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 1

PPT-Eval: A Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents on PowerPoint Tasks

arXiv:2606. 31154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creating and editing slides is a rich, multimodal activity that is ubiquitous in professional and educational settings, making it an ideal testbed for real-world computer-use agents.

By Apurva Gandhi, Vishwas Suryanarayanan, Raja Hasnain Anwar, Firoz Shaik, Shubhang Desai, Thong Q. Nguyen, Muhammad Taqi Raza, Vishal Chowdhary, Graham Neubig
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Training Therapeutic Judges and Multi-Agent Systems for Human-Aligned Mental Health Support

arXiv:2606. 30887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models show promise for mental health support, yet therapeutic quality improves only when evaluation functions as an actionable control signal rather than a passive metric.

By Mizanur Rahman, Abeer Badawi, Elahe Rahimi, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Frank Rudzicz, Enamul Hoque, Elham Dolatabadi
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Stage-Transition Dense Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 31377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon robotic manipulation is often limited by sparse and delayed rewards, while manually designing dense shaping signals is costly and brittle to changes in environments and object configurations.

By Yang Yang, Bingjie Chen, Zihan Wang, Yizhe Li, Guoping Pan, Yi Cheng, Houde Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 1

A Technical Typology of AI Systems in Public Administration

arXiv:2606. 31755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector often treats "AI" as a single category, neglecting technical distinctions between different AI systems.

By Jonathan Rystr{\o}m, Chris Schmitz, Nathan Davies, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Albert Meijer, Chris Russell
arXiv AI
Jul 1

FinPersona-Bench: A Benchmark for Longitudinal Psychometric Stability of Autonomous Financial Agents

arXiv:2606. 31522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous financial agents initialized with explicit behavioral mandates such as "preserve capital" or "avoid speculative bets" that are meant to govern every decision throughout deployment.

By Muhammad Usman Safder (Steve), Ayesha Gull (Steve), Rania Elbadry (Steve), Fan Zhang (Steve), Yankai Chen (Steve), Xueqing Peng (Steve), Xue (Steve), Liu, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie
arXiv AI
Jul 1

The HydroGym Reinforcement Learning Platform for Fluid Dynamics

arXiv:2512. 17534v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modeling and controlling fluids is critical across science and engineering.

By Christian Lagemann, Sajeda Mokbel, Miro Gondrum, Mario R\"uttgers, Yuning Wang, Pol Su\'arez, Ludger Paehler, Deniz A. Bezgin, Aaron B. Buhendwa, Jared L. Callaham, Samuel Ahnert, Nicholas Zolman, Xiao Shao, Jean-Christophe Loiseau, Nikolaus Adams, Matthias Meinke, Wolfgang Schr\"oder, Kai Lagemann, Esther Lagemann, Ricardo Vinuesa, Steven L. Brunton
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Embodied CAD: Solver-Grounded LLM Agents for Parametric B-Rep Assembly Modeling

arXiv:2606. 31252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can write plausible CAD scripts, but reliable industrial CAD modeling requires more than syntactically valid code: every feature, placement, and assembly relation must be accepted by an exact geometric kernel while remaining editable as parametric boundary representation geometry.

By Fumin Liu, Haoyu Zhou, Fei Hao, Lin Yang