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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · AI agents — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Player-1: Learning to Play from Synthetic Experience
Develops a post-training framework that trains computer-use agents for video games using synthetic interactive experiences and an expanded action space.
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Develops computer-use agents that interact with complex digital game environments.
FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery
The authors introduce FDE-Gym, a benchmark of 95 customer delivery tasks evaluating AI agents on ambiguous requirements and live software environments.
Ranked #62New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates AI agents operating in complex environments to deliver end-to-end customer projects.
Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively
The paper introduces Agent-Reflex, a training framework designed to teach language agents how to reflect and recover from noisy environment feedback.
Ranked #63New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Trains language agents to handle noisy tool feedback and reflect on failures.
Self-Evolving Agent Harness
The paper formalizes a framework and theoretical generalization bounds for evolving an agent's software harness without updating model weights.
Ranked #64New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Studies self-evolving agent scaffolding including prompts, memory, workflows, and tool execution.
MAI-Gym: An Open All-in-One Platform for GUI Agent Evaluation and RL Training across Mobile and Computer Environments
The paper provides an open platform and environment suite for evaluating and training GUI agents with online reinforcement learning.
Ranked #65New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Introduces a platform and training system for interactive GUI agents across environments.
Harness^2: Recursive Agent Harnessing for an Open World
The authors propose a two-level recursive self-improvement framework to evolve and refine execution harnesses for open-world agents.
Ranked #66New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents recursive self-improvement frameworks to evolve LLM agent harnesses for open-world tasks.
Tev: Scaling Long-Horizon Agentic Environments with Dense Progress Rewards
The paper presents a dataset and framework with dense progressive rewards to train language agents on long-horizon tasks.
Ranked #67New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Introduces environments and dense rewards for training autonomous long-horizon LLM agents.
Doc2Harness: Benchmarking LLMs on Long-Horizon Harness Engineering of Coding Agents
The paper introduces a benchmark evaluating how well language models engineer isolated execution harnesses for coding agents using specification documents.
Ranked #68New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Benchmarks how well models build harnesses that govern tool-using coding agents.
Vela: User Behavior as Supervision Sparks LLM Intelligence
This paper presents a framework that converts long-term real user behavior records into supervisory tasks to train personalization-focused language models.
Ranked #69New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Uses long-term user interaction trajectories to train personal-assistant agents.
ActionOPD: Distilling Decisions, Not Tokens
This paper proposes an on-policy distillation method that aligns student agents using semantic actions rather than token-level supervision.
Ranked #70New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Focuses on distilling multi-step language model agents using semantic action supervision.
ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents
Introduces ProgramGym, a framework providing verifiable sandbox environments and black-box test feedback for training long-horizon program reproduction agents.
Ranked #71New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Designs multi-step program reproduction agents that explore codebases, plan, implement, and review code.
Work2Skill: Capturing Human GUI Experience for Reusable Agent Skill Induction
Introduces a framework and multimodal dataset of human desktop demonstrations to induce reusable skills for computer-use agents.
Ranked #72New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Introduces a framework and dataset for GUI computer-use agents learning reusable skills.
A Decade in a Day: Synthesizing Agent-Native Interfaces from Human-Oriented Software Evolution
The paper introduces a benchmark measuring how software interface versions affect the task performance of desktop language model agents.
Ranked #73New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Designs agent-native interfaces to help LLM agents interact with desktop applications.
CLASHarness: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Conflict in Computer Use via a Controllable and Verifiable Generation Pipeline
The paper presents a benchmark of 600 tasks to evaluate how well multi-agent vision-language systems handle conflicting information during computer use.
Ranked #74New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:07
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Presents a benchmark for evaluating multi-agent conflict resolution in computer-use workflows.
EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation
The paper proposes an edge-cloud collaboration framework that selectively delegates complex agent steps from local models to cloud models.
Ranked #75New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents a multi-step agent framework optimizing task execution via selective cloud delegation.
Intern-Decision: Efficient Multimodal Decision Making with Autoregressive Masked Language Modeling
Develops small multimodal models that output structured choices using masked language modeling to reduce inference latency in agent tasks.
Ranked #76New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Designs efficient decision-making models for interactive multimodal agents choosing discrete actions.
