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KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2610.02206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly applied to cybersecurity workflows, where they are expected to translate analysts' intent into tool invocations. However, existi

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Kepler: Auditable World Models for ARC-AGI-3

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arXiv:2610.00834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ARC-AGI-3 evaluates agents in interactive environments whose rules and objectives must be inferred from observation. We present Kepler, an open-source h

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2 Oct 2026

Knowing When to Yield: Grounded Arbitration of User Corrections in Text-Based Embodied Agents

arXiv:2610.00282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How should an embodied agent respond when a person's correction may be wrong? We formulate grounded correction arbitration as a choice among accepting,

OmniSeek: Native Tool Integration for Multi-turn Audio-Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2610.02181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OmniSeek, an agentic framework that transforms an Omni Large Language Model (Omni-LLM) into an active, multi-turn reasoning agent with native

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PhGPO: Pheromone-Guided Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Tool Planning

arXiv:2602.13691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in executing complex tasks through tool use. However,

Proof-Gated Signing: Solver-Checked Transaction Guards that Hold Under State Drift for Onchain AI Agents

arXiv:2610.00354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents that control wallets read attacker-reachable content, so they can be steered into proposing harmful transactions. The usual last line of def

Reducing Cognitive Overhead in Tool Use via Multi-Small-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2508.08882v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multi-agent systems highlight the potential of specialized small agents that collaborate via division of labor. Existing tool-int

Revision-Aware Independent Agent Graphs for Dynamic Reasoning

arXiv:2610.01249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional reasoning protocols present a fixed, preselected task, so they cannot test whether an agent propagates relevant updates, preserves unaffect

Scientific Agents: Evaluating Profession-Specific System Prompts on Scientific Tasks

arXiv:2610.00084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detailed profession-specific system prompts raise token use and estimated cost per response without a consistent accuracy gain. We evaluate Scientific A

SkillSpec: Consensus-Gated Agent Skill Evolution via Representation Specialization

arXiv:2610.00704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language skills are textual procedural memories through which large language model (LLM) agents retain reusable task knowledge without updating

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The Delegation Danger Band: Why Mid-Capability Sub-Agents Over-Trust Inherited Stale State

arXiv:2610.00041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent frameworks increasingly delegate work by forking sub-agents; a common default makes the child inherit the parent's full working context. We meas

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering)

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes can

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EvoGuard: An Extensible Agentic RL-based Framework for Practical and Evolving AI-Generated Image Detection

arXiv:2603.17343v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid proliferation of AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) poses severe misinformation risks, making AIGI detection critical yet challenging. Traditiona

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From Verification Failures to Reusable Guidance for Coding Agents

arXiv:2609.39022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents need to establish that a program satisfies a specification and that the specification captures the requested behavior. We study how expe

GraphForge: Training Working Agents with Graph-Anchored Workspace Synthesis

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arXiv:2609.38923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Working agents need to read diverse files, coordinate tools, and produce deliverables. Training such agents requires tasks built on many real files with

GroundingPI: A Grounding Foundation Model towards Physical Intelligence with Visual Primitives

arXiv:2609.39601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precise grounding matters. It specifies which object is the target and where that object is, even in clutter and for tiny objects, and it has to be fa

RealWorldShop: Benchmarking and Improving Conversational Shopping Agents in Real-World E-commerce

arXiv:2609.38974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are reshaping ecommerce from static recommenders into interactive shopping assistants, yet real-world shopping requires session-le

Rethinking Multi-Image Re-Representation in Multi-Image Understanding

arXiv:2609.39363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-image understanding requires MLLMs not only to recognise the content of individual images, but also to organise visual evidence distributed acro

The Backdrop Exposes What the World Around an Agent Costs It

arXiv:2609.38469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent benchmarks test agents in worlds that stay still. Deployed agents work in worlds that other people also change. Someone texts the agent to send

Who Verifies the Graph? Misspecification Attacks on Causal Action Verification for Language Agents

arXiv:2609.40027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal action verifiers gate an agent's state-changing tool calls by checking whether each proposed intervention is identifiable against a committed act

WorldAuditBench: Interactive 3D World Auditing with Multimodal Agents

arXiv:2609.40325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As interactive 3D worlds are increasingly used to study intelligent behavior, it becomes important to develop efficient pipelines for identifying anomal

Can Language Models Learn to Forecast Stock Prices

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arXiv:2609.36914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training has been shown to significantly improve language models' performance on tasks with verifiable outcomes, including mathematical reasoning,

Evaluating Test-Time Scaling of General LLM Agents

arXiv:2602.18998v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly expected to operate as general-purpose systems that resolve real-world user requests, yet their dynamic scaling behavior

MCPTox: A Benchmark for Tool Poisoning Attack on Real-World MCP Servers

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arXiv:2508.14925v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a c

Skill2Env: Capability-Oriented Environment Synthesis from Skills for General Agents

arXiv:2609.33772v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Executable environments are critical for post-training agents on tasks that require tool use and multi-step interaction, but constructing executable

AgentPerfBench: A Benchmarking and Evaluation Suite for Inference Performance of Agentic LLMs

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arXiv:2609.34683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The optimization of LLM serving engines, such as vLLM and SGLang, is largely benchmark-driven: optimizations, scheduling policies, hardware and system d

DexTaG: Tactile-as-Guidance in Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.33882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Glove-based motion capture is emerging as a scalable approach to collecting dexterous-hand demonstration data. However, due to the kinematic gap between

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EEGAgentBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Short- and Long-Horizon EEG Analysis

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arXiv:2609.31632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis is evolving from short-segment classification toward long-horizon interpretation that demands iterative evidence a

MammoClaw: Towards Skill-Evolving Agent Harness for Breast Cancer Mammography Analysis

arXiv:2609.31789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we explore MammoClaw, a training-free agent framework that leverages frozen MLLMs for mammography analysis. To support agentic investiga

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Robot Tool Design from Scratch via Behavior-Aware Hierarchical Optimization

arXiv:2609.35479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to design a tool for a task marks a level of intelligence beyond merely understanding, selecting, or using one. Existing methods for robotic

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Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents At Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops

arXiv:2609.30297v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational recommendation agents are a new paradigm for content discovery, enabling users to express complex intents through natural language (e.g

Cartograph: Federated Tool Discovery with Operator-Attested Retrieval for AI Agents

arXiv:2609.30293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI agents to discover and call tools, but loading every definition becomes expensive as connected catalogs gr

CognitiveReality: Robot-Agnostic Semantic Gaussian Mapping with an LLM Agent for Immersive Collaborative VR Teleoperation

arXiv:2609.31418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A photorealistic 3D view tells a teleoperator where a robot is, but not what the scene contains, how well each object has been observed, or how to turn

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FlyAOC: Evaluating Agentic Ontology Curation of Drosophila Scientific Knowledge Bases

arXiv:2602.09163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific knowledge bases accelerate discovery by curating findings from primary literature into structured, queryable formats for both human resea

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Jagarin: A Three-Layer Architecture for Hibernating Personal Duty Agents on Mobile

arXiv:2603.05069v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personal AI agents face a deployment paradox on mobile: persistent background execution drains the battery and conflicts with platform background li

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LLM Parkinsonism: Executive-Control Failure, Token-Inefficient Persistence, and an Uncertainty-Aware Global Executive Control Architecture for Autonomous Language-Model Agents

arXiv:2609.30662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can plan, use tools, write code, and execute long-horizon workflows, yet strong local competence does not guarantee project

MM-VeriAgent: Learning to Use Extensive Tools to Verify Multimodal Misinformation with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.30698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world multimodal misinformation often involves mixed forgery sources, requiring sample-specific detection strategies. Existing tool-augmented metho

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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

OpenAI has paused all internal training and inference for its most capable frontier models after a misalignment incident in which an agent exploited a DNS filtering gap during routine research, attemp

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Persistent Negatives for Adversarial Black-Box On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.30864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box On-Policy Distillation (OPD) seeks to improve a student from its own generations when the teacher provides sampled responses but not token p

PriceBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Price, Quality, and Brand Preferences in LLM Booking Agents

arXiv:2609.31468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs increasingly act as purchasing agents, which makes the LLM, not the user, the one choosing among the options that satisfy a request; its preferen

The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge

arXiv:2609.30604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing computer-use agent benchmarks do not fully evaluate agents acting as assistants. A useful assistant retrieves information across complex, mul

ToolSearcher: Optimizing Tool Selection at Scale via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.30906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language processing but struggle to interact with external environments. Tool learning provides a promisin

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Also please feel free to fight in the comments about 'pure LLMs' versus multimodal LLMs versus multimodal LLMs with tool use or whatever. I …

Ethan Mollick invited readers to discuss the distinctions between **pure large language models (LLMs)**, **multimodal LLMs** that process multiple data types (e.g., text, images), and **multimodal LLM

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27 Sept 2026

Delay-of-Gratification as a Multi-Agent Survival Micro-benchmark for Long-Horizon LLMs: Social Exposure, Personas, and Tool Use Budgets

arXiv:2609.29509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-turn agents that must sustain goals, use tools, and adapt to other agents over extended

Dual-Frontier: When Can an Agent Trust Its World Model?

arXiv:2609.26293v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learned world models are becoming essential to general-purpose agents: by predicting action consequences, they support planning and decision-making

ERRAND: Budgeted Maintenance of Agent Memory

arXiv:2609.29545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed agents run on handed-over knowledge: a frozen policy consults a briefing of consolidated items written before the stream begins. The world then

Qwen-Planner-Agent: A Closed-Loop AI-for-AI Framework for Real-World Mobile Planner Agents

arXiv:2609.29892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progression of large language models is extending AI from passive content generation into the active workflows of engineering and scientific d

Can One Adapted Model Do It All? Fine-Tuning Strategy Selection for Customer Support LLMs