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

The Scaffolding Matters More Than the Interface: A Controlled Comparison of MCP and CLI Tool Use Across Seven Agent Scaffoldings, Five Language Models, and One Software Task

arXiv:2608. 08654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How much an AI coding agent costs to run can depend more on the agent scaffolding that drives it than on the interface through which it reaches its tools.

By Marc Alier Forment, Mar\'ia Jos\'e Casa\~n Guerrero, Francisco Jos\'e Garc\'ia-Pe\~nalvo, Juanan Pereira
arXiv AI
Aug 11

El Agente Gr\'afico: A Semantic Execution Runtime for Scientific Agents

arXiv:2602. 17902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can plan scientific workflows and generate code, but these capabilities do not specify how scientific state is validated, transferred and recorded across heterogeneous computational and experimental operations.

By Jiaru Bai, Abdulrahman Aldossary, Thomas Swanick, Marcel M\"uller, Yeonghun Kang, Changhyeok Choi, Naruki Yoshikawa, Zijian Zhang, Jin Won Lee, Tsz Wai Ko, Aiwei Yin, Mohammad Ghazi Vakili, Chris Crebolder, Varinia Bernales, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik
arXiv AI
Aug 11

NeuroPilot: An Agent-Driven Smart Pipeline for Processing, Quality Control, and Managing Neuroimages

arXiv:2608. 07541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transforming raw neuroimage archives into analysis-ready derivatives relies on three brittle stages: data standardization, modality-specific preprocessing, and quality control (QC).

By Yiyao Chen, Yucheng Li, Jungong Tong, Shaoqi Wang, Kunhao Zhou, Ziquan Wei, Monica Murea, Marissa DiPiero, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Large Multimodal Agents for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Architectures, Evidence, and Deployment Challenges

arXiv:2608. 08184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal agents (LMAs) are increasingly proposed for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), but existing studies often conflate multimodality, agency, empirical performance, and deployment readiness.

By Muhammad Ayub Sabir, Shaohong Zheng, Zhiyu Qu, Fatima Ashraf, Junbiao Pang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Macaron-V1: Towards Open Continual Learning with Self-Improvement and Mixture-of-LoRA

arXiv:2608. 09819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Macaron-V1 is an open agent-model family for experiential intelligence: learning from experience in real environments and continuing to learn after deployment.

By Mind Lab, :, Vin Bo, Asher Cai, Jingwei Cao, Song Cao, Vic Cao, Amelia Chen, Andrew Chen, Kaijie Chen, Cleon Cheng, Steven Chiang, Kaixuan Fan, Hera Feng, Huan Feng, Arthur Fu, Jun Gao, Pyke Han, Nolan Ho, Ori Hong, Hailee Hou, Piers Hua, Charles Huang, Miles Jiang, Nora Jiang, Yuyi Jiang, Qiuyu Jin, Fancy Kong, Kuss Koo, Jaron Lee, Andrew Lei, Alexy Li, Dawn Li, Lucian Li, Ray Li, Ricardo Li, Smith Li, Theo Li, Allen Lin, Elliot Lin, Fan Lin, Chen Ling, Kairus Liu, Kieran Liu, Logan Liu, Neo Liu, Xiang Liu, Yuxin Lu, Maeve Luo, Pony Ma, Verity Niu, Cole Qiao, Guian Qiu, Vince Qu, Sentry, Niko Song, Vincent Wang, Bo Wu, Rio Yang, Evelyn Ye, Fiona Ye, Ina Ye, Regis Ye, Josh Ying, Atlas Zeng, Danney Zeng, Salmon Zhan, Anya Zhang, Di Zhang, Mia Zhang, Sueky Zhang, Wei Zhao, Ada Zhou, Adrian Zhou, Yuhua Zhou, Juno Zhu, Murphy Zhuang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

ZhuLong: Execution-Grounded LLM Agent for EDA Scripting with Offline API Self-Exploration

arXiv:2608. 07925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EDA scripting with tool-specific, often undocumented APIs remains a long-tail bottleneck that existing LLMs fail to address.

By Yang Liu, Shiwei Hou, Xiyuan Chen, Yu Wang, Sen Yuan, Qirui Gan, Shao You, Feifan Chen, Wencheng Li, Shuyang Hu, Yongzhou Liu, Emma Xia, Xiaojing Lu, Hao Wang, Fan Xu, Yanfeng Li
arXiv AI
Aug 11

An AI Scientist that Doesn't Drift: Taste, Structure, and Falsifiable Findings in a Quadruped Navigation Research Loop

arXiv:2608. 07542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research loops driven by large language models can run machine-learning experiments at scale but tend to drift toward local refinements of whichever metric they optimise rather than testing the hypotheses that motivate the experiments.

By Yiwen Zhang, Eloise Zeng, Jaeha Lee, Tony Yue Yu
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

ML-Based Hierarchical Prediction for Practical Energy Scheduling in Dynamic NTN-WPT Systems

arXiv:2608. 08804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With advancements in long-distance wireless power transfer (WPT) and space-based energy technologies, integrating WPT into non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), referred to as NTN-WPT, is emerging as a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks.

By Zhanyu Ju, Wenchi Cheng