arXiv AI

PUDA: An AI-Native Hardware Harness for Self-Driving Laboratories

arXiv:2607. 26464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical Unified Device Architecture (PUDA) is an AI-native hardware harness for self-driving laboratories (SDLs).

arXiv AI
Sep 7

Octopus Protocol: One-Shot Hardware Discovery and Control for AI Agents via Infrastructure-as-Prompts

Octopus Protocol is a hardware onboarding framework that allows an AI coding agent to automatically discover, identify, and integrate hardware devices into an AI system. Using a single bootstrap command, the agent runs a five-stage pipeline to enumerate visible hardware, infer device capabilities, generate typed Model Context Protocol tools, produce the necessary code, and activate a live endpoint. The system maintains a persistent daemon that repairs deployment failures, enabling consistent, platform‑agnostic interfaces across diverse hosts without manual integration code.

By Quilee Simeon, Justin M. Wei, Yile Fan
arXiv AI
Sep 7

CUA-Universe: A Scalable and Dynamic Environment for Hybrid GUI+CLI Agents

CUA-Universe is a scalable environment-to-data pipeline that transforms real desktop software into hybrid GUI+CLI environments, enabling agents to coordinate visual inspection with command-line operations. It includes App-Forge for reproducible VMs and CLI surfaces, Task-Weave for generating diverse hybrid tasks, and Path-Steer for efficient rollouts and trajectory harvesting. Training on this data improves agent success and efficiency across multiple benchmarks, demonstrating the value of hybrid interaction.

By Haoting Shi, Wenhao Wang, Weicheng Fang, Yaozhong Liang, Tian Jin, Pengxiang Zhao, Guangyi Liu, Siheng Chen, Yanfeng Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

LabFactory: Building and Evaluating Executable AI Labs

LabFactory is a framework that transforms a scientific brief into an executable AI lab, integrating models, knowledge resources, tools, and a controller behind a fixed interface. The builder packages the lab in a metered workspace, and a separate host evaluates the delivered artifact on held‑out inputs, ensuring the system itself is the evaluation target. Across 28 constructions in seven scientific domains, the delivered labs surpassed reference values on all 33 subtests, demonstrating that an AI agent can fully realize a scientific brief into a working, inspectable lab.

By Jinge Wu, Hongjian Zhou, Mingde Zeng, Jiayuan Zhu, Junde Wu, Jiazhen Pan, Lei Clifton, Andrew Liu, David A. Clifton
arXiv AI
Sep 16

EchoPath: Execution-Level Replayable Memory for GUI Agents

EchoPath is a model‑agnostic framework that transforms validated GUI interaction trajectories into standardized, parameter‑controlled memories, enabling agents to replay specific GUI actions deterministically. Each memory records task intent, preconditions, input parameters, GUI evidence, validation provenance, and lifecycle state, and uses an image‑based target‑reaiming algorithm to adjust coordinates for the current screen before execution. Experiments on real computer‑use tasks show that EchoPath cuts median token cost by over 90 % and median execution time by about 60 %.

By Yao Zhao, Aditya Shanmugham, Swastik Roy, Yanxun Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Benchmarking AI Agents for Hardware Design Automation via MCP Tool Calling

The paper investigates whether locally deployed large language models can automate hardware design workflows that involve repetitive, dependency-ordered operations using specialized tools. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is created to emulate a proprietary hardware design tool, and a benchmark tests single and multi-step edits, invalid requests, misspelled prompts, and multi-server contexts. Seven open-source models are evaluated across different pipeline choices, revealing that strong models can nearly fully cover expected calls, but reliability hinges on task structure and agent configuration, with comprehensive tool descriptions reducing failures and multi-agent setups aiding weaker models at the cost of extra calls.

By Leonardo Liparulo, Francesco Pierri