AI agents

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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

CLaC@FinMMEval 2026 Task 3: Sentiment-Augmented Deep Reinforcement Learning for Active Trading -- An Alpha-Reward Approach

arXiv:2607. 16028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents our system for Task 3 of the CLEF 2026 FinMMEval Lab, which requires daily long, flat, or short trading decisions for Bitcoin (BTC) and Tesla (TSLA) using news and historical market data.

By Andrei Neagu, Eeham Khan, Leila Kosseim
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

Dichotomous Diffusion Policy Optimization

arXiv:2601. 00898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies have gained growing popularity in solving a wide range of decision-making tasks due to their superior expressiveness and controllable generation during inference.

By Ruiming Liang, Yinan Zheng, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Jianxiong Li, Liyuan Mao, Zhihao Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jingjing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Behavioral Controllability of Agentic Models for Information Extraction: From Fixed Workflows to Reflective Agents

arXiv:2607. 15715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used for complex information-extraction tasks, yet it remains unclear whether agentic components such as reflection and memory lead to observable and controllable improvements over fixed LLM workflows.

By Lujia Zhang, Xingzhou Chen, Hongwei Feng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

Data-Native Global Optimization for Big Data K-means Clustering

arXiv:2607. 15835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Big data clustering remains challenging: the Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering (MSSC) problem underlying K-means is NP-hard, and existing methods either reach poor local minima or require prohibitive metaheuristic hybrids.

By Ravil Mussabayev, Rustam Mussabayev, Zukhra Yerdaliyeva, Kuldeyev Nursultan
arXiv AI
Jul 20

When Model Merging Rivals Joint Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning: A Task-Vector Geometry Analysis

arXiv:2607. 16062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging is promoted as a substitute for joint multi-task training, yet in the reinforcement-learning setting this substitution is essentially never tested against the baseline it claims to replace: methods merge independently released agents precisely because a joint model is unavailable.

By S. Aaron McClendon
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Think at 5 Hz, Act at 20 Hz: Asynchronous Fast-Slow Vision-Language-Action Inference for Closed-Loop Driving

arXiv:2607. 15621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models bring instruction following and scene reasoning to end-to-end driving, but their inference latency collides with the control rate a vehicle requires.

By Yun Li, Jiachen Gong, Simon Thompson, Ehsan Javanmardi, Qunli Zhang, Zifan Zeng, Shiming Liu, Peng Wang, Zixuan Guo, Manabu Tsukada
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Process Reward Informed Tree Rollout for Effective Multi-Turn RL

arXiv:2607. 15610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key approach for training LLM agents, yet popular methods such as GRPO/RLOO rely on multiple independently sampled complete trajectories for advantage estimation.

By Xintong Li, Sha Li, Yuwei Zhang, Changlong Yu, Rongmei Lin, Hongye Jin, Shuyi Guan, Xin Liu, Linwei Li, Qingyu Yin, Jingbo Shang
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Frontier AI performance across the business disciplines: a case-grounded benchmark of knowledge work and analytical reasoning

arXiv:2607. 16057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are improving rapidly as reflected in benchmark scores, yet these AI benchmarks largely test capabilities such as factual recall, narrow question answering, mathematical problem-solving, and coding and agentic tool-use.

By Ajay Patel, Kartik Hosanagar, Ramayya Krishnan, Chris Callison-Burch, Karim Lakhani, Mitch Weiss
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 19

SAGA: Synthetic Agentic Graph Architecture for Temporal Benchmark Generation

High quality temporal graph benchmarks with rich semantics and ground-truth anomaly labels are essential for training graph neural networks, yet remain scarce due to privacy constraints and annotation costs. We present SAGA (Synthetic Agentic Graph Architecture), a system for generating large-scale, semantically rich temporal graphs via a four-phase pipeline.