AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Aug 11

Yesterday's Shield, Today's Spear: A Self-Evolving Safety Guardrail in Production

arXiv:2608. 08471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed LLM safety guardrails are predominantly static: trained once and frozen at release, while new jailbreak techniques and previously un-addressed harmful categories emerge within days, leaving the defense perpetually a step behind.

By Cong Ming, Jingyi Chen, Bin Liu, Qi Chu, Tao Gong, Nenghai Yu, Yingfei Xiang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Satellite Trajectory Optimization via Proximal Policy Optimization for Space Debris Avoidance

arXiv:2608. 09628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collision avoidance systems are commonly used to avoid fragmentation events occurring in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO).

By Logan Luna (Georgia Institute of Technology), Juan Ortiz Couder (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Raul Alejandro Vargas-Acosta (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
arXiv AI
Aug 11

TempoBench: Reasoning Execution Without Causal Attribution Is Just Simulation

arXiv:2510. 27544v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current training paradigms, optimized for long-horizon reasoning trace execution, have made Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at pattern matching and forward simulation of reasoning, but underperform at counterfactual causal understanding and reasoning.

By Nikolaus Holzer, William Fishell, Baishakhi Ray, Mark Santolucito
arXiv AI
Aug 11

CAP: A Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-Site Browser Agents with Complex Actions and Perception

arXiv:2608. 08392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that interact with the web through browsers.

By Zejun Xu, Taiyi Chen, Jin Li, Yongtong Gu, Qi Cheng, Aixuan Lv, Shuai Zhu, Pengfei Zhu, Kaichen Yang, Boyu Sun, Yixian Yang, Mulong Xie, Xin Liu, Dagang Li, Xiaoteng Ma, Hongru Wang
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

CORDA: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Harm-Centric Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 08061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key question in moral judgement is not simply whether someone chooses the "right" answer, but how they decide what matters most when moral principles conflict.

By Siddarth Singh, Victoria Williams, Simon Rosen, Ebenezer Gelo, Helen Sarah Robertson, Ibrahim Suder, Benjamin Rosman, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Steven James
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SCOUT: Self-Checking and Recovery-Aware Tool-Thought Agents for Ultra-Long Egocentric Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 07959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long egocentric video understanding requires reasoning over temporally sparse evidence distributed across hours or days, challenging current multimodal models with limited context and the grounding of key video segments.

By Keyang Zhong, Kuo Wang, Peng Liu, Quanlong Zheng, Junlin Xie, Zhijia Liang, Yanhao Zhang, Guanbin Li
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

Long SKILL Compliance as Logical Reasoning: Closure-Grounded Detection with Scaling-Guided On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608. 08146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing complexity of enterprise business scenarios has promoted the widespread adoption of long SKILL documents in agent systems, posing new challenges for compliance detection: large models incur substantial inference costs, while small models may fail to maintain detection accuracy.

By Shuaitao Zhao, Feng Ni, Lichao Ma, Jiaye Lin, Fei Han, Yang Wei, Lu Pan