Recent advancements in AI are pushing the boundaries of agentic systems, with new frameworks emerging for complex tasks like medical AI, enterprise operations, and creative writing. Health-ORSC-Bench and Health-SCORE are introduced to evaluate and improve the safety and helpfulness of medical LLMs, addressing issues like over-refusal and the challenge of expert disagreement in safety testing (arXiv:2601.17642, arXiv:2601.18706, arXiv:2601.18630, arXiv:2601.18061). For enterprise applications, EntWorld and RegGuard offer benchmarks and tools for verifiable GUI agents and regulatory compliance, respectively, highlighting current LLM limitations in complex business logic (arXiv:2601.17722, arXiv:2601.17826). In creative domains, AI is challenging human expertise, with fine-tuned LLMs preferred over human writers by lay judges, raising questions about the future of creative labor (arXiv:2601.18353).
Research also focuses on enhancing LLM reasoning and planning capabilities. DeepPlanning and OffSeeker provide benchmarks and methods for long-horizon agentic planning and efficient offline training for research agents, respectively (arXiv:2601.18137, arXiv:2601.18467). Neuro-symbolic approaches like NSVIF and balanced logic frameworks aim to improve instruction following and commonsense reasoning by combining neural and symbolic methods (arXiv:2601.17789, arXiv:2601.18595). Furthermore, UniCog analyzes LLM cognition through latent mind spaces, revealing reasoning patterns and failure modes, while DynTS optimizes reasoning efficiency by selecting critical thinking tokens (arXiv:2601.17897, arXiv:2601.18383). AgentDoG and Lattice offer diagnostic guardrails and self-constructing guardrails for AI agent safety and security, addressing risks from autonomous tool use and harmful outputs (arXiv:2601.18491, arXiv:2601.17481).
Efficiency and adaptability are key themes, with RouteMoA and MMR-Bench introducing dynamic routing for Mixture-of-Agents and multimodal LLM routing to reduce costs and latency (arXiv:2601.18130, arXiv:2601.17814). AdaReasoner learns tool use as a general reasoning skill for visual tasks, while ReFuGe uses LLM agents to generate informative features for prediction tasks on relational databases (arXiv:2601.18631, arXiv:2601.17735). FadeMem introduces biologically-inspired forgetting for efficient agent memory, and SQL-Trail enhances Text-to-SQL generation through multi-turn reinforcement learning with interleaved feedback (arXiv:2601.18642, arXiv:2601.17699). Additionally, research explores grounding intelligence in digital environments rather than requiring embodiment (arXiv:2601.17588), and develops frameworks for verifiable enterprise GUI agents (EntWorld) and protocol-agnostic execution control planes (Faramesh) to ensure accountability in autonomous systems (arXiv:2601.17722, arXiv:2601.17744).
Key Takeaways
- New benchmarks like Health-ORSC-Bench and EntWorld are crucial for evaluating LLM safety and performance in specialized domains (medical, enterprise).
- Hybrid neuro-symbolic approaches are advancing LLM instruction following and commonsense reasoning.
- AI is increasingly challenging human expertise in creative fields, as seen in AI-preferred writing.
- Efficient routing and Mixture-of-Agents frameworks (RouteMoA, MMR-Bench) are reducing LLM costs and latency.
- Agentic systems require robust safety guardrails (AgentDoG, Lattice) and accountability mechanisms (Faramesh).
- LLMs are being adapted for complex planning tasks, including long-horizon and multi-agent scenarios (DeepPlanning, MALPP).
- Biologically-inspired memory (FadeMem) and multi-turn learning (SQL-Trail) are improving agent efficiency and task completion.
- Grounding, not embodiment, is argued to be necessary for intelligence in AI systems.
- Specialized agents are being developed for complex tasks like database feature generation (ReFuGe) and medical reasoning (DeepMed).
- The reliability and safety of personalized AI agents are being scrutinized, with new failure modes like 'intent legitimation' identified.
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- Health-ORSC-Bench: A Benchmark for Measuring Over-Refusal and Safety Completion in Health Context
- DIML: Differentiable Inverse Mechanism Learning from Behaviors of Multi-Agent Learning Trajectories
- Neuro-Symbolic Verification on Instruction Following of LLMs
- MMR-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal LLM Routing
- Aligning Medical Conversational AI through Online Reinforcement Learning with Information-Theoretic Rewards
- UniCog: Uncovering Cognitive Abilities of LLMs through Latent Mind Space Analysis
- Think Locally, Explain Globally: Graph-Guided LLM Investigations via Local Reasoning and Belief Propagation
- Agentic AI for Self-Driving Laboratories in Soft Matter: Taxonomy, Benchmarks,and Open Challenges
- Learning Transferable Skills in Action RPGs via Directed Skill Graphs and Selective Adaptation
- LLM-Based SQL Generation: Prompting, Self-Refinement, and Adaptive Weighted Majority Voting
- Expert Evaluation and the Limits of Human Feedback in Mental Health AI Safety Testing
- Beyond Text-to-SQL: Can LLMs Really Debug Enterprise ETL SQL?
