arXiv Machine Learning

Reliability and Effectiveness of Autonomous AI Agents in Supply Chain Management

arXiv AI
Sep 2

HarnessEvolve: Learning from Reference Trajectories for Reliable Agent Self-Evolution

HarnessEvolve is a self‑evolving framework that improves agent harnesses—prompts, skills, tools, and execution logic—by learning from reference trajectories. It separates execution, evaluation, optimization, and gating into independent modules, addressing credit assignment failure, shortcut learning, and catastrophic forgetting. The approach uses reference trajectories to extract error signals, applies quality and performance gates to candidate updates, and validates updates on held‑out data, consistently outperforming state‑of‑the‑art baselines across diverse benchmarks.

By Wen Jiang, Mingmin Chu, Yimeng Tian, Qianxin Zhang, Haofei Yang, Rui Yang, Yang Liu, Tao Lv, Fangming Li
arXiv AI
Jul 7

ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602. 21534v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) has rapidly gained attention as a promising paradigm for training agents to solve complex, multi-step interactive tasks.

By Xiaoxuan Wang, Han Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yidan Shi, Ruoyan Li, Kaiqiao Han, Chenyi Tong, Haoran Deng, Renliang Sun, Alexander Taylor, Yanqiao Zhu, Jason Cong, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Value-Aware Prediction for Robust Multi-Agent Coordination Under Communication Loss

arXiv:2607. 17914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust multi-agent coordination relies heavily on inter-agent communication, which is frequently disrupted by physical and environmental constraints in real-world deployments.

By Kemal Devrim Kafadar, Eren \"Ozaltun, Mahmud Efnan \c{S}anl{\i}, Feyza Orak, Emirhan Gazi, Kubilay Ka\u{g}an K\"om\"urc\"u, Naz{\i}m Kemal \"Ure
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Simulating Cognitive Smart Freight Corridors with Agent-Based Models and Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces an agent‑based modeling framework that integrates a physical infrastructure layer, a V2X connectivity layer, and a decision layer using reinforcement learning and multi‑agent reinforcement learning to simulate smart freight corridors. Three scenarios—Baseline, Assisted, and Cognitive—are evaluated on throughput, congestion, energy, emissions, and robustness, with the Cognitive scenario outperforming the baseline in throughput and congestion, and the Assisted scenario achieving energy savings via platooning. Sensitivity analysis shows that the smart corridor’s throughput advantage grows under high demand and that MARL coordination better utilizes fixed charging capacity than rule‑based methods.

By Madelaine Martinez-Ferguson, Chun Wang, Mustafa Can Camur, Xueping Li
arXiv AI
Oct 16

Learning to Steer LLM Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

The paper introduces a steering agent that supervises large language model (LLM)-based agents and multi‑agent systems during execution to prevent goal drift. By observing the execution context, the steering agent decides when to intervene using either a low‑cost fast path or a high‑cost slow path, and both paths are jointly trained with reinforcement learning. Experiments on information‑seeking search tasks demonstrate that the steering agent improves performance and efficiency for both single‑agent and multi‑agent systems, generalizes to out‑of‑domain tasks, and allows controllable intervention frequency without retraining.

By Leyang Shen, Yaxin Gong, Yang Zhang, Chenxiao Fan, Jiakai Wang, Dong Wang, Yang Liu, Fuli Feng, Chun Kai Ling, Tat-Seng Chua