AI agents that generate final answers based on user input often do not meet the needs of creative fields. Fields such as structural design and architecture need interactive systems that help users externalise and develop ideas, explore alternatives, and refine partial solutions.
Agentick is a unified benchmark for sequential decision‑making agents that evaluates RL, LLM, VLM, hybrid, and human agents on 37 procedurally generated tasks across six capability categories, four difficulty levels, and five observation modalities via a single Gymnasium‑compatible interface. It includes a Coding API, oracle reference policies, pre‑built SFT datasets, a composable agent harness, and a live leaderboard. An evaluation of 27 configurations and over 90,000 episodes shows no single approach dominates, with GPT‑5 mini leading overall, PPO excelling in planning and multi‑agent tasks, and the reasoning harness boosting LLM performance by 3‑10×, while ASCII observations outperform natural language.
By Roger Creus Castanyer, Pablo Samuel Castro, Glen Berseth
arXiv:2608. 13560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transforming multimodal sources into condensed and structured media outputs can be fundamentally conceptualized as a long-horizon agentic process centered on a model-harness system.
By Yaxin Luo, Haobin Jiang, Jialv Zou, Xu Huang, Wenhao Yan, Haodong Li, Zhengrong Yue, Jing Li, Xiaofu Chen, Xiaohan Zhao, Jiacheng Liu, Jiacheng Cui, Zhiqiang Shen, Xiaotong Li
SLIDEFORGE is a new AI agent designed for controllable editing of presentation slides. It constructs a Deck State Graph that links visual decomposition, native PowerPoint object structure, and perceptual organization, enabling theme‑preserving reconstruction through slide‑native operations and rendered‑state verification. The authors also propose an evaluation framework that jointly measures component recovery, preservation, restyling consistency, visual quality, and native editability, and demonstrate that SLIDEFORGE outperforms existing prompting, screenshot‑based, and generic code‑agent baselines.
By Haozhen Zheng, Fulin Wang, Tianhu Xiong, Yingjie Yu, Shengyi Qian, Hanchao Yu, Alex Schwing, Klara Nahrstedt, Mingyuan Wu
SLIDEFORGE is an LLM‑driven agent designed for controllable editing of slide decks while preserving layout, style, component structure, and native editability. It constructs a Deck State Graph that links visual decomposition, PowerPoint object structure, and perceptual organization, enabling theme‑preserving reconstruction through slide‑native operations and rendered‑state verification. The authors also propose a comprehensive evaluation framework measuring component recovery, preservation, restyling consistency, visual quality, and native editability, and demonstrate that SLIDEFORGE outperforms direct prompting, screenshot‑based agents, and generic code‑agent baselines.
arXiv:2606. 26327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In actor-critic reinforcement learning, network architectures are typically manually designed.
By Boyun Zhang, Chao Wang, Kai Wu
arXiv:2607. 09059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ARCANA, a collaborative multi agent framework for solving ARC AGI 2 tasks under strict test time and hardware constraints.
By Kunbo Zhang, Lei Fu, Zeyu Wang, Zijing Liu, Kejian Tong
arXiv:2606. 27330v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal web agents can assist humans in operating repetitive GUI tasks, where effective task planning is essential for decomposing complex tasks into executable actions.
By Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations. However, real-world tasks often exhibit substantial natural variations (e.
arXiv:2607. 17760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations.
By Ziyi Liu, Grace Zhang
arXiv:2607. 07521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents that generate final answers based on user input often do not meet the needs of creative fields.
By Ricardo Maia Avelino, Rita Sevastjanova, Tom Van Mele, Philippe Block, Mennatallah El-Assady
arXiv:2608. 13040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling agents to learn from experience and internalize it into their policy has become a central problem in self-evolving AI.
By Guibin Zhang, Jiayang Lyu, Ran Sun, Xinlei Yu, Haoyu Zhao, Qibing Ren, Shuicheng Yan