arXiv AI

Finishing the Task Is Not Enough: Evaluating Agent Resilience and Considerate Participation under Accumulating Challenge

The paper argues that deploying generative AI agents requires more than isolated task success; they must remain useful across repeated interactions, changing conditions, and dependencies on people within shared workflows. The authors introduce two complementary evaluation aspects—operational resilience and considerate participation—to assess how agents recover from blocked work, communicate limits, and adapt to affected people and role boundaries. Using 120 simulated healthcare trajectories across two AI models and twelve stakeholder-derived tasks under varying challenge levels, the study finds that agents shift toward greater human dependence and increased workload as challenge accumulates, while also broadening from task-focused adaptation to task reframing and wider coordination.

arXiv AI
Sep 21

DENSE: Distilling Agent Trajectories into Evidence-Grounded Shortcut Trees for Self-Refinement

arXiv:2609.21423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online agent deployments produce abundant execution traces, while task-specific verification and expert annotation are costly to scale. We study how to...

By Siyuan Liu (Fudan University, Meituan Longcat Team), Fan Yu (Fudan University, Meituan Longcat Team), Dongyu Ru (Meituan Longcat Team), Yizhu Liu (Meituan Longcat Team), Yifan Yang (Meituan Longcat Team), Xuezhi Cao (Meituan Longcat Team), Xunliang Cai (Meituan Longcat Team), Yixin Cao (Fudan University)
arXiv AI
Aug 12

ComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI

arXiv:2608. 10915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: After an older adult misses a medication dose, a software agent can send another reminder and an embodied agent can bring the medication.

By Qianggang Ding, Xingyao Wang, Rui Feng, Zhibin Wang, Feixiang Wang, Kelong Mao, Hao Sun, Zhiyao Luo, Jiankai Tang, Lei Li, Jiadong Guo, Minheng Ni, Weicong Lin, Chenxi Yang, Hongxiang Gao, Zhenghua Chen, Yang Bai, Min Wu, Jun Cheng, Huazhu Fu, Dacheng Tao, Bang Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 16

What Coding Agents Leave Unsaid: Measuring Task-State Gaps Between Execution and Reports

The paper introduces CTXGAP, a study measuring how much information coding agents omit from their user-facing reports compared to their full execution logs. Across 37 coding tasks, agents answer 93.6% of task-state questions when asked directly, but report-only readers recover only 52.0% of the same information, revealing a 40.7‑point gap. Even at final checkpoints of verified fixes, the gap remains significant, and detailed terminal scrollback improves recovery only to 73.6%. The study highlights that missing details in reports can leave supervisors unaware of failures, workarounds, and risks that need scrutiny.

By Guoyang Xu, Rui Zhang, Xiuyu Wu, Hao Chen
arXiv AI
2d ago

Using profiles of cognitive capability to assess AI suitability for workplace tasks

The paper proposes a method for assessing AI suitability for workplace tasks by profiling both AI agents and tasks along shared cognitive capability dimensions. It uses benchmark performance to infer agent capabilities and expert input to weight task requirements, allowing independent updates as models and roles evolve. The authors validate the approach on synthetic agents, six AI systems, and 410 employees across six domains, showing that AI systems vary more by cognitive dimension than by model family, while workplace tasks share a common cognitive core.

By Jonathan Prunty, Marko Te\v{s}i\'c, Patrick Quinn, Jos\'e Hern\'andez-Orallo, Lucy Cheke