arXiv:2603. 02070v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When automating plan generation for a real-world sequential decision problem, the goal is often not to replace the human planner, but to facilitate an iterative reasoning and elicitation process, where the human's role is to guide the AI planner according to their preferences and expertise.
By Guilhem Fouilh\'e, Rebecca Eifler, Antonin Poch\'e, Sylvie Thi\'ebaux, Nicholas Asher
arXiv:2606. 29225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents handle user requests on behalf of organizations through tool calls and must follow the company policies stated in their system prompts.
By Seongjae Kang, Taehyung Yu, Sung Ju Hwang
The paper introduces control‑data flow separation to improve prompt optimization in multi‑agent large language model systems. By representing execution protocols as typed, validated program objects and keeping task‑relevant content as unstructured language, the method prevents prompt edits from corrupting critical routing, formatting, or termination signals. Experiments on synthetic reasoning, collaborative review generation, and insurance rating workflows show that this approach maintains 100% protocol validity while consistently enhancing task performance.
By Wentao Zhang, Syed Shariyar Murtaza, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti, Utkarsh Soni, Yifan Nie, Eugene Wen, Yuntian Deng
The paper introduces HiPS, a hierarchical strategy co‑evolution framework for memory‑augmented agents that separates memory management into a globally shared foundation and a user‑specific adaptive tier. HiPS uses a Universal Strategy to capture shared principles from cross‑persona trajectories, Persona Delta Distillation to create tailored rules for users deviating from general patterns, and Cross‑Level Rule Flow to dynamically adjust the boundary between global and personal rules. Experiments show that this approach consistently outperforms existing memory‑augmented baselines.
By Yupeng Han, Shuochen Liu, Kai Zhang, Ze Liu, Zhihong Pan, Xianquan Wang
arXiv:2602. 11351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive large language model (LLM) agents aim to actively plan, query, and interact over multiple turns, enabling efficient task completion beyond passive instruction following and making them essential for real-world, user-centric applications.
By Yihang Yao, Zhepeng Cen, Haohong Lin, Shiqi Liu, Zuxin Liu, Jiacheng Zhu, Zhang-Wei Hong, Laixi Shi, Ding Zhao
The paper proposes shifting AI agent training from isolated task completion to collaborative interaction, defining three key dimensions—Productivity, Proactivity, and Personalization (PPP). It introduces UserVille, an environment with LLM-based user simulators and user-centric feedback, and a multi-objective reinforcement learning framework that optimizes PPP using rewards from task outcomes, question effort, and preference adherence. Experiments on SWE-Bench and BrowseComp-Plus show PPP-trained agents outperform strong LLM baselines, ask more targeted questions, and generalize to unseen preferences and tasks, with a user study underscoring the value of user-centric feedback for effective, supervised collaboration.
By Weiwei Sun, Xuhui Zhou, Weihua Du, Xingyao Wang, Sean Welleck, Graham Neubig, Maarten Sap, Yiming Yang
arXiv:2606. 26106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in emotionally charged situations involving interpersonal conflict, frustration, and distress.
By Zhixing Sun, Shenghe Xu, Tao Li
The paper presents a unified framework for proactive service agents, defining proactivity as an agent’s ability to infer service opportunities from incomplete signals and decide whether to remain silent, ask, assist, or act. It models this as a partially observable sequential decision process constrained by authorization and risk, integrating timing, content, and delivery into a single structured action. The authors categorize existing methods along a decision pipeline—state and need estimation, intervention gating, action construction, and feedback adaptation—and propose standardized metrics for evaluating triggering, timing, calibration, user burden, safety, and policy value across diverse interaction modalities.
By Yan Tang, Tingyu Cao, Yuanbo Tang, Huaze Tang, Keer Hu
arXiv:2606. 29495v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLM-based conversational agents advance toward increasingly open-ended and interaction-intensive scenarios, task completion alone provides an incomplete assessment of their effectiveness.
By Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Hao Wang, Han Wang, Mengqi Chen, Jingqi Liu, Yan Liu
arXiv:2607. 02975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective agency in social environments depends on when an agent seeks knowledge, when it acts, and whether its actions are justified by acquired information.
By Dan C. Hsu, Luke Lu
arXiv:2606. 02754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalization is a crucial capability of modern language agents.
By Peixuan Han, Hongyi Du, Jiayu Liu, Yihang Sun, Yutong Liu, Jiaxuan You
arXiv:2605. 22240v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive task-oriented dialogue (TOD), such as outbound sales, demands a persuasive agent that actively probes the user's concerns and steers the conversation toward acceptance within a bounded number of turns.
By Azure Zhang, Ning Gao, Yuqin Dai, Ruiyuan Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Rena Wei Gao, Bingdong Tan, Shuzheng Gao, Zongjie Li, Chaozheng Wang