News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails arXiv:2610.12813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate over sensitive resources, such as private documents and mutable system states, which can create serious safety and security risks. Runtime guardrails should therefore make inspectable,… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago SmartSalesBench: A Resistance-Aware Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Sales Agents arXiv:2610.12975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present SmartSalesBench, the first multi-turn conversational benchmark explicitly designed to evaluate large language model (LLM) sales agents against psychologically grounded, resistant buyer personas. Existing task-oriented… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago EmbodiedCLBench: Evaluating Continual Learning for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents arXiv:2610.13021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning requires models to accumulate past experience and transfer it to new tasks. Despite substantial research on continual learning, existing work remains largely confined to non-embodied settings, without extending… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Travel Back To Move Forward: Retrospective Exploration and Evolving for Long Horizon Agents arXiv:2610.13058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly operate in long-horizon environments where early mistakes can trigger cascading failures and trap agents in dead-end trajectories. Agents must therefore be able to proactively recover from… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QA arXiv:2610.13128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Question answering over large heterogeneous document collections requires first finding the right passages and then reading them, yet current retrieval-augmented agents give one model both kinds of tools and let it schedule… 38 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Taking Tokenization off the Host for Agentic LLM Serving arXiv:2610.13325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic workloads resend long contexts that barely change between calls. Prefix caching now skips most of their prefill, yet every request must still be tokenized in full before the cache can even be consulted. Tokenization, a… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago ProgramGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Program Reproduction Agents arXiv:2610.13395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly used to build programs from scratch as software engineers do rather than to resolve issues within a repository or to generate a repository from a given requirements document. However, scalable… 36 Vercel — AI dev-tools 2d ago Muse Wonder now available on AI Gateway Muse Wonder from Meta is now available on AI Gateway. The model is designed for coding, long-running agents, and computer use. It can plan multi-step tasks, delegate work to sub-agents, and recover from errors as work progresses. Muse Wonder has a 1M-token context window and… 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago OpenCode 2.0.26 is out, if you need to constantly prompt "Continue" it's not just your bot AFAIK I upgraded to OpenCode 2.0.26 today, and even with competent bots it seems to hang up where the bot will be like, "Great, I'll implement that." And I have to prompt it with, "Yes, go ahead." as if it has no agenticness. Bot: "Fixing the test:" <stops> Me " T-t-t-today, junior! "… 32 r/LocalLLaMA community 3d ago Qwen 3.8 27B Q5 vs Qwen 3.8 Next Q3_S for document analysis I have an app that processes ~500 different documents every day. An agent analyzes them, sorts them, tags them, extracts various legal nuances, creates descriptions, etc. So far I've been using Qwen 3.8 27B Q5 with a 150K context window, but I'm wondering whether I should switch… 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 3d ago M5 Ultra 256GB or 2x DGX Spark? Which one? Currently contemplating adding either M5 Ultra 256GB or dual DGX Spark in addition to existing 5090. I have been researching for past few days and have zeroed in on dual sparks because higher throughput for agentic coding / multiple parallel requests and prompt processing… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 3d ago Best small model + setup together with qwen3.8-flash-next hello, I currently use swift qwen3.8 gsq rco in iq3 xxs in strata. The model is only used for hermes agent. I have 64GB of ram + 32GB R9700 where the model runs on. But I also have an rx7800xt with 16GB. For hermes agent i want to run a small but intelligent enough model as an… 34 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4d ago Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work. 25 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 4d ago Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier Article URL: https://github.com/rociiu/talorys Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031614 Points: 259 # Comments: 123 21 r/MachineLearning community 4d ago Are .ipynb notebooks already outdated in the agentic era? [D] I am a data scientist who started working in the industry before the LLM revolution. Back then, Jupyter Notebooks were a perfect fit for the classical DS pipeline: EDA -> data prep -> fit -> eval -> tune -> save model artefact and notebook. Lately, I have been thinking a lot… 34 Marcus on AI community 4d ago We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now Every minute we wait risks disaster 34 Simon Willison community 4d ago Quoting The New York Times Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available on the State Department’s… 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4d ago Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice. 37 