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 16

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale

arXiv:2606. 15079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient and scalable agentic intelligence requires models that can deliver both low-latency responses and strong reasoning capabilities while remaining practical to train, serve, and deploy.

By Ang Li, Ben Liu, Bin Han, Bin Hu, Bin Jing, Binbin Hu, Bing Li, Cai Chen, Caizhi Tang, Changxin Tian, Chao Huang, Chao Zhang, Chen Liang, Chen Qian, Chengfu Tang, Chengyao Wen, Chilin Fu, Chunwei Wu, Cong Zhang, Cunyin Peng, Daixin Wang, Dalong Zhang, Deng Zhao, Dingnan Jin, Dingyuan Zhu, Donghao Zhang, Fan Yuan, Fangzheng Zhao, Fanzhuang Meng, Feifan Wu, Feng Xu, Fengbin Fang, Gangshan Wang, Guodong Yang, Hailin Zhao, Haitao Wang, Haitao Zhang, Hanxiao Zhang, Hanzi Wang, Hao Dai, Hao Liu, Hao Qian, Hao Wu, Haoxiong Liu, Haoyu Xu, Heng Zhang, Hong Liu, Hongliang Zhang, Hongrui Liu, Hongxun Li, Hongzhi Ruan, Huaidong Xiong, Huihuang Zheng, Huikang Tang, Jia Guo, Jia Li, Jia Liu, Jiameng Wang, Jiaming Liu, Jiannan Shi, Jianping Wei, Jiaolong Yang, Jiapeng Wang, Jie Gao, Jie Wang, Jiewei Wu, Jin Yang, Jinjin Li, Jinjing Huang, Jinquan Sun, Jinyao Chen, Juanhui Tu, Jun Liu, Jun Mei, Jun Xu, Jun Zhou, Junjie Ou, Junnan Sipan, Junpeng Fang, Kaihong Zhang, Kaiqin Hu, Ke Shi, Kuan Xu, Kun Tang, Kunlong Chen, Lanyin Mei, Lei Chen, Lei Liang, Lei Xu, Li Tang, Liang Jiang, Liangcheng Fu, Lihui Zhang, Linfeng Shi, Lintao Ma, Liyuan Liu, Longfei Li, Longfei Zheng, Lu Liu, Lu Yu, Man Li, Meiqi Zhu, Meng Li, Mengjie Gao, Mengshu Sun, Mingming Yin, Mingyang Zhang, Mingyuan Fan, Nuo Xu, Pan Tang, Peijie Jiang, Peilong Zhao, Peng Lin, Pingping Liu, Qi Zuo, Qian Zhao, Qiang Cheng, Qianggang Cao, Qiaoben Bao, Qing Cui, Qingyuan Yang, Qitao Shi, Qiyin Huang, Qizheng Zhou, Quan Wan, Runyuan Zhao, Shaomian Zheng, Shaowei Wei, Shengnan Zhang, Shuaicheng Li, Shujie Li, Shuo Zhang, Sikang Bian, Tianchu Yao, Tiange Xu, Tianshu Wang, Ting Guo, Tinghao Wang, Tingwei Huang, Tong Zhao, Tongkai Yang, Wang Hong, Wanli Gu, Wei Lu, Weichang Wu, Weiguang Han, Weiquan Li, Wenbo Shen, Wenjing Fang, Wenzhi Tang, Xiang Shu, Xiao Shi, Xiaodong Yan, Xiaolu Zhang, Xiaopei Wan, Xiaqing Sun, Xin Zhao, Xingyu Lu, Xinxing Yang, Xinyao Tang, Xinyu Kong, Xinyu Liu, Xiong Xu, Xuan Sun, Xudong Han, Xudong Wang, Xujie Shen, Yalin Zhang, Yangyang Hou, Yankun Ren, Yao Zhao, Ye Chen, Yeyang Chen, Yibo Cao, Yifan Zuo, Yijie Chen, Ying Li, Yingjie Song, Yingxue Li, Yiqi Wang, Yixuan Sun, Yizhu Xiao, Yongfei Xu, Yu Liu, Yuchen Fang, Yue Gao, Yue Yu, Yue Zhang, Yuqi Zhang, Yuxiao He, Yuxiao Lu, Yuxin Tian, Yuxuan Li, Yuzhuo Fu, Zhankai Xu, Zhaoxin Huan, Zhenduo Zhang, Zhengke Gui, Zhengyu Huang, Zhenjun Ma, Zhenxuan Pan, Zheping Qu, Zhibo Zhu, Zhidong Fan, Zhigang Huangfu, Zhihao Wang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhizhen Liu, Zhuyan Zhou, Zibin Lin, Zihang Zeng, Zihao Wang, Zilong Wang, Ziqi Liu, Zitao Xuan, Zixuan Cheng, Zujie Wen, Zuoli Tang

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Token Reduction Should Go Beyond Efficiency in Generative Models -- From Vision, Language to Multimodality

arXiv:2505. 18227v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Transformer architectures, tokens\textemdash discrete units derived from raw data\textemdash are formed by segmenting inputs into fixed-length chunks.

By Zhenglun Kong, Yize Li, Fanhu Zeng, Lei Xin, Shvat Messica, Xue Lin, Pu Zhao, Manolis Kellis, Hao Tang, Marinka Zitnik

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

LiteOdyssey: A Lightweight Reasoning AI Agent for Interpretable Rare-Disease Diagnosis

arXiv:2606. 16149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most medical AI systems improve by scaling additional machinery: more fine-tuning data, more agents, and/or larger retrieval databases.

By Minh-Ha Nguyen, Erica Gray, Chih-Ting Yang, Rizwan Hamid, Lingyao Li, Siyuan Ma, Thomas A. Cassini, Cathy Shyr

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Greed Is Learned: Visible Incentives as Reward-Hacking Triggers

arXiv:2606. 16914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed agents increasingly act with their reward proxy in view, such as a balance, score, or KPI dashboard.

By Tong Che, Rui Wu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Whole-Brain Connectomic Graph Model Enables Whole-Body Locomotion Control in Fruit Fly

arXiv:2602. 17997v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Animals perform coordinated whole-body movements under the control of neural systems shaped by brain-wide connectivity.

By Zehao Jin, Yaoye Zhu, Chen Zhang, Yanan Sui

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Best Arm Identification with Minimal Regret

arXiv:2409. 18909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motivated by real-world applications that necessitate responsible experimentation, we introduce the problem of best arm identification (BAI) with minimal regret.

By Junwen Yang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Tianyuan Jin

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Agent trajectories as programs: fingerprinting and programming coding-agent behavior

arXiv:2606. 16988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmark scores tell you what an agent got right; they do not tell you how it got there.

By Hamidah Oderinwale

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Multi-Agent Framework for Audit Risk Assessment with Explicit Uncertainty and Evidence Conflict Modeling

arXiv:2606. 15640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audit risk assessment increasingly benefits from combining heterogeneous evidence sources, yet existing approaches typically produce point predictions without quantifying how well different evidence streams agree.

By Yuhan Wang, Manqing Wang, Yixuan Lu, Zhaoyue Peng, Shengda Lin

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

SDVDiag: Multimodal Causal Discovery for Online Diagnosis in Software-defined Vehicles

arXiv:2606. 15559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transition toward software-defined vehicles concentrates an increasing share of vehicle functionality into distributed software services, where failures propagate through service dependencies and the surface symptom is often several causal hops away from the underlying defect.

By Matthias Wei{\ss}, Athreya Hosahalli Prakash, Falk Dettinger, Nasser Jazdi, Michael Weyrich

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Looking Is Not Picking: An Attention-Segment Account of Tool-Selection Failures in LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 16364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents mis-call tools, and the natural guess is that the model failed to see the right tool in a crowded harness.

By Shiyang Chen

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Semantic Flip: Synthetic OOD Generation for Robust Refusal in Embodied Question Answering and Spatial Localization

arXiv:2606. 16898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting unanswerable user queries remains essential for the reliable deployment of real-world embodied agents.

By Dongbin Na, Chanwoo Kim, Giyun Choi, Dooyoung Hong

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

EvoMemBench: Benchmarking Agent Memory from a Self-Evolving Perspective

arXiv:2605. 18421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents mainly evaluate reasoning, planning, and execution.

By Yuyao Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Mo Chi, Kaichi Yu, Yuhan Li, Miao Peng, Bing Tong, Chen Zhang, Yan Zhou, Jia Li

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

TechRAG: Evidence-Gated Multimodal Agentic RAG for Technical Literature Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 01613v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents an agentic multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework for domain-specific literature reasoning, instantiated on a curated corpus of several thousand papers in intelligent tires, vehicle dynamics, vehicle control, sensing, estimation, and machine learning.

By Kanwar Bharat Singh

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Driving, Fast or Slow? Neuro-Symbolic Guidance for Motion Prediction in Multi-Modal Ground Mobility

arXiv:2606. 15251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and interpretable motion prediction for heterogeneous traffic spaces, including pedestrians, bicycles, cars, and trucks, is essential for safe autonomous navigation.

By Simon Kohaut, Felix Divo, Julius Hahnewald, Benedict Flade, Julian Eggert, Kristian Kersting, Devendra Singh Dhami

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Defending against Adaptive Prompt Injection Attacks via Reasoning-enabled Task Alignment

arXiv:2606. 15441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indirect prompt injection attacks hijack LLM-based agents by embedding malicious instructions in third-party data that the agent retrieves during task execution.

By Lipeng He, Yihan Wang, Jiawen Zhang, N. Asokan

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

A Survey on Agentic Security: Applications, Threats and Defenses

arXiv:2510. 06445v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are now used throughout cybersecurity.

By Asif Shahriar, Md Nafiu Rahman, Sadif Ahmed, Farig Sadeque, Md Rizwan Parvez

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

It's About Time: Temporal References in Emergent Communication

arXiv:2310. 06555v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emergent communication enables agents to develop bespoke languages that improve communication efficiency.

By Olaf Lipinski, Adam J. Sobey, Federico Cerutti, Timothy J. Norman

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

LLM-as-Code Agentic Programming for Agent Harness

arXiv:2606. 15874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every major LLM agent framework gives the LLM the role of orchestrator; the model decides what to do next, when to call tools, and when to stop.

By Junjia Qi, Zichuan Fu, Jingtong Gao, Wenlin Zhang, Hanyu Yan, Xian Wu, Xiangyu Zhao

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Green SARC: Predictive Cost and Carbon Governance for Agentic AI Systems

arXiv:2606. 15954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems act through tools and sub-agents, yet the controls meant to bound their financial and environmental cost still sit on dashboards evaluated beside or after execution.

By Gaston Besanson

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

ACCORD: Action-Conditioned Contextual Grounding for Language Agents

arXiv:2606. 16432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: User instructions are often underspecified because humans rely on implicit assumptions about the surrounding environment.

By Lai Jiang, Cheng Qian, Zhenhailong Wang, Pan Lu, Heng Ji, Hao Peng

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