Plans Work in Mysterious Ways: Evaluating A Plan Mode for Spreadsheet Agents (VL/HCC 2026 - Research Papers)

Tue 29 September - Fri 2 October 2026 Paderborn, Germany

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Aayush Kumar, Avik Dutta, Sumit Gulwani, Gustavo Soares, Advait Sarkar, Emerson Murphy-Hill

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VL/HCC 2026 Research Papers

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Wed 30 Sep 2026 11:30 - 12:00 at A.00.12 - Visual Programming Chair(s): April Wang

Aayush Kumar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

India

Avik Dutta

Microsoft, Bangalore, India

India

Sumit Gulwani

Microsoft

United States

Gustavo Soares

Microsoft

United States

Advait Sarkar

Microsoft Research, University of Cambridge, University College London

United Kingdom

Emerson Murphy-Hill

Microsoft

United States

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11:00 - 12:30	Visual ProgrammingResearch Papers at A.00.12 Chair(s): April Wang ETH Zürich

11:00 15m Talk		User Engagement With Intermediate Representations in LLM-Assisted Audio ProgrammingShort Paper Research Papers Chris Hyorok Lee Columbia University, Miles Scharff Barnard College, Katie Wang Barnard College, Mark Santolucito Barnard College, Columbia University, USA
11:15 15m Talk		Retrofitting Text Editors with Ragged BlocksShort Paper Research Papers Sam Cohen University of Chicago, Jackson Slipock University of Chicago, Ravi Chugh University of Chicago
11:30 30m Talk		Plans Work in Mysterious Ways: Evaluating A Plan Mode for Spreadsheet AgentsFull Paper Research Papers Aayush Kumar Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Avik Dutta Microsoft, Bangalore, India, Sumit Gulwani Microsoft, Gustavo Soares Microsoft, Advait Sarkar Microsoft Research, University of Cambridge, University College London, Emerson Murphy-Hill Microsoft
12:00 30m Talk		Exploring AI Assistance in Visual Dataflow ProgrammingFull Paper Research Papers Daniel Manesh Virginia Tech, Rodric Rabbah Postman, Rebecca Krosnick Postman, Inc.