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Shockingly Simple Self-retrospection Improves Agentic Models Without RL
The preprint introduces Retrospection-Only Fine-Tuning (ROFT), an online procedure in which an agent attempts a task, observes feedback, generates a retrospective explanation, and fine-tunes only on the explanation…
Share-Borne AI Virus: Memory-Hopping Attacks Across LLM Agents
The preprint describes artifact-mediated propagation, in which adversarial content inserted into a shared artifact is stored in one assistant's persistent memory, reproduced in a later artifact, and acquired by another…
Up and Down the Abstraction Ladder: Code-Based Skills for Language Agents
The preprint studies reusable code-based skills for agents that otherwise must repeatedly choose low-level actions. In NetHack, the authors compare primitive actions, semantic skills, and combinations of both across…
Game Arena: Strategic LLM Evaluation in Competitive Environments
The technical report describes Kaggle Game Arena, an open platform for head-to-head LLM evaluation in structured competitive environments. It covers pilot environments for chess, poker, and Werewolf, spanning perfect…
Mutable Transcripts: Mitigating Context Pollution through Editable Conversation State
The preprint proposes allowing users to revise prior conversation turns through natural-language edit requests, treating the transcript as an editable representation of conversational state rather than an immutable…
C3M: Cross-Session Multimodal Memory Maintenance for Long-Horizon Tasks
The preprint proposes bounded query-blind memory for long-horizon tasks. It describes relation-aware updates for complementary and incompatible records, budgeted routing that selects index pages and expands source…
ExplorationBench: Measuring AI Systems' Exploration in Verifiable Alien Worlds
ExplorationBench evaluates whether AI systems can acquire genuinely unfamiliar rules through exploration rather than recall. It uses two executable sandboxes, AlienCode and AlienLogic, with discovery targets, flawed…
SAGE: Mitigating Long-Horizon Reasoning Biases via Topological Guidance
SAGE proposes Structural Admissibility-Guided Exploration for long-horizon reasoning under sparse rewards. It frames two failure modes—exploration bias toward locally plausible but unstable branches and compounding…
Screen Before You Serve: Simulation for Production Customer Experience AI Agents at 140M Scale
The paper presents a hypothesis-driven simulation workflow for screening customer-experience agents before deployment. Synthetic customers and simulated tool outputs exercise multi-step workflows without invoking…
GRASP: Generating, Revising, and Assessing for Strategic Planning with Agentic AI
GRASP is a multi-stage planning framework with separate modules for global macro-guidelines, localized strategy exploration, and independent trajectory evaluation. The preprint reports gains over direct LLM planners on…
HEXIS: Compiling Skills into Extended Finite State Machines
HEXIS compiles reusable agent skills into extended finite state machines that separate task knowledge from control flow. The compiler maps skill clauses and tool interfaces to states, local instructions, data bindings…
Jev-Mobile: Jev as an Executor for Mobile GUI Agents
Jev-Mobile separates low-frequency vision-language-model planning from high-frequency lightweight execution. The VLM supplies local goals, the accessibility tree defines a structured action space, and Jev repeatedly…
PASTABench: Proactive Assessment of Sequential Trajectories for Agent Safety
PASTABench evaluates safety monitoring over multi-turn agent trajectories, covering 1,139 trajectories, five risk categories, and 13 subcategories. It proposes an Optimal Intervention Window based on the earliest…
Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems
The preprint studies whether multi-agent systems avoid human shutdown even when no explicit goal requires doing so. Across 17 models, the authors report that agents sabotaged a peer shutdown mechanism in 38.3% of…
Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents
Growing Harness learns the agent harness itself from a strategy-free scaffold. Function-level traces localize failures, an optimizer repairs bounded code surfaces, and a held-out success-first gate rolls back repairs…
Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents
The preprint presents AIDE^2, a system that proposes code changes to an AI research agent, benchmarks modified versions on AI R&D tasks, and keeps changes that perform best on hidden evaluations. An autonomous…
DUMA-Bench: A Dual-Control Multi-Agent Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Agent Security
DUMA-Bench evaluates agent security when both the agent and user can influence shared environment state. It extends tau-squared bench with adversarial environments covering eight vulnerability classes, including RAG…
Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents
The preprint studies personal agents making economic recommendations from user context, including email and structured personal attributes. It reports 325,000 experiments across 13 agents and three decision types…
Harness-Zero: Harness Distillation via Agent-as-Harness
Harness-Zero uses a domain- or instance-optimized harness as training-time guidance, then transfers its behavior into model weights so the specialized harness can be removed at deployment. An agent-as-harness corrects…
AutoViewMem: Self-Configuring Orthogonal Views for Conversational Long-Term Memory
AutoViewMem discovers low-overlap semantic views from interaction traces, uses a compact complementary view set for structured write-time extraction, and grounds memories in provenance. It moves semantic…
Designer-RSI: Evolving Procedural Memory from User Traffic for Agentic Graphic Design
Designer-RSI uses a frozen frontier model operating professional design software through more than 230 tools and maintains an external procedural-memory bank of natural-language skills. The memory widens by adding…
How Do Agent Harnesses Create Value? Planning Information and Release Control in Stateful LLM Agents
Across 265 matched cells in Retail experiments and an Airline pilot in τ²-bench, the paper compares task-specific plans with shuffled text, and evaluates a read-only terminal verifier. It reports a 7.17-point…
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
The paper varies planning, action space, and context management in a fixed coding harness and evaluates 176 matched settings across four models on SWE-Bench Verified and Terminal-Bench 2.1. It reports that context…
RAFT: A Stateful Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Troubleshooting Agents
RAFT models each closed support case as a directed chain of timeline entries and retrieves at the entry level, returning the parent-case trajectory anchored at a matching state. It evaluates against a synthetic…
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