AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Oct 1

LongEmo: Towards Emotion Understanding and Reasoning in Long Videos

arXiv:2609.40079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in affective computing, their reasoning capabilities are largely confined to...

By Shuo Zhang, Yifan Zhou, Han Wang, Jinsong Zhang, Jingyu Li, Hongbing Li, Zhejun Zhang, Chengyi Zhao, Yuquan Hao, Yitong Liu, Jiyin Li, Ruiqi Tang, Zixuan Lin, Yi Luo, Xurui Zhang, Ronghao Chen, Huacan Wang, Lei Li
arXiv AI
Oct 1

MemLife: Curating and Reasoning over Long-Term Egocentric Video Memories

arXiv:2609.40195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term egocentric video enables personalized AI assistants to reason about daily life. However, as video histories grow to hundreds of hours spann...

By Guangzhi Xiong, Xinyuan Zhang, Xiao Yang, Hyokun Yun, Kai Zhang, Shiun-Zu Kuo, Hyeonjeong Ha, Xilun Chen, Kai Sun, Lucas Liang, Guangqiang Dong, Ejaz Ahmed, Ahmed A Aly, Anuj Kumar, Raffay Hamid, Aidong Zhang, Xin Luna Dong
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Large Knowledge Model: A Knowledge Foundation for Agentic Science at Scale

arXiv:2609.27297v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic science envisions many autonomous agents investigating concurrently while building on a shared, evolving body of scientific knowledge. This...

By Yuan Huang, Sihan Hu, Hongyu Gu, Chao Ma, Jiaxing Zhang, Zhiyong Zou, Caiyu Fan, Yan Xiao, Mingjun Xu, Chenyu Xie, Mingzhen Ju, Zhehao Ma, Qi Zhang, Baozong Wang, Yu Li, Zhiyuan Yao, Ruoxue Liao, Xinyu Li, Linfeng Zhang, Kun Chen, Weinan E
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 1

Can Terminal Agents Trust Their Own Verification? Diagnosing and Improving Self-Verification

arXiv:2609.38812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Terminal agents rely on self-verification to assess and correct their solutions as they solve tasks through interaction with command-line environments....

By Yingfeng Luo, Shaowei Wei, Daixin Wang, Dingyang Lin, Kaiyan Chang, Weiqiao Shan, Tong Zheng, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Learning to Route in Visual Space via Multi-Step Embedding Retrieval

The paper introduces VHOP, a data generation framework and benchmark for visual agentic search, and VHOP-Router, an end‑to‑end training pipeline that turns a standard embedding model into an autoregressive multi‑step retriever operating directly in visual latent space. VHOP-Router eliminates the need for intermediate text queries, boosting retrieval accuracy from under 5% to 76.3% and improving task success rates by 52.7% while dramatically reducing token usage and API payloads. The approach generalizes to unseen difficulty levels and realistic test sets, offering an efficient solution that preserves native LLM capabilities.

By Tianyu Chen, Mingyuan Zhou, Jiaxing Wu
arXiv AI
Oct 1

When Context Changes: Understanding Update Failures in LLMs

The paper introduces the concept of stale binding, where large language models (LLMs) answer with outdated values despite having newer information in context. It presents Controlled In-Context Memory (CICM), a benchmark to track and test the use of updated information in conversations and agent logs. Experiments on open‑source models reveal an attention drift mechanism that favors old values, and the authors propose a simple attention‑redirecting intervention that largely corrects these errors without harming correct answers.

By Junyu Guo, Yuchen Fang, Shangding Gu, Costas Spanos, James Demmel, Javad Lavaei
arXiv AI
Oct 1

CHI-Bench: Can AI Agents Automate End-to-End, Long-Horizon, Policy-Rich Healthcare Workflows?

arXiv:2605.16679v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end automation of realistic healthcare operations stresses three capabilities underrepresented in current benchmarks: policy density,...

By Haolin Chen, Deon Metelski, Leon Qi, Tao Xia, Joonyul Lee, Steve Brown, Kevin Riley, Frank Wang, T. Y. Alvin Liu, Hank Capps MD, Zeyu Tang, Xiangchen Song, Lingjing Kong, Fan Feng, Tianyi Zeng, Zhiwei Liu, Zixian Ma, Hang Jiang, Fangli Geng, Yuan Yuan, Chenyu You, Qingsong Wen, Hua Wei, Yanjie Fu, Yue Zhao, Carl Yang, Biwei Huang, Kun Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Sanmi Koyejo, Eric P. Xing, Philip S. Yu, Weiran Yao