arXiv Computer Vision

LensDesigner: A Self-Improving Agent for Optical Lens Design

LensDesigner is an autonomous agent framework that emulates expert opticians to tackle the complex, non‑convex problem of optical lens design. It uses a large lens library (LensLib100K) and optics‑aware retrieval to provide valid structural seeds, then iteratively improves through a curriculum agent that learns and reuses design heuristics. The system is evaluated on LensArena, a benchmark of 120 diverse optical tasks, where it outperforms existing baseline algorithms in success rate and optimization efficiency.

arXiv AI
Jul 13

A Self-Evolving Agentic Framework for Metasurface Inverse Design

arXiv:2604. 01480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metasurface inverse design can realize complex optical functionality, but turning a target optical response into executable optimization code still requires substantial expertise in computational electromagnetics and solver-specific software engineering.

By Yi Huang, Bowen Zheng, Yunxi Dong, Hong Tang, Huan Zhao, S. M. Rakibul Hasan Shawon, Hualiang Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 9

Does AI Understand Imaging? A Systematic Benchmark of Agentic AI for Computational Imaging Tasks

arXiv:2607. 07189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) and agentic AI have shown strong performance on semantic visual tasks, but it remains unclear whether they can handle the physics and inverse problems that underlie computational imaging.

By Ethan Chung, Chuanjun Zheng, Jasper Tan, Jingxi Li, Haopeng Zhang, Huaijin Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 25

TO-Agents: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Subjective Preference-Guided Topology Optimization

TO-Agents is a multi‑agent AI framework that translates natural‑language design intent into iterative topology optimization. It converts a human problem description into solver inputs, runs the optimizer, renders 3D topologies, and employs a judge agent to critique and revise results using multiview vision‑language reasoning. Evaluated on a cantilever beam and a phone‑stand design, the system achieved preference‑aligned designs in 60% of trials, outperforming an ablated pipeline by up to six times and enabling end‑to‑end intent‑to‑prototype design with additive manufacturing.

By Isabella A. Stewart, Hongrui Chen, Faez Ahmed
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Running the Gauntlet: Challenging Agentic Tasks

arXiv:2606.14397v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As agentic systems continue to evolve and are widely deployed in real-world scenarios, there is a growing demand to faithfully evaluate their capab...

By Mykola Vysotskyi, Runqi Lin, Grzegorz Biziel, Michal Zakrzewski, Sebastian Montagna, Damian Rynczak, Shreyansh Padarha, Kumail Alhamoud, Zihao Fu, William Lugoloobi, Kai Rawal, Hanna Yershova, Taras Rumezhak, Guohao Li, Fazl Barez, Baoyuan Wu, Arkadiusz Drohomirecki, Yarin Gal, Chris Russell, Christopher Summerfield, Adam Mahdi, Volodymyr Karpiv, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi
arXiv AI
Aug 24

VortexChat: An agentic framework for autonomous multi-objective integrated photonic design

VortexChat is an agentic framework that autonomously performs end-to-end inverse design of integrated photonic devices from natural language specifications. It combines a large language model decision agent with topology generation, gradient-based refinement, and full-wave electromagnetic simulation in a closed-loop architecture, enabling iterative decomposition of design objectives and minimal human intervention. The system successfully generated devices meeting the Vortex100 Benchmark metrics and fabricated a broadband terahertz perfect vortex beam multiplexer that matched simulation predictions.

By Faqian Chong, Yulun Wu, Shilong Li, Andrew Forbes, Hongsheng Chen, Song Han
arXiv AI
Jun 19

ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World

arXiv:2606. 19980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving dexterous robotic manipulation in the real world heavily relies on human supervision and algorithm engineering, which becomes a central bottleneck in the pursuit of general physical intelligence.

By Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang, Haotian Lin, Letian "Max" Fu, Haoru Xue, Jalen Lu, Yi Yang, Cunxi Dai, Zi Wang, Jimmy Wu, Guanzhi Wang, S. Shankar Sastry, Ken Goldberg, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Yuke Zhu, Guanya Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Running the Gauntlet: Re-evaluating the Capabilities of Agents Beyond Familiar Environments

arXiv:2606. 14397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agentic systems continue to evolve and are widely deployed in real-world scenarios, there is a growing demand to faithfully evaluate their capabilities.

By Mykola Vysotskyi, Runqi Lin, Grzegorz Biziel, Michal Zakrzewski, Sebastian Montagna, Damian Rynczak, Shreyansh Padarha, Kumail Alhamoud, Zihao Fu, William Lugoloobi, Kai Rawal, Hanna Yershova, Xander Davies, Taras Rumezhak, Guohao Li, Fazl Barez, Baoyuan Wu, Arkadiusz Drohomirecki, Yarin Gal, Chris Russell, Christopher Summerfield, Adam Mahdi, Volodymyr Karpiv, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi
arXiv AI
Aug 11

REMAC: Self-Reflective and Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2503. 22122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the environment for task decomposition.

By Puzhen Yuan, Angyuan Ma, Yunchao Yao, Huaxiu Yao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding
arXiv AI
Aug 17

MedClaw: Heuristic Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Surgical Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time.

By Yingying Fan, Penghui Du, Leyan Zhu, Runze He, Zimeng Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Liang Chen, Jiahao Xie, Jiangtang Wang, Shuai Shao, Anchao Yang, Yutong Bai, Yan Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 6

PICopilot: An LLM-based Agentic Framework for Assisting Photonic Integrated Circuit Design via Script Generation

arXiv:2608. 01791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid development of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is shifting the design flow from traditional graphical user interface (GUI)-based methods to script-based methods for higher flexibility, portability, and maintainability.

By Xiaohan Jiang, Zeyu Li, Wei Zhang, Jiang Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Towards a universal meta-optics solver via large language models

The paper introduces a unified large language model workflow for modeling and inverse-design of metasurfaces across multiple families. By converting geometries, design parameters, and optical responses into a shared instruction‑following text format, the authors fine‑tune Gemma‑2‑9B on eight distinct metasurface families. Compared to single‑family models, the joint model predicts all families’ optical responses simultaneously and reduces mean‑squared error by an average of 56.5%. "whyItMatters":"The approach demonstrates that a shared sequence‑based LLM interface can streamline cross‑family metasurface design, eliminating the need for separate surrogate architectures for each geometry class."

By Huanshu Zhang, Lei Kang, Yuyan Chen, Luxiang Wang, Zhaolong Cao, Douglas H. Werner