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Electric vehicles (EV) create an urgent need for scalable battery recycling, yet disassembly of EV battery packs remains largely manual due to high design variability. We present our Robotic Agentic Platform for Intelligent Disassembly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zachary Allen , Max Conway , Lyle Antieau , Allen Ponraj , Nikolaus Correll

In recent years, AI-based software engineering has progressed from pre-trained models to advanced agentic workflows, with Software Development Agents representing the next major leap. These agents, capable of reasoning, planning, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhi Chen , Lingxiao Jiang

Reliable Docker-based environment construction is a dominant bottleneck for scaling execution-grounded training and evaluation of software engineering agents. We introduce DockSmith, a specialized agentic Docker builder designed to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiaran Zhang , Luck Ma , Fanqi Wan , Di Qi , Xu Zhao , Jieyi Hou , Zhe Xie , Mengqiang Ren , Xin Wu , Zhewei Huang , Liangyu Chen , Qi Han , Xiangyu Zhang

The automation of scientific discovery represents a critical milestone in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research. However, existing agentic systems for science suffer from two fundamental limitations: rigid, pre-programmed workflows that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ed Li , Junyu Ren , Xintian Pan , Cat Yan , Chuanhao Li , Dirk Bergemann , Zhuoran Yang

A multitude of agent-oriented software engineering frameworks exist, most of which are developed by the academic multi-agent systems community. However, these frameworks often impose programming paradigms on their users that are challenging…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Timotheus Kampik , Juan Carlos Nieves

In decision support systems, it is essential to get a candidate solution fast, even if it means resorting to an approximation. This constraint introduces a scalability requirement with regard to the kind of heuristics which can be used in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-05-22 D. Krzywicki , Ł. Faber , A. Byrski , M. Kisiel-Dorohinicki

We present a method for using previously-trained 'teacher' agents to kickstart the training of a new 'student' agent. To this end, we leverage ideas from policy distillation and population based training. Our method places no constraints on…

Code agents have gained widespread adoption due to their strong code generation capabilities and integration with code interpreters, enabling dynamic execution, debugging, and interactive programming capabilities. While these advancements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chengquan Guo , Chulin Xie , Yu Yang , Zhaorun Chen , Zinan Lin , Xander Davies , Yarin Gal , Dawn Song , Bo Li

Enterprise teams building internal coding agents face a gap between prototype performance and production readiness. The root cause is that technical model quality alone is insufficient -- tool design, safety enforcement, state management,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gustavo Pinto , Pedro Eduardo de Paula Naves , Ana Paula Camargo , Marselle Silva

The rapid development of large language and multimodal models has sparked significant interest in using proprietary models, such as GPT-4o, to develop autonomous agents capable of handling real-world scenarios like web navigation. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hongliang He , Wenlin Yao , Kaixin Ma , Wenhao Yu , Hongming Zhang , Tianqing Fang , Zhenzhong Lan , Dong Yu

Agentic coding tools, such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, are transforming the software engineering landscape. These AI-powered systems function as autonomous teammates capable of planning and executing complex development tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kosei Horikawa , Hao Li , Yutaro Kashiwa , Bram Adams , Hajimu Iida , Ahmed E. Hassan

Deep Research agents are rapidly emerging as primary consumers of modern retrieval systems. Unlike human users who issue and refine queries without documenting their intermediate thought processes, Deep Research agents generate explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zijian Chen , Xueguang Ma , Shengyao Zhuang , Jimmy Lin , Akari Asai , Victor Zhong

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs) with their advanced capabilities, a unique opportunity arises to develop LLM-based digital assistant tools that can support software developers by facilitating comprehensive reasoning about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Mohannad Alhanahnah , Yazan Boshmaf

GUI agents are designed to automate repetitive tasks and enhance productivity. However, existing GUI agents struggle to recover once they follow an incorrect exploration path, often leading to task failure. In this work, we model GUI task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ziyu Lu , Tengjin Weng , Yiying Yang , Yuhang Zhao , Xinxin Huang , Wenhao Jiang

We study the problem of optimizing biological sequences, e.g., proteins, DNA, and RNA, to maximize a black-box score function that is only evaluated in an offline dataset. We propose a novel solution, bootstrapped training of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-26 Minsu Kim , Federico Berto , Sungsoo Ahn , Jinkyoo Park

Writing effective rebuttals is a high-stakes task that demands more than linguistic fluency, as it requires precise alignment between reviewer intent and manuscript details. Current solutions typically treat this as a direct-to-text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qianli Ma , Chang Guo , Zhiheng Tian , Siyu Wang , Jipeng Xiao , Yuanhao Yue , Zhipeng Zhang

Pioneers of autonomous vehicles (AVs) promised to revolutionize the driving experience and driving safety. However, milestones in AVs have materialized slower than forecast. Two culprits are (1) the lack of verifiability of proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 R. Spencer Hallyburton , Shucheng Zhang , Miroslav Pajic

AI agents are increasingly used to solve complex, multi-step tasks, but existing multi-agent frameworks remain brittle as workflows grow in scale and depth. Small errors at intermediate stages can propagate through agent interactions, while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Andy Xu , Yu-Wing Tai

The rapid development of mobile GUI agents has stimulated growing research interest in long-horizon task automation. However, building agents for these tasks faces a critical bottleneck: the reliance on ever-expanding interaction history…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shizuo Tian , Hao Wen , Yuxuan Chen , Jiacheng Liu , Shanhui Zhao , Guohong Liu , Ju Ren , Yunxin Liu , Yuanchun Li

Building generalist agents that can rapidly adapt to new environments is a key challenge for deploying AI in the digital and real worlds. Is scaling current agent architectures the most effective way to build generalist agents? We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Dinesh Jayaraman , Insup Lee