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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 Machine Learning
Jul 2

Distributed Online Bandit Submodular Maximization with Bounded Sampling Violations

arXiv:2607. 00680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study distributed online submodular maximization under partition matroid constraints, in which multiple agents select a limited number of actions from their own subsets sequentially to maximize the cumulative value of a sequence of objective functions.

By Bin Du, Chang Liu, Dingqi Zhu, Lintao Ye, Dengfeng Sun
arXiv AI
Jul 2

KAGE-Bench: Fast Known-Axis Visual Generalization Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2601. 14232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pixel-based reinforcement learning agents often fail under purely visual distribution shift even when latent dynamics and rewards are unchanged, but existing benchmarks entangle multiple sources of shift and hinder systematic analysis.

By Egor Cherepanov, Daniil Zelezetsky, Alexey K. Kovalev, Aleksandr I. Panov
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

Agentic generation of verifiable rules for deterministic, self-expanding reaction classification

arXiv:2607. 01061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-assisted synthesis planning breaks target molecules into accessible precursors using large libraries of reaction rules that assign each transformation a deterministic, interpretable label.

By Daniel Armstrong, Maarten Dobbelaere, Valentas Olikauskas, Helena Avila, Octavian Susanu, J\'er\^ome Waser, Philippe Schwaller
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