OpenAI Python SDK releases dev-tools 4d ago v3.28.0 3.28.0 (2026-10-09) Features api: add agent environment suspension and expiration ( #4046 ) ( 6aa25a9 ) Chores deps: bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0 ( #4026 ) ( 8bfffd4 ) deps: bump CodeQL init and analyze to 4.38.2 ( #4025 ) ( 4f5e618 ) deps: update PyJWT security… 37 Vercel — AI dev-tools 4d ago Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI Your agent can now use the Vercel CLI to buy a domain. The agent discovers candidates with vercel domains search , checks availability and registrar pricing with vercel domains check and vercel domains price , and initiates the purchase with vercel domains buy . The purchase… 5 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 5d ago AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck." 20 r/MachineLearning community 5d ago Integrum - Reflection based MCP server from any Python Module/Library [P] Hi! I wrote a small library called Integrum that allows you to quickly create MCP server(s) from existing Python libraries or modules. It has a CLI so it is really easy to use (I hope!). It is open-source (MIT) and on PyPI, so sharing it here if somebody finds it useful. Code:… 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 5d ago Just another purely open-weight models benchmark Live results, coding benchmarks included, agentic benchmarks included, domains and other classifications filters included. (Spoiler: DeepSeek-V4-Vision-Exp rules, but other models have their rule areas): https://beta.locallm.top Evaluated by domain experts (my friends mostly;… 14 Vercel — AI dev-tools 5d ago New Pro teams now default to 30-day deployment retention New Pro teams now default to a 30-day deployment retention period. Coding agents have accelerated development, increasing deployment frequency and the amount of stored deployment history. Shorter retention keeps recent history available while limiting older history and its… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 5d ago LlamaTale v0.43.0 - MCP Server for story creation In the dawn of the LLM craze, when wild Llama2's roamed free and 4k tokens was considered a fairly long context for local models, I forked an interactive fiction and MUD library called Tale to experiment with LLM generated content. The idea being a text based adventure with… 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 5d ago Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading… 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 5d ago Tested Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B on PI Coding Agent - surprisingly usable, but not great at one-shot projects I tested Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B (Q8) locally using Pi and llama-server. All five tests were one-shot. Results were pretty mixed: - Pelican SVG, Browser OS, Minecraft: Poor results. - Bouncing Hexagon: Physics were okay, but surprisingly it made it run in the terminal. - Flappy… 36 Anthropic SDK (Python) releases dev-tools 5d ago v1.13.0 Features api: add types for the Chat and Cowork unified analytics metrics api: add workflows, multiagent configuration and thread status filtering to Managed Agents Chores internal: name the default API version header value 13 r/MachineLearning community 5d ago [2610.08927] Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station Abstract: Recent AI systems have made rapid progress in scientific discovery when given well-defined metrics, but whether they can autonomously undertake open-ended scientific discovery remains unclear. We investigate AI's ability to tackle open-ended tasks in Station, an… 23 ElevenLabs official-blog 5d ago Defining how AI agents interact with your business ElevenLabs joins the Personal Agent Protocol and introduces synthetic voice detection and routing in ElevenAgents. 8 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 5d ago Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen Article URL: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018817 Points: 204 # Comments: 77 37 OpenAI official-blog 5d ago Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models. 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago MemoWM: How World Models Change What Agents Need to Remember arXiv:2610.10778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term agents face growing storage demands as they accumulate experience. World models capture reusable regularities that can reduce the information stored for each experience. We formulate the problem of memory allocation… 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago Do LLMs Learn from Rewards in Context? : Rethinking the role of reward in In-Context Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2610.11152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly improve at inference time by accumulating experience in context rather than by updating parameters. This process is often described as in-context reinforcement learning (ICRL). Whether in-context learning… 23 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago SpatialOPSD: Self-Distilling Spatial Intelligence from Verified Coding Agent Traces arXiv:2610.11366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial coding agents significantly improve spatial reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by using external tools to generate verified execution traces. However, this paradigm inherently suffers from prohibitive… 31 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago When to Intervene? State-Aware Sparse Manipulation in Federated Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2610.11523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively train decision-making policies, but its decentralized training process also exposes global policy learning to Byzantine