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Autonomy via agents using large language models (LLMs) for personalized, standardized tasks boosts human efficiency. Automating web tasks (like booking hotels within a budget) is increasingly sought after. Fulfilling practical needs, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ke Yang , Yao Liu , Sapana Chaudhary , Rasool Fakoor , Pratik Chaudhari , George Karypis , Huzefa Rangwala

Enabling continual learning in LLMs remains a key unresolved research challenge. In a recent announcement, a frontier LLM company made a step towards this by introducing Agent Skills, a framework that equips agents with new knowledge based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 David Schmotz , Sahar Abdelnabi , Maksym Andriushchenko

The primary goal of this study is to analyze agentic workflows in education according to the proposed four major technological paradigms: reflection, planning, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration. We critically examine the role of AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Firuz Kamalov , David Santandreu Calonge , Linda Smail , Dilshod Azizov , Dimple R. Thadani , Theresa Kwong , Amara Atif

Saving, or checkpointing, intermediate results during interactive data exploration can potentially boost user productivity. However, existing studies on this topic are limited, as they primarily rely on small-scale experiments with human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hanxi Fang , Supawit Chockchowwat , Hari Sundaram , Yongjoo Park

AI agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex enterprise workflows, yet evidence of their effectiveness in identity governance is limited. We report results from the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating an AI agent…

General Economics · Economics 2025-11-19 James Bono , Beibei Cheng , Joaquin Lozano

Information-seeking (IS) agents have achieved strong performance across a range of wide and deep search tasks, yet their tool use remains largely restricted to API-level snippet retrieval and URL-based page fetching, limiting access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Baixuan Li , Jialong Wu , Wenbiao Yin , Kuan Li , Zhongwang Zhang , Huifeng Yin , Zhengwei Tao , Liwen Zhang , Pengjun Xie , Jingren Zhou , Yong Jiang

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents have advanced rapidly but still struggle with complex tasks involving novel UI elements, long-horizon actions, and personalized trajectories. In this work, we introduce Instruction Agent, a GUI agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yinheng Li , Hailey Hultquist , Justin Wagle , Kazuhito Koishida

Assistive agents should not only take actions on behalf of a human, but also step out of the way and cede control when there are important decisions to be made. However, current methods for building assistive agents, whether via mimicking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Evan Ellis , Vivek Myers , Jens Tuyls , Sergey Levine , Anca Dragan , Benjamin Eysenbach

This paper presents first successful steps in designing search agents that learn meta-strategies for iterative query refinement in information-seeking tasks. Our approach uses machine reading to guide the selection of refinement terms from…

We interact with computers on an everyday basis, be it in everyday life or work, and many aspects of work can be done entirely with access to a computer and the Internet. At the same time, thanks to improvements in large language models…

Recently, a novel paradigm has been proposed for reinforcement learning-based NAS agents, that revolves around the incremental improvement of a given architecture. We assess the abilities of such reinforcement learning agents to transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Amber Cassimon , Siegfried Mercelis , Kevin Mets

Practising and honing skills forms a fundamental component of how humans learn, yet artificial agents are rarely specifically trained to perform them. Instead, they are usually trained end-to-end, with the hope being that useful skills will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Michael Matthews , Mikayel Samvelyan , Jack Parker-Holder , Edward Grefenstette , Tim Rocktäschel

AI agents have recently shown significant promise in software engineering. Much public attention has been transfixed on the topic of code generation from Large Language Models (LLMs) via a prompt. However, software engineering is much more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Abhik Roychoudhury

We show that the ability to lead groups of humans is predicted by leadership skill with Artificially Intelligent agents. In a large pre-registered lab experiment, human leaders worked with AI agents to solve problems. Their performance on…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-06 Ben Weidmann , Yixian Xu , David J. Deming

Building embodied AI systems that can follow arbitrary language instructions in any 3D environment is a key challenge for creating general AI. Accomplishing this goal requires learning to ground language in perception and embodied actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 SIMA Team , Maria Abi Raad , Arun Ahuja , Catarina Barros , Frederic Besse , Andrew Bolt , Adrian Bolton , Bethanie Brownfield , Gavin Buttimore , Max Cant , Sarah Chakera , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Jeff Clune , Adrian Collister , Vikki Copeman , Alex Cullum , Ishita Dasgupta , Dario de Cesare , Julia Di Trapani , Yani Donchev , Emma Dunleavy , Martin Engelcke , Ryan Faulkner , Frankie Garcia , Charles Gbadamosi , Zhitao Gong , Lucy Gonzales , Kshitij Gupta , Karol Gregor , Arne Olav Hallingstad , Tim Harley , Sam Haves , Felix Hill , Ed Hirst , Drew A. Hudson , Jony Hudson , Steph Hughes-Fitt , Danilo J. Rezende , Mimi Jasarevic , Laura Kampis , Rosemary Ke , Thomas Keck , Junkyung Kim , Oscar Knagg , Kavya Kopparapu , Rory Lawton , Andrew Lampinen , Shane Legg , Alexander Lerchner , Marjorie Limont , Yulan Liu , Maria Loks-Thompson , Joseph Marino , Kathryn Martin Cussons , Loic Matthey , Siobhan Mcloughlin , Piermaria Mendolicchio , Hamza Merzic , Anna Mitenkova , Alexandre Moufarek , Valeria Oliveira , Yanko Oliveira , Hannah Openshaw , Renke Pan , Aneesh Pappu , Alex Platonov , Ollie Purkiss , David Reichert , John Reid , Pierre Harvey Richemond , Tyson Roberts , Giles Ruscoe , Jaume Sanchez Elias , Tasha Sandars , Daniel P. Sawyer , Tim Scholtes , Guy Simmons , Daniel Slater , Hubert Soyer , Heiko Strathmann , Peter Stys , Allison C. Tam , Denis Teplyashin , Tayfun Terzi , Davide Vercelli , Bojan Vujatovic , Marcus Wainwright , Jane X. Wang , Zhengdong Wang , Daan Wierstra , Duncan Williams , Nathaniel Wong , Sarah York , Nick Young

Skill-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising strategy to leverage prior knowledge for accelerated robot learning. Skills are typically extracted from expert demonstrations and are embedded into a latent space from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Krishan Rana , Ming Xu , Brendan Tidd , Michael Milford , Niko Sünderhauf

With the rise of generative AI, industry interest in software agents is growing. Given the stochastic nature of generative AI-based agents, their effective and safe deployment in organizations requires robust governance, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hoang Vu , Nataliia Klievtsova , Henrik Leopold , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma , Timotheus Kampik

Computer use agents represent an emerging area in artificial intelligence, aiming to operate computers autonomously to fulfill user tasks, attracting significant attention from both industry and academia. However, the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuhao Cheng , Liang Tang , Shuxian Li , Yukang Huo , Tiaonan Duan , Kaer Huang , Yanzhe Jing , Yiqiang Yan

AI tools and agents are reshaping how researchers work, from proving theorems to training neural networks. Yet for many, it remains unclear how these tools fit into everyday research practice. This paper is a practical guide to AI-assisted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Max Zimmer , Nico Pelleriti , Christophe Roux , Sebastian Pokutta

This paper presents a novel approach combining inductive logic programming with reinforcement learning to improve training performance and explainability. We exploit inductive learning of answer set programs from noisy examples to learn a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Celeste Veronese , Daniele Meli , Alessandro Farinelli