2026-05-27 · 57 papers

Agentic AI

A ranked brief from the day's arXiv listing. Cortiq weighs topical fit, lead-author context, and public research signals before the issue is published.

1. Stateful Inference for Low-Latency Multi-Agent Tool Calling

Victor Norgren

2. Learning to Act under Noise: Enhancing Agent Robustness via Noisy Environments

Yuxin Chen, Xiaodong Cai, Junfeng Fang, Zhuowen Han, Yu Wang, ..., Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

3. Aligning Provenance with Authorization: A Dual-Graph Defense for LLM Agents

Peiran Wang, Ying Li, Yuan Tian

4. UnityMAS-O: A General RL Optimization Framework for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Yiqun Chen, Wei Yang, Erhan Zhang, Shijie Wang, Qi Liu, ..., Xiaochi Wei, Yan Gao, Yi Wu, Yao Hu, Jiaxin Mao

5. Mind the Tool Failures: Achieving Synergistic Tool Gains for Medical Agents

Yunhui Gan, Tan Pan, Kaiyu Guo, Limei Han, Weimiao Yu, Guangnan Ye, Chen Jiang, Yuan Cheng

6. Position: AI Safety Requires Effective Controllability

Yige Li, Yunhao Feng, Jun Sun

7. Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Intrinsic Knowledge Boundary Enhancement

Dingwei Chen, Zefang Zong, Zhipeng Ma, Leo Luo, Yang Li, Chengming Li, Peng Chen, Jie Jiang

8. AgentSecBench: Measuring Prompt Injection, Privacy Leakage, and Tool-Use Integrity in LLM Agents

Faruk Alpay, Taylan Alpay

9. Maat: The Agentic Legal Research Assistant for Competition Protection

Basant Mounir, Farida Madkour, Amira Abdelaziz, Asmaa Sami

10. Experiments in Agentic AI for Science

Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox

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11. Towards Feedback-to-Plan Decisions for Self-Evolving LLM Agents in CUDA Kernel Generation

Yee Hin Chong, Jiaming Wu, Youhui Zhang, Peng Qu

12. Sentinel: Embodied Cooperative Spatial Reasoning and Planning

Xiangye Lin, Hongxin Zhang, Ruxi Deng, Qinhong Zhou, Chuang Gan

13. InterSketch: An Interleaved Reasoning Model with Self-correcting Visual Sketch and Stepwise Reward

Zhiwei Ning, Wenwen Tong, Xiangli Kong, Shengnan Ma, Ziyi Shang, ..., Hanming Deng, Jie Yang, Yuanjie Zheng, Wei Liu, Lewei Lu

14. Advancing Creative Physical Intelligence in Large Multimodal Models

Cheng Qian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Jiayu Liu, Jeonghwan Kim, Emre Can Acikgoz, ..., Aditi Tiwari, Zhenhailong Wang, Xiusi Chen, Mahdi Namazifar, Heng Ji

15. The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence

MiniMax, Aili Chen, Aonian Li, Baichuan Zhou, Bangwei Gong, ..., Pengcheng Gao, Pengfei Li, Penglin Li, Pengyu Zhao, Qibin Ren

16. Which Changes Matter? Towards Trustworthy Legal AI via Relevance-Sensitive Evaluation and Solver-Grounded Reasoning

Chen Linze, Cai Yufan, Hou Zhe, Dong Jin Song

17. It's Not the Capability: Harness Sensitivity Is Non-Monotone Across LLM Agent Tiers

Yong-eun Cho

18. Helicase: Uncertainty-Guided Supply Chain Knowledge Graph Construction with Autonomous Multi-Agent LLMs

Yunbo Long, Haolang Zhao, Ge Zheng, Alexandra Brintrup

19. From Norms to Indicators (N2I-RAG): An Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Legal Indicator Computation