LifeSearch: Benchmarking Deep Research Agents for Real-World Life and Productivity
This paper introduces a benchmark with expert-written rubrics to evaluate deep research agents on real-world life and productivity tasks.
Ranked #77New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates autonomous research agents performing multi-step planning and web search.
Trajectory-Level Speculation with Semantic Verification for Tool-Using Agents
Introduces a framework where a small model drafts tool-use trajectories and a larger model verifies them in single prefill passes.
Ranked #78New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes a speculative execution and verification framework specifically for multi-step tool-using LLM agents.
JevAgentHarness: Benchmarking, Deploying and Training Decision Models That Share Control with LLMs
The paper presents a benchmark and harness to delegate routine tool choices from large language models to cheaper decision models.
Ranked #79New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Studies delegating intermediate decisions like tool selection in LLM agents to smaller models.
$τ$-Emotion-Bench: Exposing the Interaction Fragility of LLM Agents through Real-World User Emotions
The paper introduces a benchmark to measure how tool-calling agents perform when interacting with emotionally varied, impatient users.
Ranked #80New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Investigates long-horizon tool-calling agents interacting with realistic, emotionally variable human users.
What Makes a Social Agent's Interactions Effective? Learning from Verifiable Outcomes in Paired Worlds
The paper presents a benchmark evaluating whether conversational agents agree on verifiable plans that satisfy both parties' private conditions.
Ranked #81New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 15:06
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Examines multi-turn coordination, planning, and goal completion between conversational LLM agents.
LEASH: Uncertainty-Aware Weak-to-Strong Escalation and Oversight for Computer-Use Agents
The paper proposes a training-free framework that uses uncertainty signals to escalate computer-use tasks from weak models to strong models.
Ranked #82New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Designs a routing and oversight framework specifically for long-horizon computer-use agents.
Beyond Perfect Teammates: Multi-Agent Collaboration with Unreliable Colleagues
This paper introduces UnCoBench to benchmark how language model agents handle unhelpful, incomplete, or missing communications from partner agents.
Ranked #83New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Examines multi-agent collaboration and error recovery when teammates provide unreliable information.
TacitVLA: Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models Without Reasoning Latency
The paper proposes a vision-language-action model where action execution avoids inference latency by decoupling from explicit reasoning output at runtime.
Ranked #84Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents a vision-language-action model that plans and executes robotic actions efficiently.
Judges Follow the Reference: The Derivation Gap in Verifying Tool-Call Arguments
The authors identify a derivation gap where LLM judges reject correct tool arguments lacking direct textual references, and propose a dedicated reference model.
Ranked #85Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Focuses directly on tool-call verification and judges for LLM agents.
Humanize MLE Agents: Multi-Agent Session Alternation Beyond Single-Agent Limits
Presents a framework alternating multi-agent sessions across context resets to overcome reasoning degradation in long-horizon machine learning engineering.
Ranked #86Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Proposes multi-agent session alternation to overcome single-agent performance degradation in machine learning tasks.
Quality, Not Just Outcome: A Structural Scoring Framework for Selecting Coding-Agent Trajectories for Supervised Fine-Tuning
Presents a structural scoring framework to select high-quality coding agent trajectories for supervised fine-tuning based on interaction efficiency.
Ranked #87New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Examines trajectory quality metrics to fine-tune autonomous coding agents.
PrivacyGuard: Source-Linked Sanitization and Locally Resolvable PII References for Cloud GUI Agents
The paper presents PrivacyGuard, a framework using source-linked sanitization and local references to prevent personal data leakage in cloud GUI agents.
Ranked #88New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Secures cloud GUI agents taking actions across multi-turn interactions.
Beyond Binary Verifiable Rewards: Behavioral Self-Rewarding for SWE Agents
Introduces behavioral self-rewarding to refine reinforcement learning feedback for software engineering agents by comparing execution trajectories.
Ranked #89New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Investigates self-rewarding reinforcement learning strategies specifically to improve software engineering agents.
EvoCowork: A Benchmark for Real-World Office Tasks
This paper introduces a 240-task benchmark to evaluate recursive self-improvement in agents across diverse real-world office workflows.
Ranked #90New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates recursive self-improvement and procedural performance of agents on office workflows.
When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks
Introduces a benchmark evaluating how misleading visualizations and charts affect the multi-step execution and decisions of web agents.
Ranked #91New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Directly assesses autonomous Web agents executing multi-step browsing and reasoning workflows.
Ask Your Advisor: Learning When to Consult Stronger Models in Agentic Systems
Develops a reinforcement-learned meta-controller for execution agents to decide when to consult stronger advisor language models cost-effectively.
Ranked #92New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Studies executor-advisor coordination and dynamic consultation in LLM agent workflows.
When AI Advisors Agree: Distinguishing Forecast Risk from Forecast Reliability
Analyzes archived financial forecasts from multi-model systems to distinguish consensus reliability from baseline underlying asset volatility.
Ranked #93Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Examines multi-LLM advisor agreement, forecast reliability, and risk in real-world deployment.
How Do Hardware Faults Manifest Differently in LLM Agents?
Analyzes how random hardware bit faults propagate and manifest across multi-step LLM agent workflow executions.
Ranked #94Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:29
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Evaluates the resilience and failure behavior of tool-using LLM agents under hardware faults.
Natural Code Transformation Confuses Agents in Vulnerability Analysis
The study reports that natural code transformations confuse vulnerability analysis agents, proposing functional changes as a potential defensive strategy.
Ranked #95Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes how code transformations confuse LLM agents during vulnerability analysis.
Which Metadata Matters for LLM Tool Selection in MCP? Evidence from Controlled Factor-Level Interventions
The authors run controlled experiments showing how parameter schema differences in metadata alter language model tool selection.
Ranked #96Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates how tool metadata schemas affect LLM agent tool selection.
Should SLMs be in the Driver's Seat? A Study of Local Models as Interpreters in Cloud-Written Agent Programs
The paper demonstrates a hybrid architecture where cloud-generated agent code delegates localized private-data queries to edge models.
Ranked #97New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates hybrid cloud-edge agent architectures combining planned programs with local execution.
AgentStripes: An Evidence-Graded Maturity Model for AI Agents
The paper introduces a maturity model that grades artificial intelligence agents across multiple capability levels, evidence stages, and safety gates.
Ranked #98New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Defines a maturity model evaluating AI agent engineering controls, observability, and processes.
Rethinking the Role of Tool Graph Memory in Multi-Turn Tool Use
The authors analyze tool graph memory in multi-turn agents and find that stored transitions provide little benefit over baselines.
Ranked #99Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates multi-turn tool use and memory mechanisms in LLM agents.
Humans vs. Machines: A Comparison With AI Agents in Software Reverse Engineering
This paper benchmarks language model agents against skilled humans on binary software reverse engineering tasks using interactive tools.
Ranked #100Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates autonomous LLM agents interacting with reverse engineering tools over multi-step tasks.
MCPDisCo: Seesaw-Mitigated Tuning for MCP-Native Agents
This paper presents a reinforcement learning framework to train language model agents across tools and servers in the Model Context Protocol ecosystem.
Ranked #101New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Proposes a reinforcement learning framework for agents using Model Context Protocol tools and servers.
Unconstrained CTI-REALM with Open-Weights
This paper evaluates open-weight language models against closed frontier models on a cybersecurity detection benchmark using an interactive telemetry environment.
Ranked #102Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates language model agents querying telemetry stores to solve threat intelligence tasks.
When Does an ASR Error Matter? Task-Role Diagnostics for Tool-Using Voice Agents
The paper introduces a diagnostic protocol to evaluate how speech recognition errors affect structured tool calling in voice agents.
Ranked #103New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Analyzes how speech recognition errors impact tool-calling behavior in voice agents.
Scaling Inference-Time Compute with Teams of Coding Agents
The paper studies compute allocation across multi-agent coding teams to identify Pareto-optimal trade-offs between cost and performance.
Ranked #104Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Explores coordinating multi-agent teams and allocating inference-time compute across planning and execution.
The Curse of Knowledge in Role-Playing Language Models
The paper tests whether role-playing language models leak private or unobserved character information across simulated interactive scenes.
Ranked #105Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates information boundaries and hidden state tracking in multi-agent and role-playing simulations.
DuoDiscover: Scaling Autonomous Discovery Beyond the Evaluation Bottleneck
The paper proposes an agent framework that discovers lightweight proxy evaluators to bypass costly benchmark evaluations during autonomous engineering discovery.
Ranked #106New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Presents a multi-agent system of autonomous coding agents for real-world engineering discovery.
BRIDGE: Selective Boundary Repair with Dependency Graph Evidence in Multi-Agent Systems
The paper introduces BRIDGE, a runtime intervention framework that detects and repairs broken information handoffs across dependency graphs in multi-agent workflows.
Ranked #107New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Introduces a runtime control framework to detect and repair broken handoffs between agents in multi-agent systems.
Reliable Memory from Unstable Growth: Curating Self-Written Agent Playbooks with Randomized Experiments
Presents a randomized experiment framework to test and curate self-written agent playbooks, preventing task failure caused by unverified lessons.
Ranked #108New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Develops a randomized experimentation method to curate self-written playbooks for multi-step LLM agents.
Prompt-Injection Probes Learn the Conversation, Not Just the Injection
Shows linear prompt-injection monitors overfit to conversation features and reduces their false alarms by adding matched harmless negative examples.
Ranked #109Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Investigates linear probes designed to protect tool-using LLM agents from indirect injection.
MENTOR: Procedural Shielding of Tool-Using LLM Agents
This paper introduces a system to ensure tool-using language model agents comply with natural language company procedural manuals.
Ranked #110New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:17
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Introduces procedural shielding to guide tool-using LLM agents through multi-step workflows.
RelLedger: Relational Information Governance for LLM Agent Organizations
This paper introduces RelLedger, an auditing framework to trace how relational histories drive reporting choices and actions in multi-agent systems.
Ranked #111New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Audits how LLM agents communicate and share records in multi-agent organizational workflows.
Think Before You Speak: Enabling Training-Free Latent Communication Between Language Models
This paper presents CacheFuse, a training-free technique enabling heterogeneous language models to communicate directly by sharing key-value cache states.
Ranked #112Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Explores latent KV-cache communication between language models to improve multi-agent collaboration.
MemForm: Benchmarking Memory Formation Poisoning in LLM Agents
The paper introduces MemForm to benchmark adversarial memory formation poisoning across five input interfaces in language model agents.
Ranked #113New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Examines vulnerabilities in long-term memory formation for LLM agents.
Evaluating LLMs as Agentic Workflow Executors in Real-World Customer Support Skills
The paper introduces a benchmark derived from real customer support dialogues to evaluate language models executing bounded, tool-using skills.
Ranked #114New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 15 Oct, 06:18
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Evaluates LLMs executing stateful customer support skills with tools.
ToolBottleneckBench: Measuring Tool-Agent Performance under Controlled Pressures and Fixed Harness Budgets
Measures tool-agent performance failures under controlled harness limits such as completion caps and tool menu visibility.
Ranked #115New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 17 Oct, 06:17
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Evaluates tool-using agent performance under varying tool catalog pressures and fixed harness budgets.
RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics
Combines dual-encoder semantic retrieval with a contextual bandit to adaptively select agent tools using execution reliability feedback.
Ranked #116New way to see a problemPeer-reviewed7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Improves tool retrieval and handling runtime tool failures for autonomous AI agents.
X-AgentRed: Red-Teaming Personal Agents in Evolving Multi-Service Ecosystems
Presents an automated red-teaming framework that searches for harmful compositional tool-use paths across multi-service environments.
Ranked #117New testPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses multi-service tool interactions and unintended compositional actions in personal agents.
Forgetting is Not Always Bad: A Neuro-Inspired Memory Repair Mechanism for Poisoned LLM Agents
Introduces DREAM, an agent-intrinsic defense that triggers functional forgetting of poisoned memory entries through implicit reactivation and topological diagnosis.
Ranked #118New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Designs memory repair mechanisms specifically for autonomous LLM agents.
Inject a Turn, Not a Token: Learning Where to Redirect LLM Reasoning for Self-Correction
Introduces UPTURN, a framework that trains a small classifier to inject redirection prompts as new user turns during reasoning failures.
Ranked #119Surprising resultPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Designs a mechanism to intervene and redirect reasoning rollouts during multi-step problem solving.
VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails
Develops a framework for evolving deterministic formal policies to serve as runtime guardrails for large language model agents.
Ranked #120New way to see a problemPreprint7/10 suggested
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Proposes formal evolving guardrails to regulate LLM agent actions over sensitive system resources.
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