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 6

AutoDFT: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous DFT Calculations

arXiv:2605. 26179v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when unexpected physics emerges, and inserting steps as intermediate results reshape the problem.

By Penghui Yang, Zhonghan Zhang, Yue Li, Xinrun Wang, Yanchen Deng, Yuhao Lu, Bijun Tang, Zheng Liu, Bo An
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Evidence Over Plans: Online Trajectory Verification for Skill Distillation

arXiv:2605. 09192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent skills can remarkably improve task success rates by using human-written procedural documents, but their quality is difficult to assess without environment-grounded verification.

By Yang Zhou, Zihan Dong, Zhenting Wang, Can Jin, Shiyu Zhao, Bangwei Guo, Difei Gu, Linjun Zhang, Mu Zhou, Dimitris N. Metaxas
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Domain-Conditioned Safety in Frontier Computer-Using Agents: A 793-Episode Browser Benchmark, a Coding-Domain Cross-Reference, and a Reproducibility Audit of Recent Red-Teaming

arXiv:2606. 05233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent computer-using-agent (CUA) red-teaming papers report prompt-injection attack success rates (ASR) of 42-98%, but these headline numbers cluster on retired models and on the most-vulnerable model in each paper's panel.

By Nicholas Saban
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Output Type Before Quality: A Standards-Derived XAI Admissibility Rubric for Autonomous-Driving Safety

arXiv:2606. 05461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety standards for ML-based autonomous driving specify the kind of evidence an assurance case must contain (directed cause-and-effect chains, quantified interventional effects, named root-cause variables), yet the XAI literature is organised by output type and technique family (saliency maps, feature attribution, counterfactuals, causal graphs, language traces).

By Abhinaw Priyadershi, Mandar Pitale, Jelena Frtunikj, Maria Spence
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Beyond Semantic Organization: Memory as Execution State Management for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2606. 06090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents increasingly tackle long-horizon tasks with interdependent decisions, where each action reshapes future constraints and intermediate errors can cascade.

By Yaoqi Chen, Haibin Lai, Yuru Feng, Chuyu Han, Qianxi Zhang, Baotong Lu, Menghao Li, Xinjiang Wang, Zhirui Wang, Shusen Xu, Zengzhong Li, Zewen Jin, Hao Wu, Cheng Li, Qi Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI

arXiv:2606. 06380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The question of whether artificial systems can be conscious remains open, in part because existing approaches either evaluate systems against theory-derived checklists (discriminative) or engineer consciousness-inspired modules directly (architectural); both leave open whether observed structures are artifacts of human language priors.

By Zengqing Wu, Chuan Xiao
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Continual Learning Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI Systems in Real-World Stateful Environments

arXiv:2606. 05661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning, the ability of AI systems to improve through sequential experience, has attracted substantial interest, but no high-quality benchmark exists to evaluate it.

By Parth Asawa, Christopher M. Glaze, Gabriel Orlanski, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Benji Xu, Asim Biswal, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez