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
Aug 4

Neural operator learning for collision-aware trajectory planning of spacecraft swarms

arXiv:2608. 00320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous spacecraft swarms must plan fuel-efficient, collision-free maneuvers in increasingly congested orbits, yet classical trajectory optimization scales poorly as pairwise safety constraints multiply with swarm size, and learning-based planners rarely transfer across swarm sizes or debris densities.

By Sidhdharth D. Sikka, Suyi Gao, Zehui Lu, Rongjie Lai, Shaoshuai Mou
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

HarnessCompass: Guiding Automatic Harness Evolution toward Generalizable and Effective Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608. 01918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable environments.

By Luan Zhang, Ruochen Zhou, Dandan Song, Zhengyu Chen, Yuhang Tian, Jun Yang, Huipeng Ma, Chenhao Li, Guangyuan Feng, Xudong Li, Yizhou Jin, Yan Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Beckmann Transport Models: From Autonomous Flows to One-Step Maps

arXiv:2608. 01692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an instantiation of flow matching that relies on a time-independent velocity field (an \emph{autonomous flow}) to exactly map between two distributions, so long as the target is singular, i.

By Lee Cheuk-Kit, Florentin Coeurdoux, Peter Potaptchik, Yilun Du, Michael Samuel Albergo, Eric Vanden-Eijnden
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Belief-Contraction-Driven Active Inverse Source Localization and Characterization

arXiv:2501. 13084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Active inverse source localization and characterization (ISLC) in dynamic fields requires sequential decision making under partial observability, where a mobile sensor must infer latent source parameters from sparse, noisy readings.

By Yiwei Shi, Mengyue Yang, Qi Zhang, Cunjia Liu, Weinan Zhang, Weiru Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Adaptive Reconstruction of Bosonic Quantum States

arXiv:2608. 02049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bosonic quantum systems provide a hardware-efficient platform for quantum information processing but remain challenging to characterise due to their large Hilbert space and the high measurement cost of state tomography.

By Vasilisa Usova, Phila Rembold, Ian Yang, Marco Rossignolo, Simone Montangero, Samuele Tosatto, Gerhard Kirchmair
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Quo Vadis, World Modeling?

Continually improving agents require dynamic interaction feedback beyond static supervision, yet direct real-environment interaction is costly, slow, unsafe, and hard to parallelize. World modeling offers a natural intermediate proxy that allows agents to query lower-cost, more controllable feedback before committing to real actions.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

The Condition-Number Barrier in Sparse Least Squares

In [AS21], Axiotis and Sviridenko conjectured that the linear dependence on the restricted condition number in sparse convex optimization cannot be improved by a polynomial-time algorithm. We establish their conjectured lower bound for least-squares objectives, conditional on the randomized exact-volume Small-Set Expansion Hypothesis in the weighted regular-graph formulation of Raghavendra, Steurer, and Tulsiani [RST12].

Microsoft Research
Aug 3

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure.

By Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Self-Certification of Representation Adequacy: Sequential Certification at Minimum Task Loss

Agents that act on a compressed representation of their history face a structural risk: if the representation aliases histories with different optimal actions, no rule measurable with respect to the representation can avoid an irreducible per-round loss, and the agent may be unable to detect this from its own transcript. This paper develops a four-layer theory of self-certification of representation adequacy.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Cross-Domain Hybrid OPD for Generalizable Search Agents

Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have substantially improved the capabilities of autonomous search agents, enabling sophisticated planning, and iterative retrieval over dynamic information sources. However, optimizing language models for specialized search behaviors often incurs an alignment tax, where gains in search performance come at the expense of general-purpose capabilities, limiting their effectiveness as universal assistants.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

TALSC: Timeliness-Aware Large-Small VLM Collaboration for Infrastructure-Assisted Autonomous Driving

The deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous driving (AD) systems is constrained by on-board computing power, restricting vehicles to small VLMs (SVLMs) with limited perception and reasoning capabilities. Infrastructure-assisted AD alleviates this resource constraint by enabling collaboration with large VLMs (LVLMs) at edge servers.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Long-Horizon Autonomous Architecture Research with a Language-Model Agent: A Behavioural Case Study

We study what happens when a single general-purpose large language model acts as the sole researcher on a long-horizon neural architecture design problem. The agent receives a scientific question, an initial hypothesis and motivation, a compute budget, and research affordances (source and experiment management, experiment tracking, literature access, and persistent memory), then autonomously proposes, implements, evaluates, and records experiments over an extended period.