AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Aug 13

Machine Learning-Based Cyber Defense for Cloud Infrastructure: An Adaptive Deep Q-Network Architecture for Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Automated Threat Mitigation

arXiv:2608. 12190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the increasing complexity of cyber assaults in cloud environments, adaptable security solutions are needed that can support real-time detection and autonomous response.

By Md Yassir Mottalib, Md Yousuf, Eklachur Rahman Bhuiyan, S M Ahsan Habib, Sonjoy Kumar Dey, Md. Salahuddin Gazi, Molay Kumar Roy, Asaduzzaman Anik
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Self-evolving network verifiers

arXiv:2608. 11340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic network verifiers can reason about correctness across vast spaces of routing inputs and failures, but only for the protocols and features an expert has encoded by hand.

By Ioannis Protogeros, Tibor Schneider, Laurent Vanbever
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Backdoor Decontamination Dynamics in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 11295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight LLM agents are vulnerable to backdoors installed during fine-tuning, which may be undetectable if the trigger conditions are never met during testing.

By Gabriel Huang, Abhay Puri, L\'eo Boisvert, Alexandre Drouin, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Christopher Pal
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Advancing MLLM-based UAV Image Understanding and Reasoning: A Benchmark and a Training-Free Multi-Agent System

arXiv:2608. 11738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based UAV aerial image understanding and reasoning is essential for aerial intelligence yet poses distinct challenges arising from extreme scale variation, arbitrary camera orientations, and high object density.

By Haoyu Zhang, Shuoxun Zhang, Peng Ye, Lin Zhang, Jiakang Yuan, Shenghong Yi, Yuening Wang, Tao Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 13

VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies

arXiv:2608. 12282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents deployed in enterprise settings must reason across structured APIs and document collections, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation.

By Ankita Rajaram Naik, Anupama Murthi, Benjamin Elder, Siyu Huo, Raavi Gupta, Abhinav Jain, Praveen Venkateswaran, Abdulhamid Adebayo, Danish Contractor
arXiv AI
Aug 13

CoAdapt-GUI: Joint Workflow Context and Policy Adaptation for Unseen GUI Applications

arXiv:2608. 11588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents remain brittle when deployed to applications absent from source training.

By Linqiang Guo (Peter), Li Gu (Peter), Zihuan Jiang (Peter), Zhixiang Chi (Peter), Siobhan Reid (Peter), Ziqiang Wang (Peter), Yuanhao Yu (Peter), Wei Liu (Peter), Yang Wang (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen