arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Reinforcement learning (RL) search agents commonly model retrieval as free-form natural-language query generation and optimize multi-turn interactions using final-answer rewards. Current st…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
The performance of LLM-based agents is jointly shaped by their base models and the harnesses that mediate their interaction with the environment. Because different models exhibit distinct b…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Experience-based self-evolution enables language-model agents to improve their behavior by accumulating and updating experience at test time, yet existing evaluations often assume recurring…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large language model (LLM) agents integrated with external tools are vulnerable to indirect prompt injections embedded in environmental states. However, existing studies largely rely on man…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has proven effective at giving LLMs access to external knowledge, mainstream dense-retrieval implementations remain inherently limited in handling…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Turning a research idea into a complete paper requires more than text generation: the system must retrieve literature, design and execute experiments, revise claims according to evidence, p…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Long-running conversational agents increasingly rely on a memory system to avoid resending the whole conversation each turn, yet how much that costs to serve has received little systematic…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Self-correction is particularly useful when a failure constrains the next repair. Coding agents benefit from this property because compilers, tests, and execution traces turn many failures…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large Language Model-powered agents are increasingly used in the workplace via human-artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration. In this new era of work, it is important to understand the k…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Embodied agents are increasingly built as systems around foundation models, where performance depends not only on model weights but also on the skills, context, action interfaces, and execu…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Harness plays a critical role in large language model agent performance, and building a high-performing harness requires substantial expert effort. Therefore, recent research has increasing…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Most repository-level code translation and validation techniques have been evaluated on a single source-target programming language (PL) pair, owing to the complex engineering effort requir…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) provides a promising solution for cooperative target tracking in networks of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). However, existing methods still…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Bayesian optimization (BO) has become the standard tool for sample-efficient optimization and owes its efficiency to uncertainty-aware search driven by generic statistical priors. Richer do…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Many sequential decision problems offer qualitatively different ways of influencing the environment: some interventions act immediately, whereas others induce persistent effects that contin…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Recently, the practice of augmenting LLM agent capability with skills has gained prevalence. We explore the cost effective adaptation of agents to novel domains by means of learning skills.…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
A growing class of methods probes a language model by feeding it its own output: self-consistency, iterated refinement, agentic loops. We ask what such a probe measures, in a construction c…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
In this work, we extend the Dependent Click Model (DCM) Bandits to a multiplayer information-asymmetric setting, where multiple agents interact with a shared ranked list and may observe mul…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Despite the wide deployment of memory in large-model agents, there is no unified formal account of what a memory is or when it is optimal. This paper takes a first step toward this account.…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers considerable promise for optimizing ICU treatment decisions, yet standard evaluation metrics Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Fitted Q-Evaluation (FQE…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Evolutionary optimization of LLM prompts and agentic programs (e.g., GEPA) is dominated by fitness evaluation: scoring each candidate runs an answering LLM over a validation set, so the eva…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Two instruments of EU digital law place inference at their centre and mean different things by it. Article 3(1) of the AI Act uses the capability to infer constitutively: it is the central…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software systems preserve continuity through persistent sessions, memo…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large language models (LLMs) have made substantial progress on reasoning tasks that require increasingly long and complex inferential chains. This progress primarily reflects reasoning dept…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Natural language user preferences provide an interpretable interface for LLM personalization. However, universal preference summaries often contain information irrelevant to a particular do…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Autonomous AI agents increasingly execute actions, invoke tools, and operate on protected resources with limited human oversight. Existing authentication and authorization mechanisms establ…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
