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And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. — William Scranton 37 items · 3 sections
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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2608.06110v1Lead article

ECHO: A Locally-Deployable Agentic Health Assistant with Temporal Memory, Safety Guardrails, and Speech Assessment

Abdulkadir Külçe, Alihan Esen, Cağla Fikir, Berke Kurt, Kuzey Arar

CHO is a locally-deployable health assistant for chronic care that uses an agentic chatbot with temporal memory and clinical tools. Its core contribution lies in its robust safety system, combining a fast rule-based layer with a GNN for accurate clinical intent classification, ensuring secure and effective long-term health management.

Overview of GSE
Overview of GSE
cs.AIarxiv:2608.06153v1

Learning Globally Reusable Skills for Coding Agents

Chen Yang, Jiashuo Tian et al.

This paper introduces GSE, a framework for improving LLM coding agents by evolving skills globally. Unlike local updates, GSE uses a Skill Relation Graph to model inter-skill relationships and cluster-based consolidation to abstract reusable capabilities, enha…

cs.AIarxiv:2608.06346v1

TRAJDEBUG: Tracing Error Lifecycle to Identify Critical Failures in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories

Yunjia Qi, Zehua Yin et al.

TrajDebug is a framework designed to pinpoint the root cause of failures in long, complex trajectories generated by LLM-based agents. It addresses challenges of scattered evidence and multiple local errors by using multi-granularity history compression and evi…

Critical error detection requires grounding errors in long-range context and distinguishing the failure-responsible error from multiple coexisting errors.
Critical error detection requires grounding errors in long-range context and distinguishing the failure-responsible error from multiple coexisting errors.
cs.LGarxiv:2608.06246v1

A Six-Dimensional Taxonomy of Post-Training Adaptation Techniques with Applications in AI Governance

Fardin Afdideh, Fernando Seoane et al.

This paper introduces a six-dimensional taxonomy to systematically categorize and understand the diverse landscape of post-training adaptation techniques in machine learning. Its core contribution lies in providing a unified framework that clarifies distinctio…

cs.CLarxiv:2608.06370v1

The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling

Ishan Patel, Sahil Sen et al.

This paper introduces Programmatic Tool Calling (PTC), a method that allows LLMs to use tools by invoking them as typed Python scripts, enabling natural chaining and parallelization. Empirically, PTC matches or surpasses traditional JSON tool calling across mo…

Overview of the two primary paradigms evaluated. In JSON tool calling , the model emits JSON tool-call objects via the API. In programmatic tool calling , it writes a Python script using typed stubs; the agent loop executes it in a subprocess. A filesystem-discovery condition is included as a secondary reference point.
Overview of the two primary paradigms evaluated. In JSON tool calling , the model emits JSON tool-call objects via the API. In programmatic tool calling , it writes a Python script using typed stubs; …
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cs.CL
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Training-Free Token-Level Steering for LLM Personalized Co-Writing

Wenhao Mao, Chengbin Hou et al.

This paper introduces SteerWrite, a training-free framework for personalized LLM co-writing. Its core method achieves token-level steering without gradient updates, making it effic…

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Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Evaluating Benchmarks for Conversational Agents

Noam Koren, Roy Bar-Haim et al.

This paper introduces a novel, reference-free framework that leverages LLM judges to evaluate the quality of conversational agent benchmarks. The core method assesses benchmark con…

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Contextual Information Policy Optimization for Search Agents

Xingyu Guo, Wei Chen et al.

This paper introduces Contextual Information Policy Optimization (CIPO), a novel reinforcement learning framework for search agents. CIPO addresses the problem of agents relying to…

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cs.AI
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DASH: Divergence-Adaptive Supervision Horizons for On-Policy Self-Distillation of Reasoning Models

ZhiYan Hou, Xinyu Tang et al.

This paper introduces DASH, a novel on-policy self-distillation method for improving reasoning in language models. DASH addresses the issue of sparse rewards in reinforcement learn…

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EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao et al.

EnvACE trains large language model agents for complex tool use by replacing costly environment interactions with "world rehearsal." The agent learns by alternating between generati…

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