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As Large Language Model (LLM) agents become increasingly capable of automating complex, multi-step tasks, the need for robust, secure, and predictable architectural patterns is paramount. This paper provides a comprehensive guide to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ron F. Del Rosario , Klaudia Krawiecka , Christian Schroeder de Witt

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advancements in enabling language agents to tackle simple tasks. However, applying them for complex, multi-step, long-horizon tasks remains a challenge. Recent work have found success by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lutfi Eren Erdogan , Nicholas Lee , Sehoon Kim , Suhong Moon , Hiroki Furuta , Gopala Anumanchipalli , Kurt Keutzer , Amir Gholami

Existing LLMs exhibit remarkable performance on various NLP tasks, but still struggle with complex real-world tasks, even equipped with advanced strategies like CoT and ReAct. In this work, we propose the CoAct framework, which transfers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xinming Hou , Mingming Yang , Wenxiang Jiao , Xing Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Wayne Xin Zhao

Humans solve problems by executing targeted plans, yet large language models (LLMs) remain unreliable for structured workflow execution. We propose RunAgent, a multi-agent plan execution platform that interprets natural-language plans while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Arunabh Srivastava , Mohammad A. , Khojastepour , Srimat Chakradhar , Sennur Ulukus

Large Language Model (LLM) web agents often struggle with long-horizon web navigation and web task completion in new websites, producing inefficient action sequences unless fine-tuned on environment-specific data. We show that…

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have recently achieved better generalization and sample efficiency in autonomous web automation. However, the performance on real-world websites has still suffered from (1) open domainness, (2)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Izzeddin Gur , Hiroki Furuta , Austin Huang , Mustafa Safdari , Yutaka Matsuo , Douglas Eck , Aleksandra Faust

Despite recent advances, LLM-based web agents still struggle with limited exploration, omission of critical steps, and sensitivity to task constraints. Prior work suggests that many of these failures stem from weaknesses in planning, yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alejandra Zambrano , Sara Vera Marjanovic , Imene Kerboua , Xing Han Lù , Leila Kosseim

Recent years, multimodal models have made remarkable strides and pave the way for intelligent browser use agents. However, when solving tasks on real world webpages in multi-turn, long-horizon trajectories, current agents still suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kaiwen He , Zhiwei Wang , Chenyi Zhuang , Jinjie Gu

Current interactive LLM agents rely on goal-conditioned stepwise planning, where environmental understanding is acquired reactively during execution rather than established beforehand. This temporal inversion leads to Delayed Environmental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuxin Liu , Ziang Ye , Yueqing Sun , Mingye Zhu , Jinwei Xiao , Zhuowen Han , Qi GU , Xunliang Cai , Lei Zhang

Addressing the disparity between forecasts and actual results can enable individuals to expand their thought processes and stimulate self-reflection, thus promoting accurate planning. In this research, we present **PreAct**, an agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Dayuan Fu , Jianzhao Huang , Siyuan Lu , Guanting Dong , Yejie Wang , Keqing He , Weiran Xu

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across tasks in language understanding and interactive decision making, their abilities for reasoning (e.g. chain-of-thought prompting) and acting (e.g. action…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Shunyu Yao , Jeffrey Zhao , Dian Yu , Nan Du , Izhak Shafran , Karthik Narasimhan , Yuan Cao

Intelligent agent systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in real-world applications. However, existing agent frameworks still face critical limitations in task planning and execution, restricting their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junjie Chen , Haitao Li , Jingli Yang , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai

Explicit planning is a critical capability for LLM-based agents solving complex data-centric tasks, which require precise tool calling over external data sources. Existing strategies fall into two paradigms based on planning horizon: (1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Naoki Otani , Nikita Bhutani , Hannah Kim , Dan Zhang , Estevam Hruschka

The ReAct (Reasoning + Action) capability in large language models (LLMs) has become the foundation of modern agentic systems. Recent LLMs, such as DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1/o3, exemplify this by emphasizing reasoning through the generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mrinal Rawat , Ambuje Gupta , Rushil Goomer , Alessandro Di Bari , Neha Gupta , Roberto Pieraccini

Recent advances in browser-based LLM agents have shown promise for automating tasks ranging from simple form filling to hotel booking or online shopping. Current benchmarks measure agent performance in controlled environments, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Su Kara , Fazle Faisal , Suman Nath

Large language model (LLM) web agents are increasingly used for web navigation but remain far from human reliability on realistic, long-horizon tasks. Existing evaluations focus primarily on end-to-end success, offering limited insight into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mohamed Aghzal , Gregory J. Stein , Ziyu Yao

With the advancement of Large-Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVMs), agents have shown significant capabilities in various tasks, such as data analysis, gaming, or code generation. Recently, there has been a surge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kihoon Son , Jinhyeon Kwon , DaEun Choi , Tae Soo Kim , Young-Ho Kim , Sangdoo Yun , Juho Kim

LLM agents are deployed in environments where they must interact to acquire information. In these scenarios, the agent must reason about inherent cost-uncertainty tradeoffs in how to act, such as when to stop exploring and commit to an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wenxuan Ding , Nicholas Tomlin , Greg Durrett

Existing tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) encounter significant challenges when processing complex queries. Current frameworks such as ReAct are prone to local optimization traps due to their reliance on incremental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaolong Wei , Yuehu Dong , Xingliang Wang , Xingyu Zhang , Zhejun Zhao , Dongdong Shen , Long Xia , Dawei Yin

Despite recent advances, autonomous agents often struggle to solve complex tasks in enterprise domains that require coordinating multiple tools and processing diverse data sources. This struggle is driven by two main limitations. First,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Gianni Molinari , Fabio Ciravegna
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