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 10

Qiushi Engine on AstaBench E2E-Bench-Hard

arXiv:2609.08196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This report analyzes Qiushi Engine v0.8 across all 40 test tasks in AstaBench E2E-Bench-Hard, a benchmark that requires autonomous agents to carry a re...

By Wenhao Li, Shuxing Yang, Fujia Chen, Jincheng Mi, Yuang Pan, Rui Zhao, Zichen Li, Junyao Wu, Shenzhan Hong, Yaqi Li, Yize Wang, Kaihao Zhu, Taowen Deng, Junjie Yang, Hongsheng Chen, Yihao Yang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

AgenticGen: Reward-Guided Agentic Video Generation for Advertising

AgenticGen is a reward‑guided framework for generating advertising videos that splits the task into strategy selection and draft generation, allowing online business feedback to supervise each stage. It learns performance‑based rewards from accumulated online metrics and rubric‑based rewards aligned with human quality standards, then applies DPO and GRPO to refine policies. Offline tests confirm the reward models, and online A/B tests on TikTok show significant gains in CTR, CVR, and advertising value over a baseline.

By Xingyuan Bu, Chengru Song, Hao Zhou, Tao Zhou, Dong Li, Wei Li, Shilong Li, Hao Shi, Yongxin Guo, Donghao Zhou, Qiangpeng Yang, Shilei Wen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

Strangers to Themselves: What Language Models Say About Themselves Is Generic

The study examines whether language models can accurately predict their own behavior by comparing self-reports to actual performance across nine behavioral tests. Results show that direct self-report is weak and only modestly improved when the model sees the exact items, while generic questions about AI agents yield similar predictive power. First-person framing biases reports toward underestimating harmful behavior, and fine‑tuning on a model’s own record improves narrow predictions but does not generalize.

By Phil Blandfort, Urja Pawar
arXiv AI
Sep 10

From Monolithic Blending to Agentic Orchestration: Dynamic Response for Conversational Assistants at Scale

The paper describes a production migration of a large-scale customer‑support conversational assistant from a single blended model to a Dynamic Response (DR) architecture. DR replaces the Qwen3‑235B‑A22B responder with a bounded ReAct orchestrator that selects typed tools and a smaller generator that writes from a validated context contract. The migration yields significant improvements: precision‑first entity selection boosts reservation selector precision from 8.3% to 89.1%, typed action IDs eliminate structured‑action hallucination, and hard‑escalation responses drop from 5.60% to 3.08%. Latency is reduced from 3.87 s to 2.24 s, GPU usage is cut by roughly one‑third, and self‑hosting cuts annual model‑serving costs by more than an order of magnitude.

By Cen Mia Zhao, Peng Wang, Chuan Shi, Yufeng Zhang, Ying Lyu, Wanmeng Ren, Robert Xue, Claire Na Cheng, Yashar Mehdad
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

EVA-Bench: A New End-to-end Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents

arXiv:2605.13841v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Voice agents are increasingly deployed across enterprise applications. However, no existing benchmark jointly addresses realistic conversatio...

By Tara Bogavelli, Gabrielle Gauthier Melan\c{c}on, Katrina Stankiewicz, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Fanny Riols, Hoang H. Nguyen, Raghav Mehndiratta, Lindsay Devon Brin, Joseph Marinier, Hari Subramani, Anil Madamala, Sridhar Krishna Nemala, Srinivas Sunkara
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report

The technical report introduces Gander, an end‑to‑end model that integrates omni perception, real‑time interaction, and agentic capabilities into a single framework. Unlike traditional turn‑based systems, Gander continuously processes streaming inputs from video, speech, and text, enabling natural full‑duplex interaction in both everyday conversations and workflow‑oriented scenarios. Its architecture features a Cerebellum‑Brain collaboration—where the Cerebellum handles real‑time interaction and omni conversational tasks while the Brain manages complex reasoning—and a streaming Thinker‑Talker design that flattens inputs and outputs into an ordered token stream for low‑latency, continuous dialogue. Evaluations across conversational ability, omni understanding, interactive capability, and agentic intelligence show that Gander matches state‑of‑the‑art open‑source models in spoken dialogue while maintaining robust performance in noisy, multi‑party, and backchannel environments.

By Orantqing, Shengpeng Ji, Junlong Tong, Jialong Zuo, Dongjie Fu, Di Cao, Yangzhuo Li, Shangda Wu, Franz, Evan, Theron Veyra, Changhao Pan, Jingyu Lu, Dongchao Yang, Zhifei Xie, Yang Tan, Xiaoyu Shen, Xiaoda Yang, Wenfu Wang, Teddy Sun, Steve Yves, Zhou Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Quantum Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Variational Quantum Circuits

The paper investigates the use of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) in hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL). It shows that a hybrid HRL agent incorporating a quantum feature extractor can outperform classical baselines with fewer parameters, but using VQCs for option-value estimation hampers learning. The study also explores how different quantum circuit designs influence performance and proposes design principles for efficient hybrid HRL agents.

By Yu-Ting Lee, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Fu-Chieh Chang