Interactive Task Alignment as a POMDP

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Researchers have formalized the 'clueless user' problem as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), where models must treat intent as a hidden variable to be uncovered. By treating task alignment as an interactive information-gathering game, models can proactively clarify ambiguous goals in shopping or coding rather than just guessing. This marks a shift from simple instruction following to active latent intent inference.