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Cost-Optimal Foundation Model Deployment Portfolio for Transportation Management

arXiv:2607.13239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), are increasingly used for transportation management center

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Exploratory, Communicative, and Deployable: Vision-Driven Embodied Agents for Open-World Mobile Manipulation

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arXiv:2607.13653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world deployment of embodied agents requires active exploration, visual grounding, and interactive intent disambiguation. However, existing framewo

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16 Jul 2026

Multi-Agent Collaborative Reasoning with Tool-Augmented Evidence for Urban Region Profiling

arXiv:2607.13558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban region profiling constitutes a core problem in urban computing, supporting applications such as population estimation, economic assessment, and en

Set-shifting Behavioral Test for Harnessed Agents

arXiv:2607.13396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What happens to an LLM agent's tool choice when the reliable tool silently changes within an ongoing session? We borrow set-shifting from cognitive psyc

TRACE: Turn-level Reward Assignment via Credit Estimation for Long-Horizon Agents

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arXiv:2607.13988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn agents solve complex tasks through extended sequences of tool interactions before producing a final answer, making credit assignment a fundam

Agentic Service-Oriented Computing: A Manifesto for the Next Frontier of Service-Oriented Computing

arXiv:2607.12619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid emergence of LLM-powered autonomous and semi-autonomous agents is reshaping software systems from static, request-response components into goa

AI agents are already being used to improve the capabilities of our next-generation models. We believe with GPT-Red that we have started to …

AI agents are already being used to improve the capabilities of our next-generation models. We believe with GPT-Red that we have started to unlock a similar flywheel for safety, where today's models c

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DeepTravel: An End-to-End Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous Travel Planning Agents

arXiv:2509.21842v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Travel planning (TP) agent has recently worked as an emerging building block to interact with external tools/resources for travel itinerary generati

Do AI Agents Know When a Task Is Simple? Toward Complexity-Aware Reasoning and Execution

arXiv:2607.13034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate multi-step engineering and informatics workflows, yet they rarely ask how much effort a task act

Dynamic Resource Allocation for Ensemble Determinization MCTS

arXiv:2607.13007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based algorithms are especially suited for high-uncertainty environments such as adversarial board games with significant elements of randomn

Evidence-Grounded Verified Agentic Reasoning: A Path Toward Eliminating LLM Hallucination in Empirical Inference via Tool-Attested Kernel Proofs

arXiv:2607.12650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool access alone does not make LLM empirical reasoning governable: accepted outputs need not descend from attested evidence, and accepted deductions

Function-Aware Fill-in-the-Middle as Mid-Training for Coding Agent Foundation Models

arXiv:2607.12463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents must integrate external tool returns into ongoing reasoning - a capability that standard left-to-right pretraining on code exposes only in

How Many Tasks Are Enough for Agent Benchmark Decisions? A Replay Analysis of Public LLM Agent Benchmarks

arXiv:2607.12338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent benchmarks often compare two agents after all tasks have run, but costly evaluations make partial runs tempting. A task fraction alone does not sh

How to Realize Recursively Self-Improving Agents and Personal Singularity: A Goal-, Scope-, Tool-, and Benchmark-Driven Multi-Agent Architecture

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arXiv:2607.12254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can increasingly plan, use tools, maintain memory, and execute long-horizon tasks. These advances motivate two linked

LakeQuest: A Three-Domain Benchmark for Grounded Question Answering across Data Lakes

arXiv:2607.12310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While modern question answering (QA) systems excel on clean, schema-aligned corpora, real-world knowledge is rarely so neatly packaged. Answering ques

I guess image input is the big capability of the models, and tool use can be a substitute for non-omni model output. Still, multimodal voice…

Ethan Mollick notes that image input represents the primary advanced capability of current AI models, and that tool‑use can effectively replace outputs from non‑omni models. He observes that multimoda

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13 Jul 2026

RetailBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Autonomous Decision-Making and Strategy Stability of LLM Agents in Realistic Retail Environments

arXiv:2603.16453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have made rapid progress on short-horizon, well-scoped tasks, yet their ability to sustain coherent decisions in d

10 Jul 2026

TTHE: Test-Time Harness Evolution

arXiv:2607.08124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The behavior of an LLM agent is determined not only by the underlying model, but also by its harness: the executable program that constructs context,

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10 Jul 2026

Behavior Leverage Imbalance in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607.07050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models must learn when to call tools, when to consume tool responses, and when to answer directly. This makes multi-teacher on-policy d

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From Atomic Actions to Standard Operating Procedures: Iterative Tool Optimization for Self-Evolving LLM Agents

arXiv:2607.07321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool utilization enables Large Language Model (LLM) agents to interact with the real world and resolve complex tasks. However, existing agent frameworks

Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment

arXiv:2607.07184v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-deployment safety evaluations aim to inform the downstream risks of releasing a new AI model. Yet most evaluations provide limited evidence about

When Agents Remember Too Much: Memory Poisoning Attacks on Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2607.06595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personal AI agents powered by large language models can reason and act using available tools to access emails, manage calendars, and push code to remo

// Memory becomes an action space // Great paper on long-term memory for agents. (bookmark it) In short, it's discusses the use of a learned…

// Memory becomes an action space // Great paper on long-term memory for agents. (bookmark it) In short, it's discusses the use of a learned policy for using memory at the right granularity. Most memo

