AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 31

SecRespond: Benchmarking AI Agents for Real-World Post-Compromise Incident Response

arXiv:2607. 26791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly adopted in real-world security operations with access to host artifacts and command-line interfaces (CLIs), making it critical to thoroughly assess their security capabilities.

By Lehan Wang, Boli Chen, Ruixue Ding, Pengjun Xie, Jinwei Huang, Zhendong Liu, Shuo Wang, Tao Lei, Xin Ouyang, Xiaomeng Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Baikal: Structured Search for Deep Research over Data Lakes

arXiv:2607. 27726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep research over data lakes requires an LLM agent to investigate evidence across thousands of heterogeneous tables and passages to synthesize a report.

By Dhruv Agarwal, Rishitha Guttapalle Mohan, Aarti Kumari, Ashi Sinha, Athulya Anil, Kavitha Srinivas, Horst Samulowitz, Andrew McCallum
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Pramana: A Composable, Domain-Specific Backend for Empirical Networking Research

arXiv:2607. 26352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Networking research advances by turning hypotheses into empirical evidence, so accelerating it means reducing the lag between ideation (synthesizing a hypothesis) and generating the data that tests it.

By Jaber Daneshamooz, Eugene Vuong, Alagappan Ramanathan, Manni Moghimi, Haarika Manda, Satyam Kumar, Snithik Thode, Satyandra Guthula, Sylee Beltiukov, Dongsu Han, Tarun Mangla, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Walter Willinger, Arpit Gupta
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Graph Is the Verifier: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Interprocedural Vulnerability Detection

arXiv:2607. 26656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world vulnerabilities often span multiple functions, yet most learning-based detectors classify each function in isolation: on a sample of real CVEs, we find that 71.

By Yikun Li, Ting Zhang, Jiakun Liu, Jinfeng Jiang, Yuheng Yieh, Yixin Yang, Wen Bin Leow, Yide Yin, Yintong Huo, Eng Lieh Ouh, Lwin Khin Shar, David Lo
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Physically Real-time Infrared Attack against Optical Flow Estimation Networks

arXiv:2607. 26651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the promising performance of deep neural networks on image-based tasks, different real-world applications such as autonomous driving and motion detection have become increasingly mature and relevant to human lives.

By Shen You, Wei Jiang, Jiarui Liu, Yijian Ye, Qiuzhen Lin, Xiangtao Li, Ka-Chun Wong
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Facial-Expression-Aware Prompting for Empathetic LLM Tutoring

arXiv:2604. 15336v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) enable increasingly capable tutoring-style conversational agents, yet effective tutoring requires sensitivity to learners' affective and cognitive states beyond text alone.

By Shuangquan Feng, Laura Fleig, Ruisen Tu, Philip Chi, Edmund Bu, Melinda Ozel, Junhua Ma, Teng Fei, Virginia R. de Sa
Microsoft Research
Jul 30

Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve.

By Akshay Nambi, Yash Pandya, Sahil Gupta, Sarthak Harne, Kavyansh Chourasia, Yash Lara, Ahmed Awadallah, Ece Kamar
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

LEDGERMIND: Provenance-Constrained Multimodal Agentic Reasoning with a Structured Evidence Ledger

Multimodal agents for visual question answering increasingly operate as multi-step trajectories that interleave perception, retrieval, and reasoning, yet evaluation still largely reduces to final-answer accuracy. This aggregate signal cannot tell whether a correct answer was reached through grounded evidence, language priors, or accidental error cancellation.