AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Jun 26

Lacuna: A Research Map for Machine Learning

arXiv:2606. 26246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lacuna is a research map for machine learning that uses LLMs to turn papers and scholarly metadata into markdown summaries, concept elements, research directions, and research proposals.

By Martin Weiss, Miles Q. Li, Alejandro H. Artiles, Yacine Mkhinini, Chris Pal, Hugo Larochelle, Nasim Rahaman
arXiv AI
Jun 26

The Spec Growth Engine: Spec-Anchored, Code-Coupled, Drift-Enforced Architecture for AI-Assisted Software Development

arXiv:2606. 27045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents dramatically accelerate implementation speed but introduce two structural failure modes that existing spec-driven approaches do not fully solve: (1) context explosion -- the agent must reason over an entire repository at once, degrading output quality as the context window fills; and (2) silent spec-code drift -- code evolves, the specification does not, and the divergence becomes invisible until it is costly to repair.

By Hartwig Grabowski
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist

arXiv:2606. 26448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Across the sciences, autonomous systems are increasingly being used in closed-loop discovery, proposing new theories and designing and running experiments to test them.

By Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby, George Kachergis, Eric Schulz, Nathaniel Daw, Suyog H. Chandramouli, Thomas L. Griffiths
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Library Drift: Diagnosing and Fixing a Silent Failure Mode in Self-Evolving LLM Skill Libraries

arXiv:2605. 19576v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-evolving skill libraries face a silent failure mode we term \emph{library drift}: unbounded skill accumulation without outcome-driven lifecycle management causes retrieval degradation, false-positive injections, and performance stagnation.

By Xing Zhang, Yanwei Cui, Guanghui Wang, Ziyuan Li, Wei Qiu, Bing Zhu, Peiyang He
arXiv AI
Jun 26

AgentX: Towards Agent-Driven Self-Iteration of Industrial Recommender Systems

arXiv:2606. 26859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recommendation algorithm iteration is moving from an artisanal, engineer-bound process toward an industrialized research loop, but this transition remains blocked by a structural execution bottleneck: the idea-to-launch cycle still depends on human engineers to generate hypotheses, modify production code, launch A/B experiments, and attribute online results.

By Changxin Lao, Fei Pan, Guozhuang Ma, Han Li, Huihuang Lin, Jijun Shi, Kangzhi Zhao, Kun Gai, Mo Zhou, Qinqin Zhou, Quan Chen, Ruochen Yang, Shifu Bie, Shuang Yang, Shuo Yang, Wenhao Li, Wentao Xie, Xiao Lv, Xuming Wang, Yijun Wang, Yiming Chen, Yusheng Huang, Zhongyuan Wang, Zibo Zhao, Zijie Zhuang, Baoning Xia, Chao Liu, Chaoyi Ma, Chubo He, Dawei Cong, Feng Jiang, Gang Wang, Guilin Xia, Hanwen Xu, Jiahong Xie, Jiahui Qiao, Jian Liang, Jiangfan Yue, Jing Wang, Jinghan Yang, Jinghui Jia, Kan Qin, Lei Wang, Ming Li, Peilin Song, Pengbo Xu, Qiang Luo, Ruiming Tang, Shiyang Liu, Shuxian Jin, Tao Wang, Tao Zhang, Xiang Gao, Xianghan Li, Yingsong Luo, Yiwen Ning, Yongcheng Liu, Yuan Guo, Zhaojie Liu, Zhenkai Cui
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Where Do CoT Training Gains Land in LLM based Agents?

arXiv:2606. 26935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is widely used in language-model agents, but prior work has shown that verbalized CoT is not always faithful and may instead reflect post-hoc reasoning, which means the model already knows the answer before reasoning.

By Jingyu Liu, Zhiwen Wang, Yuxin Jing, Huanyu Zhou, Yong Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Learning to Explain Air Traffic Situation

arXiv:2502. 10764v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how air traffic controllers construct a mental 'picture' of complex air traffic situations is crucial but remains a challenge due to the inherently intricate, high-dimensional interactions between aircraft, pilots, and controllers.

By Hong-ah Chai, Seokbin Yoon, Keumjin Lee