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 6

Output Type Before Quality: A Standards-Derived XAI Admissibility Rubric for Autonomous-Driving Safety

arXiv:2606. 05461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety standards for ML-based autonomous driving specify the kind of evidence an assurance case must contain (directed cause-and-effect chains, quantified interventional effects, named root-cause variables), yet the XAI literature is organised by output type and technique family (saliency maps, feature attribution, counterfactuals, causal graphs, language traces).

By Abhinaw Priyadershi, Mandar Pitale, Jelena Frtunikj, Maria Spence
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Beyond Semantic Organization: Memory as Execution State Management for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2606. 06090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents increasingly tackle long-horizon tasks with interdependent decisions, where each action reshapes future constraints and intermediate errors can cascade.

By Yaoqi Chen, Haibin Lai, Yuru Feng, Chuyu Han, Qianxi Zhang, Baotong Lu, Menghao Li, Xinjiang Wang, Zhirui Wang, Shusen Xu, Zengzhong Li, Zewen Jin, Hao Wu, Cheng Li, Qi Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Ten Headache Specialists versus Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Literature Summarization: A Critical Evaluation and Comparison

arXiv:2606. 05436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Summarizing the latest medical literature to guide clinical decision-making is essential for evidence-based medicine and high-quality patient care.

By Alejandro Lozano, Keiko Ihara, Ping-Hao Yang, Carrie E. Robertson, Jennifer Stern, Allan Purdy, Hsiangkuo Yuan, Pengfei Zhang, Yulia Orlova, Olga Fermo, Jennifer Hranilovich, Fred Cohen, Todd J. Schwedt, Jenelle A. Jindal, Serena Yeung-Levy, Chia-Chun Chiang
arXiv AI
Jun 6

TAPO: Tool-Aware Policy Optimization via Credit Transfer for Multimodal Search Agents

arXiv:2606. 05784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We identify and formally characterize credit misassignment as a systematic failure mode of GRPO in tool-augmented multimodal search agents: its uniform broadcast of trajectory-level advantages to all tokens causes valuable tool-use steps in failing trajectories to be penalized no differently from valueless ones.

By Chengqi Dong, Chuhuai Yue, Hang He, yandong liu, Fenghe Tang, S Kevin Zhou, Xiaohan Wang, Jiajun Chai, Guojun Yin
arXiv AI
Jun 6

From Risk Classification to Action Plan Remediation: A Guardrail Feedback Driven Framework for LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 05805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based guardrails typically safeguard agents by evaluating proposed actions or inputs before execution, producing safety signals such as binary allow/deny decisions, risk categories, and/or explanatory rationales about potential policy violations.

By Yuhao Sun, Jiacheng Zhang, Shaanan Cohney, Zhexin Zhang, Feng Liu, Xingliang Yuan
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Drive-KD: Multi-Teacher Distillation for VLMs in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2601. 21288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving is an important and safety-critical task, and recent advances in LLMs/VLMs have opened new possibilities for reasoning and planning in this domain.

By Weitong Lian, Zecong Tang, Haoran Li, Tianjian Gao, Yifei Wang, Zixu Wang, Lingyi Meng, Tengju Ru, Zhejun Cui, Yichen Zhu, Hangshuo Cao, Qi Kang, Tianxing Chen, Kaixuan Wang, Yu Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Risk Assessment of Autonomous Driving: Integrating Technical Failures, Ethical Dilemmas, and Policy Frameworks

arXiv:2606. 06396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving technology has the potential to reduce the large number of road traffic accidents caused by human error each year, but it also brings new types of risks that need to be evaluated from the aspects of technology, ethics and regulations.

By Boyi Chen, Shengqin Chu, Zicheng Wang, Brian Baetz, Zhen Gao