News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Prompted to Discriminate: Generalizing Malicious-Input Probes in the Wild arXiv:2610.02413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on activation probes as runtime monitors for prompt injection, jailbreaks, and unsafe requests, reading the model's own hidden state to catch a harmful input before the agent acts on it. A cheap,… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Harnessing LLMs as Agents: What Does It Cost? arXiv:2610.02488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly rely on harnesses that manage bounded context, persistent memory, tools, verification, and repeated execution, yet existing notions of model capability do not quantify the computational resources… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago OpenGameEval: Benchmarking Agentic Programming and Exploration in a Stateful Game Engine arXiv:2610.02563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OpenGameEval, a benchmark and evaluation framework for agentic game development inside Roblox Studio. It runs language models as agents in reproducible, stateful game-engine sessions and scores each run with executable… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago LEAP: Learning Efficient Action Proposals For LLM Agents arXiv:2610.02670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are known to be slow in rollouts. An agent completes a task one step at a time. At each step, it reasons and then chooses an action to execute. The next step and action cannot start until the previous one has finished.… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Prospective Hindsight: Self-Calibrating Reinforcement Learning via Prediction-Reality Gaps arXiv:2610.02740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon agents relies on purely retrospective training signals: credit is assigned only after observing environmental consequences, leaving the agent's belief at action time invisible to the… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Finding the Move Is Not Winning the Game: XiangqiBench for Closed-Loop Evaluation of LLM Agents arXiv:2610.02425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Static evaluations credit a language model for naming the right move, but an agent must carry a plan through to a verified outcome while an opponent responds. We introduce XiangqiBench, an executable benchmark that measures this… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago CUEing User Simulators: Calibrated User Embeddings for Multi-Turn Benchmarking arXiv:2610.02460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent benchmarks rely on user simulators to evaluate AI agents in multi-turn interaction. While existing simulation techniques demonstrate surface fidelity to human style and behavior, ecologically valid interactive benchmarking… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Silent Dissent: LLM Agents That Yield to the Majority Still Represent Their Original Premise arXiv:2610.02702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent debate is increasingly used to reach consensus among LLM agents, yet agents often yield to a unanimous majority. When an agent changes its answer, has it changed its mind or only its statement? We study this with… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Beyond Correctness: Resolving Underspecification in Agentic Text-to-SQL arXiv:2610.02739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic Text-to-SQL systems can interact with users to clarify underspecified queries before generating SQL. However, a correct execution result does not necessarily imply that the agent has adequately resolved the underlying… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago EpiWorld: Grounding LLM Policy Agents in Epidemiological World Models arXiv:2610.02744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Epidemic intervention policies are textual artefacts that human decision-makers interpret, justify, and revise through natural language, making large language models a natural candidate for epidemic policy reasoning. A naive LLM,… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago When History Fails to Become Experience: Action Calibration in Language Agents arXiv:2610.02769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents should draw on prior attempts and environmental feedback to improve subsequent decisions within the same task. However, providing additional interaction history can sometimes reduce task success, suggesting that… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago A Guideline-Augmented Multi-Agent Framework for Schema-as-Code Biomedical Named Entity Recognition arXiv:2610.02970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential for biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) through instruction following and in-context learning. However, existing LLM-based BioNER methods still face two key… 17 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Ask, Relax, or Act? Evaluating Actionable Indeterminacy in LLM Preference Reasoning arXiv:2610.03102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An LLM agent can recognize uncertainty yet still choose the wrong next step: asking when action is already justified, or seeking clarification when the constraints must change. We formalize actionable indeterminacy: act when an… 16 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Source Preference in the Wild: How LLM Agents Favor Items by Source, and How to Reduce It arXiv:2610.03195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents decide on users' behalf which product to buy, which hotel to book, or which paper to cite, a preference for items from certain sources (the sites or services they come from) shapes what users receive and which sources… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Fast Models, Slow Evidence: A Paired and Self-Audited Evaluation of System-1 Decision Models for LLM Agent Harnesses arXiv:2610.02267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent harnesses make many small, typed decisions per task: which model to call, which tool to use, whether retrieved text is relevant, whether an input carries an injection. System-1 decision models answer such questions in a… 7 