While modern question answering (QA) systems excel on clean, schema-aligned corpora, real-world knowledge is rarely so neatly packaged. Answering questions over enterprise and scientific da…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Predicting a material's properties from its structure is a central, fast-advancing problem in computational materials science. A decade of work has produced standard public benchmarks and m…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Rubric-based reinforcement learning (RL) uses an LLM-as-a-Judge (LaaJ) to score model outputs according to rubrics as rewards. However, policy models may exploit latent biases in the judge,…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Agent-memory frameworks -- mem0, Letta/MemGPT, Cognee, Zep/Graphiti, MemoryOS, MemTensor -- each ship their own SDK, storage layout, and operational vocabulary. There is no shared wire form…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks introduced by pre-training with behavioral cloning (BC), which produces narrow action…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform autonomous penetration-testing sub-tasks such as Linux privilege escalation, but raise security, privacy, and sovereignty concerns. Loca…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large language model (LLM) agents for sequential decision-making struggle to produce diverse outputs. This leads to insufficient exploration, suboptimal solutions, and repeated actions. Act…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
System Instructions in Large Language Models (LLMs) are commonly used to enforce safety policies, define agent behavior, and protect sensitive operational context in agentic AI applications…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
We introduce a new agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform for portfolio management. Our architecture consists of three layers. First, two large language model (LLM) agents are assign…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Existing prompt-optimization techniques rely on local signals, causing poor generalization across tasks. In addition, they also rely on weak update mechanisms, such as full-prompt rewrites…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into web browsers introduces security challenges that go beyond traditional web application threat models. Prior work has identified p…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance on everyday coding tasks, but they can fail on complex tasks that require non-trivial reasoning about program semantics. Finding…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
After an older adult misses a medication dose, a software agent can send another reminder and an embodied agent can bring the medication. Yet neither explains whether the person forgot, is…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Intelligence is commonly understood as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge, adapt to unfamiliar situations and solve new problems. Large language models exhibit this capacity by infe…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
The growing ability of large language models and vision-language models to jointly interpret and reason over images and text is reshaping medical imaging AI, moving it from task-specific pr…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Slide design requires personalizing both deck themes and page layouts. Yet, current AI agent-based methods struggle with fine-grained, page-level design. Solely relying on prespecified temp…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Rare disease diagnosis depends on expert reasoning that is scarce and difficult to transfer; off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) rank the correct disease first in only 35.4% of bench…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
This paper describes an approach to hallucination detection and mitigation using a HOPE-inspired Nested Learning architecture with Continuum Memory Systems (CMS) and semantic similarity cac…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in orchestrating tools for reasoning tasks. However, existing methods rely on a step-wise paradigm that lacks a global…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Agentic AI systems are becoming commonplace in domains that require long-lived, stateful decision-making in continuously evolving conditions. As such, correctness depends not only on the ou…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Large language model (LLM) agents can execute long-horizon scientific workflows, but their numerical outputs are difficult to trust: agents lose context, game verification checks, and can p…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Agriculture is undergoing a major transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and knowledge representation technologies. However, current agricultural intellige…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
The large language model (LLM) has achieved significant success across various domains. However, the inherent complexity of causal problems and causal theory poses challenges in accurately…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Aerial vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to integrate visual evidence over time, plan future actions, and determine when it has reached a navigation goal under par…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenge…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
LLM agents increasingly rely on third-party skills, using natural-language descriptions for selection and instruction bodies for planning. This progressive-disclosure design exposes two seq…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been growing the capability for scientific writing and collaboration. For example, OpenAI Prism is a free workspace for scientific writing and…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for human-AI interaction typically relies on a single large language model to simulate user behavior. We show that this approach systematically fails to g…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Evaluating security vulnerability detection tools requires benchmark datasets with vulnerability-inducing commits (VICs) - the commits that first introduce vulnerabilities into codebases. V…
arXiv · Computation and Language · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
As LLM-based agents with user-instructed goals are becoming widely deployed, they increasingly encounter each other in strategic interactions, and face challenges of finding mutually benefi…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
LLM-agent services repeatedly execute small deterministic transitions between model and tool calls: route an outcome, update state, and emit the next effect. We ask when this control path e…
arXiv · Artificial Intelligence · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
The increasing deployment of autonomous, agentic AI systems challenges traditional accountability mechanisms. Existing research predominantly frames AI accountability gaps as barriers that…
arXiv · Machine Learning · 13 Aug 2026 · paper
Learning world models from offline trajectories enables agents to accomplish different tasks through planning. Object-centric (OC) representations, which decompose a scene into a set of slo…