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Shenzhe Zhu · 8 min read

Paper

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.

Humanly Tech Report

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@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://writehumanly.net/research/humanly-tech-report.pdf}
}

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