AI agents

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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Distilling Vision-Language Models for Robust Traffic Sign Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2608. 08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial attacks, including shadow perturbations, natural-light interference, and printed patches.

By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Entropy-based Code Adversarial Translation for Real-world Repository Migration

arXiv:2608. 09273v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs have demonstrated strong capabilities in code generation and automated program repair, but migrating an entire repository rarely produces a runnable application because long-horizon translation challenges LLM-based agents' ability to maintain repository-level migration objectives.

By Yushun Tang, Yisen Cao, Zhicheng Chen, Lin Peng, Junkang Mao, Fengyi Song, Yantao Jia
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Defending Retrieval-Augmented Intrusion Detection Against Knowledge Poisoning and Prompt Injection

arXiv:2608. 08100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to classify network flows and generate human-readable incident reports by retrieving semantically similar historical traffic from a vector knowledge base.

By Kaysarul Anas Apurba, Md. Hasibul Hasan, Mahedee Zaman Moon, Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Atsuo Inomata
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Reason Wide, Not Deep: Amortizing the Reasoning Premium into Distilled Skills

arXiv:2608. 07885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning modes of language models outperform their non-reasoning counterparts on multi-step agentic tasks, but pay a 3-6x premium in output tokens on every episode -- much of it spent re-deriving procedures that are shared across episodes of the same domain.

By Agamdeep Singh, Srishti Gautam, Priyanshu Gupta, Nikita Mehrotra, Tanmay Bakshi, Sumit Gulwani
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Multi-agent discovery of practical quantum LDPC codes

arXiv:2608. 08996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes can encode multiple logical qubits using sparse parity checks, yet searching for useful finite-length instances remains a challenging design problem because code performance must be optimized while satisfying practical constraints.

By Dongheng Qian, Tianyi Li
arXiv AI
Aug 11

STEMMA: An Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Self-Identity Consistency in LLMs

arXiv:2608. 08164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation is a widely adopted technique in the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) enabling transfer of structured information and functional behavior from a large teacher model to a smaller student model while significantly reducing computational costs.

By Nuthakki Siva Gopala Krishna, Kanishka Jain
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SHE: Trajectory-driven Safety Harness Evolution for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 09885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The safety of large language model (LLM) agents depends not only on model weights but also on the agent harness that manages context, memory, tools, permissions, and runtime control.

By Wanying Qu, Qinghua Mao, Yu Li, Jiyao Liu, Xin Zhang, Dadi Guo, Yanxu Zhu, Qingyu Liu, Leitao Yuan, Xi Lin, Shanfeng Zhu, Yanwei Fu, Jing Shao, Xia Hu, Dongrui Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs

arXiv:2603. 20253v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating LLM agents for scientific tasks has focused on token costs while ignoring tool-use costs like simulation time and experimental resources.

By Yadi Cao, Sicheng Lai, Jiahe Huang, Yang Zhang, Zach Lawrence, Rohan Bhakta, Izzy F. Thomas, Mingyun Cao, Chung-Hao Tsai, Zihao Zhou, Yidong Zhao, Hao Liu, Alessandro Marinoni, Alexey Arefiev, Rose Yu