AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Sep 15

OptoAgent: A Trustworthy Multi-Agent Framework for Opportunistic Vision Micro-Screening in Classroom Environments

OptoAgent is a multi‑agent framework called SightSentinel that transforms a classroom wall display into a continuous vision screening tool. It embeds short, calibrated optotype probes into ordinary educational content, and eight specialized agents analyze each encounter to recover viewing distance, recognition accuracy, gaze stability, and other metrics. A quality agent filters out poor data, a longitudinal agent builds a child‑specific baseline, and an orchestrator produces a Vision Concern Score that is routed through a safety gate to avoid diagnosis or prescription. "whyItMatters":"The system aims to detect vision problems earlier and more reliably than periodic school screenings by leveraging everyday classroom interactions and automated, low‑cost data collection."

By Toqeer Ali Syed, Ali Akarma, Adeel Ahmad, Hammad Muneer
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

FFVO: A Feedforward Pose Decoder for Long-Horizon Visual Odometry

arXiv:2609.13733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stable and reliable 4D spatial understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving systems. While feedforward reconstruction networks can estimate came...

By Meng-Li Shih, Shih-Yang Su, Yuliang Zou, Hao Xiang, Haidong Zhu, Vincent Casser, Brian Curless, Dmitry Kalenichenko, Mingxing Tan, Dragomir Anguelov
arXiv AI
Sep 15

The Universe of Universes: Benefit Yield Functions, Implosion Thresholds, and Infrastructure-Aware Optimization in Multi-LLM Systems

The paper introduces the Universe of Universes (UoU) framework, treating the ecosystem of major large language models as a structured retrieval corpus and proposing a compositional Automated Reasoning and Machine Learning architecture for cross-model retrieval‑augmented generation. It formally defines the Benefit Yield Function (BYF), measuring marginal performance gain per added model, and identifies an implosion threshold θ* where BYF becomes zero and ensemble performance degrades. The work highlights gaps in current LLM ensemble research, such as lack of performance analysis across full model universes, and connects these findings to implications for DoD AI acquisition policy and testing of AI‑enabled systems.

By Danielle Franklin, Vasu Raj Jain