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Memory is a central capability for LLM agents operating across long-horizon tasks. Existing memory benchmarks predominantly evaluate retention of personalized information in multi-turn chat scenarios, overlooking the dynamic memory…

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Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents primarily focus on evaluating reasoning, planning, and execution capabilities, while another critical component-memory, encompassing how agents memorize, update, and retrieve long-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuanzhe Hu , Yu Wang , Julian McAuley

Large language models deployed for MAPDL finite-element simulation face practical reliability challenges: without structured execution control, tool encapsulation, and fault recovery, outputs may be inconsistent and task failures are…

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This report describes ARIS (Auto-Research-in-sleep), an open-source research harness for autonomous research, including its architecture, assurance mechanisms, and early deployment experience. The performance of agent systems built on LLMs…

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The companion paper introduced a four-level verification lattice on agent-skill manifests (unverified, declared, tested, formal) and left the top level aspirational. This paper closes that gap. We give a precise semantics for skill…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Alfredo Metere

Current large language models (LLMs) excel in verifiable domains where outputs can be checked before action but prove less reliable for high-stakes strategic decisions with uncertain outcomes. This gap, driven by mutually reinforcing…

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Real-world control systems must achieve long-horizon objectives (liveness) while respecting continuous-time safety constraints, a combination that motivates hierarchical layered control architectures (LCAs). Existing LCA research, however,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Yoshinari Takayama , Alessio Iovine , Bart Besselink , Guillaume Sandou , Adnane Saoud

Large language models (LLMs) deployed in user-facing applications require long-horizon consistency: the ability to remember prior interactions, respect user preferences, and ground reasoning in past events. However, contemporary memory…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Daivik Patel , Shrenik Patel

Long-term memory is one of the key factors influencing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model Agents (LLM Agents). Incorporating a memory mechanism that effectively integrates past interactions can significantly enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Haoran Sun , Shaoning Zeng

Applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to heterogeneous enterprise systems is hindered by hallucinations and failures in multi-hop, n-ary reasoning. Existing paradigms (e.g., GraphRAG, NL2SQL) lack the semantic grounding and auditable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ling Wang , Xin Liu , Songnan Liu , Jianan Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yihan Zhu , Enyu Li , Yu Xiao , Jiangyong Xie , Duogong Yan , Jiangyi Chen

LLM-based automated scoring approaches near-human performance, but scaling to new tasks remains bottlenecked by the per-item human configuration of upstream stages such as rubric construction. Human experts bypass this bottleneck through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yun Wang , Xin Xia , Xuansheng Wu , Xiaoming Zhai , Ninghao Liu

Industry practitioners and academic researchers regularly use multi-agent systems to accelerate their work, but the applications through which users operate these systems do not provide a simple, unified mechanism for scalably managing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Christopher J. Agostino , Nayan D'Souza

Modern large-scale ranking systems operate within a sophisticated landscape of competing objectives, operational constraints, and evolving product requirements. Progress in this domain is increasingly bottlenecked by the engineering context…

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Memory retrieval in agentic large language model (LLM) systems is often treated as a static lookup problem, relying on flat vector search or fixed binary relational graphs. However, fixed graph structures cannot capture the varying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dongming Jiang , Yi Li , Guanpeng Li , Qiannan Li , Bingzhe Li

Agent Skills is an emerging open standard that defines a modular, filesystem-based packaging format enabling LLM-based agents to acquire domain-specific expertise on demand. Despite rapid adoption across multiple agentic platforms and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhiyuan Li , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Xing Cui , Tianyue Luo

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have enabled agentic search systems that interleave multi-step reasoning with external tool use. However, existing frameworks largely rely on unstructured…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shuting Wang , Qiaolin Xia , Vich Wang , Herberttli , Bobsimons , Zhicheng Dou

Open-ended AI agents need to be able to learn efficiently goals of increasing complexity, abstraction and heterogeneity over their lifetime. Beyond sampling efficiently their own goals, autotelic agents specifically need to be able to keep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Thomas Carta , Clément Romac , Loris Gaven , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Olivier Sigaud , Sylvain Lamprier

Large language model-based web agents have shown strong potential in automating web interactions through advanced reasoning and instruction following. While retrieval-based memory derived from historical trajectories enables these agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunteng Tan , Zhi Gao , Xinxiao Wu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted for automating survey paper generation \cite{wang2406autosurvey, liang2025surveyx, yan2025surveyforge,su2025benchmarking,wen2025interactivesurvey}. Existing approaches typically extract…

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Hierarchical organization is fundamental to biological systems and human societies, yet artificial intelligence systems often rely on monolithic architectures that limit adaptability and scalability. Current hierarchical reinforcement…

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