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A key challenge to understanding self-awareness has been a principled way of quantifying whether an intelligent system has a concept of a "self", and if so how to differentiate the "self" from other cognitive structures. We propose that the…

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Autonomous vehicles are suited for continuous area patrolling problems. However, finding an optimal patrolling strategy can be challenging for many reasons. Firstly, patrolling environments are often complex and can include unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Chenhao Tong , Aaron Harwood , Maria A. Rodriguez , Richard O. Sinnott

Large language models (LLMs) based Agents are increasingly pivotal in simulating and understanding complex human systems and interactions. We propose the AI-Agent School (AAS) system, built around a self-evolving mechanism that leverages…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sheng Jin , Haoming Wang , Zhiqi Gao , Yongbo Yang , Bao Chunjia , Chengliang Wang

Conversational agents, such as chatbots and virtual assistants, have become essential in software development, boosting productivity, collaboration, and automating various tasks. This paper examines the role of adaptive AI-powered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Omar Elsisi , Glaucia Melo

Continual learning (CL) is a branch of machine learning that aims to enable agents to adapt and generalise previously learned abilities so that these can be reapplied to new tasks or environments. This is particularly useful in multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kim N. Nolle , Ivana Dusparic , Rhodri Cusack , Vinny Cahill

We envision "AI scientists" as systems capable of skeptical learning and reasoning that empower biomedical research through collaborative agents that integrate AI models and biomedical tools with experimental platforms. Rather than taking…

The vision of a broadly capable and goal-directed agent, such as an Internet-browsing agent in the digital world and a household humanoid in the physical world, has rapidly advanced, thanks to the generalization capability of foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yifei Zhou , Qianlan Yang , Kaixiang Lin , Min Bai , Xiong Zhou , Yu-Xiong Wang , Sergey Levine , Erran Li

Robot learning approaches such as behavior cloning and reinforcement learning have shown great promise in synthesizing robot skills from human demonstrations in specific environments. However, these approaches often require task-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Arthur Bucker , Pablo Ortega-Kral , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

Real-world artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly required to operate autonomously in dynamic, uncertain, and continuously changing environments. However, most existing AI models rely on predefined objectives, static training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hong Su

The statelessness of foundation models bottlenecks agentic systems' ability to continually learn, a core capability for long-horizon reasoning and adaptation. To address this limitation, agentic systems commonly incorporate memory modules…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yiming Xiong , Shengran Hu , Jeff Clune

Lifelong machine learning methods acquire knowledge over a series of consecutive tasks, continually building upon their experience. Current lifelong learning algorithms rely upon a single learning agent that has centralized access to all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , Kyungnam Kim , Eric Eaton

Human intelligence's adaptability is remarkable, allowing us to adjust to new tasks and multi-modal environments swiftly. This skill is evident from a young age as we acquire new abilities and solve problems by imitating others or following…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Shrestha Mohanty , Negar Arabzadeh , Julia Kiseleva , Artem Zholus , Milagro Teruel , Ahmed Awadallah , Yuxuan Sun , Kavya Srinet , Arthur Szlam

Rapid advances in large language models and agentic AI are driving the emergence of the Internet of Agents (IoA), a paradigm where billions of autonomous software and embodied agents interact, coordinate, and collaborate to accomplish…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Shaolong Guo , Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Yanghe Pan , Qinnan Hu , Tom H. Luan

With recent advancements in AI and computation tools, intelligent paradigms emerged to empower different fields such as healthcare robots with new capabilities. Advanced AI robotic algorithms (e.g., reinforcement learning) can be trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Reza Abiri , Ali Rabiee , Sima Ghafoori , Anna Cetera

Personalized AI agents are becoming central to modern information retrieval, yet most evaluation methodologies remain static, relying on fixed benchmarks and one-off metrics that fail to reflect how users' needs evolve over time. These…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kirandeep Kaur , Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu , Hideo Joho , Chirag Shah

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a transformative shift in artificial intelligence, paving the way for advanced intelligent agents capable of sophisticated reasoning, robust perception, and versatile action across…

Machine learning has achieved remarkable success in many applications. However, existing studies are largely based on the closed-world assumption, which assumes that the environment is stationary, and the model is fixed once deployed. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fei Zhu , Shijie Ma , Zhen Cheng , Xu-Yao Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Cheng-Lin Liu

We propose a model for demonstrating spontaneous emergence of collective intelligent behavior from selfish individual agents. Agents' behavior is modeled using our proposed selfish algorithm ($SA$) with three learning mechanisms: reinforced…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-01-06 Korosh Mahmoodi , Bruce J. West , Cleotilde Gonzalez

Learning requires both study and curiosity. A good learner is not only good at extracting information from the data given to it, but also skilled at finding the right new information to learn from. This is especially true when a human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Ervin Teng , Bob Iannucci

The development of artificial intelligence systems is transitioning from creating static, task-specific models to dynamic, agent-based systems capable of performing well in a wide range of applications. We propose an Interactive Agent…