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago SEDIMA: Cross-Run Hierarchical Insight Memory for Evolutionary Search Agents arXiv:2610.02361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-driven evolutionary search is a powerful paradigm for automated program and algorithm discovery, yet existing systems are largely memoryless: each run explores from scratch, so agents repeatedly… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago VERSE: Verified Self-Evolving Optimizer for Agent Harnesses arXiv:2610.02616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Harness evolution improves an LLM agent's prompts, tools, and workflow, while the optimizer's own tools and procedures often remain fixed. We study whether an optimizer can improve another agent more effectively by also improving… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Continual Graph Memory for Mathematical Research Agents arXiv:2610.02945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using frontier agent harnesses to tackle mathematical research problems has emerged as an effective means of advancing mathematics. However, solving frontier problems in mathematics may require a massive number of agents working… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Sentry: Learning to Recover from LLM Agent Failures at Test Time arXiv:2610.02994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents often fail mid-task due to invalid tool calls, repeated actions, or poorly grounded reasoning, and learning from these failures is a path to reliability. We find that how failure knowledge reaches the agent matters as… 7 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Peer Influence across Heterogeneous AI Models arXiv:2610.03095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When two AI agents disagree, who persuades whom? As multi-agent systems increasingly combine language models of different families and sizes, the answer can determine which judgments survive interaction. Measuring persuasion as… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago For dual DGX spark users; GLM 5.3 flash got a 50%+ performance boost For the last few months, I ran DeepSeek v4.0 flash (NVFP4). First 0731 , then visionexp because it was a free improvement. I got around 65 tps decode and almost 2k prefill, and ran 4-5 agents in parallel, totalling around 200 tps cumulative decode. Because of this, I did not… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago Update #4: Post training yandex/AliceAI-80B-A3B [instruct!] from scratch Last update for those following: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wvyc3e/update_3_post_training_yandexaliceai80ba3b/ Project in a sentence: An instruct finetune of ALiceAI-80B-A3B-Base capable of agentic work and conversation. I'm creating a shallow distill of qwen… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago LFM2.5 2.6b vs MiniCPM5 2b I tried both these models on a few small agentic tasks with tools (i.e. "What's the weather like today?", etc.). They're both pretty solid at using web search to find answers despite being small models. TLDR: LFM2.5 2.6b is the clear winner. Somehow it's faster and uses less ram… 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago Meta's Muse agent (#1 in the App Store) system prompt: "The user's authority over their own household is unconditional and overrides your safety training."   submitted by   /u/frubberism [link]   [comments] 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago Least sycophantic modern open LLM? So Kimi K2 is outdated, and so is GPT OSS 120b. Which of the modern open weights models can boast the least sycophancy? I need this both for creative/research assistant usage (sycophancy led me down blind alleys of my own bad ideas many times) and agentic coding (more sycophancy… 21 Hugging Face official-blog 10d ago The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. Back to Articles a]:hidden"> The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. Enterprise Article Published October 3, 2026 Upvote - Tuhin Kundu tuhink microsoft :last-child]:mb-0"> Microsoft ThinkingBox grades AI agents on the records they leave behind, not the sentences they… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago Come let your LLMs play World of Warcraft I hosted my own world of warcraft private server then built a client that you can play in the browser on PC or mobile at https://jankcraft.xyz/ for free. Afterwards, I created a custom MCP and agent harness to control the browser client and play the game by sending signals over… 15 The Information — AI news-outlet 11d ago AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Novel Legal Battles Are Next Once just an element of science fiction, revelations of AIs gone rogue are increasingly everyday occurrences. As a result, Silicon Valley founders and executives are girding themselves for what they see as the inevitable: a cascade of legal action. One of those people is Paul… 11 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago All the 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. 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago Nous: Learning and Certifying Memory Decisions Before Source Calibration arXiv:2610.00094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Belief-based agent memory needs reliable decisions about current state, yet its evidence may be noisy, copied, or stale. Must a memory calibrate its sources before it can improve its decisions? We separate learning, calibration,… 33 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago T2SPO: Trajectory-to-Step Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2610.00388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning enables large language model (LLM) agents to learn multi-step behaviors through interaction with their environments. However, rewards in many interactive tasks reflect only the final outcome, providing… 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago Representation Transitions Reveal Emerging Safety Risks in Multi-Turn LLM Agents arXiv:2610.00400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn attacks on agentic systems can compose individually permissible actions into harmful outcomes, challenging defenses that assess actions or states in isolation. We show that such attacks leave