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8 Jul 2026

PCBWorld: A Benchmark Environment for Engine-Grounded PCB Design Automation

arXiv:2607.05915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: PCB routing is the task of connecting the nets of a board with copper traces under strict design rules, yet learning-based methods still lag behind rule

8 Jul 2026

Governed Individuation: Cryptographically Decoupling an Agent's Learning from Its Authority

arXiv:2607.04613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents are moving from sandboxed text generators to operators of code, data, and physical infrastructure, and they increasingly learn while d

7 Jul 2026

Progressive Disclosure for LLM-Maintained Wiki Knowledge Bases: a Preregistered Ablation

arXiv:2607.04576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly answer questions against knowledge bases they help maintain. A common intuition holds that progressive disclosure, a compact cat

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7 Jul 2026

Untrusted Content Masking for Web Agents with Security Guarantees

arXiv:2607.05277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Defenses that provide security guarantees against prompt injection attacks rely on strict isolation between trusted instructions and untrusted data. I

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7 Jul 2026

OmniGAIA: Towards Native Omni-Modal AI Agents

arXiv:2602.22897v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human intelligence naturally intertwines omni-modal perception -- spanning vision, audio, and language -- with complex reasoning and tool usage to i

Power Systems Agent Benchmark: Executable Evaluation of AI Agents in Electric Power Engineering

arXiv:2606.20950v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Executable evaluation -- checking the consequences of an agent's actions with a program rather than grading its prose -- has become a prominent way

Reasoning LLM Improves Speaker Recognition in Long-form TV Dramas

arXiv:2607.02504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form TV dramas present a formidable challenge for comprehensive video understanding, where deciphering complex storyline often relies on extbf{sp

When Should Service Agents Reconsider? Difficulty-Routed Control in Customer-Service Operations

arXiv:2607.01426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous customer-service agents are shifting from conversational interfaces toward operational execution roles: they retrieve firm records, apply ser

Can Agents Generalize to the Open World? Unveiling the Fragility of Static Training in Tool Use

arXiv:2607.01084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Model (LLM) agents demonstrate proficiency in static benchmarks, their deployment in real-world scenarios is hindered by the dynami

2 Jul 2026

TerraBench: Can Agents Reason Over Heterogeneous Earth-System Data?

arXiv:2606.13148v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Climate and environmental decision-making increasingly requires reasoning across heterogeneous inputs, including gridded physical data, satellite im

2 Jul 2026

From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation

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arXiv:2606.30749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale dexterous grasp datasets encode rich priors over hand-object interaction, but their use has largely been confined to grasp generation and pi

1 Jul 2026

Agentic Tool Use in Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.00835v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are increasingly being deployed as autonomous agents yet their real world effectiveness depends on reliable tools for informat

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An AI agent for treatment reasoning over a biomedical tool universe

arXiv:2606.28692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Treatment reasoning underpins every therapeutic decision, integrating disease context, comorbidities, medications, contraindications, and evolving biome

Entity Binding Failures in Tool-Augmented Agents

arXiv:2606.30531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented language-model agents are often evaluated by whether they select the correct tool, produce valid API arguments, and complete the requeste

Hybrid Retriever Evolution for Multimodal Document Reasoning Agents

arXiv:2606.29648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Different retrievers, including lexical, semantic, and multimodal approaches, provide highly complementary strengths for multimodal document understan

Mitigating the Safety-utility Trade-off in LLM Alignment via Adaptive Safe Context Learning

arXiv:2602.13562v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While reasoning models have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, their increasing power necessitates stringent safety measu

Recursive Self-Evolving Agents via Held-Out Selection

arXiv:2606.28374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly improved without weight updates by evolving a natural-language artifact, such as reflections, workflows, playbooks, cheatshe

ProMSA:Progressive Multimodal Search Agents for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2606.27974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to combine image understanding with external knowledge. Most prior methods use a fi

29 Jun 2026

Quantization Inflates Reasoning: Token Inflation as a Hidden Cost of Low-Bit Reasoning Models

arXiv:2606.25519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantization is widely used to reduce the inference cost of large language models, but its effect on reasoning models is not fully captured by final-a

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25 Jun 2026

AdversaBench: Automated LLM Red-Teaming with Multi-Judge Confirmation and Cross-Model Transferability

arXiv:2606.24589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling adversarial evaluation of large language models requires both a method for generating hard inputs and a reliable way to confirm that resulting f

24 Jun 2026

External Experience Serving in Production LLM Systems: A Deployment-Oriented Study of Quality-Cost Trade-offs

arXiv:2606.11806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production LLM systems accumulate reusable operational experience, but the practical deployment issue is not merely whether such experience can help. It

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11 Jun 2026

ISE: An Execution-Grounded Recipe for Multi-Turn OS-Agent Trajectories

arXiv:2606.11520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training capable OS agents requires data that simultaneously captures structured user intents, multi-turn task delegation, and grounded tool execution

11 Jun 2026

ASA: Backbone-Training-Free Representation Engineering for Tool-Calling Agents

arXiv:2602.04935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting LLM agents to domain-specific tool calling remains notably brittle under evolving interfaces. Prompt and schema engineering is easy t

10 Jun 2026

Beyond APIs: Probing the Limits of MLLMs in Physical Tool Use

arXiv:2606.10803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at utilizing digital APIs and increasingly serve as the 'brain' of embodied AI, instructing robots to i

10 Jun 2026

Pushing the Limits of LLM Tool Calling via Experiential Knowledge Integration and Activation