Microsoft Research

Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve.

Microsoft Research
Aug 3

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Echoverse: Deep, Evolving Environments for Training Computer-Use Agents at Scale

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
Towards Data Science
Aug 4

Using Agents as Tools

Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK The post Using Agents as Tools appeared first on Towards Data Science .

By Shuai Guo
Towards Data Science
Jul 10

The Big Con of Agentic AI

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
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Workflow-GYM: Towards Long-Horizon Evaluation of Computer-use Agentic tasks in Real-World Professional Fields

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 AI
Jun 11

Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application

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