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ToolRACER: A Robust Agentic Conversation Emulation Resource for Agent Training and Evaluation

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arXiv:2610.09163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task-oriented conversational agents remain fragile under real world conversation scenarios as they rarely follow a predictable script, especially when u

8 Oct 2026

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CCDF: A Benchmark Dataset for Deepfake Detection in Real-World Surveillance Footage

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arXiv:2610.07939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to rapid advances in Generative AI, commercial video generation tools can be used to produce fabricated surveillance footage that can fool both huma

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7 Oct 2026

FC-SWE: Failure-Conditioned RL for Long-Horizon Software Engineering Agents

arXiv:2610.07898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repository-level software engineering (SWE) is a challenging long-horizon setting: agents must reason over extended interactions, use tools, and adapt t

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Novice Reliance Calibration in AI-Assisted Decision Making: The Role of Explanations and Self-Assessment

arXiv:2610.07800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are widely used to support decision making in tasks and domains where no immediate performance feedback is availabl

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RA-MoWE: Workflow-Affinity Embeddings for Query Clustering and Agentic Workflow Generation

arXiv:2610.07851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic workflows enable large language models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks by coordinating reasoning, tool use, and verification. However, a workflow

Where Rules End and Judges Begin: Measuring the Judgment Boundary in Multi-Agent Systems Security

arXiv:2610.07657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) engage tools, share memory, and delegate tasks, often encountering adversarial content. Current defenses for MAS are

Don't Judge an LLM Only by Its Activations: Discovering Suppressed Safety Features via Counterfactual Activation Potential

arXiv:2610.05541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has emerged as the primary means to understand safety behavior of LLMs. However, existing tools primarily focus on the acti

Monitorability Disposition in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2610.04914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring the chain-of-thought (CoT) of large reasoning models (LRMs) is a common way to detect misbehavior in real-world practice. However, current

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Self-Reflection Fine-Tuning: Enhancing Agent Security against Prompt Injection Attacks from Failure Experience

arXiv:2610.04269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in tool-augmented environments, but their reliance on external inputs makes them highly vuln

The Numerical Linear Algebra of Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.04631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Numerical Linear Algebra (NLA) has consistently played a vital role in advancing science by providing tools to solve fundamental problems encountered in

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JOVE: Joint Execution and Verification for Resource-Aware LLM Task Graphs

arXiv:2610.03296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex reasoning queries can be decomposed into directed acyclic task graphs and distributed across heterogeneous LLMs, reducing latency through parall

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5 Oct 2026

Knowledge or Calculator? Decomposing the Skill Premium in Verifiable Financial Agent Workflows

arXiv:2610.03564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial AI agents must do more than retrieve facts: investment workflows require correct quantitative execution, reliable use of procedural resources,

5 Oct 2026

AI-assisted mitotic counting improves reproducibility and efficiency across multiple tumour types

arXiv:2610.01813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mitotic counting is an important component of tumour grading, diagnosis and prognostic assessment across several tumour types, but manual assessment is

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2 Oct 2026

AgBench: Agentic AI Benchmarks for Personal AI Devices

arXiv:2609.38652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems increasingly rely on cloud-hosted large language models for planning, tool use, and iterative execution, raising concerns about API c

AIfred: Augmented Learning through Functional Robotic Embodiment at the Desk

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arXiv:2609.38737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Desk-based learning and creative activities benefit from handwritten engagement. However, current generative AI tools deliver guidance through a separat

Explicit Trajectory Diversity for RL-Based Post-Training of LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.38805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents often admit multiple high-quality solutions to the same task, differing in reasoning structure, tool-use pattern, or interaction trajectory

LIBERO-Agent: Evaluating General-Purpose Agents for Direct Embodied Manipulation

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arXiv:2609.39507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose agents can plan, use tools, and revise their behavior from feedback, but it remains unclear whether these capabilities transfer from dig

Thinking Outside the Box: Can Language Models Rely on External Guidance Selectively?

arXiv:2609.39578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses often improve language models with human-designed workflows, but as models grow more capable, unreliable guidance can increasingly const

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Accessible, but Not Adopted: Increasing LLM Adoption among First-generation, Low-income (FGLI) College Students beyond Expanding Access

arXiv:2609.36129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as a force to empower underserved communities, and significant efforts are being made to expa

Beyond Rule-Based Mutation Testing: Test-Aware Mutant Generation Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.35841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mutation testing evaluates test-suite adequacy by injecting synthetic faults into program code. However, traditional rule-based tools often generate l

Divide and Inject: Can Agents Reconstruct an Indirect Prompt Injection from Fragments?

arXiv:2609.36576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems are now being widely used to orchestrate tools and reason over long contexts. However, the improving capabilities of the large language

MCP Error Messages Written for Developers Hurt the Most Capable Agents Most

arXiv:2609.35381v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers wrap web APIs built for human developers, and their error messages tell the reader to run a command,

SelfSearch: Reward-Free Search for Self-Improving Agents

arXiv:2609.37968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in the coding capabilities of LLM agents allow them to inspect and modify their own instructions, tools, and execution procedures. Existing app

