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Modern language models (LMs) have significantly advanced generative modeling in natural language processing (NLP). Despite their success, LMs often struggle with adaptation to new contexts in real-time applications. A promising approach to…

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AI agents have become increasingly adept at complex tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal understanding. However, building generalist systems requires moving beyond individual agents to collective inference -- a paradigm where…

We present ABIDES-Economist, an agent-based simulator for economic systems that includes heterogeneous households, firms, a central bank, and a government. Agent behavior can be defined using domain-specific behavioral rules or learned…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Kshama Dwarakanath , Tucker Balch , Svitlana Vyetrenko

There is great potential to be explored regarding the use of agent-based modelling and simulation as an alternative paradigm to investigate early-stage cancer interactions with the immune system. It does not suffer from some limitations of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Grazziela P Figueredo , Peer-Olaf Siebers , Markus R Owen , Jenna Reps , Uwe Aickelin

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;…

Traditional model-based reinforcement learning approaches learn a model of the environment dynamics without explicitly considering how it will be used by the agent. In the presence of misspecified model classes, this can lead to poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Pierluca D'Oro , Alberto Maria Metelli , Andrea Tirinzoni , Matteo Papini , Marcello Restelli

Emerging AI systems in behavioral health and psychiatry use multi-step or multi-agent LLM pipelines for tasks like assessing self-harm risk and screening for depression. However, common evaluation approaches, like LLM-as-a-judge, do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Meghana Karnam , Ananya Joshi

Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) are logic models that causally link biological mechanisms that can be measured in a lab to adverse outcomes, relevant to chemical regulatory endpoints. AOPs contextualize new approach methodologies (NAMs), in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Virginia K. Hench , J. Harry Caufield , Sierra A. T. Moxon , Jason M. O'Brien , Stephen W. Edwards

The recent history of respiratory pathogen epidemics, including those caused by influenza and SARS-CoV-2, has highlighted the urgent need for advanced modeling approaches that can accurately capture heterogeneous disease dynamics and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-07 Prescott C. Alexander , Thomas J. Harris , Joy Kitson , Joseph V. Tuccillo , Sara Y. Del Valle , Timothy C. Germann

Transforming neuroimaging data into clinically actionable biomarkers is a knowledge-intensive and labor-intensive process. Standardized workflows such as fMRIPrep have improved robustness and efficiency, but they are statically configured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Keqi Han , Songlin Zhao , Yao Su , Xiang Li , Yixuan Yuan , Lifang He , Carl Yang

Recently, the world has witnessed the most severe pandemic (COVID-19) in this century. Studies on epidemic prediction and simulation have received increasing attention. However, the current methods suffer from three issues. First, most of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Haoyu Geng , Guanjie Zheng , Zhengqing Han , Hua Wei , Zhenhui Li

We present a distributed resource allocation strategy to control an epidemic outbreak in a networked population based on a Distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (D-ADMM) algorithm. We consider a linearized Susceptible-…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Chinwendu Enyioha , Ali Jadbabaie , Victor Preciado , George J. Pappas

Recent studies show that well-devised perturbations on graph structures or node features can mislead trained Graph Neural Network (GNN) models. However, these methods often overlook practical assumptions, over-rely on heuristics, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaodong Yang , Xiaoting Li , Huiyuan Chen , Yiwei Cai

Guiding biological systems toward desired states, such as morphogenetic outcomes, remains a fundamental challenge with far-reaching implications for medicine and synthetic biology. While large language models (LLMs) have enabled natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nam H. Le , Patrick Erikson , Yanbo Zhang , Michael Levin , Josh Bongard

Adaptive Informative Path Planning with Multimodal Sensing (AIPPMS) considers the problem of an agent equipped with multiple sensors, each with different sensing accuracy and energy costs. The agent's goal is to explore the environment and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Joshua Ott , Edward Balaban , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

LLM-based coding agents can generate functionally correct GPU kernels, yet their performance remains far below hand-optimized libraries on critical computations such as matrix multiplication, attention, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Peak…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Haohui Mai , Xiaoyan Guo , Xiangyun Ding , Daifeng Li , Qiuchu Yu , Chenzhun Guo , Cong Wang , Jiacheng Zhao , Christos Kozyrakis , Binhang Yuan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) pipelines have become integral to modern research, supporting fields such as Medical Sciences, Agriculture, and Social Sciences, and enabling large-scale data analysis, predictive modeling, and the automation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hyacinth Ali , Jessie Galasso-Carbonnel , Houari Sahraoui

In this work, we introduce MedAgentSim, an open-source simulated clinical environment with doctor, patient, and measurement agents designed to evaluate and enhance LLM performance in dynamic diagnostic settings. Unlike prior approaches, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mohammad Almansoori , Komal Kumar , Hisham Cholakkal

Simulated environments are increasingly used by trading firms and investment banks to evaluate trading strategies before approaching real markets. Backtesting, a widely used approach, consists of simulating experimental strategies while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Andrea Coletta , Matteo Prata , Michele Conti , Emanuele Mercanti , Novella Bartolini , Aymeric Moulin , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

This paper develops an agent-level simulation model, termed ALPS, for simulating the spread of an infectious disease in a confined community. The mechanism of transmission is agent-to-agent contact, using parameters reported for Corona…

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