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 12

Access Timing as Scaffolding: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to GenAI in Education

arXiv:2605. 15850v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, generative AI (GenAI) in educational settings has become ubiquitous in university students' daily lives, despite its potential to induce over-reliance, metacognitive disengagement, and diminished learning when used unrestrictedly.

By Janne Rotter, Pau Benazet i Montobbio, Davinia Hern\'andez-Leo
arXiv AI
Aug 12

UserToolBench: A User-Profile-Hidden Benchmark for Personalized Decision Making in Tool-Use LLMs

arXiv:2608. 10042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-use LLMs are increasingly asked to act on users' behalf, but existing benchmarks usually focus on profile recall, style imitation, generic tool use, or response-level personalization.

By Xuexiong Yin, Zechuan Chen, Yongsen Zheng, Yuxiang Zhang, Jingyuan Yang, Bin Wang, Yubin Wang, Keze Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Recovering Wasted Compute in Autoresearch Agents

arXiv:2608. 10424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A slew of recent works develop agents for solving research problems end-to-end, a paradigm increasingly referred to as autoresearch.

By Au Kwok Chun, Abhigyan Acherjee, Amrutha Rao, Zaiqian Chen, Kazem Meidani, C. Bayan Bruss, Micah Goldblum
arXiv AI
Aug 12

From Reasoning Depth to Reasoning Breadth: Evaluating Multi-Point Associative Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 10444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have made substantial progress on reasoning tasks that require increasingly long and complex inferential chains.

By Si'an Xie (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Jiaxun Liu (Peking University), Biao Yang (Kuaishou Technology), Wei Yuan (Kuaishou Technology), Fan Yang (Kuaishou Technology), Tingting Gao (Kuaishou Technology), Ming Wu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
arXiv AI
Aug 12

MESA:Task-Adaptive Multi-Structure Evidence Selection for Long-Horizon Agent Memory

arXiv:2608. 10108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents accumulate trajectories spanning hundreds of interleaved reasoning, action, and observation steps, where answering a query may depend on evidence buried far back in the history.

By Beidi Zhao, Yaoqi Chen, Yuru Feng, Menghao Li, Qianxi Zhang, Baotong Lu, Jianan Lu, Zhirui Wang, Xinjiang Wang, Shusen Xu, Zengzhong Li, Xiaoxiao Li, Qi Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

TideRL: Boosting Agentic RL Goodput with Readiness-Aware Scheduling

arXiv:2608. 10402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models is moving toward multi-turn agentic workloads, where rollout tasks repeatedly pause for external environments, resume with growing contexts, and finish at highly variable times.

By Yanyu Ren, Xizheng Wang, Xiao Liu, Bowen Lv, Hanchen Zhang, Shudan Zhang, Hanyu Lai, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Dan Li, Jie Tang
arXiv AI
Aug 12

DSAgentBench: Can Agents Automate End-to-End Data-Science Workflows in Real Computer Environments?

arXiv:2608. 10366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world data science involves long-horizon workflows that span data wrangling, exploration, modeling, visualization, and validation, and require coordinated use of tools such as notebooks, IDEs, terminals, browsers, and databases within real operating environments.

By Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque Prince