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

HyPOLE: Hyperproperty-Guided Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observation

arXiv:2606. 30966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal specification is a powerful tool to guide the learning process and provides significant advantages over reward shaping: (1) mathematical rigor; (2) expressiveness to specify objectives and constraints, and (3) the ability to define tactics to achieve objectives.

By Arshia Rafieioskouei, Tzu-Han Hsu, Matthew Lucas, Borzoo Bonakdarpour
arXiv AI
Jul 1

MVP-Nav: Multi-layer Value Map Planner Navigator

arXiv:2606. 31919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot Object Goal Navigation (ZSON) with RGB-only perception poses a fundamental challenge for embodied agents, as the absence of explicit depth information introduces severe physical uncertainty and semantic-physical misalignment.

By Wenyuan Xie, Shaokai Wu, Yijin Zhou, Yanbiao Ji, Guodong Zhang, Bayram Bayramli, Qiuchang Li, Xunchu Zhou, Yue Ding, Hongtao Lu
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Think in English, Answer in Korean: Efficient Adaptation of Multilingual Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2606. 31648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present LuckyStar 111B, a 111B-parameter hybrid reasoning model developed through a collaboration between Cohere and LG CNS for Korean-English enterprise agents under practical memory and serving constraints.

By Utsav Garg, Sungjin Hong, Jason Jung, Justin Lee, Shaan Desai, Joon Hee Kim, Anirudh Shrinivason, Edmond Wen, Susie Park
Microsoft Research
Jun 30

SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights.

By Yifan Yang, Xuemei Gao, Qi Dai, Bei Liu, Kai Qiu, Dongdong Chen, Chong Luo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 30

Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action

Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) typically rely on passive question-answering formats, but the deployment of LLMs in increasingly agentic and autonomous forms demands new evaluations. In this paper we evaluate an agent's ability to induce specific belief states in other agents by taking actions rather than using conversational persuasion, a capability we call Non-Conversational Planning ToM (NCP-ToM).

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 30

An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping

High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL), automated stations image hundreds of plants daily across multiple remote sensing modalities; yet, trait extraction and interpretation remain manual, expert-bound, and strictly post-hoc, making analysis, not acquisition, the binding constraint on discovery.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 30

FARS: A Fully Automated Research System Deployed at Scale

Recent automated research systems show that language-model agents can generate hypotheses, run experiments, and write complete manuscripts, but most evidence still comes from selected examples, human-framed topics, or a few pre-defined research tasks. We present FARS (Fully Automated Research System), a fully automated AI-for-AI research system designed to operate across research topics at scale.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 30

CooperScene: Multi-Modal Cooperative Autonomy Benchmark with C-V2X Communication Characterization

Cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) enables cooperative perception, prediction, and planning beyond the field of view of individual agents. However, existing datasets often overlook the complexities of real-world deployment, such as limited communication bandwidth and its dynamics, heterogeneous sensing modalities, and scalability beyond a single cooperative partner.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 30

HealthAgentBench: A Unified Benchmark Suite of Realistic Agentic Healthcare Environments for Challenging Frontier AI Agents

As AI agents become increasingly capable of complex, long-horizon reasoning, rigorous and holistic evaluation is essential for measuring progress toward real-world healthcare applications. We introduce HealthAgentBench, a suite of 54 agentic healthcare tasks across 7 categories each with its unique environment.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios

arXiv:2511. 17649v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tangible control interfaces (TCIs), such as appliance panels, remotes, elevators, and embedded GUIs, are a fundamental component of everyday human-built environments.

By Juntao Cheng, Wanyue Zhang, Zhiwei Yu, Shuo Ren, Zheqi He, Shaoxuan Xie, Guocai Yao, Jieru Lin, B\"orje F. Karlsson, Jiajun Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Staged Hybridisation for Visual Quantum Reinforcement Learning via Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2606. 30520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual environments are a demanding setting for quantum reinforcement learning (QRL): high-dimensional observations, unstable RL optimisation, and constrained variational quantum circuits (VQCs) are difficult to train jointly.

By Javier Lazaro, Juan-Ignacio Vazquez, Pablo Garcia-Bringas
arXiv AI
Jun 30

BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation

arXiv:2605. 07306v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable embodied execution in wet-lab environments remains challenging.

By Zhaohui Du, Zhe Wang, Hongmei Fei, Xiwen Cao, Ting Xiao, Qi Wang, Huanbo Jin, Jiaming Gu, Quan Lu, Zhe Liu