arXiv:2606. 09138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has become an important post-training paradigm for turning LLMs from static chatbots into interactive agents, giving rise to representative applications such as OpenClaw.
By Daoyu Wang, Mingyue Cheng, Qingchuan Li, Shuo Yu, Jie Ouyang, Qi Liu
UniToolCall introduces a unified framework for tool-use in large language model agents, standardizing toolset construction, dataset generation, and evaluation. The framework aggregates over 22,000 tools and creates a hybrid training corpus of more than 390,000 instances by combining ten public datasets with synthetically generated, structurally controlled trajectories. It models diverse interaction patterns—single‑hop vs. multi‑hop, single‑turn vs. multi‑turn, serial vs. parallel execution—and adds an Anchor Linkage mechanism to enforce cross‑turn dependencies, while converting seven public benchmarks into a common Query–Action–Observation–Answer format for fine‑grained evaluation.
By Yijuan Liang, Xinghao Chen, Yifan Ge, Ziyi Wu, Hao Wu, Changyu Zeng, Wei Xing, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2607. 18816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-powered agents increasingly tackle complex tasks by invoking tools, querying databases, executing code, and manipulating intermediate artifacts.
By Eden Wu, Sonia Castelo, Yurong Liu, Cl\'audio T. Silva, Juliana Freire
Agent Lightning v1.0 is a lightweight framework that enables harnessed agentic reinforcement learning, where the agent harness—managing tools, context, and control flow—directly participates in model post‑training. It supports arbitrary agent harnesses and addresses challenges such as retokenization, sample merging, and advantage calculation, providing a reproducible pipeline for instruction‑following, search, and coding agents. In experiments, RL training on 6K examples improved Qwen3.5‑9B’s performance on SWE‑bench from 41.8% to 56.4%.
By Zhiyuan He, Siwei Zhang, Zhiwen Zhou, Yuqing Yang, Yu Kang, Yuge Zhang, Luna K. Qiu, Tin Yan Tsui, Jiahang Xu, Chong Luo
AuditKIT is a source‑available evaluation library that unifies benchmark accuracy, judge‑based assessment, runtime performance, tool‑use behavior, and retrieval quality into a single result representation. It offers direction‑aware metric contracts, configuration fingerprints, and extensible metrics and backends, while providing turn‑aware tool‑call matching and distinguishing verified task outcomes from trajectory‑level diagnostics. Seven case studies demonstrate how answer extraction, runtime behavior, and metric selection can alter evaluation outcomes across model comparison, serving runtimes, retrieval, tool calling, and interoperability.
By Shreeyans Arora, Utsav Avaiya, Zera Lyngkhoi, Hem Gosalia, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu, Pratinav Seth
arXiv:2608. 15591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents deployed in production environments face a fundamental tension: the agent's behavior is frozen at deployment time, while the business rules and edge cases it must handle continue to evolve.
By Pouya Ghiasnezhad Omran, Michael Zimmermann, Duncan Cambridge, Ashmita Kapoor, Tanya Dixit
arXiv:2608. 20314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mid-training is increasingly recognized as a critical stage for shaping the capabilities of large language models.
By Fengqing Jiang, Yite Wang, Boyi Liu, Zhaoyang Wang, Canwen Xu, Zhewei Yao, Radha Poovendran, Yuxiong He
arXiv:2606.09138v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Training LLMs to act as capable agents requires learning from multi-turn interactions with environments. However, multi-turn interaction trajectori...
By Daoyu Wang, Mingyue Cheng, Qingchuan Li, Shuo Yu, Jie Ouyang, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2606. 07904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language model agents increasingly rely on external APIs, but standard tool schemas describe how to call a tool, not when the tool is causally appropriate or what task state it produces.
By Rahul Suresh Babu, Laxmipriya Ganesh Iyer
arXiv:2606. 17819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills -- structured, reusable knowledge artifacts that augment LLM agent capabilities -- have been rapidly adopted in industry, yet their cross-domain impact and use across commercial and open-source models remain under-studied, and no reusable methodology exists for evaluating an individual skill.
By Maksim Shaposhnikov, Nicolas Fortuin, Simon Stipcich, Maria I. Gorinova, Amy Heineike, Rob Willoughby
As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents, the need for unified evaluation infrastructure becomes critical. However, current evaluation pipelines remain highly fragmented and tightly coupled, hindering reproducibility and causing redundant engineering.
arXiv:2607. 06233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-powered data agents are playing an increasingly important role in data-driven decision making.
By Ziting Wang, Yin Li, Zuhao Yang, Xiuchang Li, Jiale Bai, Gao Cong