techcrunch1d ago
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
techcrunch1d ago
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
theverge1d ago
A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents can plan, invoke tools, and modify external states, yet most systems still take an explicit user instruction as a fixed starting point. Proactive service moves the decision upstream: an agent must infer service opportunities
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increas- ingly deployed as long-horizon conversational agents, motivating growing interest in mem- ory systems. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate memory through QA-style probing rather than in-situ conve
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Timely delivery of delay-sensitive information over dynamic, heterogeneous networks is essential for NextG interactive applications, yet providing strict End-to-End (E2E) peak latency guarantees remains an open challenge. Two obstacles limit the adop
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.04075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents have recently demonstrated strong performance in automated vulnerability patching. However, existing evaluations often validate a patch only by testing whether the provided Proof-of-Concept (PoC) input still triggers a crash. This leaves tw
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2606.18388v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: RL post-training strategies are dataset-dependent and reveal a recurring empirical pattern: capacity parameters accumulate monotonically across stages, while regularization parameters predominantly oscillate in response to shifting training d
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.00065v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A language-model agent asked to analyse an experiment will usually return working code. Whether the analysis is defensible is a different question. A defensible analysis depends on procedural choices: which test the field accepts, which ident
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.02889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing body of work improves frozen large language models (LLMs) as agents by evolving their harness: the textual scaffolding around the model, including persona, strategy, format rules, and control heuristics. Existing reflective prompt-evolution m
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.02902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying task-oriented dialogue agents in enterprise customer support faces a persistent annotation bottleneck: robust training requires labelled interaction data at scale, yet enterprise conversational logs are privacy-sensitive and expensive to anno
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual audits are the standard tool for checking whether a clinical agent treats demographically distinct but clinically identical patients differently. They report a flip rate: how often an action changes when only the patient descriptor chang
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based policy optimization improves credit assignment for long-horizon LLM agents by organizing rollout trajectories into state-transition graphs. However, existing methods construct graphs independently within each policy update, discarding trans
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex voice agents must continuously decide when to listen, backchannel, interrupt, handle speech overlaps, take the floor, and yield. Existing benchmarks largely test these behaviors through explicit turn-management instructions, while deployed
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) agents are increasingly used to execute natural-language instructions on user interfaces, yet real users may issue infeasible instructions due to benign mistakes. A reliable agent should not only know how to act, but also
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.04135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly being developed and deployed across organizations using heterogeneous agent-development frameworks, AI models, tool interfaces, protocols, and execution environments. To realize their potential social and business impact, the
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.04159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly proposed as autonomous SOC analysts, but two limitations make them unreliable at enterprise scale: a finite context window cannot hold a multi-thousand-host authentication graph, and free-form genera
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.04167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level software engineering benchmarks have significantly advanced the evaluation of coding agents, but existing benchmarks primarily measure whether generated patches pass functional tests and overlook review-derived acceptance constraints
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2606.02372v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equipping language agents with world models enables them to anticipate environment dynamics and evaluate candidate actions before execution. However, existing textual world models are typically fixed after training, preventing them from adapting to
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2606.12821v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Environmental scientists spend disproportionate effort on data wrangling rather than analysis. New AI agents can be a helpful tool, but no benchmark exists to evaluate AI agents that automate environmental geospatial workflows through structured to
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2608.27141v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly deployed as autonomous loops. Starting from one human goal, such a system repeatedly discovers work, plans, executes tool calls, verifies outcomes and persists state across many unattended iteratio
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2605.26785v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-trained LLMs are often optimized to produce helpful, polite, and accommodating responses. In adversarial negotiation, however, such behavior can become a vulnerability: emotionally framed language may influence an agent's bargaining deci
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2512.09108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems built on large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential for automating complex workflows, from software development to customer support. However, LLM agents often underperform due to suboptimal configurations; poo
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2606.05553v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) simulate specific characters and personas across applications such as entertainment, companionship, interactive storytelling, and education. Faithful role-play requires more than producing plausible, in-ch
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.04128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling interactive and verifiable environments is critical for training terminal agents. As frontier models become more capable, environments synthesized from scratch become less challenging and thus provide limited learning signals. Recent co-evoluti
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2608.23642v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple solution: Not only do current approaches to AI agent design impe
