AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
6d ago

TsuGO: Probing Search Efficiency in LLM Reasoning via Go Life-and-Death Problems

arXiv:2608. 13221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of LLM reasoning is moving from final-answer accuracy to process-level assessment, yet existing methods still fail to capture how models plan reasoning paths and allocate reasoning resources--that is, how they organize search.

By Shunwen Bai, Ziping Ma, Chaoyang Zhang, Yarong Wang, Jiale Liu, Zhen Qin, Qingpei Guo
arXiv AI
6d ago

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 13179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) offers a verifier-bounded performance ceiling for training multi-turn tool-use agents, yet its trajectory-level credit assignment conflates heterogeneous per-turn outcomes into a single reward signal.

By Zechuan Wang, Siyuan Lu, Hongxuan Zhang, Linjian Mo, Chenyi Zhuang, Leilei Gan
arXiv AI
6d ago

Specification-first convergence with an AI coding agent: a case study of dismantling a core architectural invariant across 189 files in a 717k-line codebase with no test oracle and no human code review

arXiv:2608. 12440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper reports a single, fully instrumented case study of a large-scale architectural refactoring by an AI coding agent under a specification-first protocol, with no human review of the generated code and no pre-existing oracle to validate the target behaviour.

By Joel Abenhaim
arXiv AI
6d ago

Auditable agentic AI for evidence-grounded thyroid ultrasound diagnosis and reporting

arXiv:2608. 12590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thyroid ultrasound diagnosis requires coordinated lesion localization, measurement, risk stratification and reporting, yet most AI systems address these tasks in isolation and provide limited support for clinical review.

By Haifan Gong, Shiyu Chen, Bodong Wang, Yuqi Wang, Shijie Wang, Guoliang You, Xinyu Xiong, Haowei Wang, Mingzhi Mao, Dexing Kong, Qinghua Liu, Wei Lou, Fei Chen, Guanbin Li
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

Intern-S2-Preview: Scientific Agentic Foundation Model

arXiv:2608. 13505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery increasingly requires AI systems that can reason over scientific evidence of heterogeneous modalities, interact with scientific tools and environments, and sustain progress across long task horizons.

By Lei Bai, Jiaqi Cao, Chiyu Chen, Guanzhou Chen, Kai Chen, Guangran Cheng, Erfei Cui, Xuanlang Dai, Shengyuan Ding, Shangheng Du, Yanhui Duan, Yue Fan, Youqing Fang, Quan Gan, Yuanyuan Gao, Jiaye Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Qipeng Guo, Junjun He, Xin Hong, Ming Hu, Zhouqi Hua, Haian Huang, Junhao Huang, Zixian Huang, Minxi Jin, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Lam, Zehao Li, Zonglin Li, Tianhao Liang, Dahua Lin, Junyao Lin, Tianyang Lin, Zhouhan Lin, Jiangning Liu, Jin Liu, Kuikun Liu, Wenran Liu, Yifei Liu, Yuhong Liu, Yuhong Liu, Zhoumianze Liu, Ziyan Liu, Ziyu Liu, Haijun Lv, Han Lv, Chengqi Lyu, Le Ma, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Haoyang Peng, Runyu Peng, Jifei Shan, Zixin Shang, Kou Shi, Xiang Shi, Qisheng Su, Xuerui Su, Hao Sun, Xiao Sun, Yanan Sun, Yu Sun, Huanze Tang, Yinghao Tang, Wenhui Tian, Zhongbo Tian, Bingli Wang, Haomin Wang, Jiarui Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Rui Wang, Xiquan Wang, Yi Wang, Zhecan Wang, Ziyi Wang, Zun Wang, Rubin Wei, Lianyi Wu, Wen Wu, Yue Wu, Yuhan Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Zijian Wu, Shuhao Xing, Jun Xu, Xingle Xu, Xuenan Xu, Xiangchao Yan, Ziang Yan, Bowen Yang, Danni Yang, Lin Yang, Zhiqi Yang, Qian Yao, Haochen Ye, Peng Ye, Jinhui Yin, Jiashuo Yu, Dingbo Yuan, Fei Yuan, Yuhang Zang, Bo Zhang, Chao Zhang, Chen Zhang, Hongjie Zhang, Junming Zhang, Wenlong Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Zhuo Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Haiteng Zhao, Penghao Zhao, Yibo Zhao, Zhonghan Zhao, Zhihang Zhong, Bowen Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Yunhua Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Yicheng Zou
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

FlowLOB: Efficient and Controllable Limit Order Book Generation with Flow Matching

arXiv:2608. 13096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limit order book (LOB) simulators are most useful to practitioners when they combine realistic market dynamics, computationally efficient sampling, controllable scenario generation, and the ability to generalize beyond the instruments seen during training---properties that existing agent-based and deep generative simulators provide only partially.

By Zhuohan Wang, Andreea Bacalum, Ollie Olby, Carmine Ventre, Namid Stillman
arXiv AI
6d ago

@skills: Attention is all you have

arXiv:2608. 12610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There are 56,804 public agent skills today, and teams write many more privately.

By Li Yin (Atlas), Zhi Li (Atlas), Zhan Shi (Atlas), Haoran Zhang (Atlas), Haebin Seong (Atlas), Zhangyang (Atlas), Wang
arXiv AI
6d ago

Auditable Agents

arXiv:2604. 05485v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents call tools, query databases, delegate tasks, and trigger external side effects.

By Yi Nian, Aojie Yuan, Haiyue Zhang, Jiate Li, Li Li, Xiyang Hu, Hua Wei, Xiongye Xiao, Chaowei Xiao, Yue Zhao