AI agents

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

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arXiv AI
Oct 21

Large Language Models for Agent-Based Modelling: Current and possible uses across the modelling cycle

arXiv:2507.05723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with increasingly sophisticated natural language understanding and generative capabilities has sparked...

By Lo\"is Vanh\'ee, Melania Borit, Peer-Olaf Siebers, Roger Cremades, Christopher Frantz, \"Onder G\"urcan, Franti\v{s}ek Kalvas, Denisa Reshef Kera, Vivek Nallur, Kavin Narasimhan, Martin Neumann
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Gibson Env: Real-World Perception for Embodied Agents

The paper introduces Gibson, a virtual environment designed to develop real‑world perception for active agents. Gibson virtualizes real spaces, containing over 1,400 floor plans from 572 buildings, and includes a synthesis mechanism called "Goggles" that allows models trained in simulation to be deployed directly in the real world without additional domain adaptation. The environment also embeds agents within realistic physics and spatial constraints to support embodied learning.

By Fei Xia, Amir Zamir, Zhi-Yang He, Alexander Sax, Jitendra Malik, Silvio Savarese
arXiv AI
Oct 21

What a One-Hour Interview Does Not Tell an LLM About You: Interviews Elicit Traits, Not Decision Policies

The study examines whether a one‑hour adaptive interview can reveal a person’s value‑laden decision policies to a large language model (LLM). Forty‑six adults underwent the interview and later answered 25 dilemma questions; the researchers compared predictions from various transcript segments, adaptive versus fixed follow‑ups, and a baseline model with no personal data. Results show that no part of the interview reliably predicts the participants’ answers better than the baseline, and adaptive follow‑ups offer no advantage over fixed ones, though the transcripts do help recover the participants’ MBTI types.

By Ruoxi Su, Yuhan Liu, Jingyu Hu
arXiv AI
Oct 21

DataPraxis: Scaling Analytics Tasks via Verified Workspace Evolution

DataPraxis is a framework that scales analytics tasks by evolving verified workspaces, progressively adding validated findings and artifacts to uncover deeper questions. It constructs tasks from these enriched workspaces, ensuring analytical results are verified throughout the process. Using this approach, the authors created a 5,000‑trajectory dataset (DataPraxis‑5K) and trained large models (DataPraxis‑27B and DataPraxis‑35B‑A3B) that achieve competitive performance on benchmark tasks such as DABStep and JobBench.

By Nan Jia, Wenxuan Shi, Jingqing Ruan, Zhizhao Zeng, Tianyi Zhai, Zhongda Su, Feng Hong, Zhengyu Chen, Wenhao Yan, Haojin Yang, Siqi Dai, Weipeng Zhang, Ke Zeng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Act on Your Behalf, Beyond Your Authorization: Benchmarking LLM Agent Authorization Alignment

The paper introduces AuthorizationBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate whether large language model (LLM) agents act within the scope of user authorization when acting on their behalf. The benchmark comprises 286 executable tasks across ten application domains, covering situational triggers, presence or absence of direct harmful consequences, and varying reasoning effort. In experiments with four models and multiple agent harnesses, agents violated authorization in 19.2% of trajectories, with rates ranging from 10.5% to 26.6% across configurations, and increased reasoning effort did not substantially reduce these violations.

By Zhiping Zhang, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Zihao Huang, Tianshi Li
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Sage-A1.5: From Long-Horizon Execution to Scientific Exploration with Capability Composition

arXiv:2610.28578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this report, we introduce Sage-A1.5, a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model that builds on A1 to advance long-horizon problem solving through adapti...

