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From the arXiv

arXiv preprints 10 of 20
cs.AIarxiv:2608.19047v1Lead article

Eureka: Task-Conditioned Meta-Agent Orchestration for Scientific Discovery

Alizer Wong, Heng Cui, Yi Tan, Xiongchao Zhan, Liang Lin

ureka orchestrates specialized "Macro-Agents" to tackle complex, long-horizon scientific tasks by dynamically compiling them into obligation graphs. Its core method involves receding-horizon planning and architecture evolution to adapt and optimize agent behavior, leading to highly efficient and reliable task completion. The key contribution is a novel meta-agent framework that demonstrates robust performance and significant computational savings in scientific discovery.

Overview of Eureka. The Meta-Agent compiles a task into a dynamic obligation graph, forms task-conditioned specialized agents when architecture hotspots emerge, governs local evolution, and coordinates recursive long-horizon execution under typed verification.
Overview of Eureka. The Meta-Agent compiles a task into a dynamic obligation graph, forms task-conditioned specialized agents when architecture hotspots emerge, governs local evolution, and coordinates recursive long-horizon execution under typed verification.
Overview of the MLREF pipeline. In the initialization phase (steps 1–3), the LLM performs task and environment reflection and generates diverse module pool variants. In the iterative optimization phase (steps 4–9), each variant assembles a reward function via weighted linear combination for RL evaluation; a merge strategy with rollback consolidates successful modules; and feedback reflection guides the next round of pool improvement.
Overview of the MLREF pipeline. In the initialization phase (steps 1–3), the LLM performs task and environment reflection and generates diverse module pool variants. In the iterative optimization phas…
cs.AIarxiv:2608.18827v1

MLREF: Efficient Module Reuse for Reward Design in Reinforcement Learning via Large Language Models

Chenglin Liu, Xun Wang et al.

MLREF addresses reward function design bottlenecks in RL by treating a persistent pool of reusable reward modules as the primary optimization object. Instead of monolithic reward generation, MLREF constructs rewards as linear combinations of these modules, pro…

cs.AIarxiv:2608.18884v1

Training-Free Inference-Time Self-Reflection and Cost-Bounded Early Stopping for Large Language Models

Wei Yu, Suxing Liu et al.

This paper introduces EvoResearcher, a training-free method that enhances Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning at inference time. It achieves this by enabling a frozen LLM to iteratively generate, self-critique, and revise its responses until a satisfactory an…

Conceptual overview of the EvoResearcher framework. Four synergistic dimensions are combined: a self-reflective meta-reward (M3) over correctness, path efficiency, reflection depth, and tool-call diversity; an evolving virtual world (M1) that injects time-dependent and adversarial content (expert opinions, scientific retractions, delayed evidence, misleading material); discovery-oriented tasks (M2) that go beyond fact retrieval toward hypothesis generation and contradiction resolution; and a heterogeneous multi-agent swarm (M4) of Scout/Filter/Synthesizer agents with task specialization. The agent draws on retrieval and search-tool infrastructure and is trained via curriculum reinforcement learning from a web-scale corpus. In this work the meta-reward components are realized as a training-free, inference-time self-reflective protocol over a frozen backbone (Section 3.1 ); the RL training pipeline, evolving environment, and multi-agent swarm depicted here are design blueprints and are not evaluated (Section 5 ).
Conceptual overview of the EvoResearcher framework. Four synergistic dimensions are combined: a self-reflective meta-reward (M3) over correctness, path efficiency, reflection depth, and tool-call dive…
cs.AIarxiv:2608.19002v1

A Theory of Post-hoc Debate Judgement

Xiang Yin, Adam Dejl et al.

This paper proposes a formal theory for post-hoc debate judgment, aiming to improve reproducibility, robustness, groundedness, and explainability in AI debates. The core method involves identifying and testing formal properties that debate judgment should sati…

cs.AIarxiv:2608.19029v1

Adaptive Memory and Reflection Multi-Agent System for Medical Question Answering

Pradeep Murugesan, Luoxiao Yang et al.

This paper introduces an Adaptive Memory and Reflection (AMR) multi-agent system for medical question answering. Its core method involves specialized agents with dedicated memory and reflection mechanisms to retrieve prior cases and refine reasoning. The syste…

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Beyond the Transcript: Detecting Covert Co ordination in Latent Multi-Agent Communication

Ramneet Kaur, Pradyumna Chari et al.

This paper introduces Verifiable Latent Alignments (VLA), a framework to detect and control covert coordination in multi-agent language models by analyzing their hidden communicati…

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DentAgent: Evidence-Centric Multi-Agent Coordination for Multimodal Dental Reasoning

Zijie Meng, Xiwei Dai et al.

DentAgent is an evidence-centric multi-agent framework that addresses limitations in existing dental AI systems by integrating multimodal data. It uses a coordinated system of five…

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Harness Continual Learning: Continual Adaptation Beyond Model Parameters

Borui Kang, Jinrui Gu et al.

This paper introduces Harness Continual Learning (HCL), a new paradigm that enables agents to adapt and improve through changes in their "harness" (prompts, memories, tools, etc.) …

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MedUAG: Unified Understanding and Generation for Medical Multimodal Models

Zijie Meng, Yuncheng Zhang et al.

This paper introduces MedUAG, a unified framework for medical multimodal understanding and generation. It addresses the lack of comprehensive resources by creating the largest medi…

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rEDMRec: Distilling Large Language Model Reasoning into an Editable Experience Memory for Recommendation

Minh Hoang Nguyen, Tung Le et al.

This paper proposes rEDMRec, a method to distill LLM reasoning for recommendations into a compact, editable "experience memory." Instead of re-generating expensive reasoning for ea…

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