arXiv:2606. 13710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research and agent evolution serve as de-facto tasks for AI agents in real-world applications toward artificial general intelligence.
By Hongming Piao, Chi Liu, Mengzhuo Chen, Yan Shu, Derek Li, Ying Wei, Bryan Dai
arXiv:2608. 12564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating empirical research is a long-standing direction of AI.
By Xiyuan Yang, Sheikh Sarwar, Jingru Cheng, Zhan Shi, Duanshun Li, Huiyuan Chen, Haiyang Zhang, Chenlei Guo, Jingrui He, Zhenyu Liao
The paper introduces the Agentic Compositional Generalization hypothesis, suggesting that reinforcement learning (RL) primarily refines high‑level decision‑making behaviors that orchestrate pre‑trained low‑level skills, rather than teaching new domain‑specific skills from scratch. It proposes River, a training recipe that enhances reward quality by filtering low‑quality synthetic environments and adding process‑level behavior regularization. Using River, RL‑trained agents outperform other open‑source 8B models on four terminal‑agent benchmarks, achieving significant gains with fewer than 30% of the training environments.
By Yihang Yao, Bo Pang, Xuan Phi Nguyen, Ding Zhao, Shafiq Joty, Semih Yavuz
arXiv:2607. 10891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly shifting toward agents that solve tasks through diverse interfaces, including web and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
By Qijia Shen, Zhiqi Huang, Vamsidhar Kamanuru, Aznaur Aliev, Jay Rainton, Ahmed Awelkair, Zhichen Zeng, Jiajun Li, Shi Dong, Yueming Yuan, Boyuan Ma, Qizheng Zhang, Jiwei Fu, Yuzhen Mao, Wendong Fan, Ping Nie, Philip Torr, Bernard Ghanem, Changran Hu, Jonathan Lingjie Li, Urmish Thakker, Guohao Li
PhantomEnvironments is a framework that trains large language model agents in synthetic, rule‑generated fictional worlds. By creating multi‑turn reinforcement learning environments where agents search templated articles to answer multi‑hop questions, the approach eliminates the need for costly human data or hallucinated LLM‑generated settings. Agents trained in these zero‑cost, purely rule‑based worlds transfer effectively to real‑world multi‑hop search benchmarks, often surpassing models trained on real data, and demonstrate scalable search behavior that grows linearly with question difficulty.
By Anmol Kabra, Swathi Saravana Selvam, Albert Gong, Chao Wan, Christian Belardi, Dongyoung Go, Katie Z. Luo, Kilian Q. Weinberger
arXiv:2609.05576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paradigm of LLMs has rapidly shifted from passive language interfaces to autonomous Claw-like agents that execute long-horizon tasks across statefu...
By Yirong Zeng, Shen You, Jinhang Feng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Hao Cong, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Wang Xu, Bibo Cai