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 13

Advancing MLLM-based UAV Image Understanding and Reasoning: A Benchmark and a Training-Free Multi-Agent System

arXiv:2608. 11738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based UAV aerial image understanding and reasoning is essential for aerial intelligence yet poses distinct challenges arising from extreme scale variation, arbitrary camera orientations, and high object density.

By Haoyu Zhang, Shuoxun Zhang, Peng Ye, Lin Zhang, Jiakang Yuan, Shenghong Yi, Yuening Wang, Tao Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Local verification cannot detect non-transportability: a cohomological theory of context preservation in agentic reasoning

arXiv:2608. 11252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems routinely transport conclusions across biological, clinical and financial contexts, and the emerging safeguard is local verification: checking at each step that the entity is representable in the chosen tool, that parameters are compatible, and that outputs cohere with the plan.

By Suyash Mishra
arXiv AI
Aug 13

RecSys Factory: Bounding LLM Agent Autonomy to Decision Points in the Industrial Recommender Lifecycle

arXiv:2608. 11241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying LLM agents into industrial recommender operations exposes a three-way tension we frame as the autonomy-determinism-efficiency trilemma: general autonomy (interpreting operator intent, generating glue code zero-shot), industrial determinism (schema-conforming feature extraction, non-crashing A/B, zero compliance-path hallucination), and end-to-end efficiency.

By Dongyang Ao, Kaixiang Fang, Shijie Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 13

CoAdapt-GUI: Joint Workflow Context and Policy Adaptation for Unseen GUI Applications

arXiv:2608. 11588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents remain brittle when deployed to applications absent from source training.

By Linqiang Guo (Peter), Li Gu (Peter), Zihuan Jiang (Peter), Zhixiang Chi (Peter), Siobhan Reid (Peter), Ziqiang Wang (Peter), Yuanhao Yu (Peter), Wei Liu (Peter), Yang Wang (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 13

Learning Loco-Manipulation From SMPC Demonstrations With Sparse Offline-to-Online RL

arXiv:2608. 12063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integrating locomotion and manipulation is essential for robot autonomy, but scaling standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) to complex tasks is severely bottlenecked by the slow, manual process of dense reward shaping.

By Martin Schuck, Maks Sorokin, Simone Manni, Duy Ta, Angela P. Schoellig, Marco Hutter, Simon Le Cleac'H, Jan Br\"udigam
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

Unmasking Toxic Mimicry in Medical Offline Reinforcement Learning for ICU Sepsis Management via Counterfactual Clinical Audits

arXiv:2608. 11410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers considerable promise for optimizing ICU treatment decisions, yet standard evaluation metrics Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Fitted Q-Evaluation (FQE) assess only behavioral imitation and cannot detect Toxic Mimicry, a failure mode in which agents replicate harmful patterns such as treatment withdrawal during comfort-care transitions.

By Hangqi Ren, Junyi Liao
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

DCM Bandits: Multiplayer Information Asymmetric Cascading Bandits for Multiple Clicks

arXiv:2608. 11873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we extend the Dependent Click Model (DCM) Bandits to a multiplayer information-asymmetric setting, where multiple agents interact with a shared ranked list and may observe multiple clicks per session, introducing new challenges for selection strategies.

By Andy Wang, Charlton Shih, William Chang