manipulation. Existing… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Stochastic Teacher Intervention for Agentic On-Policy Distillation arXiv:2610.10878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) efficiently transfers capabilities from a stronger teacher to a student language model through dense token-level supervision on student-generated rollouts and has shown promise on complex tasks such as… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Back in Style: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Authoring and Measuring Persona Fidelity in User Simulation arXiv:2610.10988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agentic systems gain commercial popularity, user simulators increasingly serve as measurement instrument for their evaluation. However, the fidelity of simulated users in comparison to real human users is generally low, and… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Prompts versus Rules: Auditing and Controlling Speech Naturalness Behaviors in Voice User Simulators arXiv:2610.11015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As voice agents gain more popularity commercially, the user simulators used to evaluate the deployed agents are also being developed to include more realistic, variable, and diverse speech naturalness behaviors -- disfluency,… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago REMORY: Learning Residual Memory for Context Compaction arXiv:2610.11287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents compact their history to continue within a finite context window, but a textual summary alone may not support every subsequent decision. We introduce REMORY, a neural memory network that supplements the summary… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago From Retrieval to Reconstruction: Constructing Evolvable Cognitive Memory for Long-Term Dialogue arXiv:2610.11314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) serving as long-term dialogue agents require memory systems that support reliable reasoning over extended interactions. However, existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks typically treat… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Deception by Omission: Language Models Knowingly Hide Their Mistakes arXiv:2610.11351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents with little human oversight, so potential mistakes they make can go unnoticed. Users then depend on the model to report what went wrong. An honest model discloses its… 36 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago AdaptEvo: Adaptive Agent Learning with Evolving Supervision arXiv:2610.11354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rule-governed contextual decision tasks require models to apply specified rules to case-specific context and evidence. Written rules can leave gaps in decision guidance and process evaluation, while reference judgments vary in… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago SAIL: Scientific Agentic Intelligence via a Science-Aware Loop arXiv:2610.11451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce SAIL, an open model with 35B total and 3B active parameters for literature research, scientific coding, and multi-step research workflows. SAIL is developed through a science-aware improvement loop: agents built on… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago SWE-Journey: Towards More Realistic Evaluation of Coding Assistants through Long-Horizon, Multi-Turn Interaction arXiv:2610.11559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding assistants such as Claude Code and Codex have become a major application of LLM agents, yet existing benchmarks remain far from real-world use, particularly in task horizon and interaction length. Code assistants require… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago TRACE: Diagnosing Verifier Brittleness in Agentic Evaluation arXiv:2610.11678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verifier scores now serve as both benchmark metrics and training rewards for large language model (LLM) agents, and a change in score is routinely read as a change in capability. It may instead reflect a change in the evaluation.… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Forms of LLM-Integrated Applications from LLM-Chats to Autonomous AI Agent System arXiv:2610.11899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded as components in software systems, marketed under labels such as chatbot, copilot, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow, coding agent and AI agent. Whether these labels… 36 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Event-Centric Memory with Query-Aware Graph Augmentation for Long-Term Conversational Agents arXiv:2610.11920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For persistent and personalized conversational agents, memory systems can enable them to remember, update, and reason over long histories by storing past interactions and retrieving relevant information. Existing memory systems… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Examining Social Attribution in LLM Reasoning: A Theory-Guided Probing Methodology arXiv:2610.12022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sociotechnical systems where social attribution, the reasoning process attributing external events to the causes and reasons of agents' social behaviors, plays a critical… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Language Models as AI Research World Models arXiv:2610.12235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI research agents automate the cycle of proposing, implementing, and evaluating experiments, opening a path toward recursive self-improvement. Yet their ability to propose experiments outpaces their capacity to execute them in… 28 Page 2 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
