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Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable general capabilities, yet embodied agents built on them fail at complex tasks, often skipping critical steps, proposing invalid actions, and repeating mistakes. These failures arise from a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bingqing Wei , Zhongyu Xia , Dingai Liu , Xiaoyu Zhou , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the development of autonomous agents capable of complex reasoning and multi-step problem solving. However, these agents struggle to adapt to specialized environments and do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Marc-Antoine Allard , Arnaud Teinturier , Victor Xing , Gautier Viaud

A self-healing software system is an advanced computer program or system designed to detect, diagnose, and automatically recover from faults or errors without human intervention. These systems are typically employed in mission-critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zahra Yazdanparast

The rapid advancement of large vision language models (LVLMs) and agent systems has heightened interest in mobile GUI agents that can reliably translate natural language into interface operations. Existing single-agent approaches, however,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Quanfeng Lu , Zhantao Ma , Shuai Zhong , Jin Wang , Dahai Yu , Michael K. Ng , Ping Luo

Recent progress in large language model (LLM) agents has largely focused on embedding self-improvement mechanisms inside the agent or searching over many concurrent variants. While these approaches can raise aggregate scores, they often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Di Zhang

The integration of tool use into large language models (LLMs) enables agentic systems with real-world impact. In the meantime, unlike standalone LLMs, compromised agents can execute malicious workflows with more consequential impact,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Jizhou Chen , Samuel Lee Cong

The rise of generative AI is posing increasing risks to online information integrity and civic discourse. Most concretely, such risks can materialise in the form of mis- and disinformation. As a mitigation, media-literacy and transparency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Bo Kang , Sander Noels , Tijl De Bie

Coding agents produce rich trajectories while solving software-engineering tasks. To enable agent self-evolution, these trajectories can be distilled into reusable procedural skills that compactly encode experience to guide future behavior.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanzhou Li , Yiran Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xiaoxia Liu , Yang Liu

LLM-based agents execute real-world workflows via tools and memory. These affordances enable ill-intended adversaries to also use these agents to carry out complex misuse scenarios. Existing agent misuse benchmarks largely test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nivya Talokar , Ayush K Tarun , Murari Mandal , Maksym Andriushchenko , Antoine Bosselut

Although current large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced in multimodal understanding and reasoning, their fundamental perceptual and reasoning abilities remain limited. Specifically, even on simple jigsaw tasks, existing VLMs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yu Zeng , Wenxuan Huang , Shiting Huang , Xikun Bao , Yukun Qi , Yiming Zhao , Qiuchen Wang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Huaian Chen , Wanli Ouyang , Feng Zhao

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for the continuous evolution of GUI agents, yet existing evaluation paradigms face significant limitations. Rule-based methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chaoqun Cui , Jing Huang , Shijing Wang , Liming Zheng , Qingchao Kong , Zhixiong Zeng

Agentic systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in tackling complex, long-horizon tasks. However, their efficacy is fundamentally constrained by static configurations governing agent behaviors,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jingqi Zhou , Sheng Wang , DeZhao Deng , Junwen Lu , Junwei Su , Qintong Li , Jiahui Gao , Hao Wu , Jiyue Jiang , Lingpeng Kong , Chuan Wu

A fundamental limitation of current AI agents is their inability to learn complex skills on the fly at test time, often behaving like "clever but clueless interns" in novel environments. This severely limits their practical utility. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yufei He , Juncheng Liu , Yue Liu , Yibo Li , Tri Cao , Zhiyuan Hu , Xinxing Xu , Bryan Hooi

Large language model (LLM) ecosystems such as Claude Code and ChatGPT increasingly rely on skills: packages of natural-language instructions and executable tools. Once in the LLM's context, skill content cannot be reliably separated from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tingda Shen , Yebo Feng , Konglin Zhu , Xiaojun Jia , Yang Liu , Lin Zhang

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at algorithmic code generation, they struggle with front-end development, where correctness is judged on rendered pixels and interaction. We present ReLook, an agentic, vision-grounded reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuhang Li , Chenchen Zhang , Ruilin Lv , Ao Liu , Ken Deng , Yuanxing Zhang , Jiaheng Liu , Wiggin Zhou , Bo Zhou

Large language model (LLM)-based agents frequently generate seemingly coherent plans that fail upon execution due to infeasible actions, constraint violations, and compounding errors over extended horizons. PIVOT (Plan-Inspect-eVOlve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tuo Zhang , Alin-Ionut Popa , Yan Xu , Rui Song , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Agentic systems are becoming more capable: agents define strategies, take actions, and interact with different environments. This autonomy poses serious challenges for overseeing and assessing agent behavior. Most current tools are limited,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Asaf Yehudai , Lilach Eden , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer

The engineering design research community has studied agentic AI systems that use Large Language Model (LLM) agents to automate the engineering design process. However, these systems are prone to some of the same pathologies that plague…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zeda Xu , Nikolas Martelaro , Christopher McComb

This paper presents a temporal expression language for monitoring AI agent behavior, enabling systematic error-detection of LLM-based agentic systems that exhibit variable outputs due to stochastic generation processes. Drawing from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Thomas J Sheffler

We present Springdrift, a persistent runtime for long-lived LLM agents. The system integrates an auditable execution substrate (append-only memory, supervised processes, git-backed recovery), a case-based reasoning memory layer with hybrid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seamus Brady