Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure.
By Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao
Computer-use agents learn from what their actions change, so training one needs applications it can act on, break and reset. The applications that matter most are login-gated and stateful, so synthetic environments stand in for them.
arXiv:2607. 28074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents learn from what their actions change, so training one needs applications it can act on, break and reset.
By Yash Pandya, Sahil Gupta, Sarthak Harne, Archana Yadav, Kavyansh Chourasia, Hussein Mozannar, Vibhav Vineet, Sara Abdali, Corby Rosset, Yash Lara, Ahmed Awadallah, Ece Kamar, Akshay Nambi
Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK The post Using Agents as Tools appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Shuai Guo
arXiv:2608. 10224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise support agents operate in rapidly changing environments where policies, product capabilities, and knowledge bases evolve continuously, making static assistants brittle and costly to maintain.
By Chih Hui Wang, Mengdie Tu, Qianyun Zhang, Wei Wu, Lili Zhou, Mingqi Shen, Changshuai Wei
arXiv:2603. 20667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing prompt-optimization techniques rely on local signals, causing poor generalization across tasks.
By Balaji Dinesh Gangireddi, Aniketh Garikaparthi, Manasi Patwardhan, Arman Cohan
What our over-dependence on external consulting teaches us about delegating our minds to machines The post The Big Con of Agentic AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Chinmay Kakatkar
Abacus. AI and the case for unified AI workflows The post How to Navigate the Shift from Prompt-Based Tools to Workflow-Driven AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Manu R.
arXiv:2606. 11042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rapid evolution of AI agents toward handling increasingly complex, real-world tasks.
By Liya Zhu, Jingzhe Ding, Jian Zhang, Jianbo Xue, Shihao Liang, Ge Zhang, Xiang Gao, Qingshui Gu, Mailun Gao, Huimin Che, Yan Zhao, Peiheng Zhou, Haojun Wang, Chaobo Xian, Lili Le, Chi Wu, Yiwei Liu, Shengda Long, Jiale Yang, Fangzhi Xu, Sijin Wu, Haodong Duan, Yi Zhu, Chao He, Zhaojian Li, Minchao Wang, Huan Zhou, Jiani Hou, Chuqian Yu, Weiran Shi, Hongwan Gao, Jiamin Chen, Guanhong Chen, Tingqin Luo, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zhixin Yao, Qing Hua, Yuhao Jiang, Jin Chen, Pu Chen, Zhenyu Hu, Xingyu Li, Zhengxuan Jiang, Meng Cao, Tianfeng Long, Haozhe Wang, Mingzhang Wang, Yichen Zhang, Yiming Dai, Chenchen Zhang, Jiaying Wang, Zhiyong Wu, Shen Yan, Yujia Qin, Wenhao Huang, Zaiyuan Wang, Xiaolong Chang
arXiv:2608. 04968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capabilities of an LLM agent depend not only on its model but on the harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifies results, and recovers from failure.
By Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Qianshu Cai, Yiu-ming Cheung, Xinmei Tian, Bo Han
arXiv:2606. 12191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Environments serve as interactive systems for large language model (LLM) based agents across diverse scenarios and play a crucial role in driving the continual evolution of model capabilities.
By Jiachun Li, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men, Yupu Hao, Kejian Zhu, Lingshuai Wang, Dongqi Huang, Longxiang Wang, Shengjia Hua, Lu Wang, Jinshan Gao, Hongbang Yuan, Ruilin Xu, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao