AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
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AstronOS: A Unified Execution Model and Runtime for Long-Horizon Agentic Systems

arXiv:2608. 16381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems often organize execution and state around a single conversation, model invocation, or agent instance, even when real work spans many calls and stages.

By Zhenhang Nie (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Gui Zheng (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Xudong Sun (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Tailong Zhu (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Bin Zhang (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China)
arXiv AI
1d ago

LongRCA Bench: Diagnosing Responsible Roles and Root Causes in Long-Horizon Agent Failures

arXiv:2608. 15242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a long-horizon agent execution fails, outcome-level evaluation reveals the unsuccessful result but not where the decisive error entered the trajectory.

By Yunfei Zhang, Boyu Feng, Changhua Pei, Zexin Wang, Zhihuang Peng, Xinlong Liu, Hengyue Jiang, Difeng Ma, Jiayi Zhang, Yongzhou Yao, Yanan Zhao, Fei Sun, Yintong Huo, Zhaoyang Liu, Jingjing Li, Gaogang Xie, Dan Pei
arXiv AI
1d ago

Workspace Topology as an Attack Vector in Agentic Coding Assistants

arXiv:2608. 14876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic coding assistants are finding widespread use, not just in new code development but in quickly ingesting and leveraging third-party code.

By Alexandre G. R. Day, Pradeep Yadlapalli, Sriram Venkatapathy, Thomas Paniagua, Nick Raines, Sahil Wadhwa, Himanshu Kumar, Andy Luo, Sudeep Panyam, Rikhiya Ghosh, Pranab Mohanty, Giri Iyengar
arXiv AI
1d ago

Handoff-H1: An Orchestrated Vision-Agent System for Material Quantity Takeoff from Construction Blueprints

arXiv:2608. 15032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Converting a set of architectural blueprints into a complete material quantity takeoff requires visual perception across drawing sheets, dimensional and multi-hop reasoning, and grounding in construction conventions that the drawings never state.

By Bruno Chicelli, Henrique Alves, Rodrigo Anselmo, Joshua Weinberg, Felipe Lemos, Jan Baryla
arXiv AI
1d ago

From LLM Inference to Agentic Workloads: Characterization and Implications for Serving Systems

arXiv:2608. 15127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic applications are shifting AI serving from isolated model inference to long-running workloads in which LLMs coordinate tools, environments, and persistent state.

By Chaokun Chang, Yukun Zhou, Kaihua Fu, Dakai An, Tianyu Feng, Hanfeng Lu, Sheng Yao, Pu Guo, Yinghao Yu, Yizhou Shan, Bo Li, Binhang Yuan, Wei Wang
arXiv AI
1d ago

MINT: Min-Selection Preference Distillation for Balanced Multi-Objective Alignment

arXiv:2608. 14828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning a language agent to several objectives at once is a persistent failure mode of preference-based training: when objectives are combined additively, optimization collapses onto whichever is cheapest to improve and sacrifices the rest, so a support agent learns to sound warm while giving no real help.

By Tony Tu, Sayan Chakraborty, Ruomeng Xu, Tony Qin, Austin Tian
arXiv AI
1d ago

When Agentic Executions Fail: Detecting and Localizing Runtime Faults from Telemetry

arXiv:2608. 14680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliability in LLM-based agentic systems is a property of the whole execution (its tool calls, model calls, guardrails, and inter-agent messages), not of the final answer alone, yet evaluating only task outcomes reveals little about how or why a run fails.

By Chenkai Zhang, Yiran Li, Yifang Tian, Michalis Bachras, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
arXiv AI
1d ago

Kozuchi Agent: A Language-Agnostic Open-Weight Agent for Software Repair

arXiv:2608. 15579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial software-engineering teams increasingly need LLM agents that turn bug reports into correct patches, yet benchmark-scale operation adds long horizons, tool-use discipline, context persistence, heterogeneous clusters, and evaluation reuse.

By Mehdi Bahrami, Kosaku Kimura, Satoshi Munakata, Satoshi Nakashima, Yu Ishikawa, Kosuke Maeda, Nao Soma, Kenichi Kobayashi, Keisuke Miyazaki, Keizo Kato, Shigeki Fukuta, Tatsuo Kumano, Nobutaka Imamura, Kevin Musgrave, Shahbaz Abdul Khader, Kwun Ho Ngan, Joe Townsend, Fayas Asharindavida, Matthieu Parizy, Akira Sakai, Yuma Ichikawa, Yang Zhao, Michiaki Takizawa, Taku Fukui, Hiroki Ohtsuji, Wei-Peng Chen, Hiromichi Kobashi