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

TRACE: Temporal Relationship-Aware Conversational Entrainment Detection in Dyadic Speech

arXiv:2606. 30543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the proliferation of speech AI agents, understanding emotional entrainment in conversational interaction has become increasingly important.

By Sathvik Manikantan Napa Ugandhar, Hao Zhang, Alison Gunzler, Yuzhe Wang, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev, Venkatesh Ravichandran, Laureano Moro-Vel\'azquez
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Whose Side Is Your Agent On? Multi-Party Principal Loyalty in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 30383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A rapidly growing class of LLM agents is multi-party: the agent acts for a principal (who briefs it, sends follow-ups, and receives results) while also conversing in a separate channel with a counterparty whose interests may diverge (negotiating with a vendor, screening inbound requests, or mediating between employees).

By Bojie Li, Noah Shi
arXiv AI
Jun 30

When Stopping Fails: Rethinking Minimal Risk Conditions through Human-Interactive Autonomous Driving for Safe Transportation Systems

arXiv:2606. 29115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are increasingly deployed in urban environments, yet their safety frameworks remain primarily designed around collision avoidance and minimal risk condition (MRC) behaviors such as slowing or stopping when uncertainty arises.

By Yash Tandon, Giovanni Tapia Lopez, Marcus Blennemann, Mohan Trivedi, Ross Greer
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Towards Generalizable and Evidential Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-Based Molecular Structure Elucidation via Large Language Model Agent

arXiv:2606. 29776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the gold standard for molecular structure elucidation, yet interpreting complex spectra for unknown molecules remains a bottleneck reliant on human expertise.

By Zheng Fang, Chen Yang, Yusen Tan, Yunpeng Zhao, Fanjie Xu, Hongxin Xiang, Hanyu Sun, Hanyu Gao, Xiaojian Wang, Wenjie Du, Yuqiang Li, Jun Xia
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Deterministic Decisions for High-Stakes AI. A Zero-Egress Pipeline with the Deployability of RAG and the Accuracy of Machine Learning

arXiv:2606. 29280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We identify intervention bias as a previously unquantified failure mode of zero-shot large-language-model (LLM) educational advisory agents: without task-specific training, they recommend action when a hindsight-optimal oracle policy mandates inaction.

By Craig Atkinson
arXiv AI
Jun 30

SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios

arXiv:2511. 17649v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tangible control interfaces (TCIs), such as appliance panels, remotes, elevators, and embedded GUIs, are a fundamental component of everyday human-built environments.

By Juntao Cheng, Wanyue Zhang, Zhiwei Yu, Shuo Ren, Zheqi He, Shaoxuan Xie, Guocai Yao, Jieru Lin, B\"orje F. Karlsson, Jiajun Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

UCOB: Learning to Utilize and Evolve Agentic Skills via Credit-Aware On-Policy Bidirectional Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606. 29502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill memories can improve agentic reinforcement learning by reusing past experience as textual guidance, but retrieved skills are not oracular: they may help in one state while misleading the same policy in another.

By Songjun Tu, Chengdong Xu, Qichao Zhang, Yiwen Ma, Yaocheng Zhang, Linjing Li, Dong Li, Xiangyuan Lan, Dongbin Zhao