Youssef Al Mouatamid, Marie Bonnin, Jihad Zahir

20. Traceable Knowledge Graph Reasoning Enables LLM-Assisted Decision Support for Industrial VOCs in the Steel Industry

Changqing Su, Yu Ding, Zuhong Lin, Hongyu Liu, Xi He, Zheng Zeng, Liqing Li

21. VitaBench 2.0: Evaluating Personalized and Proactive Agents in Long-Term User Interactions

Yuxin Chen, Yi Zhang, Zhengzhou Cai, Yaorui Shi, Zhiyuan Yao, ..., Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

22. Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standalone Framework for Measurement, Simulation, and Dashboarding

Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal, Narayan Ramasubbu

23. IPIBench: Evaluating Interactive Proactive Intelligence of MLLMs under Continuous Streams

Jinzhao Li, Yinuo Chen, Wenxuan Song, Yijia Lei, Yichi Zhang, Honglei Yan, Panwang Pan, Miao Liu

24. Your Agents Are Aging Too: Agent Lifespan Engineering for Deployed Systems

Jianing Zhu, Yeonju Ro, John Robertson, Kevin Wang, Junbo Li, Haris Vikalo, Aditya Akella, Zhangyang Wang

25. Anchor: Mitigating Artifact Drift in Agent Benchmark Generation

Maksim Ivanov, Abhijay Rana

26. JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will

Yuetai Li, Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu, Zixian Ma, Kaiyuan Zheng, ..., Pang Wei Koh, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Luyao Niu, Xiang Yue, Radha Poovendran

27. Reasoning, Code, or Both? How Large Language Models Handle Variations in Math Questions

Matthew Kutakh

28. AGORA: Adapter-Grounded Observation-Action Retention for Inference-Free Prompt Compression in LLM Agents

Haoran Zhang, Zhaohua Sun

29. Beyond a Single Direction: Chain-of-Thought Disrupts Simple Steering of Refusal

Kia-Jüng Yang, Dominik Meier, Jiachen Zhao, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp

30. Can Broad Biomedical Knowledge be Contextualized into Scenario-Grounded Propositions?

Qingyuan Zeng, Ziyang Chen, Pengxiang Cai, Zixin Guan, Anglin Liu, Lang Qin, Xinyao Lai, Jintai Chen

31. SIA: Self Improving AI with Harness & Weight Updates

Prannay Hebbar, Yogendra Manawat, Samuel Verboomen, Alesia Ivanova, Selvam Palanimalai, Kunal Bhatia, Vignesh Baskaran

32. The Strongest Teacher Is Not Always the Best Teacher: Student-Centric Answer Selection

Zhengyu Hu, Zheyuan Xiao, Linxin Song, Fengqing Jiang, Yutai Li, ..., Yao Su, Lijie Hu, Kaize Ding, Xiao Teng, Radha Poovendran

33. SPEAR: Code-Augmented Agentic Prompt Optimization

Mengyin Lu, Cong Feng, Huimin Han, Guangming Lu, Yu Sun, Xiaonan Ding, Shihui Long, Fengyi Li, Tanvi Motwani

34. Rethinking the Multilingual Reasoning Gap with Layer Swap

Maxence Lasbordes, Amélie Chatelain, Djamé Seddah

35. GeoFaith: A Spatio-Temporal Dual View of Faithful Chain-of-Thought

Weijiang Lv, Wentong Zhao, Jiayu Wang, Yuhao Wu, Jiaheng Wei, Xiaobo Xia

36. FinHarness: An Inline Lifecycle Safety Harness for Finance LLM Agents

Haoxuan Jia, Yang Liu, Bin Chong, Yingguang Yang, Yancheng Chen, ..., Kefu Xu, Hao Zheng, Chongyang Zhang, Hao Peng, Philip S. Yu

37. MemMorph: Tool Hijacking in LLM Agents via Memory Poisoning

Xuanye Zhang, Yongsen Zheng, Zhuqin Xu, Kaiyu Zhou, Bowen Shen, Haoran Ou, Tianwei Zhang, Kwok-Yan Lam

