AI agents

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

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arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

LongWoF-Bench: Evaluating EvoMap Genes for Verifiable Long-Workflow Tasks

LongWoF-Bench is a new benchmark of 778 machine‑verifiable long‑workflow tasks spanning code generation, agent‑environment synthesis, mathematical reasoning, and rule following. The study shows that EvoMap Genes—structured representations of verifier‑confirmed execution trajectories—outperform the Skill baseline by 8.7–15.5 percentage points across seven models, and for Claude Opus they enable 39 additional task completions while cutting token consumption by 9.9%. The results demonstrate that verified execution experience can be externalized and reused, improving long‑workflow completion without repeatedly discovering new strategies.

By Xiao Zhang, Qumeng Sun, Jihao Li, Yiming Ren, Xiang Liu, Haoyang Zhang, Junjie Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report

arXiv:2608.15763v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-powered digital avatar streamers must answer product questions, engage viewers, and execute marketing strategies in real time, demanding low lat...

By TaoLive AIGC LLM Team, Yuhan Sun, Wenhao Lin, Yongdong Luo, Yibo Hu, Meiguang Jin, Junfeng Ma, Weihang Pan, Jiaxin Zhao, Zulong Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

LoViF 2026 The First Challenge on Unified Removal of Raindrops and Reflections: Methods and Results

arXiv:2608.22723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This workshop paper comprehensively reviews the First Challenge on Unified Removal of Raindrops and Reflections. The challenge aims to address a freque...

By Zewei He, Xi Tong, Yu Chen, Xingyu Liu, Xin Li, Zepeng Wang, Jiagao Hu, Fuhao Li, Yuxuan Chen, Fei Wang, Daiguo Zhou, Minmin Yi, Chuanrui Zhang, Liwen Zhang, Yeongjin Jeong, Hyunjin Cho, Jiwon Lee, Minsang Kim, Jae Woong Soh, Jin-Hui Jiang, Rong-Lin Jian, Chih-Chung Hsu, Youngjin Oh, Junhyeong Kwon, Junyoung Park, Jae Hyun Park, Sung Ju Lee, Nam Ik Cho, Vishwajeet Shukla, Himanshu Baurai, Zhiqi Zhang, Kui Jiang, Zhaocheng Yu, Runzhe Li, Dawei Fan, Hao Li, Zhanshuo Zhang, Fan Ji, Jiangmeng Li, Xiongxin Tang, Fanjiang Xu, Shangquan Sun, Anh-Kiet Duong, Petra Gomez-Kr\"amer, Jean-Michel Carozza, Ruibo Zhang, Dexiang Hong, Xinyan Liu, Shengeng Tang, Weidong Chen, Tzu-Hsuan Weng, Min-Te Sun
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Coalition-Aware Skill Reliability for Self-Evolving Agents

arXiv:2608.22610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills, structured artifacts distilled from interaction trajectories and dynamically reused from skill banks, have become a central mechanism for...

By Qiyan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang, Bo Liu, Minda Chen, Wei Xiong, Jingyang Chen, Guanting Ye, Wenhao Yu, Xiaosong Yuan, Shijie Han, Da-Han Wang, Jianmin Ji, Fei Huang, Xu-Yao Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 25

GSAR: Goal-State-Anchor Rewards for Mobile GUI Agents with Self-Evolving Data Synthesis

arXiv:2608.22847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based GUI agents stand to benefit significantly from online reinforcement learning (RL). However, their training is bottl...

By Long Zhang, Yuhan Chen, Chaoran Zhang, Wanxia Cao, Kun Huang, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Chenliang Li, Lixin Zou
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Learning from the Test: Self-Referential Differential Testing for Deep RL Agents

The paper introduces Delta, a two‑phase framework for testing deep reinforcement learning agents. In the first phase, the agent under test is evaluated for catastrophic failures while collecting decision‑making data. The second phase trains a challenger agent from this data using offline RL; comparing the challenger’s rewards to the original agent reveals optimality bugs, and Delta successfully uncovered thousands of such issues across multiple environments.

By Junda He, Jieke Shi, Zhou Yang, Mingfei Cheng, David Lo
arXiv AI
Aug 25

TO-Agents: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Subjective Preference-Guided Topology Optimization

TO-Agents is a multi‑agent AI framework that translates natural‑language design intent into iterative topology optimization. It converts a human problem description into solver inputs, runs the optimizer, renders 3D topologies, and employs a judge agent to critique and revise results using multiview vision‑language reasoning. Evaluated on a cantilever beam and a phone‑stand design, the system achieved preference‑aligned designs in 60% of trials, outperforming an ablated pipeline by up to six times and enabling end‑to‑end intent‑to‑prototype design with additive manufacturing.

By Isabella A. Stewart, Hongrui Chen, Faez Ahmed