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 15

A Learning-Rate-Gated Failure of GRPO in a Small Language and Vision-Language Model Web Agent: A Controlled Null and Its Mechanism

arXiv:2607. 12640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in particular, is now run routinely on a supervised checkpoint in the hope of producing a stronger agent.

By Chengguang Gan, Zhixi Cai, Yunhao Liang, Hanjun Wei, Shiwen Ni, Qinghao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Toward Trustworthy Autonomous Science: A Two-Year Community Roadmap

arXiv:2607. 12113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One year ago, the AISLE roadmap argued that autonomous laboratories operated as isolated islands and proposed a grassroots network organized around five critical dimensions.

By Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Milad Abolhasani, Peter Beaucage, Laura Biven, Michael Bussmann, Kyle Chard, Ryan Coffee, Stephen DeWitt, Sagar Dolas, Carrie Eckert, David Elbert, Ian Foster, Tirthankar Ghosal, Anna Giannakou, Tom Gibbs, Leslie Hamilton, Glenn Lockwood, Theresa Mayer, Ben Mintz, Raffi Nazikian, Sal Nimer, Amanda Randles, Woong Shin, Sreenivas Rangan Sukumar, Fr\'ed\'eric Suter, Mitra Taheri, Michela Taufer, Draguna Vrabie