- Deadline-Aware, Energy-Efficient Control of Domestic Immersion Hot Water Heaters
- DeepPlanning: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Agentic Planning with Verifiable Constraints
- RouteMoA: Dynamic Routing without Pre-Inference Boosts Efficient Mixture-of-Agents
- SAGE: Steerable Agentic Data Generation for Deep Search with Execution Feedback
- Paying Less Generalization Tax: A Cross-Domain Generalization Study of RL Training for LLM Agents
- Yunjue Agent Tech Report: A Fully Reproducible, Zero-Start In-Situ Self-Evolving Agent System for Open-Ended Tasks
- Think-Augmented Function Calling: Improving LLM Parameter Accuracy Through Embedded Reasoning
- Can Good Writing Be Generative? Expert-Level AI Writing Emerges through Fine-Tuning on High-Quality Books
- Dynamic Thinking-Token Selection for Efficient Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models
- OffSeeker: Online Reinforcement Learning Is Not All You Need for Deep Research Agents
- A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic
- PolySHAP: Extending KernelSHAP with Interaction-Informed Polynomial Regression
- Emergence of Phonemic, Syntactic, and Semantic Representations in Artificial Neural Networks
- Deconstructing Instruction-Following: A New Benchmark for Granular Evaluation of Large Language Model Instruction Compliance Abilities
- AdaReasoner: Dynamic Tool Orchestration for Iterative Visual Reasoning
- FadeMem: Biologically-Inspired Forgetting for Efficient Agent Memory
- TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent
- Conditioned Generative Modeling of Molecular Glues: A Realistic AI Approach for Synthesizable Drug-like Molecules
- Why Keep Your Doubts to Yourself? Trading Visual Uncertainties in Multi-Agent Bandit Systems
- TSRBench: A Comprehensive Multi-task Multi-modal Time Series Reasoning Benchmark for Generalist Models
- Intelligence Requires Grounding But Not Embodiment
- Online parameter estimation for the Crazyflie quadcopter through an EM algorithm
- HyCARD-Net: A Synergistic Hybrid Intelligence Framework for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis
- Lattice: Generative Guardrails for Conversational Agents
- Cognitive Platform Engineering for Autonomous Cloud Operations
- AgentDoG: A Diagnostic Guardrail Framework for AI Agent Safety and Security
- GAIA: A Data Flywheel System for Training GUI Test-Time Scaling Critic Models
- DEEPMED: Building a Medical DeepResearch Agent via Multi-hop Med-Search Data and Turn-Controlled Agentic Training & Inference
- RegGuard: AI-Powered Retrieval-Enhanced Assistant for Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance
- Stability as a Liability:Systematic Breakdown of Linguistic Structure in LLMs
- Assessing the Quality of Mental Health Support in LLM Responses through Multi-Attribute Human Evaluation
- ShopSimulator: Evaluating and Exploring RL-Driven LLM Agent for Shopping Assistants
- A Generative AI-Driven Reliability Layer for Action-Oriented Disaster Resilience
- AI Agent for Reverse-Engineering Legacy Finite-Difference Code and Translating to Devito
- When Personalization Legitimizes Risks: Uncovering Safety Vulnerabilities in Personalized Dialogue Agents
- RareAlert: Aligning heterogeneous large language model reasoning for early rare disease risk screening
- Success Conditioning as Policy Improvement: The Optimization Problem Solved by Imitating Success
- Health-SCORE: Towards Scalable Rubrics for Improving Health-LLMs
- Are We Evaluating the Edit Locality of LLM Model Editing Properly?
- SQL-Trail: Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning with Interleaved Feedback for Text-to-SQL
- ReFuGe: Feature Generation for Prediction Tasks on Relational Databases with LLM Agents
- EvolVE: Evolutionary Search for LLM-based Verilog Generation and Optimization
- Sentipolis: Emotion-Aware Agents for Social Simulations
- The Relativity of AGI: Distributional Axioms, Fragility, and Undecidability
- Discovery of Feasible 3D Printing Configurations for Metal Alloys via AI-driven Adaptive Experimental Design
- Interpreting Agentic Systems: Beyond Model Explanations to System-Level Accountability
- Implementing Tensor Logic: Unifying Datalog and Neural Reasoning via Tensor Contraction
- High-Fidelity Longitudinal Patient Simulation Using Real-World Data
- Phase Transition for Budgeted Multi-Agent Synergy
- Multi-Agent Learning Path Planning via LLMs
- TheoremForge: Scaling up Formal Data Synthesis with Low-Budget Agentic Workflow
- JaxARC: A High-Performance JAX-based Environment for Abstraction and Reasoning Research
- Auditing Disability Representation in Vision-Language Models
- A Syllogistic Probe: Tracing the Evolution of Logic Reasoning in Large Language Models
- The LLM Data Auditor: A Metric-oriented Survey on Quality and Trustworthiness in Evaluating Synthetic Data
- EntWorld: A Holistic Environment and Benchmark for Verifiable Enterprise GUI Agents
- Faramesh: A Protocol-Agnostic Execution Control Plane for Autonomous Agent Systems
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