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

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
arXiv AI
Jul 28

ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understanding

arXiv:2607. 24743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold immense potential to revolutionize clinical practice, yet deploying them in the medical domain is fundamentally a vision-centric challenge: models must absorb knowledge from heterogeneous 2D and 3D medical images, and evaluation protocols must align with radiologists' clinical practice and provide an accurate, fine-grained and factualness-driven assessment.

By Hangjie Yuan, Yichen Qian, Zhiwei Tang, Xianzhe Xu, Lirong Wu, Sicheng Yang, Jinwang Wang, Pengju Wang, Zhitao Zeng, Yizeng Han, Yan Xing, Shengxuan Luo, Tao Feng, Qing Xie, Weigen Yao, Yi Yang, Zuozhu Liu, Jiasheng Tang, Shaocheng Wang, Jitao Wang, Jiahong Dong, Weihua Chen, Feng Xu, Fan Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Stress-testing large language model agents in a robotic chemistry laboratory

arXiv:2607. 23045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI is evaluated through knowledge, reasoning and plan generation, yet scientific agency requires reliable physical action and adaptation to evidence.

By Lulu Guo, Yingkai Sun, Xiaobo Li, Luyao Ge, Ziming Wang, Haitao Zheng, Jingyu Li, Huijuan Zhang, Bingxu Chen, Daobin Liu, Yuebo Liu, Jie Li, Xiaohui Li, Linjiang Chen, Yi Luo, Jun Jiang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

AutoMat: Enabling Automated Crystal Structure Reconstruction from Microscopy via Agentic Tool Use

arXiv:2505. 12650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reconstructing atomistic crystal structures from a single noisy STEM projection is an ill-posed inverse problem: multiple lattices can explain similar contrast, and purely feed-forward models cannot verify physical validity.

By Yaotian Yang, Yiwen Tang, Yizhe Chen, Xiao Chen, Jiangjie Qiu, Hao Xiong, Haoyu Yin, Zhiyao Luo, Yifei Zhang, Sijia Tao, Wentao Li, Qinghua Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bin Zhao, Xiaonan Wang, Fei Wei
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Nanbeige4.2-3B: Unlocking Agentic Capabilities in a Compact Model

arXiv:2607. 22083v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Nanbeige4.

By Nanbeige Lab, :, Chen Yang, Chengrui Huang, Fufeng Lan, Hanhui Chen, Hao Zhou, Huatong Song, Jiaqi Cao, Jiaying Zhu, Jinlin Niu, Kai Wang, Lisheng Huang, Qiliang Liang, Ran Le, Ruixiang Feng, Shuang Sun, Tao Gu, Tao Zhang, Tianyu Luo, Yang Song, Yun Xing, Yuntao Wen, Ziyao Xu, Zongchao Chen, Zongqiang Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

HydroAgent: Formalizing Forecaster Expertise into Skill-Orchestrated Flood Forecasting Workflows

arXiv:2607. 23983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operational flood forecasting depends on tacit forecaster expertise that is difficult to formalize, audit, and transfer.

By Qingyi Yang, Siqian Qiu, Bing Li, Xu Shan, Jia Feng, Shunan Zhou, Xudong Zhou, Tiantian Xing, Jiale Guo, Xiaoyi Dong, Gaoyu Liu, Xiaohuan Liu, Haiqing Pu, Qingwen Deng, Xun Zhang, Zhongrun Xiang, Haiyang Qian, Ying Yan, Yongkang Xu, Nuo Lei, Tianlong Jia, Baoying Shan, Carlo De Michele