By Wenjie Lou, Tianshuo Peng, Shiyang Feng, Shengji Tang, Runmin Ma, Ruizhe Chen, Jinxin Shi, Haoyang Peng, Fangchen Yu, Zhijie Zhong, Yuhao Zhou, Yue Fan, Yixin Chen, Yiming Wu, Yiheng Wang, Yigeng Jiang, Yichen Jiang, Yi Xie, Xu Guo, Xiaohan He, Tao Hu, Songtao Huang, Siyu Zhou, Shuaiyu Zhang, Shangheng Du, Qinglong Cao, Kun Li, Jingqi Ye, Hongbin Zhou, Guohang Yan, Zongsheng Cao, Ziyi Wang, Zhuo Liu, Zhiyin Yu, Zhiwang Zhou, Zelin Tan, Yuqing Zhu, Yaoze Zhang, Yang Chen, Xuming He, Xiuliang Liang, Xingjian Guo, Xiang Zhuang, Weiping Shen, Weida Wang, Tianyuan Zhou, Tianlin Ye, Tengyuan Fan, Siyu Yan, Shuo Li, Shuchen Pu, Shengyuan Xu, Shao Zhang, Ran Wei, Qinyuan Qin, Qingyu Yang, Nianchen Deng, Meng Dai, Kuikun Liu, Kaitao Chen, Juncheng Xiao, Jiangning Liu, Jianbiao Mei, Jia Yu, Haonan He, Hangfan Zhang, Cheng Yang, Chen Zhang, Bihao Zhan, Benteng Cheng, Yuqiang Li, Yihao Liu, Yang Yang, Xujun Fu, Xiaosong Wang, Xiangyu Yue, Wenwei Zhang, Shuyue Hu, Pinlong Cai, Mianxin Liu, Lei Bai, Jie Zhou, Jie Hou, Jiamin Wu, Hui Wang, Haijun Li, Guangyu Wang, Dongzhan Zhou, Chunfeng Song, Chao Yang, Biqing Qi, Xing Xie, Dahua Lin, Bowen Zhou, Xiangchao Yan, Wenlong Zhang, Shufei Zhang, Peng Ye, Bo Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

WaveCommitments: Private and Verifiable Speech-Agent Marketplaces

WaveCommitments is an open‑source framework that enables private and verifiable marketplaces for autonomous speech agents. It combines confidential asset valuation using Data Shapley within a trusted execution environment with multivariate polynomial commitments, allowing selective openings and tamper‑evident provenance. Experiments on three datasets and state‑of‑the‑art encoders, including Whisper, show up to 20× faster benchmarks and 39× smaller proofs, while also revealing how speaker value varies across tasks and encoders.

By Oguzhan Baser, Kaan Kale, Sriram Vishwanath, Sandeep Chinchali
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Industrial Agentic AI: LLM-Driven New-Generation Agents for Smart Manufacturing

The article reviews how large language models (LLMs) enable industrial agents to move beyond predefined workflows toward autonomous planning and execution in smart manufacturing. It identifies five key challenges, defines the concept and core characteristics of industrial agents, and presents a unified taxonomy covering application scenarios, embodiment forms, and capability levels. The authors propose a four‑layer system architecture with core modules for closed‑loop task execution, review representative applications across the industrial lifecycle, and outline future research directions.

By Lei Ren, Haiteng Wang, Shixiang Li, Jing Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Jingwei Guo, Yunfei Zhu, Yuanjun Laili, Yang Tang, Lihui Wang
arXiv AI
Oct 21

SPEM: Structure-Aware Procedural Memory for Efficient Skill Use in LLM Agents

SPEM is a lightweight, structure‑aware procedural memory framework designed to improve skill use in large language model agents. It stores individual skills in an Atomic Skill Memory and reusable skill compositions in a Skill‑DAG Memory, reusing high‑confidence templates when possible and falling back to atomic skills with a Skill‑GNN for state‑aware selection. The system writes successful executions back as new Skill‑DAGs, enabling continuous accumulation of procedural knowledge and achieving higher effectiveness‑efficiency trade‑offs on ALFWorld and SkillsBench benchmarks.

By Ran Zhou, Zehui Kong, Fanyu Lin, Jiaheng Liu, Zhen Zhang, Yuxiang Ren