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 7

OrchestraBench: Evaluating Multi-Agent Orchestration Failure Modes, Recovery, and Decomposition Quality

arXiv:2608. 05263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent orchestration frameworks are moving from demos to production, yet benchmarks typically report task accuracy without diagnosing why a pipeline failed, where a cascade began, or which routing decision caused the breakdown.

By Yidian Chen, Yingzi Gu, Natan Vidra, Spurthi Setty, Sharon Zheng
arXiv AI
Aug 7

From Passive Mirrors to Active Agents: Holonic Digital Twins for Physical AI over Networks

arXiv:2608. 06227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in artificial intelligence (AI) across multiple sectors, today's AI tools, including deep learning and generative AI, still fail when embedded into physical systems, such as robots and vehicles operating under real-world physical laws.

By Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Omar Hashash, Walid Saad
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Enhancing Anomaly Resilience in Research Networks: A Large-Scale Forecasting Benchmark for Dynamic Security Baselining

arXiv:2608. 05605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research and Education Networks (RENs) serve as critical infrastructure for scientific discovery, yet they face a unique security paradox: their normal traffic patterns which are characterized by massive, bursty "elephant flows" are statistically indistinguishable from volumetric attacks such as DDoS to conventional monitoring systems.

By Mohammad Arafath Uddin Shariff, Byrav Ramamurthy
arXiv AI
Aug 7

When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 05810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents accumulate capability by distilling reusable skills from their execution trajectories, but we find this process is not monotonic: past a critical pool size, newly added skills degrade performance instead of improving it.

By Linfang Shang, Ming Xu, Yiding Sun, Tianle Xia, Lingxiang Hu, Lan Xu, Ning Zheng
arXiv AI
Aug 7

ASTELD: A Six-Axis Classification Framework for Autonomous AI Agents - Design, Evaluation, and an OpenClaw Case Study

arXiv:2608. 05201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous AI agent platforms differ substantially in architecture, security, tool integration, execution, autonomy, and deployment, yet the field lacks a common classification scheme for comparing these design choices.

By Siyuan Li, Peng Shu, Churan Yu, Peilong Wang, Ruidong Zhang, Bowen Guo, Xinliang Li, Ruiyu Yan, Arif Hassan Zidan, Yi Pan, Wei Ruan, Lifeng Chen, Junhao Chen, Zhaojun Ding, Yiwei Li, Zhengliang Liu, Haixing Dai, Lin Zhao, Yu Bao, Xiang Li, Wei Zhang, Tianming Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 7

Tracing the Heart: An Evidence-Linked Pipeline for Heart-Failure Feature Engineering

arXiv:2608. 06366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health record (EHR) feature engineering is a major bottleneck in clinical research and AI, accounting for 39-45% of data scientists' workload.

By Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Michelle Hu, Dorisa Shehi, Daniel Kang, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Koustuv Saha, Christian Poellabauer, Christopher Lee, Sajeev Singh, Piyum Zonooz, Navin Kumar, Zeeshan Ahmed, Priyadarshini Kachroo
arXiv AI
Aug 7

Vibe Compiler: A Research-Logic Synthesis Tool That Runs without Prompt Engineering -Toward Enhancing Metacognition for Sustaining Agency in the Age of Generative AI-

arXiv:2608. 05545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI used as a capable servant has greatly accelerated intellectual work, but it also risks eroding human epistemic agency by encouraging uncritical acceptance of AI-generated reasoning.

By Riichiro Mizoguchi, Tomoki Aburatani, Kento Koike, Machi Shimmei
arXiv AI
Aug 7

Recursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks

arXiv:2608. 05466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality long-horizon training data for terminal agents is expensive to produce, often costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per task, because each task must keep the instruction, environment, reference solution, and verifier mutually consistent.

By Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li, Ruhan Wang, Anhao Li, Zixun Huang, Junyao Yang, Lei Ke, Ninghao Liu, Haitao Mi, Leowei Liang
arXiv AI
Aug 7

AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv:2608. 05891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents can operate apps through pixel perception and touch actions, making them a promising interface for collecting and improving long-horizon mobile interaction policies.

By Weikai Xu, Yunren Feng, Haoxiang Lei, Kun Huang, Yuxuan Liu, Kang Zhao, Xiaolin Hu, Shuo Shang, Bo An