arXiv:2607. 03177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) for recovery in autonomous systems lacks causal understanding and generalizes poorly to novel failure scenarios.
By Safia Fatima, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Leon Moonen
arXiv:2608. 11977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents are commonly trained and evaluated in environments where tool calls succeed reliably, yet deployed tools can fail transiently, persistently, or silently.
By Chaoran Chen, Vy Nguyen, Ziji Zhang, Abhinav Gullapalli, Ziyi Wang, Yuxuan Lu, Dakuo Wang, Jing Huang, Zhou Yu, Jin Lai
arXiv:2609.18304v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly tackle long-horizon tasks through multi-step environment interaction, yet a single erroneous action can...
By Yi Yu, Liuyi Yao, Yaliang Li, Enshu Wang, Libing Wu
arXiv:2608. 14380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world tasks require LLM agents to interact with their environments over long execution horizons.
By Yu Zhuang, Kefei Chen, Yitong Duan, Shuxin Zheng, Jian Li, Xu-Yao Zhang
Large language model agents depend on external harnesses to exchange information with their environment and to recover from execution errors, but recovery is typically evaluated only by overall task success, masking a key trade‑off. The authors treat recovery as a causal decision problem, comparing outcomes with and without recovery from the same execution state to separate rescue from harm and analyze how its value evolves over time. They propose the Causal Intervention Router (CIR), a lightweight policy that uses pre‑recovery information to decide when intervention is beneficial, achieving a 3‑point increase in success on long‑horizon ALFWorld tasks with Qwen3‑14B while preserving correct observations and demonstrating that recovery’s benefit is not solely due to new observations.
By Shuyao Xiao, Shengling Wang, Xuan Chen, Ke Chao, Ming Cui, Feifei Qian, Chaoyang Mei, Fanlin Meng, Ziming Yu, Junxi Yin
arXiv:2608. 05080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critic-free group-based reinforcement learning has become a scalable approach for post-training large language models.
By Zheyuan Zhang, Manqing Mao, Hong Wang, Zhuoer Wang, Samson Koelle, Jie Yuan, Yanjun Lin, James Feng, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Yanfang Ye, Wei Niu
arXiv:2607. 20005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern IT operations (IT-Ops), the cost of an incorrect repair often exceeds the cost of no action at all.
By Chengxiao Dai, Zhaokun Yan, Chenjun Lei, Qiao Li, Luyan Zhang
arXiv:2606. 28939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior-cloned diffusion policies are expressive but remain vulnerable to covariate shift: small deviations from demonstrated states can compound into task failure.
By Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Srinivas Shakkottai, Dileep Kalathil, P. R. Kumar
arXiv:2607. 01111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments.
By Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Jeff Schneider
arXiv:2606. 04970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We envision a proactive multi-modal assistant system which gives users real-time step-by-step guidance on a procedural task, autonomously deciding \textit{when} to interrupt, and \textit{how} to coach.
By Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap, Nanshu Wang, Xianhui Zhu, Quintin Fettes, Gautam Tiwari, Parth Suresh, Th\'eo Moutakanni, Alejandro Castillejo Munoz, Allen Bolourchi, Pascale Fung, Pinar Donmez, Babak Damavandi, Anuj Kumar, Seungwhan Moon
arXiv:2609.13672v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents can be interrupted while editing files, calling tools, or carrying out multi-step tasks. Restarting repeats completed work, but continuing fr...
By Zhihui Zhang, Wei Liu
arXiv:2607. 09866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online reinforcement learning is promising for generalizable robotic manipulation, yet its full-stack complexity obscures reproduction and diagnosis.
By Wenke Xia, Pei Ren, Wenbo Yu, Yizhuo Zhang, Jifan Li, Yixue Zhang, Yinuo Zhao, Qingyang Gao, Jianlong Fu, Jian Tang, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhengping Che, Di Hu