News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Discover, Falsify, Revise: Auditing Input-Use Claims from Source Code to Predictive Contribution in Agent-Discovered Cell Models arXiv:2609.27234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI virtual cells aim to predict cellular responses to specified interventions, yet held-out predictive performance alone does not establish use of the supplied perturbation information. This prediction-claim gap matters in agentic… 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago SR-Fraud: An Outcome-Supervised Reflective LLM Agent Framework for Non-Stationary Payment Fraud Detection arXiv:2609.27287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time payment fraud detection is a non-stationary streaming prediction problem: adversaries adapt before supervised labels mature, and localized burst attacks can cause losses before retraining. Production systems typically… 31 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago KITE: KV-Invariant Transformer Expansion for Efficient Agentic LLM Scaling arXiv:2609.27294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling a language model is not only a question of final quality: the architectural choice determines how much computation is spent during training, prompt processing, and autoregressive decoding to achieve certain model quality.… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Forecast Workflow Bench: Evaluating Language-Model Decisions with Budgeted Forecast Tools arXiv:2609.27385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) provide forecasts for operational decisions, but accuracy alone does not determine their value. Evaluating agents that use these models requires measuring decision quality and forecast cost.… 27 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago ProCredit: From Outcome Rewards to Progress Credit in Agentic Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2609.27532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon agentic tasks require an agent to modify an environment through a sequence of tool calls, with success determined by the final state. The standard recipe assigns a single outcome reward at the end and compares… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago The Capability Manifold and ML Scaling Laws arXiv:2609.27588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing machine learning (ML) scaling laws relate predictive loss to compute, model parameters, and data. However, as models are increasingly deployed through agentic harnesses, loss alone is insufficient to characterize… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Learning from Failures: Heterogeneous Graph Memory for Small Language Model Tool-Using Agents arXiv:2609.28003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small and medium-sized language models offer cost-effective executors for tool-using agents, making them attractive for local and large-scale deployment. However, in long-horizon and stateful environments, they often make… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago UniDataAgent: An Ontology-Grounded Agent for Enterprise Question-to-Report Automation arXiv:2609.27257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise data agents must preserve organization specific semantics, not just translate questions into queries. We present ChinaUnicom DataAgent (UniDataAgent), an ontology grounded system for reusable question-to-report analysis… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Guides That Cause Actions: An Offline Study of Guide-Action Mutual Reinforcement in Multimodal Web Agents arXiv:2609.27353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web agents are usually evaluated in live environments, where environment state and judge models drift between runs, so the same checkpoint rarely reproduces the same score, making controlled studies of training phenomena… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago SkillGym: Internalizing Human Skills into LLMs for Real-World Problem Solving arXiv:2609.27717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-written agent skills encode rich workflows for real-world problem solving, but are typically used as external inference-time instructions rather than internalized as reusable model capabilities. We introduce… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Improving LLM-based Autonomous Web Agents with Filtering arXiv:2609.27770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous web agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), have garnered significant attention for automating various web-based tasks with multi-step reasoning and decision-making capabilities. An open research question in the… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Beyond Unsafe Detection: Counterfactually Anchored Evidence Attribution for Multi-Turn LLM Safety Failures arXiv:2609.27773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) move from conversational assistants to advanced agentic systems, guardrail failures can convert adversarial intents into harmful executions. However, most guardrail evaluation frameworks focus only… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Delegated Misalignment: How Multi-Agent Structures Amplify LLM Safety Risks arXiv:2609.27900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems where a principal agent decomposes tasks and delegates them to subordinate agents that may invoke external tools. Safety alignment, however, is still… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Agent-Editing World Model: Rethinking World Modeling for LLM Agents arXiv:2609.28416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to tackle long-horizon tasks across diverse environments. To further improve agent performance, existing language world models typically predict environment… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago CAVEAT: Towards Robust Computer-Use Agents in Incentive-Misaligned Environments arXiv:2609.27273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly act on behalf of users