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 9

Federated Large Language Models: Current Progress and Future Directions

arXiv:2409. 15723v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models have achieved impressive performance across diverse applications, yet their training typically depends on centralized data collection, raising serious privacy and governance concerns.

By Yuhang Yao, Jianyi Zhang, Junda Wu, Chengkai Huang, Yu Xia, Tong Yu, Ruiyi Zhang, Sungchul Kim, Ryan Rossi, Ang Li, Lina Yao, Julian McAuley, Yiran Chen, Carlee Joe-Wong
arXiv AI
Jun 9

EvoMaster: A Foundational Evolving Agent Framework for Agentic Science at Scale

arXiv:2604. 17406v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The convergence of large language models and agents is catalyzing a new era of scientific discovery: Agentic Science.

By Xinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu, Cheng Wang, Fengyang Li, Wenkai Jin, Wanxu Liu, Zehao Bing, Bingyang Zheng, Jingyi Chai, Shuo Tang, Rui Ye, Yuwen Du, Xianghe Pang, Yaxin Du, Tingjia Miao, Yuzhi Zhang, Ruoxue Liao, Zhaohan Ding, Linfeng Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weinan E, Siheng Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 9

MEnvAgent: Scalable Polyglot Environment Construction for Verifiable Software Engineering

arXiv:2601. 22859v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) agents for software engineering (SWE) is constrained by the scarcity of verifiable datasets, a bottleneck stemming from the complexity of constructing executable environments across diverse languages.

By Chuanzhe Guo, Jingjing Wu, Sijun He, Yang Chen, Zhaoqi Kuang, Shilong Fan, Bingjin Chen, Siqi Bao, Jing Liu, Hua Wu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che, Haifeng Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Meeting SLOs, Slashing Hours: Automated Enterprise LLM Optimization with OptiKIT

arXiv:2601. 20408v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enterprise LLM deployment faces a critical scalability challenge: organizations must optimize models systematically to scale AI initiatives within constrained compute budgets, yet the specialized expertise required for manual optimization remains a niche and scarce skillset.

By Nicholas Santavas, Kareem Eissa, Patrycja Cieplicka, Piotr Florek, Matteo Nulli, Stefan Vasilev, Seyyed Hadi Hashemi, Antonios Gasteratos, Shahram Khadivi
arXiv AI
Jun 9

ACTIVE-o3: Empowering MLLMs with Active Perception via Pure Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2505. 21457v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Active vision, also known as active perception, refers to actively selecting where and how to look in order to gather task-relevant information.

By Muzhi Zhu, Hao Zhong, Canyu Zhao, Zongze Du, Mingyu Liu, Zheng Huang, Anzhou Li, Hao Chen, Cheng Zou, Jingdong Chen, Ming Yang, Chunhua Shen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

AI-Native Closed-Loop Security for 6G-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems: From Edge Detection to Network-Wide Mitigation

arXiv:2606. 08173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In sixth-generation (6G) networks, billions of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) - autonomous vehicles, smart grids, industrial robots, and remote-surgical equipment - will run over ultra-reliable low-latency slices, collapsing the gap between a remote breach and physical harm to milliseconds, a budget perimeter firewalls and centralised security operations centres cannot meet.

By Bilal Hussain, Muhammad Bilal, Tan Li, Haris Pervaiz, Xiao Tang, Qinghe Du, Fawad Ahmad, Muhammad Azhar, Jun Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

HA-VLN 2.0: An Open Benchmark and Leaderboard for Human-Aware Navigation in Discrete and Continuous Environments with Dynamic Multi-Human Interactions

arXiv:2503. 14229v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has been studied mainly in either discrete or continuous spaces, with little attention to dynamic, crowded environments.

By Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Qi He, Lingdong Kong, Heng Li, Minghan Li, Zebang Cheng, Yuxuan Zhou, Jingdong Sun, Qi Dai, Alexander G Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng