AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Jun 30

Interpretable Clustering: A Survey

arXiv:2409. 00743v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, much of the research on clustering algorithms has primarily focused on enhancing their accuracy and efficiency, frequently at the expense of interpretability.

By Lianyu Hu, Mudi Jiang, Junjie Dong, Xinying Liu, Zengyou He
arXiv AI
Jun 30

SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents

arXiv:2603. 29139v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agentic systems to translate natural-language intent into executable scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks.

By Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Staged Hybridisation for Visual Quantum Reinforcement Learning via Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2606. 30520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual environments are a demanding setting for quantum reinforcement learning (QRL): high-dimensional observations, unstable RL optimisation, and constrained variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are difficult to train jointly.

By Javier Lazaro, Juan-Ignacio Vazquez, Pablo Garcia-Bringas
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Complementary RL: Towards Efficient Experience-Driven Agent Learning

arXiv:2603. 17621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training LLM-based agents, yet remains limited by low sample efficiency, stemming not only from sparse outcome feedback but also from the agent's inability to leverage prior experience across episodes.

By Dilxat Muhtar, Jiashun Liu, Wei Gao, Weixun Wang, Shaopan Xiong, Ju Huang, Siran Yang, Wenbo Su, Jiamang Wang, Ling Pan, Bo Zheng
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Pushing Forward Pareto Frontiers of Proactive Agents with Behavioral Agentic Optimization

arXiv:2602. 11351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive large language model (LLM) agents aim to actively plan, query, and interact over multiple turns, enabling efficient task completion beyond passive instruction following and making them essential for real-world, user-centric applications.

By Yihang Yao, Zhepeng Cen, Haohong Lin, Shiqi Liu, Zuxin Liu, Jiacheng Zhu, Zhang-Wei Hong, Laixi Shi, Ding Zhao
arXiv AI
Jun 30

When Does Overlap Help? OSU-Mem and a Cell-Conditional Analysis of Trajectory Memory for LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 28376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents accumulate interaction trajectories that quickly exceed any practical prompt budget, and existing memory methods either truncate aggressively and lose non-local evidence or retain boilerplate that degrades decision quality.

By Mellow Baixuan Chen, Xiangguo Sun
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist

arXiv:2502. 18864v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation.

By Juraj Gottweis, Wei-Hung Weng, Alexander Daryin, Tao Tu, Petar Sirkovic, Artiom Myaskovsky, Grzegorz Glowaty, Felix Weissenberger, Alessio Orlandi, Dan Popovici, Anil Palepu, Keran Rong, Ryutaro Tanno, Khaled Saab, Fan Zhang, Jacob Blum, Andrew Carroll, Kavita Kulkarni, Nenad Tomasev, Dina Zverinski, Ivor Rendulic, Elahe Vedadi, Florian Hasler, Luka Rimanic, Marina Boia, Ivan Budiselic, Ben Feinstein, Mathias Bellaiche, Tom Sheffer, Jan Freyberg, Jeremy Ratcliff, Ottavia Bertolli, Katherine Chou, Avinatan Hassidim, Burak Gokturk, Amin Vahdat, Yuan Guan, Vikram Dhillon, Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Byron Lee, Tiago R D Costa, Jos\'e R Penad\'es, Gary Peltz, Yossi Matias, James Manyika, Demis Hassabis, Yunhan Xu, Pushmeet Kohli, Annalisa Pawlosky, Alan Karthikesalingam, Vivek Natarajan
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Exploration and Online Transfer with Behavioral Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 29980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to train an agent that can generate optimal policies for any reward function, without additional learning at transfer time, while training only on reward-free trajectories.

By Louis Bagot (SyCoSMA), Mathieu Lefort (LIRIS, SyCoSMA, IRISA, MALT, UR), La\"etitia Matignon (SyCoSMA)
arXiv AI
Jun 30

SWE-fficiency: Can Language Models Optimize Real-World Repositories on Real Workloads?

arXiv:2511. 06090v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing the performance of large-scale software repositories demands expertise in code reasoning and software engineering (SWE) to reduce runtime while preserving program correctness.

By Jeffrey Jian Ma, Milad Hashemi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Kevin Swersky, Ofir Press, Enhui Li, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan