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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation. — Jeff Hawkins 35 items · 3 sections
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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2506.12508Lead article

AgentOrchestra: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Intelligence with the Tool-Environment-Agent(TEA) Protocol

Wentao Zhang, Liang Zeng, Yuzhen Xiao, Yongcong Li, Ce Cui

his paper introduces the Tool-Environment-Agent (TEA) protocol, a novel framework for coordinating multi-agent systems. TEA models agents, tools, and environments as versioned resources with explicit lifecycles, enabling better context management and reproducibility. Building on TEA, AgentOrchestra provides a hierarchical framework for dynamic agent capability extension and coordination on complex tasks.

Architecture of the TEA Protocol.
Architecture of the TEA Protocol.
(a) Traditional evaluation of self-evolving agents measures only the final task score. (b) BenchTrace constructs its dataset through three stages: Snapshot Collection, Failure Detection, and Reflection Annotation. (c) BenchTrace comprises a Snapshot-Reflection Dataset and an Evaluation Suite with a Reflection Evaluation and an Evolution Evaluation .
(a) Traditional evaluation of self-evolving agents measures only the final task score. (b) BenchTrace constructs its dataset through three stages: Snapshot Collection, Failure Detection, and Reflectio…
cs.AIarxiv:2605.29225

BenchTrace: A Benchmark for Testing Reflection Ability and Controlled Evolution in LLM Agents

Jiahao Huang, Fei Cheng et al.

This paper introduces BenchTrace, a benchmark designed to evaluate the reflection and controlled evolution capabilities of LLM agents. BenchTrace utilizes a dataset of annotated episodes and includes two key evaluations: one that probes failure identification …

cs.AIarxiv:2509.23730

EAPO: Enhancing Policy Optimization with On-Demand Expert Assistance

Siyao Song, Cong Ma et al.

EAPO is a novel RL framework that enhances LLM reasoning by allowing policies to adaptively seek assistance from external experts during training. This on-demand expert interaction provides richer reward signals and more reliable reasoning trajectories, ultima…

Framework of EAPO. During training, the policy model adaptively consults experts as assistants. While at test time, the model performs reasoning independently without external assistance.
Framework of EAPO. During training, the policy model adaptively consults experts as assistants. While at test time, the model performs reasoning independently without external assistance.
Empowerment reflects an agent’s ability to reach diverse future states. (Top) A low-empowerment LM-agent becomes trapped in a loop and thus can access only a small fraction of states. (Bottom) A high-empowerment LM-agent effectively explores a wider range of trajectories and can successfully reach states that solve different random goals.
Empowerment reflects an agent’s ability to reach diverse future states. (Top) A low-empowerment LM-agent becomes trapped in a loop and thus can access only a small fraction of states. (Bottom) A high-…
cs.AIarxiv:2509.22504

Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents

Jinyeop Song, Jeff Gore et al.

This paper introduces EELMA, an algorithm that estimates the "empowerment" of language model agents. Empowerment, an information-theoretic measure, quantifies an agent's ability to influence future states through its actions. EELMA allows for scalable evaluati…

cs.AIarxiv:2605.27390

EvoSpec: Evolving Speculative Decoding via Real-Time Vocabulary and Parameter Adaptation

Shuyu Zhang, Lingfeng Pan et al.

EvoSpec accelerates LLM inference by dynamically adapting the draft model's vocabulary and parameters in real-time. This approach overcomes the limitations of static pruning by efficiently retrieving relevant long-tail tokens and minimizing the distributional …

The architecture of EvoSpec. The system employs a decision logic based on vocabulary coverage to trigger two parallel loops: (1) Top Branch: Upon OOV detection, the Dynamic Vocabulary Generator asynchronously recalls semantic and statistical neighbors on the CPU to recover local coverage; (2) Bottom Branch: For tokens covered by the current vocabulary, the Online Alignment Controller fine-tunes the draft model’s LoRA parameters using a self-paced curriculum to minimize divergence.
The architecture of EvoSpec. The system employs a decision logic based on vocabulary coverage to trigger two parallel loops: (1) Top Branch: Upon OOV detection, the Dynamic Vocabulary Generator asynch…
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From AR to Diffusion: Efficiently Adapting Large Language Models with Strictly Causal and Elastic Horizons

Xiangyu Ma, Teng Xiao et al.

This paper introduces FLUID, a framework for efficiently adapting autoregressive (AR) language models to diffusion models for text generation. FLUID achieves this by enforcing "Str…

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From Meta-Thought to Execution: Cognitively Aligned Post-Training for Generalizable and Reliable LLM Reasoning

Shaojie Wang, Liang Zhang

This paper proposes a new LLM post-training method called Chain-of-Meta-Thought (CoMT). It addresses the limitation of current methods by mimicking human problem-solving, which inv…

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Graph-Enhanced Policy Optimization in LLM Agent Training

Jiazhen Yuan, Zhike Gong et al.

This paper introduces Graph-Enhanced Policy Optimization (GEPO) to improve LLM agent training for multi-step tasks. GEPO addresses the issue of uniform credit assignment by develop…

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GroundAct: Can LLM Agents Ground Actions in Environmental States?

Zixuan Wang, Dingming Li et al.

This paper introduces GroundAct, a benchmark designed to assess Large Language Model (LLM) agents' ability to ground actions in environmental states. The core method involves evalu…

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InsightEval: An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Assessing Insight Discovery in LLM-Driven Data Agents

Zhenghao Zhu, Yuanfeng Song et al.

This paper addresses the lack of robust benchmarks for evaluating LLM-driven data agents' insight discovery capabilities. The authors identify critical flaws in existing benchmarks…

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