Baumann, Jiaxin Pei†
* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author.
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Cite
@misc{zhu2026humanly,
title = {Humanly: A Configurable and Traceable Environment
for Human-AI Collaborative Writing},
author = {Zhu, Shenzhe and Zhang, Haoqian and Yang, Xu and
Tang, Jingyu and Nian, Yi and Du, Xiaoxue and
Yang, Shu and Pentland, Alex and Baumann, Joachim
and Pei, Jiaxin},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21758}
}Interested in collaborating?
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