AI agents

Tool use, function calling, orchestration and the protocols that let models act rather than only answer.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 15

Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Robust Planetary Landing

The paper presents a method for improving the robustness of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies used in planetary landing by employing adversarial reinforcement learning. A secondary agent generates physically constrained perturbations that challenge the landing controller, creating an asymmetric zero‑sum game. Training is conducted in three stages—baseline learning, stochastic robustness enhancement, and iterative adversarial optimization—showing that adversarial disturbances uncover vulnerabilities missed by conventional randomization and hint at better generalization to unseen perturbations.

By Miguel Leiva-V\'elez, Nicolas Gaston-Rozado, Andrea Scorsoglio, Hodei Urrutxua, V\'ictor Rodr\'iguez-Fern\'andez
arXiv AI
Oct 15

OxyGen: Unified KV Cache Management for VLA Inference under Multi-Task Parallelism

OxyGen introduces a unified KV cache management system for Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) models that run multiple tasks in parallel, such as manipulation, conversation, and memory construction. By treating the KV cache as a shared resource, it eliminates redundant prefill operations and enables cross‑frame continuous batching, leading to significant speedups—up to 3.7× faster than isolated execution—while maintaining high language throughput and action frequency on both RTX 4090 and Jetson AGX Thor platforms. The approach is validated across several backbones and expert configurations, including deployment on a humanoid robot with on‑board Jetson hardware.

By Xiangyu Li, Huaizhi Tang, Xin Ding, Weijun Wang, Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Agentic-MatriBO: Capability-Compiled Agentic Bayesian Optimization for Materials and Chemical Design

Agentic‑MatriBO is a new Bayesian optimization framework that treats BO components and selection rules as composable capabilities, allowing a language policy to propose optimization recipes that are then verified by a compiler and executed deterministically. The system stores oracle observations in research memory to inform subsequent rounds and was evaluated against eight baselines on four offline candidate pools (COF, PCE10, Buchwald–Hartwig, and Suzuki–Miyaura). Across these tasks, Agentic‑MatriBO achieved the best mean endpoint quality, reached the COF optimum in all five seeds, and showed higher cumulative quality and nAUC‑BO on COF, with ablations indicating the importance of the capability compiler and evidence gate.

By Yu Zeng, Yuchuan Chen, Ziyue Zhang, Zijian Wei, Yanyi Su, Guojiang Zhao, Hongshuai Wang, Zhifeng Gao
arXiv AI
Oct 15

FDE-Bench: Evaluating End-to-End Delivery from Underspecified Real-World Business Requests

arXiv:2610.14539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world business requests often leave key requirements unstated because frontline practitioners struggle to articulate rules they know from experien...

By Huaiming Li, Can Huang, Chufan Wu, Danyu Liu, Xiaomin Yuan, Qinze Li, Yui Lo, Wenhui Bai, Qianlong Wang, Zengle Ge, Xiyu Yan, Yuheng Cheng, Jinhui Ren, Guokai Chen, Jiaqun Liu, Haoran Li, Qianhui Liu, Annan Li, Jianmin Wu, Dawei Yin, Dou Shen
arXiv AI
Oct 15

SkillHorizon: Constructing Long-Horizon Agent Tasks through Skill Composition

arXiv:2610.14966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents must complete workflows in which later activities depend on earlier outputs and changes to shared state. A key challenge for evalua...

By Yuxuan Liu, Zhaochen Su, Hangyu Guo, Shijue Huang, Zhixiong Zhang, Kawai Chung, Zhongwei Xie, Tianshi Zheng, Wei Fan, Qing Zong, Haochen Shi, Baixuan Xu, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song