arXiv AI

AnyAct: Universal Action for Self-Evolving Agents

AnyAct introduces a universal action layer that consolidates diverse tool capabilities into a self‑evolving action space for AI agents operating in open‑world environments. It tackles the scale dilemma, tool non‑stationarity, and heterogeneous feedback by using hierarchical progressive retrieval and test‑time reliability evolution, while a heterogeneous observation grounding module unifies multi‑modal feedback. Evaluations on LiveMCPBench and the newly created OSMCP benchmark show state‑of‑the‑art performance, with significant gains in task success rate and reduced execution steps, especially for models with limited native capabilities.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments

arXiv:2607. 05174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents, i.

By Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jiaqi Liu, Jixuan Huang, Honglin Guo, Baodai Huang, Tinggang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhonghang Lu, Chenyu Liu, Jiajun Sun, Jiazheng Zhang, Dingwei Zhu, Xin Guo, Junzhe Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Yuming Yang, Junjie Ye, Minghe Gao, Dongrui Liu, Jiaming Ji, Guohao Li, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Evolving Self-tuning Benchmarks for Long-Horizon Tool Use

The paper introduces TURTLE, an Unsupervised Environment Design framework that evolves tool‑use tasks for AI assistants by using a proposer, solver, and feedback generator powered by large language models. TURTLE automatically generates self‑tuning, long‑horizon benchmarks that increase task difficulty, diversity, and failure modes across multiple applications. Experiments on AppWorld, τ‑Bench, and AutomationBench demonstrate significant gains in hard task percentages and broader reasoning challenges.

By Hyunji Alex Nam, Michael Dennis, Natasha Jaques, Minsuk Chang
arXiv Computation and Language
Nov 4

CoworkOS:Scaling Agent Coworkers for Real-world Automation

CoworkOS is a general‑purpose harness designed for long‑horizon real‑world automation, separating task strategy from execution management. Its three‑layer architecture allows direct execution or delegation to subagents, while a shared application layer lets humans and agents collaboratively edit documents, designs, and 3D scenes. The system incorporates hierarchical workspaces and persistent semantic memory to maintain continuity across agents and sessions, and demonstrates strong performance across 12 benchmarks and six application categories, outperforming leading agents like Codex and DeepSeek Harness.

By Jiajie Jin, Guanting Dong, Chengjun Pan, Xin Deng, Zhuohui Sheng, Guoqiang Wang, Tao Gui, Yutao Zhu, Yujia Chen, Shihong Yi, Binze Hu, Zhixiong Yang, Zhichao Sun, Rui Wang, Han Han, Mingyu Ma, Junhao Huang, Xiaotao Wang, Huicheng Jiang, Yuyang Hu, Xinyu Yang, Wanghan Xu, Yajie Yang, Zhecan Wang, Honglin Guo, Xiaoyu Xing, Xiaoqian Zhang, Yulun Zhu, Xiaoxi Li, Jiahang Lin, Shaofan Liu, Shihan Dou, Zhiheng Xi, Qi Zhang, Yu-Gang Jiang, See-Kiong Ng, Yang Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou
arXiv AI
Jul 28

E-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Step Tool-Use Agents in Real-World Product Scenarios

arXiv:2607. 23722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that interact with stateful environments over multiple steps: gathering hidden information, composing tool calls, and committing state changes.

By Weihuang Zheng, Tianyuan Zou, Eileen Ye, Alphet Liu, Youyong Kong, Ya-Qin Zhang, Duran Zheng, Maxm Pan
arXiv AI
Sep 23

ToolCUA: Towards Optimal GUI-Tool Path Orchestration for Computer Use Agents

ToolCUA is an end‑to‑end agent that learns to optimally orchestrate GUI actions and tool calls for Computer Use Agents. It introduces a staged training pipeline that first scales interleaved GUI‑tool trajectories from static GUI data, then bootstraps decision making with single‑turn reinforcement learning, and finally refines performance via online agentic RL guided by a tool‑efficient path reward. On the OSWorld‑MCP benchmark, ToolCUA achieves 46.85% accuracy, a 66% relative improvement over the baseline and a 3.9% gain over GUI‑only models, setting a new state of the art for comparable‑scale models.

By Xuhao Hu, Xi Zhang, Haiyang Xu, Kyle Qiao, Jingyi Yang, Xuanjing Huang, Jing Shao, Ming Yan, Jieping Ye
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Learning from Failures: Heterogeneous Graph Memory for Small Language Model Tool-Using Agents

The paper introduces FRESH, a Failure-aware Retrieval framework that uses Experience-Structured Heterogeneous graphs to transform past successes and failures into structured external memory for tool‑using agents. By explicitly modeling dependencies among tasks, actions, errors, repairs, and execution conditions, FRESH enables frozen language models to reuse reliable strategies, avoid recurring failures, and make safer decisions in stateful tool interactions. Experiments on τ‑Bench and AppWorld with multiple open‑source models demonstrate that FRESH consistently improves task success and tool‑use reliability compared to no‑memory agents and other memory‑based baselines.

By Jiaxing Li, Lei Song, Rui Dong, Youyong Kong
arXiv AI
Sep 30

WEFT: Scaling Tool-Use Post-Training for General-Purpose Agents

arXiv:2609.36887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent efforts to scale tool-use post-training have largely centered on the synthesis of executable environments, which constitute only one component o...

By Bo Mao, Hang He, Linting Wang, Lizhi Lin, Maosen Zhou, Guanming Liu, Jinxiu Liu, Tianyu Huai, Chaoyun Zhang, Bingxuan Li, Kepeng Lei, Guanting Dong, Zhou Shao, Rui Zheng, Hang Yan, Jie Zhou, Chengcheng Wan, Tao Gui, Liang He, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.

By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran