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
Oct 21

LOB-Impact Benchmark: Emergent Market Impact in Generative Limit Order Book Models

arXiv:2610.27100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Realistic market impact is essential for generative limit order book (LOB) models to serve as world models for trading agents. If a simulator mispric...

By George Nigmatulin, Valentin Mohl, Sascha Frey, Kang Li, Aramis Marti-Shahandeh, Mihai Cucuringu, Anisoara Calinescu, Jakob Foerster, Stefan Zohren
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Robotic Video World Models: A Survey of Applications, Research Challenges, Future Directions

arXiv:2601.07823v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models have emerged as promising candidates for high-fidelity world models, offering the potential to synthesize high-quality videos capt...

By Zhiting Mei, Tenny Yin, Ola Shorinwa, Apurva Badithela, Zhonghe Zheng, Joseph Bruno, Madison Bland, Lihan Zha, Asher Hancock, Jaime Fern\'andez Fisac, Philip Dames, Anirudha Majumdar
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

IndusAgent: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Category Industrial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2605.20682v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Small defects in unfamiliar product categories can be difficult to distinguish from benign appearance variations in a global view. Additional reaso...

By Rongbin Tan, Fangfang Lin, Jinguo Luo, Min Qiu, Kejin Cui, Mengmeng Wang, Yi Wang, Jiyuan Wang, Yue Wang, Zhenlong Yuan, Shuhan Song, Huawei Cao
arXiv AI
Oct 21

MAS-Guard: Unified Guardrails from Individual Agents to Multi-Agent LLM Systems

MAS-Guard is a unified framework designed to safeguard both single- and multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems. It introduces a local Agent Guardrail (A-Guard) layer that uses task-specific experts to evaluate agentic events, and a system-level Control Plane that applies deterministic structural checks and semantic assessments to routes, capabilities, and message content. The framework enforces interventions—allow, reflection, confirmation, and block—across benchmarks, reducing attack success rates by 71.5‑86.3% while maintaining utility on benign tasks.

By Mohammad Kachuee, Phu Mon Htut, Sheng Li, Nikolaos Pappas, Miguel Ballesteros Martinez, Yassine Benajiba, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

Memory as Code: Declarative Retrieval over Codified Long-Term Memory

Memory as Code (MaC) introduces a unified memory framework that integrates memory construction and retrieval via a shared code abstraction. It builds a three‑layer executable memory structure—atomic functions, relational links, and modular compositions—and uses declarative retrieval to translate queries into structured programs. Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval demonstrate up to 15.91% higher LLM‑judge accuracy and reduced token usage compared to leading baselines.

By Aoting Zeng, Yuxin Du, Jianwei Wang, Yizhang He, Shan Jiang, Xuemin Lin, Kai Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

SciDiagBench: A Type-Specific Benchmark for Human-Aligned Evaluation of Scientific Diagrams

SciDiagBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate scientific diagram generation in a way that mirrors human peer‑review practices. It provides a dataset of 165 diagrams from 10 domains, systematically classified into 11 distinct types such as graphical abstracts and technical roadmaps. The benchmark also introduces a preference‑guided calibration method that incorporates human preferences into type‑specific evaluation criteria, aiming to improve the reliability of automated assessments.

By Hao Wang, Zixuan Li, Long Bai, Xiaolong Jin, Jiafeng Guo, Tat-Seng Chua, Tian Tian
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Navalia: Advancing Cowork Agents through Verifiable Task Synthesis and Long-Horizon Post-Training

Navalia is a framework that advances cowork agents by combining verifiable task synthesis with long‑horizon post‑training. It selects supporting evidence from corporate financial reports, builds executable computation chains, and uses independent LLM review and programmatic checks to ensure evidence consistency and answer correctness. The verified tasks are then used for trajectory collection, supervised fine‑tuning, and reinforcement learning, yielding consistent performance gains over the base model across five financial and office‑task benchmarks.