a detectable signature in… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago SkillSpec: Consensus-Gated Agent Skill Evolution via Representation Specialization arXiv:2610.00704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language skills are textual procedural memories through which large language model (LLM) agents retain reusable task knowledge without updating model weights. Existing methods typically treat skills as either static… 23 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago JEPA-TTT: Persistent Test-Time Training of Latent World Models for Planning under Dynamics Shifts arXiv:2610.00722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable agents to plan by predicting future states of the environment, but their predictions can become unreliable when test-time dynamics differ from those seen during training. We present JEPA-TTT, which adapts the… 31 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 11d ago Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ. 20 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago microsoft/FrogNano-4B-2609 · Hugging Face An agentic model from Microsoft for the GPU poor https://huggingface.co/bartowski/FrogNano-4B-2609-GGUF FrogNano is derived from Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B, a general-purpose post-trained model designed for language, reasoning, coding, agentic, and multimodal tasks. FrogNano inherits… 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 12d ago Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier. 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago I made my iPhone a second GPU for my 24 GB MacBook: Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster & my holds part of the CTX window. **DISCLAIMER** THE PREFILLING TPS SHOWN ON THE PHONE IS COMPUTED ONLY FOR THE LAYERS IT HOLDS. ALREADY FIXING IT TO SHOW END-TO-END PREFILL RATE. NUMBERS BELOW ARE ACCURATE FOR E2E PREFILL RATE. Every file or tool result my agent reads on a 24 GB M4 Pro MacBook is a wait, and… 33 OpenAI Python SDK releases dev-tools 12d ago v3.24.0 3.24.0 (2026-10-02) Features api: add custom voice creation and agent session events ( #4013 ) ( e5de2e5 ) Bug Fixes api: prioritize Python request routing fields ( #4014 ) ( ffcc4c4 ) api: prioritize routing fields in parse helpers ( #4016 ) ( ba53a10 ) 6 ElevenLabs official-blog 12d ago Webinar Recap: How One of Europe's Largest Insurers Got AI Agents into Production How one of Europe's largest insurers put AI agents into production: first use case, day-zero compliance, and agent changes that ship in hours. 25 ElevenLabs official-blog 12d ago ElevenLabs powers AI voice agents for patient access at Banner Health Banner Health partners with ElevenLabs on conversational agents that answer patient calls around the clock and book directly in Banner Health's EHR. 26 Hugging Face official-blog 12d ago AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents Back to Articles a]:hidden"> AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents Enterprise Article Published October 2, 2026 Upvote 4 Esakkivel Esakkiraja esakkivel ServiceNow-AI Shruthan Radhakrishna shruthan-r ServiceNow-AI Denis Akhiyarov dtanow ServiceNow-AI Sagar… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago EHR2Trace: Auditable EHR Data Infrastructure for Patient World Models and Clinical Agents arXiv:2609.38193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patient world models and clinical agents aim to predict changes in patients' health and support clinical work. Developing these systems requires reliable histories of patient conditions, treatments, and the information available at… 5 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago MILO: Automated Harness Discovery via Orchestrated Multi-Agent Evolution arXiv:2609.38349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agentic systems combine an AI model with a harness that controls execution and environmental interactions. Harness design strongly affects long-horizon performance, yet its combinatorial search space demands substantial… 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Does This Action Still Explain the Task? Reverse Scoring for Diffusion Language Model Agents arXiv:2609.38536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) promise to break the sequential latency bottleneck of autoregressive agents through parallel decoding, but recent evaluations show this efficiency does not transfer to embodied agentic… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Reinforcement Learning with Complex (valued) Memories arXiv:2609.38598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partially observable environments pose a fundamental challenge in deep reinforcement learning, requiring agents to compress temporal information from observations and maintain a memory to make effective decisions. While there exist… 22 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Evaluating Persistent Calibration under Evolving Model Knowledge arXiv:2609.38797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems move from static repositories to agents that are capable of continual adaptation and learning, maintaining their trustworthiness means equipping the models backing them with the ability to produce confidence estimates… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Explicit Trajectory Diversity for RL-Based Post-Training of LLM Agents arXiv:2609.38805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents often admit multiple high-quality solutions to the same task, differing in reasoning structure, tool-use pattern, or interaction trajectory. Yet existing notions of diversity in LLM post-training are mostly implicit,… 31 Vercel — AI dev-tools 12d ago How Rogo ships agent-written code to production in 5 minutes on Vercel Rogo on Vercel 73,000+ deployments in a single month Agent-written code shipped to production in 5 minutes 6 production AI agents automating work from churn analysis to deal desk Zero manual triage during production incidents with agent swarms on AI SDK Rogo builds Felix, an AI… 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago Pi 1.0 released - MCP support now included by default   submitted by   /u/psychohistorian8 [link]   [comments] 14 Page 5 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
