AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 28

A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 23784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remain fundamentally black box policies that are difficult to interpret, adapt, or correct when they inevitably fail.

By Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

TRUAV: Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Planning and Routing Enhancement in UAV-Aided IoT-Enabled VANETs

arXiv:2607. 23734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler of next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, offering flexible aerial relaying to extend connectivity across dynamic vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in smart city environments.

By Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Lin Zhang, Zhen Chen, Wajdy Othman, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Chang Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 28

PeopleSearchBench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Evaluating AI-Powered People Search Platforms

arXiv:2603. 27476v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-powered people search platforms are increasingly used in recruiting, sales prospecting, and professional networking, yet no widely accepted benchmark exists for evaluating their performance.

By Wei Wang, Tianyu Shi, Shuai Zhang, Boyang Xia, Zequn Xie, Chenyu Zeng, Qi Zhang, Lynn Ai, Yaqi Yu, Kaiming Zhang, Feiyue Tang, Lei Ding
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Building AI That Works: ESnet's Pragmatic Approach to AI-Driven Operational Excellence

arXiv:2607. 22948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ORBIT (Operations Responses and Business Intelligence Toolkit) project was initiated to assess agentic AI for the upcoming ESnet 7 initiative and to address persistent operational pain points in the Network Operations Center (NOC) workflow.

By Bin Dong, Sukhada Gholba, Brooklin Gore, Shawn Kwang, David Mitchell, Samuel Oehlert, Garrett Stewart, Brendan White, Luke Baker, Ed Balas, Britt Gathright, Chin Guok, Jon-Paul Heron, John MacAuley, Scott Richmond, Chris Robb, Chris Tracy, Kesheng Wu
arXiv AI
Jul 28

VecTree-RAG: An Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework Combining Vector and Tree Retrieval for Efficiency and Accuracy

arXiv:2607. 23006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific question answering requires a retrieval system to solve two distinct problems: identifying which papers are relevant and locating the supporting evidence within those papers.

By Xinyan Zhong, Yuwei Shi, Yuqi Wei, Chen Shen, Tianhang Zhou, Zhenghao Wu
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Agent-UCT: Upper Confidence Bounds Applied to Trees for Agentic Workflow Optimization with Cost-Awareness

arXiv:2607. 24162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimizing agentic workflows, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, requires navigating a combinatorial space of discrete component choices under tight evaluation budgets.

By Yang Li, Hai Liu, Dian Shao, Yu Wang, Xiyu Chen, Sergey Volkov, Bozhi Wang, Ziyu Sun, Sihang Liu, Ye Luo, Xiaowei Zhang