arXiv AI

MAGE: Human-Like Macro Placement via Agentic Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 18536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Macro placement still requires substantial manual refinement in industrial physical design flows.

arXiv AI
Oct 9

AgentHorizon: Evaluating Agentic Judges for Long-Horizon Computer-Use Tasks

AgentHorizon is a benchmark comprising 1,373 computer‑use tasks with instruction‑trajectory pairs collected from 166 hours of human‑recorded activity across three operating systems. The benchmark uses a paired design that swaps instructions to create negative tasks, testing judges’ ability to distinguish successful trajectories from those that completed a similar but incompatible request. Eleven judges were evaluated, with GPT‑5.5 achieving the highest balanced accuracy of 80.9% on the full trajectory subset, while tool‑use benefits some models but harms others, revealing large variability in judges’ performance.

By Xing Han L\`u, Dheeraj Vattikonda, Sina Hajimiri, Fatemeh Pesaran Zadeh, Parishad BehnamGhader, Ghazwa Darwiche, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Christopher Pal, Alexandre Drouin, Siva Reddy
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Jul 7

ArtisanCAD: An Industrial-Level CAD Agent with Expert-Grounded Knowledge Distillation

Computer-aided design (CAD) for industrial components requires long-horizon procedural modeling, robust feature dependencies, editable parametric geometry, and production-grade B-Rep execution. Existing text-to-CAD methods have made promising progress in generating CAD programs from natural-language descriptions, but they still struggle when user prompts are ambiguous, underspecified, or only describe high-level design intent.

arXiv AI
Jul 8

ArtisanCAD: An Industrial-Level CAD Agent with Expert-Grounded Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2607. 05750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-aided design (CAD) for industrial components requires long-horizon procedural modeling, robust feature dependencies, editable parametric geometry, and production-grade B-Rep execution.

By Yunhan Xu, Qifeng Wu, Xunjin Li, Yuanwei Bin, Qingsong Yao, Jianghang Gu, Guan Wang, Weihao Lv, Huiyu Yang, Wenfa Luo, Jiao Xiang, Yuntian Chen, Shiyi Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Evaluating Skills, Not Just Agents: Agentic Continuous Evaluation of Skills

The paper introduces ACES (Agentic Continuous Evaluation of Skills), a framework that evaluates reusable skills and capability packages by running paired live trials with and without a target skill, normalizing results into the Agent Trajectory Interchange Format (ATIF), and grading six runtime metrics to compute Skill Lift. ACES demonstrates that scan-only gates miss important aspects of skill performance, while the evaluation protocol reveals significant improvements in skill execution, behavior check, and skill efficiency across 145 real skills and 947 scored cases. The open‑source NVIDIA SkillEvaluator implementation enables reproducible, repository‑native assessment of agentic skills in production environments.

By Christopher Kevin, Narendran Raghavan, Jean-Francois Puget, Roshni Malani, Meghana Puvvadi, Moshe Abramovitch, Mohit Gupta, Rama Akkiraju, Subodh Prabhu, Yogesh Dangi, Wei Luo, Seong Hee Lee
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Designer-RSI: Evolving Procedural Memory from User Traffic for Agentic Graphic Design

Designer‑RSI presents a continual adaptation framework that lets a frozen frontier model operate professional design software while an external procedural memory learns natural‑language design skills from user traffic. Over five rounds on 1,406 real briefs and 1,869 graded trajectories, the memory grew from 76 to 139 skills, boosting execution success from 72.7% to 99.3% and improving win rates on four design benchmarks. The study shows that widening and deepening the memory, especially together, significantly outperforms a no‑skill baseline.

By Hongyang Du, Lan Yan, Christian Flores, Asim Kadav
arXiv AI
Jun 17

A Framework for Evaluating Agentic Skills at Scale

arXiv:2606. 17819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills -- structured, reusable knowledge artifacts that augment LLM agent capabilities -- have been rapidly adopted in industry, yet their cross-domain impact and use across commercial and open-source models remain under-studied, and no reusable methodology exists for evaluating an individual skill.

By Maksim Shaposhnikov, Nicolas Fortuin, Simon Stipcich, Maria I. Gorinova, Amy Heineike, Rob Willoughby
arXiv AI
5d ago

Adaptation of Computer Use Agents to New Software with User Manuals

The paper introduces MAGE, a framework that uses user manuals to enhance computer use agents (CUAs) for new software. MAGE retrieves relevant manual content during execution, generates procedural guidance, and adapts the agent policy through interaction. In training, it converts manuals into executable task-plan pairs to guide rollouts, reducing the need for human‑annotated demonstrations and improving task success rates across six applications.

By Chulhoon Yoon, Kyungri Park, Jinyeong Yun, Daeyun Jeong, Sukmin Yun, Woohwan Jung
arXiv AI
Sep 30

MatToolBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents in Real-World Materials Science Workflows

MatToolBench is a new benchmark that evaluates multimodal GUI agents on professional materials science software. It contains 204 tasks across 10 tools in three modalities—GUI operation, OriginPro scripting, and code-based database queries—executed inside a Windows 11 VM. The benchmark offers fine-grained, expert-decomposed scoring and a high-performing multimodal judge for aesthetic assessment, revealing that strong general benchmark performance does not transfer to scientific workflows.

By Mei Wu, Rui Xie, Runyu Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Tianfan Fu, Bo Chen, Kai Yu, Xin Chen, Lu Chen