38. CyberEvolver: Structured Self-Evolution for Cybersecurity Agents On the Fly

Yihe Fan, Changyi Li, Lichen Xu, Xudong Pan, Jiarun Dai, Hong Geng, Min Yang

39. Secure UAV Swarms in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Challenges and Solutions

Yuntao Wang, Haojia Yang, Han Liu, Jianle Ba, Zhou Su

40. REVERSE: Reinforcing Evidence Verification and Search for Agentic Image geo-localization

Yong Li, Furong Jia, Dacheng Yin, Kang Rong, Fengyun Rao, Jing Lyu, Fan Zhang

41. Coalition Free Energy and Adaptive Precision in Multi-Agent Cooperation

Djamel Bouchaffra, Faycal Ykhlef, Mustapha Lebbah, Hanane Azzag

42. Rethinking Agentic RAG: Toward LLM-Driven Logical Retrieval Beyond Embeddings

Yuqi Zeng, Qixiang Deng, Yulei Wan, Ruiquan Jiang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang

43. What Makes Chain-of-Thought Work at Probe Time? Local Co-occurrence Rather Than Global Derivation

Xiang Wang, Wei Wei

44. Neural Bayesian Sequential Routing

Yongchao Huang

45. Beyond Trajectory-Level Attribution: Graph-Based Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Xin Cheng, Shuo He, Lang Feng, HaiYang Xu, Ming Yan, Lei Feng, Bo An

46. LURE: Live-Usage Replay Evaluations for Reducing Evaluation Awareness

Igor Ivanov, David Demitri Africa

47. Alignment Tuning for Large Language Models: A Data-Centric Lens on Alignment Data Pipelines

Hwanjun Song

48. The Need for an External Observer Formalizing the Sufficiency Gap: A Mathematical Extension of Mixture Identifiability and Contextual Grounding in Sequence Models

Francesco Corielli

49. BEAT: Rhythm-Elastic Alignment for Agentic Music-guided Movie Trailer Generation

Yutong Wang, Yunke Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Chang Xu

50. AssetGen: Deployable 3D Asset Generation at Interactive Speed

Dilin Wang, Xiaoyu Xiang, Kihyuk Sohn, Tom Monnier, Yu-Ying Yeh, ..., Nikolaos Sarafianos, Chuhang Zou, Roman Shapovalov, Andrea Vedaldi, Rakesh Ranjan

51. When Does Deep RL Beat Calibrated Baselines? A Benchmark Study on Adaptive Resource Control

Guilin Zhang, Chuanyi Sun, Kai Zhao, Shahryar Sarkani, John Fossaceca

52. Conceptual Steganography

Zhejian Zhou, Jonathan May

53. ENPMR-Bench: Benchmarking Proactive Memory Retrieval for Emotional Support Agents

Xing Fu, Yulin Hu, Mengtong Ji, Haozhen Li, Yixin Sun, Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin

54. Pair-In, Pair-Out: Latent Multi-Token Prediction for Efficient LLMs

Wenhui Tan, Minghao Li, Xiaoqian Ma, Siqi Fan, Xiusheng Huang, Liujie Zhang, Ruihua Song, Weihang Chen

55. MedVol-R1: Reward-Driven Evidence Grounding for Volumetric Reasoning Segmentation

Zichun Wang, Hairong Shi, Bingzheng Wei, Yan Xu, Zihua Wang

56. DynFrame: Adaptive Reasoning-Driven Multimodal Framework with Dynamic Frame Augmentation for Complex Video Understanding

Peng Zhang, Guanghao Zhang, Wanggui He, Longxiang Zhang, Mushui Liu, ..., Jinlong Liu, Haobing Tang, Le Zhang, Hao Jiang, Pipei Huang

57. Look Further: Socially-Compliant Navigation System in Residential Buildings

Akira Shiba, Marina Obata, Nathan Kau, Zoltan Beck, Rishi Shah, Michael Sudano, Sabrina Lee