AI Agents & Automation

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arXiv:2604.05157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) leverage large language models to execute GUI operations on desktop environments, yet

arXiv:2604.05162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are pivotal for next-generation smart radio environments, yet their pr

arXiv:2604.05165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has a potential to engineer smart radio environments for next-generati

arXiv:2604.05229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems plan, use tools, maintain state, and produce multi-step trajectories with external effects. T

arXiv:2604.05274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model alignment is currently applied in a vacuum, evaluated primarily through standardised benchmark performance

arXiv:2604.05297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Value factorization, a popular paradigm in MARL, faces significant theoretical and algorithmic bottlenecks: its

arXiv:2604.05333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill usage has become a core component of modern agent systems and can substantially improve agents' ability to

arXiv:2604.05394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-based character animation has become a fundamental approach for synthesizing realistic, physically plaus

arXiv:2604.05416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) plays a critical role in various domains. Traditional MAPF methods typically assu

arXiv:2604.05465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regardi

arXiv:2604.05485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents call tools, query databases, delegate tasks, and trigger external side effects. Once an agent system

arXiv:2604.05547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Iterative industrial design-simulation optimization is bottlenecked by the CAD-CAE semantic gap: translating sim

arXiv:2604.05987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retail supply chain operations in supermarket chains involve continuous, high-volume manual workflows spanning d

arXiv:2604.06107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking transformative capabilities for mathematics. There

arXiv:2604.06111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing Agent benchmarks suffer from two critical limitations: high environment interaction overhead (up to 41\

arXiv:2604.06132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents executing multi-step workflows in real-worl

arXiv:2604.04979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents repeatedly consume long tool observations even though only a small fraction of each observation

arXiv:2604.05000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a closed-loop system for software lifecycle management framed as a control architecture ra

arXiv:2604.05080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Nidus, a governance runtime that mechanizes the V-model for AI-assisted software delivery. In the s

arXiv:2604.05110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast cancer screening relies heavily on mammography, where the craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (M

arXiv:2604.05226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluation of robotic manipulation systems has largely relied on fixed benchmarks authored by a small number o

arXiv:2604.05278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spec-driven development (SDD) with AI coding agents provides a structured workflow, but agents often remain "c

arXiv:2604.05343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating long sequences with structural coherence remains a fundamental challenge for autoregressive models

arXiv:2604.05368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI is increasingly used to scale collective decision-making, but far less attention has been paid to how such

arXiv:2604.05429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Addressing the critical need for intelligent, context-aware energy management in renewable systems, we introdu

arXiv:2604.05440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Security Operations Centers struggle with alert fatigue, fragmented tooling, and limited cross-source e

arXiv:2604.05458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) face important limitations. Signature-based methods are effective f

arXiv:2604.05526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the submission of the S4 team to the Singing Voice Conversion Challenge 2025 (SVCC2025)-a

arXiv:2604.05589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic Al systems are increasingly deployed as personal assistants and are likely to become a common object o

arXiv:2604.05605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video conferencing has become central to professional collaboration, yet most platforms offer limited support

arXiv:2604.05656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models based on flow matching -- such as pi0, pi0.5, and SmolVLA -- achieve state

arXiv:2604.05711v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web applications rely heavily on hyperlinks to connect disparate information resources. However, the dynamic n

arXiv:2604.05830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Voice-based interfaces are widely used; however, achieving fair Wake-up Word detection across diverse speaker

arXiv:2604.05848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learner representations play a central role in educational AI systems, yet it is often unclear whether they pr

arXiv:2604.05877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dental comparison is considered a primary identification method, at the level of fingerprints and DNA profilin

arXiv:2604.05929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generation of graphs constrained by a specified graph edit distance from a source graph is important in applic

arXiv:2604.05953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a polynomial-time algorithm for computing an optimal committee of size $k$ under any given Thiele v

arXiv:2604.05969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 and now governed by the Linux Found

arXiv:2604.06124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study proposes a lightweight multimodal adaptation framework to bridge the representation gap between RGB

arXiv:2604.06126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents hold the promise of assisting in a wide range of digital economic activities. However, cur

arXiv:2604.06148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The governance of artificial intelligence has a blind spot: the machine identities that AI systems use to act.

arXiv:2406.14514v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interdicting a criminal with limited police resources is a challenging task as the criminal changes location