The article reviews the emergence of Agentic AI, covering its evolution, theoretical foundations, working principles, and architectural aspects. It surveys recent scholarly contributions across various domains, highlighting real‑world applications, current research findings, and existing challenges. The review also proposes a framework for stakeholder adoption and outlines future research directions to guide researchers and practitioners.
By AKM Bahalul Haque, Al Amin Islam Ridoy, Mohammad Rayhan, Ivan Porres
The article "Defining AI Agents: A Compendium of Criteria, Metrics, and Benchmarks" surveys the lack of a standard definition for AI agents and organizes this ambiguity into five dimensions: environmental interaction, learning and adaptation, autonomy, goal‑directed behavior, and temporal coherence. It reviews how each dimension has been conceptualized in prior work and compiles the metrics, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks used to assess them. The authors also introduce the Agent Compendium, a public digital resource that extends these evaluation methods, aiming to provide a common structure for evaluating and comparing agent capabilities across AI systems.
By Mia Lassiter, Brinnae Bent
The paper proposes a developmental framework for autonomous artificial agents that emphasizes learning social norms and alignment through direct interaction with dynamic environments. It argues that intrinsic motivations such as curiosity and competence can guide exploration, but also complicate alignment with human goals. By drawing parallels to child development, the authors suggest that regulatory sandboxes serve as pedagogical spaces where agents gradually acquire moral agency and adapt their behaviors through experience and cooperation.
By Marica Notte, Ludovica Marinucci, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
arXiv:2606. 23991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What is an agent?
By Eric Xing, Mingkai Deng, Jinyu Hou
The paper investigates how Large Language Model (LLM) agents can collaborate on a shared task under information asymmetry, using a table‑top version of Einstein Puzzles. It introduces a fine‑tuning‑plus‑verifier framework that equips agents with communication strategies and environmental verification signals. Results show that aligned communication is crucial for rule understanding and human trust, while a verifier improves task comprehension and promotes safer, interpretable collaboration.
By Run Peng, Ziqiao Ma, Amy Pang, Sikai Li, Zhang Xi-Jia, Yingzhuo Yu, Cristian-Paul Bara, Joyce Chai
The paper reviews the evolution of multi‑agent unmanned systems from isolated sensing to collaborative intelligence, where agents share compact features to overcome local observation limits such as occlusions and sensor range. It introduces a five‑dimensional taxonomy (collaboration stage, communication paradigm, fusion architecture, learning strategy, application domain) and three cognitive synergy conditions (Semantic Disambiguation, Pragmatic Information Exchange, Proactive Informational Foraging) to unify existing research. The authors survey architectures, neural‑communication co‑design, embodied action‑perception loops, and resilience mechanisms, map advances onto operational domains (V2X, UAV, logistics, smart cities), and propose the GCI‑Bench scoring protocol to standardize evaluation across studies.
By Lei Zhang, Chun Ye, Le Yang, Zhaozhong Wang, Deng-Ping Fan, Hang Dai, Binglu Wang
arXiv:2609.05552v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Industrial environments increasingly rely on collaboration between humans and AI-enabled agents. Effective teamwork requires aligning how agents perc...
By Kolitha Kottagaha W. M, Jos A. C. Bokhorst, Ben Gaffinet, Christos Emmanouilidis
arXiv:2608. 15304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier agentic systems powered by large language models (LLMs) exhibit human-like patterns of cognition.
By Guanchu Wang, Qinuo Li, Mengnan Du, Xia Hu, Bowen Zhou
arXiv:2509. 14474v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The debate around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains open due to two fundamentally different goals: replicating human-level performance versus replicating human-like cognitive processes.
By Meltem Subasioglu, Nevzat Subasioglu
arXiv:2601.12538v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) d...
By Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu, Xuying Ning, Ze Yang, Jiaru Zou, Zhichen Zeng, Ruizhong Qiu, Xiao Lin, Dongqi Fu, Zihao Li, Mengting Ai, Duo Zhou, Wenxuan Bao, Yunzhe Li, Gaotang Li, Cheng Qian, Yu Wang, Xiangru Tang, Yin Xiao, Liri Fang, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuji Zhang, Chi Wang, Jiaxuan You, Heng Ji, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He
arXiv:2607. 10878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are evolving from answer engines into persistent teams that use tools, delegate work, learn from experience, and modify the artifacts that shape their future behavior.
By Yuma Ichikawa, Yamato Arai, Kosaku Kimura, Akira Sakai, Hiromichi Kobashi
arXiv:2608. 04285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurosymbolic AI systems that integrate machine learning and symbolic reasoning are rapidly gaining attention.
By Agnese Chiatti, Michael Cochez, Cristina Cornelio, Sebastijan Dumancic, Artur d'Avila Garcez, Luis C. Lamb, Lia Morra, Mathias Niepert, Robert Peharz, Alberto Speranzon, Maarten Stol, Annette Ten Teije, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Frank Van Harmelen, Emile Van Krieken, Antonio Vergari, Benjie Wang