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2508.00935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computer-using agents (CUAs), which can autonomously control computers to perform multi-step actions, might pose significant safety risks if misused. However, existing benchmarks mainly evaluate LMs in chatbots or simple tool use. To more com
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question answering agents in long-term conversations must reason over massive, temporally dispersed dialogue histories. However, existing memory mechanisms primarily treat past information as \textit{passively} stored facts, leading to semantic gaps an
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation is among the largest and most demanding areas of engineering, where setting up a solver such as OpenFOAM, FEniCS, or COMSOL takes real expertise. Large language model (LLM) agents promise to turn a natural-
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents spend wall-clock time not only on model inference but also in serial action--observation turns, where each tool call, environment transition, and observation can delay subsequent decisions. We introduce \textbf{Speculative Macro C
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2609.03588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs increasingly act through tools, they must reconcile user instructions, parametric knowledge, and dynamic environmental observations before taking actions. We introduce KC-Bench, a controlled multi-turn benchmark for measuring this capability ac
arxiv1d ago
arXiv:2608.22793v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable deployment of LLM agents in user-facing products depends not on raw task-solving ability but on consistency and limit-awareness: behaving the same way across repeated trials, and recognizing when a request cannot, or cannot yet, be s
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.01873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent AI systems improve inference by spawning agents and synthesizing reports. But another agent is not another observation: apparently independent reports may descend from the same evidence, and genuinely independent evidence can produce nearly
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized language agents use persistent memory to adapt to users over time, but the same mechanism creates an attack surface. When new information conflicts with stored preferences, an agent must distinguish genuine preference drift from temporary
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present CivBench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating language model agents in long-horizon, tool-mediated environments through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). A single episode spans 300+ turns and produces thousands of tool calls over a large
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents shift from tools to participants in human groups, a fundamental question for collective behavior is how their growing presence reshapes consensus formation. Here we study mixed human-AI groups in a collaborative des
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2601.06973v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLMs move from text completion toward autonomous agents, they remain constrained by the standard chat interface, which lacks private working memory. This raises a fundamental question: can agents reliably perform interactive tasks that depend on
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent web agents use world models for test-time action selection by sampling candidate actions, predicting the resulting web states, and ranking them with a ranker model or a Process Reward Model (PRM). These world models are typically trained via sup
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-centric agents repeatedly perform a discovery step before planning or execution: identifying the data objects relevant to a task. Yet successful discovery outcomes are typically discarded rather than reused. We introduce persistent discovery conte
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving agent pipelines have a problem at their center. An optimizer rewrites prompts to score higher, and the score comes from a judge that is itself an LLM. That judge has the last word on whether the system is getting better, and our position
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2608.08389v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon research agents solve open-ended tasks through iterative retrieval, aggregation, and synthesis, but context grows rapidly while the marginal value of additional evidence often declines. This leads to unnecessary token cost, higher late
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.01918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy poverty is nearly absent from NLP-for-social-good, and the little existing work is either static retrieval/QA or relies on carbon-intensive cloud LLMs, a self-defeating "computational irony" for a humanitarian setting. We present EqGrid, a close
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly self-improve by writing and reusing textual skills, kept either as one global document or as a flat pool of per-task entries, though most of the evidence comes from domains with structurally similar tasks. On long-horizon worklo
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents for long-horizon interactive tasks typically follow a ReAct-style protocol, issuing one primitive action per LLM round. While this enables frequent replanning, it is inefficient for long-horizon tasks where many rounds
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) models are typically trained on documents that describe facts from a prosecutorial perspective. Existing datasets further exhibit severe label imbalance toward guilty outcomes. Consequently, these models suffer from "G
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2607.15550v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile graphical user interface (GUI) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automating complex tasks, yet they introduce critical safety risks because a single erroneous action can lead to irreversible consequences. Existing safety me
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2605.00803v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous coding agents and have achieved remarkably strong performance on software engineering benchmarks. However, it is unclear whether such success transfers to computational scientific
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2606.21144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-term memory systems allow LLM agents to preserve information beyond a single context window, but most systems focus on storing and retrieving facts after extraction, leaving the write decision under-specified. What deserves memory can de
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents increasingly operate across websites, mobile apps, and desktop environments, yet the field still reports progress primarily through task success. We argue that practical deployment depends equally on efficiency: how much context, computation
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2608.01708v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-term personalized dialogue agents must track user preferences as their personas evolve. Existing memory systems organize past events well, but store personas as flat profiles detached from the events that justify them. This loose coupling lead