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 2

Mechanical Conscience: A Mathematical Framework for Dependability of Machine Intelligence

arXiv:2605. 03847v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distributed collaborative intelligence (DCI), encompassing edge-to-edge architectures, federated learning, transfer learning, and swarm systems, creates environments in which emergent risk is structurally unavoidable: locally correct decisions by individual agents compose into globally unacceptable behavioral trajectories under uncertainty.

By Munkhdelgerekh Batzorig, Purevbaatar Ganbold, Kyungbin Park, Pilkong Jeong, Kangbin Yim
arXiv AI
Jul 2

Learning Gait-Aware Quadruped Locomotion with Temporal Logic Specifications

arXiv:2607. 00442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for quadruped locomotion commonly depends on fixed, hand-crafted, and Markovian reward functions that limit both interpretability of learned policies and lack explicit control over gait behaviors.

By Merve Atasever, Cagan Bakirci, Alfredo Reina Corona, Keyan Azbijari, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh
arXiv AI
Jul 2

RetailSMV: Exocentric vs. Egocentric Adaptation of Foundation Video World Models in Retail

arXiv:2607. 00310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation video diffusion models are increasingly viewed as world simulators for embodied agents, yet their pretraining on internet-scale generic video leaves them poorly aligned with real-world deployment domains.

By Amirreza Rouhi, Rajat Aggarwal, Parikshit Sakurikar, Anoop M. Namboodiri, Sashi P. Reddi
arXiv AI
Jul 2

Managed Autonomy at Runtime: Gear-Based Safety and Governance for Single- and Multi-Agent Cyber-Physical Systems

arXiv:2607. 00334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents, whether LLM-driven software agents or robotic physical agents, face a common class of failure modes when operating without continuous human oversight: safety violations from unverified actions, behavioral instability from unconstrained loops, and continuity loss from unhandled error states.

By Srini Ramaswamy, Wang Miaosheng
arXiv AI
Jul 2

VideoSearch-R1: Iterative Video Retrieval and Reasoning via Soft Query Refinement

arXiv:2607. 00446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As video corpora continue to expand in both scale and task complexity, there is increasing demand for approaches that retrieve relevant videos from large-scale corpora (inter-video reasoning) and subsequently perform fine-grained, query-conditioned tasks (intra-video reasoning) within the retrieved content, such as temporal grounding.

By Seohyun Lee, Seoung Choi, Dohwan Ko, Jongha Kim, Hyunwoo J. Kim
arXiv AI
Jul 2

Deconfounded Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Knowledge Spaces

arXiv:2603. 14354v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems face challenges in lifelong learning, including catastrophic forgetting, difficulty in knowledge transfer across diverse scenarios, and spurious correlations between unobservable confounders and true driving intents.

By Jiayuan Du, Yuebing Song, Yiming Zhao, Xianghui Pan, Jiawei Lian, Yuchu Lu, Liuyi Wang, Chengju Liu, Qijun Chen