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
Jun 2

B-GRTO: Bootstrapped Group Relative Tool Optimization for Referring Segmentation

arXiv:2605. 23500v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, underpinning pixel-level scene understanding and serving as a cornerstone for applications ranging from autonomous perception to medical image analysis.

By Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Emergence of Exploration in Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning via Retrying

arXiv:2606. 00151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning (RL), agents benefit from exploration only because they repeatedly encounter similar states: trying different actions can improve performance or reduce uncertainty; without such retries, a greedy policy is optimal.

By Soichiro Nishimori, Paavo Parmas, Sotetsu Koyamada, Tadashi Kozuno, Toshinori Kitamura, Shin Ishii, Yutaka Matsuo
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Monitoring Agentic Systems Before They're Reliable

arXiv:2606. 02494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic systems entering production typically operate as partially integrated assemblies where structural defects, not task-level errors, dominate the failure landscape.

By Marisa Ferrara Boston, Glen Hanson, Effi Georgala, JD Hudgens, Heather Frase
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States

arXiv:2606. 00010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For patients experiencing cancer, nurse navigation can ease the burden of complex care by enhancing coordination of health services and patient outcomes.

By Tyra Girdwood, Saba Kheirinejad, Parnian Kheirkhah Rahimabad, Brianna M. White, Robert L Davis, David L Schwartz, Arash Shaban-Nejad
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data

arXiv:2605. 22759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging.

By Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A. Xu, A. Ali Heydari, Samy Abdel-Ghaffar, Marius Guerard, Kara Vaillancourt, Zhihan Zhang, Jake Garrison, Levi Albuquerque, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Yu, Hamid Palangi, Xuhai "Orson" Xu, David G. T. Barrett, Joseph Breda, Jed McGiffin, Yubin Kim, Yuwei Zhang, Naghmeh Rezaei, Samuel Solomon, Karan Ahuja, Tim Althoff, Jake Sunshine, Ming-Zher Poh, Benjamin Yetton, Ari Winbush, Nicholas B. Allen, James M. Rehg, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Yun Liu, John Hernandez, Anupam Pathak, Conor Heneghan, Yuzhe Yang, Ahmed A. Metwally, Pushmeet Kohli, Mark Malhotra, Shwetak Patel, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff