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Thanks to the remarkable human-like capabilities of machine learning (ML) models in perceptual and cognitive tasks, frameworks integrating ML within rational agent architectures are gaining traction. Yet, the landscape remains fragmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Agiollo , Andrea Omicini

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming artificial intelligence, enabling autonomous agents to perform diverse tasks across various domains. These agents, proficient in human-like text comprehension and generation, have the potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Saikat Barua

LLM-based agents are increasingly used for cybersecurity tasks, but most existing systems rely on fixed, human-designed scaffolds that struggle to adapt across diverse targets and failure modes. We introduce \textsc{CyberEvolver}, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yihe Fan , Changyi Li , Lichen Xu , Xudong Pan , Jiarun Dai , Hong Geng , Min Yang

The arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) has stirred up philosophical debates about the possibility of realizing agency in an artificial manner. In this work we contribute to the debate by presenting a theoretical model that can be used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Maud van Lier , Gorka Muñoz-Gil

The rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) has spurred a new trend in building LLM-based autonomous agents for solving complex tasks, especially multi-agent systems. Despite the remarkable progress, we notice that existing works are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Siyu Yuan , Kaitao Song , Jiangjie Chen , Xu Tan , Dongsheng Li , Deqing Yang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, they face a critical scalability bottleneck known as the "Generalization-Specialization Dilemma." Monolithic agents equipped with extensive toolkits suffer from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sathish Sampath , Anuradha Baskaran

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) agents facilitate Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation but struggle with long-horizon, cross-application tasks due to limited context windows. While memory systems provide a viable solution,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hongze Mi , Yibo Feng , WenJie Lu , Song Cao , Jinyuan Li , Yanming Li , Xuelin Zhang , Haotian Luo , Songyang Peng , He Cui , Tengfei Tian , Jun Fang , Hua Chai , Naiqiang Tan

The emergence of multi-agent systems built from large language models (LLMs) offers a promising paradigm for scalable collective intelligence and self-evolution. Ideally, such systems would achieve continuous self-improvement in a fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenxu Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Songyang Liu , Zejian Chen , Jinyu Hou , Ji Qi , Rui Li , Litian Zhang , Qiwei Ye , Zheng Liu , Xu Chen , Xi Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant potential in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, the success of RL for LLMs heavily relies on human-curated datasets and verifiable rewards,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yixing Chen , Yiding Wang , Siqi Zhu , Haofei Yu , Tao Feng , Muhan Zhang , Mostofa Patwary , Jiaxuan You

Self-evolution is a central research topic in enabling large language model (LLM)-based agents to continually improve their capabilities after pretraining. Recent research has witnessed a transition from reinforcement learning (RL)-free to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiangyuan Xue , Yifan Zhou , Guibin Zhang , Zaibin Zhang , Yijiang Li , Chen Zhang , Zhenfei Yin , Philip Torr , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the emergence of LLM agents, systems capable of pursuing under-specified goals and adapting after deployment. Evaluating such agents is challenging because their behavior is open ended,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Boming Xia , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Zhenchang Xing , Dehai Zhao , Hao Zhang

Self-modification of agents embedded in complex environments is hard to avoid, whether it happens via direct means (e.g. own code modification) or indirectly (e.g. influencing the operator, exploiting bugs or the environment). It has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jakub Tětek , Marek Sklenka , Tomáš Gavenčiak

The emergence of Agentic AI systems has outpaced the architectural thinking required to operate them effectively. These agents differ fundamentally from traditional software: their behavior is not fixed at deployment but continuously shaped…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shaunak Biswas , Hiya Bhatt , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

This study proposes a multi-agent language framework that enables continual strategy evolution without fine-tuning the language model's parameters. The core idea is to liberate the latent vectors of abstract concepts from traditional static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Tang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of text-generation tasks. However, LLMs still struggle with problems requiring multi-step decision-making and environmental feedback, such as online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenfang Chen , Delin Chen , Rui Sun , Wenjun Liu , Chuang Gan

Diplomacy is one of the most sophisticated activities in human society, involving complex interactions among multiple parties that require skills in social reasoning, negotiation, and long-term strategic planning. Previous AI agents have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhenyu Guan , Xiangyu Kong , Fangwei Zhong , Yizhou Wang

While large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive problem-solving capabilities, they typically operate as static systems, lacking the ability to evolve through lifelong interaction. Existing attempts to bridge this gap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hongzhuo Yu , Fei Zhu , Guo-Sen Xie , Ling Shao

Modern software systems continuously undergo code upgrades to enhance functionality, security, and performance, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code migration tasks. However, while research on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xiang Li , Zhiwei Fei , Ying Ma , Jerry Zhang , Sarro Federica , He Ye

Recent LLM agents have made great use of chain of thought reasoning and function calling. As their capabilities grow, an important question arises: can this software represent not only a smart problem-solving tool, but an entity in its own…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Asen Nachkov , Xi Wang , Luc Van Gool

Software automation has long been a central goal of software engineering, striving for software development that proceeds without human intervention. Recent efforts have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance software automation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Liyi Cai , Yijie Ren , Yitong Zhang , Jia Li