News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago HarnessSQL: Harness-Native Training for SQL Agents in Realistic Database Environments arXiv:2610.12274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL models are commonly trained to map questions directly to static queries, whereas real-world database agents operate through stateful, multi-turn interaction with live databases -- inspecting schemas, executing probe… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago Plan-and-Patch: Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Planning arXiv:2610.10786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Planning is increasingly important for long-horizon agents, where successful execution requires coordinating subgoals, tool use, and intermediate outcomes over many steps. Yet assumptions made during planning may be invalidated… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago NavGPT-3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtime arXiv:2610.10787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models trained with long-horizon agentic reinforcement learning can generalize knowledge through reasoning, express precise actions, and pursue goals over many steps, raising the ceiling on what an embodied agent can… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago StoreBench: A Live-Commerce Environment for Evaluating and Training Autonomous Operator Agents arXiv:2610.10942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning environments are now a primary lever for improving large language model (LLM) capabilities in post-training, yet most agentic benchmarks remain static: the world moves only when the agent acts, the reward… 19 Vercel — AI dev-tools 5d ago How Rillet ships 3× faster with AI agents on Vercel Rillet on Vercel Tripled shipping rate in three months with eve agents deployed on Vercel Two-person team closed 800+ Linear tickets in its first 4 months Builder access via Enterprise Managed Users, SSO, and Directory Sync Ships customer-requested changes to production in as… 15 The Information — AI news-outlet 5d ago South Korean Banks Were Hacked Using Chinese AI Agent, Researchers Say The perpetrator of a recent hack of South Korean financial institutions that resulted in data leaks used an open-source Chinese AI agent called Artex and Chinese large language models, according to a report published this week by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The analysis of… 7 r/MachineLearning community 5d ago ThinkingBox: Solving an agent task once vs. solving it 20/20: 507 stateful workflows graded on terminal database state [R] Figure 1b from our paper Disclosure: I'm one of the authors (Microsoft). The paper, code, dataset are public and ThinkingBox is on Hugging Face OpenEnv as well. Raw evaluation trajectories are not released Links at the bottom. We wanted to know how much of a single agent success… 22 ThursdAI news-outlet 5d ago ThursdAI - Oct 8 - OpenAI drops 722 math papers, Haiku 5.5 hits 10 cents & more From CoreWeave: GPT-6 is free for everyone, open weights hit 1T params, an agent leaked its owner’s bank balance to Slack, Peter broke Arena’s 200M raise live, and Maxime Labonne on decision models. 7 r/MachineLearning community 6d ago AI Agent Gaming Tournament - hosted by UCLA Trustworthy AI Lab w/ prize pool [N] UCLA’s Trustworthy AI Lab is running a tournament on October 16 where AI agents compete in Pokémon Showdown, Werewolf, Red Alert, and Honor of Kings. It’s open to everyone, including remote participants, with a $5,000 total prize pool secured tjis far and support from Oracle,… 16 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 6d ago Building Reliable Data Analytics Agents: Lessons from the KDD Cup The NVIDIA KGMON team placed second in the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents competition with a system built around a simple idea of making an agent's harness smaller,... 30 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 6d ago Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address. 18 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 6d ago Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker. 15 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 6d ago Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks fishy. 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 6d ago I built an open source framework for building RL environments. Named "Seahaven" after the fake town in The Truman Show. I've been optimizing long-running agents: rewriting their prompts, tools, skills and subagents, and keeping the changes that score better. I've been working on some version of this problem for over a decade (at Apple, my own startup, now Kiln). The hard part is the eval… 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 6d ago Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse and Bee. 36 r/LocalLLaMA community 6d ago Running an LLM-driven town with 800+ persistent agents: concurrency, context caching, and inference costs I spent the past year independently building Slow Vale, an LLM-driven life simulation. The Chinese server now has 800+ AI residents sharing one continuously running city. This is an engineering write-up about concurrent decisions, dynamic action spaces, context caching, and the… 10 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 6d ago Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that… 17 The Information — AI news-outlet 6d ago Manus Raises More Than $500 Million After Unwinding Meta Deal The parent company of Manus, the AI agent startup that recently separated from Meta Platforms, said Thursday that it has raised more than $500 million in a new funding round. Butterfly Effect