SimpleEvol: An Agent-Loop Framework for LLM-Driven Automated Heuristic Design with Minimal Human Priors

arXiv:2609.37172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for automated heuristic design (AHD), enabling iterative generation and refinement of heuris

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

Topological Coherence for Self-evolving Multi-agent Systems

arXiv:2609.37953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex tasks inherently couple workflow structure, agent responsibility, collaboration, and memory access: task regions delimit responsibility and tool

VISTA: Internalizing Collective Visual Experience via On-Policy Distillation for Active Multimodal Agents

arXiv:2609.38086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active multimodal agents use visual tools to acquire task-relevant evidence while reasoning. Although reinforcement learning samples multiple interactio

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API Secrets Should Never Become Tokens in the LLM's Vocabulary: A Threat Analysis of API Credential Handling in LLM Agent Systems and an Empirical Evaluation of a Vault-Mediated Execution Boundary

arXiv:2609.33371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents turn credential hygiene from a storage problem into an execution-security problem. A key pasted into a pr

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CORTEX: A Verified Experience Layer for Generalist Agents

arXiv:2609.33260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agent can solve a task today and face the same task under new facts, tools, or governing knowledge tomorrow. Most agent systems can retrieve releva

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Deep Learning Techniques for Phoneme Recognition in Italian Children' s Speech

arXiv:2609.33060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech therapists often face difficulties diagnosing impairments due to the lack of efficient tools for transcribing speech into the International Phone

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

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

LLMs are General Asynchronous Agents

arXiv:2609.35427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLMs are increasingly capable as autonomous agents, but they follow sequential interaction cycles: read, think, reply or call tools, repeat. Many

Nudgeability: Reasoning Models Follow Confidence Signals Without Tracking Their Own Competence

arXiv:2609.34572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning language models that can call tools must decide during inference whether to answer unaided or delegate. Any self-reflection mechanism for th

Self-Evolving Coding Agents: From Digital Programs to Physical-World Intelligence

arXiv:2609.35432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action (WAM) models map observations and instructions directly to robot actions. This directness ties a policy to

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A Safety-Bounded SDC-to-MCP Gateway for Medical AI Agents

arXiv:2609.31358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a common interface through which AI applications discover and use external resources and tools. It allows la

Adapting for AI: How elementary teachers adjust their practices for an AI-integrated curriculum

arXiv:2609.31569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI tools are entering children's everyday experiences, and schools are interested in adopting them. However, successful classroom integ

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AgentXploit: Autonomous Repository-to-Runtime Red-Teaming for AI Agents

arXiv:2609.31318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents combine language models with external data and tools that can modify files, call APIs, or execute code. Security failures can arise when adv

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Compress What You See, Not What You Say: Anchored Context Distillation for Latent-Observation Software Engineering Agents

arXiv:2609.31430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool observations dominate the context of software-engineering agents, making long interaction histories costly to maintain. Existing context compressio

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PTC-Decoder: Towards Intelligent SLMs on Offline Resource-Constrained Edge Devices

arXiv:2609.30836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying small language models (SLMs) on offline, resource-constrained edge devices such as remote sensing satellites presents a fundamental challenge:

AgentKernel: The Trust-Native Agentic Operating System

arXiv:2609.29647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI agents routinely cross trust boundaries: they ingest untrusted content, combine it with privileged instructions, persist intermediate belief

Between the Commits: Process, Error, and Claim Reliability in a Wholly AI-Authored Codebase

arXiv:2609.29744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present: (i) a new dataset consisting of the full development history of a 21,000-line Python tool built entirely by Claude AI, with no human-autho

NNV3: Expanding Neural Network Verification to New Architectures and Domains

arXiv:2609.30050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present NNV3, the latest version of the Neural Network Verification (NNV) tool, a MATLAB framework for formal verification of deep learning models an

Who Is Behind the Harness? Fingerprinting LLMs through Agentic Behavior

arXiv:2609.28559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs increasingly operate through coding-agent harnesses that inspect repositories, invoke tools, and modify files. Substituting the model behind such

Reachable Global Optimization in AI Systems: How Global Is Global?

arXiv:2609.27855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly claim to optimize prompts, policies, architectures, plans, tool-use trajectories, reasoning traces, and test-time computation. T

24 Sept 2026

Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer

arXiv:2609.28372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consumers increasingly delegate purchasing decisions to Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as surrogate consumers. Using 'Tool-Lab,' an adaptation of

24 Sept 2026

A Governance-Aware Large Language Model Orchestrated Agentic Digital Twin for Transmission System Operator Control Room Decision Support

arXiv:2609.22476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transmission system operators face rising complexity from renewable integration, reduced inertia, and tighter security margins. Large language models

23 Sept 2026

APEXA: Execution-Integrity Enforcement for Multi-Agent LLM Automation of Synchrotron Data Reduction

arXiv:2609.24165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synchrotron data reduction, detector calibration followed by azimuthal integration of terabyte-scale diffraction series, is a multi-step, expert-bound b

23 Sept 2026

Connecting the Dots in Agentic AI Security: A Cross-Dimensional Threat Taxonomy, Evaluation Maturity, and Open Challenges

arXiv:2609.23894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI extends LLM security beyond generated content to persistent state, autonomous actions, tool use, and interactions with humans and other age