AI agents

Tool use, function calling, orchestration and the protocols that let models act rather than only answer.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

A Transport-Based Geometry of Belief-Cost

arXiv:2606. 21585v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A finite agent, a machine's digital twin or any bounded reasoner, infers a fixed and noisy world through finite sensors, so its coherent output is a belief: a probability density over states (the Bayes posterior).

By Laurent Caraffa
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Self-Supervised Calibration of Scientific Instruments Using Physical Consistency Constraints

arXiv:2606. 29466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Calibration remains one of the principal obstacles to the deployment of machine learning in scientific instrumentation because it typically relies on expert intervention, dedicated procedures, and manually labelled data.

By M. Rejmund (GANIL, CEA/DRF - CNRS/IN2P3, Bd Henri Becquerel, BP 55027, F-14076, Caen Cedex 5, France), A. Lemasson (GANIL, CEA/DRF - CNRS/IN2P3, Bd Henri Becquerel, BP 55027, F-14076, Caen Cedex 5, France)
arXiv AI
Jun 30

TRACE: Temporal Relationship-Aware Conversational Entrainment Detection in Dyadic Speech

arXiv:2606. 30543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the proliferation of speech AI agents, understanding emotional entrainment in conversational interaction has become increasingly important.

By Sathvik Manikantan Napa Ugandhar, Hao Zhang, Alison Gunzler, Yuzhe Wang, Thomas Thebaud, Georgi Tinchev, Venkatesh Ravichandran, Laureano Moro-Vel\'azquez
arXiv AI
Jun 30

CaveAgent: Transforming LLMs into Stateful Runtime Operators

arXiv:2601. 01569v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly capable of complex task execution, yet current agentic systems remain constrained by text-centric paradigms that struggle with long-horizon tasks due to fragile multi-turn dependencies and context drift.

By Maohao Ran, Zhenglin Wan, Cooper Lin, Yanting Zhang, Hongyu Xin, Hongwei Fan, Yibo Xu, Beier Luo, Yaxin Zhou, Wangbo Zhao, Lijie Yang, Lang Feng, Fuchao Yang, Jingxuan Wu, Yiqiao Huang, Chendong Ma, Yusen Huang, Dailing Jiang, Jianbo Deng, Sirui Han, Yang You, Bo An, Yike Guo, Jun Song
arXiv AI
Jun 30

When Stopping Fails: Rethinking Minimal Risk Conditions through Human-Interactive Autonomous Driving for Safe Transportation Systems

arXiv:2606. 29115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are increasingly deployed in urban environments, yet their safety frameworks remain primarily designed around collision avoidance and minimal risk condition (MRC) behaviors such as slowing or stopping when uncertainty arises.

By Yash Tandon, Giovanni Tapia Lopez, Marcus Blennemann, Mohan Trivedi, Ross Greer
arXiv AI
Jun 30

A Machine-Verified Proof of a Quantum-Optimization Conjecture

arXiv:2606. 29687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report a machine-verified resolution of a problem open for over a decade in quantum optimization: the Farhi, Goldstone and Gutmann (FGG) conjecture that depth-$p$ Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) on the ring of disagrees attains approximation ratio $(2p+1)/(2p+2)$ exactly.

By Uri Kol, Maor Ben-Shahar, Kfir Sulimany, Dirk Englund
arXiv AI
Jun 30

StarDojo: Benchmarking Open-Ended Behaviors of Agentic Multimodal LLMs in Production-Living Simulations with Stardew Valley

arXiv:2507. 07445v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents navigating human society must master both production activities and social interactions, yet existing benchmarks rarely evaluate these skills simultaneously.

By Weihao Tan, Changjiu Jiang, Yu Duan, Mingcong Lei, Jiageng Li, Yitian Hong, Xinrun Wang, Bo An
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
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist

arXiv:2502. 18864v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation.

By Juraj Gottweis, Wei-Hung Weng, Alexander Daryin, Tao Tu, Petar Sirkovic, Artiom Myaskovsky, Grzegorz Glowaty, Felix Weissenberger, Alessio Orlandi, Dan Popovici, Anil Palepu, Keran Rong, Ryutaro Tanno, Khaled Saab, Fan Zhang, Jacob Blum, Andrew Carroll, Kavita Kulkarni, Nenad Tomasev, Dina Zverinski, Ivor Rendulic, Elahe Vedadi, Florian Hasler, Luka Rimanic, Marina Boia, Ivan Budiselic, Ben Feinstein, Mathias Bellaiche, Tom Sheffer, Jan Freyberg, Jeremy Ratcliff, Ottavia Bertolli, Katherine Chou, Avinatan Hassidim, Burak Gokturk, Amin Vahdat, Yuan Guan, Vikram Dhillon, Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Byron Lee, Tiago R D Costa, Jos\'e R Penad\'es, Gary Peltz, Yossi Matias, James Manyika, Demis Hassabis, Yunhan Xu, Pushmeet Kohli, Annalisa Pawlosky, Alan Karthikesalingam, Vivek Natarajan