said in a social media post on WeChat that the funding round was led by new investors… 21 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago Bounded Autonomy and Verifiable Safety for Agentic AI Enabled Automation arXiv:2610.08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI-enabled automation cannot be safely deployed in high-stakes environments on probabilistic reasoning alone. A recurring risk is epistemic drift: as reasoning deepens, system behavior may move away from… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago GraphOPD: Graph-Augmented On-Policy Distillation for LLM Agents arXiv:2610.08959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation post-trains large language model agents by supplying dense, step-level guidance from a teacher policy when the reinforcement-learning reward is sparse and arrives only once per trajectory. Existing… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago On KL-Regularized Policy Optimization arXiv:2610.08963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model (LLM) agents trains one policy on trajectories generated by another: rollouts come from stale checkpoints, and the inference engine's probabilities differ from the… 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago TAP: Efficient Long-Horizon Agent Pruning via Trajectory-Anchored Recovery arXiv:2610.09074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging long-horizon agentic tasks require repeated model calls, worsening the inference cost of already-costly language models. While narrow agentic tasks suggest potential for aggressive model pruning without performance drop,… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago LeCuration: A Tiny World Model as a Data Curation Multi-Tool arXiv:2610.09285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many applications of physical AI run within finite or closed physical worlds with a limited set of physical laws governing object behavior. Examples include robots working in a warehouse and agents moving around in a video game. In… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Steering Follows Geometry, Not Labels: Emotion Directions in a Full-Duplex Speech Model arXiv:2610.08887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex voice agents need to modulate emotion and delivery during real-time conversations, when de-escalating a complaint, carrying urgency in dispatch, softening a clinical result. Emotion and delivery control is well studied… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago ToolRACER: A Robust Agentic Conversation Emulation Resource for Agent Training and Evaluation 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 users exhibit non-cooperative behavior. Existing function-calling benchmarks… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Goldsmith: Gold-Loss-Guided Definition Optimization with an Agentic Annotation Harness arXiv:2610.09489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many annotation projects begin before experts have a stable guideline or enough labels to train a task-specific model. We present Goldsmith, an agentic pipeline that turns a small gold set---expert-annotated calibration examples… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago From Pareto to Preference: Personalized Test-Time Scaling via Amortized Agentic Policy Discovery arXiv:2610.09684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models by allocating additional inference computation. Existing approaches to improving TTS efficiency largely optimize accuracy against one resource… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Decoupling Logic from Persona: Structural Immunity of Edge LLM Agents to Context Pollution arXiv:2610.09772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language-model agents on edge devices must hold a persona and reason correctly at once, inside one context window that fills with conversational history and persona instructions. We study what happens to the logical part of… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Training Advisors for LLM Agents from Task Outcomes arXiv:2610.09858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents tackle multi-step tasks by interleaving reasoning and tool calls with observations from the environment. Prior work has shown that natural-language feedback can help these agents revise their decisions… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Beyond Outcome Rewards: Constructing and Assigning Retrieval Credit for Search Agents arXiv:2610.10179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to iteratively retrieve and use information for complex multi-hop questions. Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) offers a promising approach for post-training such… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Learning to Act with Task Progress: Distilling Small Agents from Compact Teacher Supervision arXiv:2610.10332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from large-model demonstrations offers a way to train small agents that can complete recurring tasks without calling a large model at every step. A central design choice is what to retain from teacher trajectories that… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago CoTrace: Data Recipes for Training Terminal Agents with Harness-Model Co-Evolution arXiv:2610.10426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Terminal-agent capability depends jointly on model weights and the runtime harness that formats prompts, binds tools, and handles error recovery. Existing harness-model co-evolution approaches improve both components, yet often… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago How Fragile