By Hengqi Liu, Ziyuan Liu, Yang Qin, Wanting Zhou, Zichuan Wang, Jiachen Liang, Xu Chu, Shaowei Chen, Zhaokai Luo, Mu Chuan
arXiv AI
Oct 21

ReuF2F: Benchmarking Coding Agents on Formalized Undergraduate Research Problems

ReuF2F is a Lean 4 benchmark comprising 244 formalized open problems sourced from Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). It aims to evaluate coding agents on less prominent, entry‑level research problems across diverse mathematical subfields, using a Docker‑based Lean project setup and a unified harness called Leanimum‑agent. The study finds that even the best model solves only about 40 % of the problems, indicating significant room for improvement.

By Zeyu Zheng, Yiyang Liu, Yuyang Zhao, Congmin Zheng, Jiachen Zhu, Jianian Chen, Kangning Zhang, Kayue Daniel Wong, Lingyu Yang, Rong Shan, Shihao Chen, Thomas Zhu, Wentao Zhang, Xiaopeng Li, Yan Hu, Yongxi Lin, Yuxiang Chen, Zhuoying Ou, Jianghao Lin, Jeremy Avigad, Prasad Tetali, Jingbang Chen, Sean Welleck
arXiv AI
Oct 21

CovNav: Conformal Prediction-Guided Adaptive Inference for Object Goal Navigation

CovNav is a training‑free framework that uses Conformal Prediction to decide when an embodied agent should switch from fast, low‑latency LLM reasoning to slower, more accurate chain‑of‑thought reasoning during object‑goal navigation. By treating each spatial query as a binary decision and calibrating the fast LLM’s token probabilities, CovNav escalates only ambiguous queries to the slow mode, achieving higher success rates on Gibson and HM3D while invoking slow reasoning for just 12.4% of queries. Real‑robot tests on a TurtleBot 4 confirm the method’s practical benefits.

By Pengying Wu, Zhejia Wen, Kang Ding, Kangjie Zhou, Chunxuan Jiao, Wei Pan, Xiangli Nie, Chang Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Deep Learning-Based Road Lane Quality Assessment from Egocentric Dashcam Video

The paper introduces a geo‑referenced smartphone dashcam dataset of 63,839 frames from South Texas and a baseline framework for assessing road lane quality. Three new metrics—Contrast Stability Index (CSI), Line Continuity Ratio (LCR), and Regression Lane Confidence Score (RLCS)—are proposed to evaluate lane‑marking visibility, continuity, and map consistency without dense human labels. Baseline models achieve strong performance, and pilot validation shows the metrics correlate better with human judgments than generic image‑quality measures.

By Shaif Chowdhury, Akhila Yeruvasu, Moshiur Rahman Tonmoy, Ayush Goyal, Dunren Che
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

Object-Oriented Harness: Evolving Agent Harnesses through Object-Oriented Design

Object-Oriented Harness (OO-Harness) is a framework that optimizes agent harnesses by evolving a hierarchy of executable harness classes through object-oriented design. During training, an evolution agent uses execution records to create specialized harness subclasses, while at test time a harness router selects the appropriate harness for each task based on learned routing lessons. Experiments on three long-horizon benchmarks show OO-Harness outperforms other methods, achieving up to a 15% absolute improvement over the base harness.

By Gaotang Li, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Yifei Ming, Yanfei Chen, Zhongying CuiZhu, Lesly Miculicich, Long T. Le, Rui Meng, Chun-Liang Li, Hanghang Tong, Chen-Yu Lee, Tomas Pfister
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

Cache Engineering for Agents

The paper introduces cache engineering for large language model agents, enabling direct control over the active key-value cache without altering the trajectory or triggering costly re-prefilling. It defines cache operations such as drop and repos, formalizes their effects, and addresses the challenge of history-dependent cache states. The authors co-design a stateless AKV serving engine that manages stateful cache reuse, eviction, and restoration, achieving significant performance and cost improvements over traditional summarization methods.

By Tianyu Fu, Ruoxi Wang, Zihan Min, Zhongqi Ren, Zhihao Li, Tengxuan Liu, Shengxu Mu, Hanling Zhang, Yu Wang