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Earlier sources: AI agents
AI agents use models to choose actions, call tools, and work toward a goal. This thread follows agent frameworks, memory, orchestration, evaluation, and safeguards; autonomy and reliability vary between systems.
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Open in the map ↗851 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
TokenCast: Forecasting Token Consumption During LLM Agent Execution ↗
When a large language model (LLM) agent executes the same task, token consumption can vary by over an order of magnitude across runs. The agent chooses its next steps based on tool feedback and intermediate results, while the growing context steadily inflates the input size of every subsequent call. The total consumption of a task is therefore hard to predict before execution and the prediction must be revised as the run unfolds. In this paper, we propose TokenCast, which learns a composable cost representation for each execution segment, recording its own consumption and the context growth it…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
KV-streams for Efficient Compaction in Agentic Reinforcement Learning ↗
Scaling the horizon of agentic LLMs is bottlenecked by the need to fit ever longer context traces in GPU memory. Context compaction has been the most popular mechanism to alleviate this issue, keeping GPU memory constant for a given trace. Unfortunately, most compaction strategies rely on prefilling the LLM context many times over, hindering training throughput. To alleviate this bottleneck and enable efficient trainable compaction, we propose KV-streams, a plug-and-play strategy compatible with any compaction strategy that substantially increases throughput while showing no evidence of hinder…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Towards Communication-Efficient Social Intelligence in Language Agents ↗
Socially intelligent language agents must negotiate, coordinate, and resolve conflicting preferences while respecting the time and attention of both participants. Balancing these demands is challenging because agents must convey enough to address a partner's constraints and advance their goals without adding words that do not help the interaction. In this paper, we propose Teacher-Assisted Communication Training (TACT) to improve social goal attainment while reducing communication cost, making interactions with agents more productive and less demanding. We first characterize communication effi…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Shockingly Simple Self-retrospection Improves Agentic Models Without RL ↗
People learn not only by repeating successful actions, but also by recounting and explaining their experiences, revising their understanding to guide future behavior. Can a language-model agent improve its future actions by training only on explanations of its own experience? We investigate this question by studying Retrospection-Only Fine-Tuning (ROFT), a minimal online procedure designed to isolate the effect of explanation-only training on subsequent behavior. The agent attempts a task, observes available feedback, generates a retrospective explanation, and is fine-tuned with a next-token p…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science ↗
Large language models (LLMs) excel at structured, verifiable tasks, but their low-entropy bias can produce homogeneous and predictable outputs, limiting their utility for open-ended scientific ideation. Effective discovery, however, spans a broader creative spectrum: from structured day science to loosely structured, serendipitous night science that reaches ideas beyond those typically considered. We introduce AI Night-Scientist, an agentic framework that uses reinforcement learning to teach models when and how to depart from predictable reasoning. Grounded in cognitive science, we model creat…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Report: Progressive Disclosure of Agent Skills ↗
Users of Workday's deployed LLM-based agents often request features which can be addressed by defining named procedures, also known as skills, in the LLM context, effectively augmenting agents' capabilities. However, as an agent's skills library grows in size, so does the agent's operational cost. Progressive disclosure (lazy-loading) of skills as needed may reduce operational costs, but its impact on overall latency and skill-retrieval quality remains unclear. In this report, we investigate the impact empirically and find that progressive disclosure improves skill-retrieval quality but margin…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Agent Priors-guided Policy Learning ↗
Robots that learn from a few demonstrations often require two forms of generalization. Compositional generalization recombines skills to solve new tasks, and skill generalization lets the learned policy behind each skill work in new situations. The two depend on each other, yet information is lost between composition and the skills it calls. Where a skill works is determined by the structure its policy is trained with, while composition sees the skill only through a separate description, such as a name, an instruction, or a symbolic operator, that omits this structure. Our key idea is to use e…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
NoRoles – run a company of people and AI agents on permissions ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Elastic Agentic SOC Vulnerable to Credential Theft ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: Open-source agent runtime using your ChatGPT or Claude subscription ↗
Hey HN! Sharing my work on an open-source agent runtime (like n8n, but for agents). It's OSI open-source under AGPL-3. People have been using it to build agents that handle support queries, automated resolution, WhatsApp chatbots, etc.
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