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LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as an effective paradigm for complex and long-horizon tasks. However, in real-world tasks, MAS often exhibit various failures during execution and such failures are difficult to eliminate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhezheng Hao , Tianfu Wang , Huanshuo Dong , Ziyan Liu , Hong Wang , Xiankun Lin , Qiang Lin , Can Wang , Hande Dong , Jiawei Chen

Agent skills today are static artifact: authored once -- by human curation or one-shot generation from parametric knowledge -- and then consumed unchanged, with no mechanism to improve from real use. We propose \textbf{SkillEvolver}, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Genrui Zhang , Erle Zhu , Jinfeng Zhou , Caiyan Jia , Hongning Wang

In this white paper, we present AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that substantially enhances capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs on highly challenging tasks such as tackling open scientific problems or optimizing critical pieces…

LLM-based evolution has emerged as a promising way to improve agents by refining non-parametric artifacts, but its wall-clock cost remains a major bottleneck. We identify that this cost comes from synchronized stage execution and imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengding Hu , Mingge Lu , Zhen Wang , Jixuan Ruan , Chang Chen , Zaifeng Pan , Yue Guan , Ruiyi Wang , Zhongkai Yu , Chao Zhang , Yufei Ding

AI agents are increasingly deployed in production, yet their security evaluations remain bottlenecked by manual red-teaming or static benchmarks that fail to model adaptive, multi-turn adversaries. We propose NAAMSE, an evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kunal Pai , Parth Shah , Harshil Patel

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been demonstrated suitable to develop agents that play complex games with human-level performance. However, it is not understood how to effectively use RL to perform cybersecurity tasks. To develop such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Andres Molina-Markham , Cory Miniter , Becky Powell , Ahmad Ridley

This paper introduces the first \emph{self-evolving} logic synthesis framework, which leverages Large Language Model (LLM) agents to autonomously improve the source code of \textsc{ABC}, the widely adopted logic synthesis system. Our…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Cunxi Yu , Haoxing Ren

Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software engineering and cybersecurity tasks, including code generation, vulnerability discovery, and automated testing. One critical but underexplored…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Bin Liu , Yanjie Zhao , Guoai Xu , Haoyu Wang

What is the best harness for cybersecurity AI? Cybersecurity systems are converging on a single execution scaffold per agent, an iterative shell loop driven by a Large Language Model (LLM). However, scaffolds are not interchangeable, rarely…

LLM-based agents depend on effective tool-use policies to solve complex tasks, yet optimizing these policies remains challenging due to delayed supervision and the difficulty of credit assignment in long-horizon trajectories. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shuo Yang , Soyeon Caren Han , Xueqi Ma , Yan Li , Mohammad Reza Ghasemi Madani , Eduard Hovy

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

As artificial intelligence engineering paradigms shift from single-agent Prompt and Context Engineering toward multi-agent \textbf{Coordination Engineering}, the ability to codify and systematically improve how multiple agents collaborate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xinyu Zhang , Zhicheng Dou , Deyang Li , Jianjun Tao , Shuo Cheng , Ruifeng Shi , Fangchao Liu , Enrui Hu , Yangkai Ding , Hongbo Wang , Qi Ye , Xuefeng Jin , Zhangchun Zhao

Large language models hold promise as scientific assistants, yet existing agents either rely solely on algorithm evolution or on deep research in isolation, both of which face critical limitations. Pure algorithm evolution, as in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gang Liu , Yihan Zhu , Jie Chen , Meng Jiang

Building generalist agents that can handle diverse tasks and evolve themselves across different environments is a long-term goal in the AI community. Large language models (LLMs) are considered a promising foundation to build such agents…

We introduce AegisLLM, a cooperative multi-agent defense against adversarial attacks and information leakage. In AegisLLM, a structured workflow of autonomous agents - orchestrator, deflector, responder, and evaluator - collaborate to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zikui Cai , Shayan Shabihi , Bang An , Zora Che , Brian R. Bartoldson , Bhavya Kailkhura , Tom Goldstein , Furong Huang

Experience-driven self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the autonomy of large language model agents, yet its reliance on self-curated experience introduces underexplored safety risks. In this study, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weixiang Zhao , Yichen Zhang , Yingshuo Wang , Yang Deng , Yanyan Zhao , Xuda Zhi , Yongbo Huang , HaoHe , Wanxiang Che , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

LLM-based role-playing has rapidly improved in fidelity, yet stronger adherence to persona constraints commonly increases vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, especially for risky or negative personas. Most prior work mitigates this issue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyang Liao , Yichen Wan , shuchen wu , Chenxi Miao , Xin Shen , Weikang Li , Yang Li , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang

The performance of large language model (LLM) agents depends critically on the execution harness, the system layer that orchestrates tool use, context management, and state persistence. Yet this same architectural centrality makes the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xixun Lin , Yang Liu , Yancheng Chen , Yongxuan Wu , Yucheng Ning , Yilong Liu , Nan Sun , Shun Zhang , Bin Chong , Chuan Zhou , Yanan Cao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated effectiveness in code generation tasks. To enable LLMs to address more complex coding challenges, existing research has focused on crafting multi-agent systems with agentic workflows, where…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Siwei Liu , Jinyuan Fang , Han Zhou , Yingxu Wang , Zaiqiao Meng

Large language models (LLMs) excel at general question-answering (Q&A) but often fall short in specialized domains due to a lack of domain-specific knowledge. Commercial companies face the dual challenges of privacy protection and resource…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Shenglin Zhang , Pengtian Zhu , Minghua Ma , Jiagang Wang , Yongqian Sun , Dongwen Li , Jingyu Wang , Qianying Guo , Xiaolei Hua , Lin Zhu , Dan Pei