online. What happens when the environments they operate in have incentives that do not align with the user's? In online marketplaces, for example, platforms may favor… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago EnSIMem: Entity-Structured Indexing for Long-Term Agent Memory arXiv:2609.27279v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agent that interacts with users over long periods must recall facts, preferences, events, and changes from a continuously growing interaction history. Existing memory systems often compress interactions into generic summaries… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Verifiable Hidden Dynamics Play: Generating Agentic RL Environments from Solved Mechanisms arXiv:2609.27321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly face long-horizon tasks with evolving state, interdependent decisions, and delayed outcomes. Scaling their training requires diverse agentic environments, dependable outcome signals, and low… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Psychoacoustically Aligned Latent Smoothing for Adversarial Robustness of Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Models arXiv:2609.27378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-speech dialogue models listen and speak simultaneously, so a continuously open acoustic channel is exposed to adversarial manipulation. We formalize imperceptible attacks on full-duplex agents as optimization… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago What Confidence Routing Is Actually Doing: Auditing Routing, Calibration, and Commitment in Multi-Agent Deliberation arXiv:2609.27822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A common multi-agent design asks agents to report confidence and lets the highest-scoring agent speak next, implicitly using one scalar both to route the conversation and to estimate uncertainty. We audit this confidence-routed… 17 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago Agentic Governance and Adversarial Verification for Policy-Constrained LLM Healthcare Appeal Generation arXiv:2609.27844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Claim denial management costs U.S. healthcare approximately $260 billion annually in administrative overhead. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can produce fluent clinical text, but… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 20d ago PASTABench: Proactive Assessment of Sequential Trajectories for Agent Safety arXiv:2609.28197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents that alter real-world states, ensuring operational safety across multi-step workflows has become a critical challenge. While recent work has moved beyond single-turn… 17 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 21d ago OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825580 Points: 233 # Comments: 161 28 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 21d ago Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses. 12 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 21d ago Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse. 29 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 21d ago Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" Article URL: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824686 Points: 242 # Comments: 224 4 Vercel — AI dev-tools 21d ago Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AI Agents built with TanStack AI can now call OAuth-protected MCP servers through Vercel Connect, with no credentials for you to store or rotate. The new @vercel/connect/tanstack-ai subpath exports connectMCPTransport , which takes a TanStack transport config and attaches a… 22 The Information — AI news-outlet 21d ago Meta Announces New Retail Partnerships for Agent Muse Meta Platforms announced partnerships with Walmart and other retailers for its AI agent Muse days after e-commerce giant Amazon blocked the personalized agent from accessing its shopping site. At Meta’s annual Connect conference on Wednesday, Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said… 10 Simon Willison community 21d ago We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary My comment on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary — Hacker News. I've been wanting this from Cloudflare for years . The classic problem here is if you do that thing where user agents that send "accept: text/html" get HTML, while user agents that… 11 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 21d ago Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series Article URL: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582 Points: 322 # Comments: 138 12 The Information — AI news-outlet 21d ago OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government, Prime Minister Says An AI agent developed by OpenAI hacked an Australian government website in June, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. The AI accessed both public and nonpublic data from the country’s Department of Health website, Albanese told reporters, adding that the… 17 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 21d ago VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555 Points: 234 # Comments: 145 7 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 21d ago Manage Kubernetes Node Fleets with NodeWright Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents,... 18 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 21d ago ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks. 