AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Aug 7

From Economic Agents to Agentic Economies: A Systems Blueprint for Economic World Models

arXiv:2608. 06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Economic World Models (EWMs) are generative economic models that simulate how economies evolve from within by modeling heterogeneous agents, their beliefs and actions, and the market and institutional mechanisms through which their interactions produce aggregate outcomes.

By Jiale Han, Xiang Li, Jing Qian, Wenyuan Gu, Pin Gao, Ye Luo, Hongyuan Zha, Dacheng Tao, Benyou Wang, Lin William Cong
arXiv AI
Aug 7

SkillMOO: Multi-Objective Optimization of Agent Skills for Software Engineering

arXiv:2604. 09297v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to configure coding agents for software engineering (SE) tasks, yet current practice treats them as static, hand-crafted assets, or evolved on pass rate alone.

By Jingzhi Gong, Ruizhen Gu, Zhiwei Fei, Yazhuo Cao, Lukas Twist, Alina Geiger, Shuo Han, Dominik Sobania, Federica Sarro, Jie M. Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 7

BlockPython: A Process-Aware Agent-Supported Platform for the Transition from Block-Based to Python Programming

arXiv:2608. 05716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from block-based to text-based programming requires learners to convert visible program structures into abstract textual expressions, which may create a cognitive gap between understanding computational concepts and expressing them in Python syntax.

By Jesse Yusuf Chan (Zexi Chen), Haoming Wang, Mingwei Xu, Xianlong Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 7

NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation

arXiv:2603. 19229v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: There are two major categories of embodied navigation: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), where agents navigate by following natural language instructions; and Object-Goal Navigation (OGN), where agents navigate to a specified target object.

By Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang, Zehao Wang, Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Yang Zhou, Lichao Sun, Zhiwen Fan, Zhengzhong Tu, Jiachen Li
arXiv AI
Aug 7

EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 06197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents for long-horizon tool use typically relies on interactions with real or synthesized executable environments, whose construction and verification are costly, or on external simulators that are difficult to ground.

By Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Yifu Guo, Zhengxi Lu, Yuquan Lu, Jinyang Huang, Yan Xu, Yasheng Wang, Weinan Zhang, Xingshan Zeng, Weiwen Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 7

HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization

arXiv:2608. 06301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly deployed within agentic systems, their capabilities depend not only on the model weights but also on the harness: the prompts, tools, control flow, memory, and orchestration code surrounding them.

By Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya, Shehab Yasser, Vijay S. Kalmath, Veronica Chatrath, Yuan Xue