Is On-Device Language Model Safety? Localizing Safety-Critical Parameters for Sparse Fault Analysis arXiv:2610.09000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As small language models (SLMs) are increasingly deployed on resource-constrained and on-device platforms, including as components of agentic systems, the integrity of locally stored model parameters becomes an important safety… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Constraint Tree Exploration for Learning from Language Feedback arXiv:2610.09107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language feedback in interactive learning often explains why an action failed by pointing to violated requirements. Misinterpreting this feedback can lead an agent to rule out valid solutions. We study this setting by… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago From Uncertainty to Action: Learning to Steer LLM Agents arXiv:2610.09115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Steering an LLM agent means deciding whether to correct it, at which step, and with which mechanism. Uncertainty is often used to decide when to correct an agent, but whether it can guide these decisions remains unclear. We steer… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Trajectory Abstraction for the Science of Language Agent Behavior arXiv:2610.09237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific studies of language agents need behavioral variables that support hypotheses across tasks and models. We formulate this research problem as learning and testing a hierarchy of trajectory abstractions. A concrete… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Adversarial Images Hijack Web Agents from Visual Grounding to Browser Execution arXiv:2610.09240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern web agents built on large vision-language models process webpages, select relevant UI elements, and translate model outputs into browser actions. Existing visual red-teaming approaches use adversarial visual content to… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago The Confidence Game: Strategic Miscalibration in Human-AI Delegation arXiv:2610.09371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calibrated uncertainty quantification is essential to ensuring AI agents are trustworthy and reliable. However, when agents seek to maximize user engagement or revenue, confidence reports may be strategically distorted,… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago Coding-Agent Benchmarks Should Match Their Users' Task Flows arXiv:2610.09633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evaluation of coding agents generally strives to be as realistic as possible. In our study, we collect 4,782 agent sessions of real software engineers in JetBrains IDEs, which we call Production Sessions. Since our subject is… 6 Vercel — AI dev-tools 6d ago Step 5 Preview now available on AI Gateway Step 5 Preview , StepFun's flagship model, is now available on AI Gateway . It's built for agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and financial analysis, from building apps and debugging code to research and analytical reports. Step 5 Preview supports text and image input… 21 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users The developer of Hermes agent raised a $90 million Series B. 37 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11 Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents. 13 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 7d ago Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations. 16 The Information — AI news-outlet 7d ago Microsoft Debuts New Windows PCs, Features Powered by On-Device AI Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled updates to Windows software and hardware that will allow Windows PCs to run more AI models locally, which the company said would bring down the cost of using Copilot and other AI agents for customers. The new announcements are part of Microsoft’s… 10 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 7d ago Docker Agent Article URL: https://github.com/docker/docker-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996259 Points: 222 # Comments: 105 15 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 7d ago Validate AI Factory Changes with Digital Twins and AI Agents AI factories are some of the most complex operations in the world, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers, orchestration... 23 The Information — AI news-outlet 7d ago AI Agenda Live: From Token Maxing to Value maxing: Getting More From Every Unit of Compute In AI circles, conversations about compute shortages are as common as talk of the weather. As agentic workflows threaten to multiply token consumption further, it’s little wonder that talk has shifted from securing GPUs to optimizing them. At a recent panel, The Information’s… 15 r/MachineLearning community 7d ago How much of AutoResearch is research, and how much is search?[D] I've recently been working part-time on an AutoResearch-style project. The setup is roughly: humans take recent work from top-tier ML/AI conferences, turn part of it into a well-defined task with an evaluator, and then let an agent iteratively modify the solution and search for… 12 Latent.Space news-outlet 7d ago Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop? Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud. 15 ElevenLabs official-blog 7d ago Contact center automation: A guide to better service Learn how contact center automation works, the best use cases to start with, and how to implement AI agents responsibly, with real customer results. 38 Page 3 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