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 21d ago Pi agent qwen 3.8 flash next plays Baldur's Gate 2 If like me you enjoyed classics like Baldur's Gate 2, this is a small fun experiment. For anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/live/8FhPfRKTucw?si=PMIVdHbZ-31PNwZD Qwen 3.8 Flash Next has amazing agentic capabilities but what about playing video games? There is some… 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 21d ago Streaming Nemotron 3 Diarization I’ve been playing with Nemotron 3 Diarization , and it fills a gap I’ve had with local voice agents: keeping track of who is speaking. It’s a diarization model, so it gives you speaker labels rather than transcriptions or people’s names. It can stream its output and track up to… 4 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 21d ago Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on Article URL: https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947 Points: 283 # Comments: 127 20 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 21d ago The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have… 35 r/LocalLLaMA community 21d ago open-webui and open-terminal thoughts I have been using open-webui and open-terminal. Open-terminal is installed in a VM and gives the agent a ton of control of it's own system that I keep away from my normal network. I find this gives the agent/llm a ton of freedom without much risk. I do not see this type of… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Trains but Doesn't Learn: A Post-Training Delivery Benchmark for LLM Agents as Forward-Deployed Engineers arXiv:2609.25237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training is becoming a service (PTaaS): a customer hands an operator data and a goal, and a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) returns a fine-tuned, evaluated, and deployed model under a budget, a human-approval gate, and… 32 arXiv — Machine Learning research 21d ago Extending FunctionGemma for Practical On-Device Mobile Function Calling arXiv:2609.25373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device assistants require function-calling models that map natural language to local system actions, but existing resources emphasize web APIs or narrow mobile-action catalogs. We extend FunctionGemma 270M-it to practical… 38 arXiv — Machine Learning research 21d ago Fully Byzantine-Resilient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2609.25701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study distributed Byzantine-resilient actor-critic multi-agent reinforcement learning (AC-MARL), where agents collectively learn policies through local interactions. Existing methods guarantee convergence of the agents'… 7 arXiv — Machine Learning research 21d ago From Risk Scoring to Risk Allocation: A Density-Driven Framework for Diverse Monitoring in Multi-Agent Systems arXiv:2609.26146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Risk monitoring in multi-agent systems is commonly built on a per-state primitive that scores each state independently and selects the top K. Under crowding, where many agents share the same fragility, this approach picks redundant… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago AIBuildAI-2.5: Efficient Autonomous AI Model Development Through LLM-Guided Tree Search arXiv:2609.25047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents that automatically build artificial intelligence (AI) models could broaden access to AI across science and engineering. A popular line of such agents frames model building as a code search problem and solves it by… 15 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Self-Cleaning and Captured Anyway: One Measured Primitive for Error in a Store an Agent Writes to Itself, and What a Falling Score Actually Measures arXiv:2609.25052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: "An agent that writes its conclusions into a store it later retrieves from closes a loop usually reported as one-way contamination. Taking the loop to the infinite-tenure limit against an append-only store gives a different… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Impact Is Not Invalidation: Ask About the Claim, Not the Diff arXiv:2609.25130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory systems for coding agents must decide, when a repository changes, which of their stored claims have become false. Content anchoring invalidates a claim whenever the artifact it came from changes, which fires constantly.… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago FinFIRST: Benchmarking Search Agents for Financial Information Retrieval, Sourcing and Traceability arXiv:2609.25192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial search is a highly demanding task for LLM agents, requiring not only a correct final answer but also temporally valid information retrieval, authoritative source selection, entity and period alignment, unit and definition… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Passes Alone, Fails Together: Benchmarking Semantic Coordination in Parallel LLM-Agent Development arXiv:2609.25396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parallel coding agents can produce patches that work alone but fail when merged. This happens when one agent changes an interface or rule that another agent still relies on. We study these failures with stale, a benchmark for… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Qwen3.8-Omni: Towards Native Omni-Modal Agents arXiv:2609.25611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a natively multimodal agentic model for real-world multimodal productivity. Compared with previous omni models, which primarily emphasized perception and interaction, Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Truth for Believable AI: Expressed Doubt, Provenance, and Belief Revision as an Engineerable Stance arXiv:2609.26035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational agents often express answers in a uniformly confident register. We test whether expressed uncertainty, provenance-aware assertion, and explicit belief revision can be implemented as a behavior layer over a fixed… 15 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago CoVeR: Coverage-Based Routing of Verifier Calls in Agentic Retrieval arXiv:2609.26086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agentic retrieval system issues a sequence of search queries and must decide, at each step, whether the evidence collected so far is enough to stop. Delegating that decision to an LLM verifier or a prompt judge makes stopping… 21 Page 10 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer
