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• AI-GRACE: A Use-Case Operationalization Framework for Agentic AI: From Organizational Objectives and Obligations to Deployment Capabilities and Architecture
  John Cuneo, David Chun, Gaurav Khanna · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• An Agentic Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention System for Personalized Sleep Support: Proof-of-Concept Study with N of 1 Data
  Nick Rezaee, Chelsea Boccagno · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• An Interpretable Memory Decision Controller for LLM Agents Based on Three-Signal Complementarity: Decoupling Confidence and Consistency
  Yiming Zhang, Jinghong Zhang, Haoran Zhao, Yiren Ma, Chunlei Zhao · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• AgentVidBench: A Multi-Hop Video Question Answering Benchmark for Evaluating MLLM Agents
  Seoyeon An, Hyeonseo Jang, Minsu Kim, Chanho Lee, Younghan Park, Kangwook Lee · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• LEGIT: Credentialing Protocol for Trustworthy AI Agent Marketplaces
  Steve Drew, Jiayu Zhou · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• SkillIR: Evolving Scene-Aware Skills for Agentic Image Restoration
  Jie Shao, Shengkai Hu, Xu Zhang, Beihang Song, Yongcheng Jing, Xu Wu, Jun Wan · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• SpecOpt: Contact-Diff Reasoning for Agentic Molecule Optimization Toward Binding Specificity
  Thao Nguyen, Heng Ji · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• CodeMidas: Scaling Agentic Coding RL Environments from Code Itself
  Bowen Ye, Lei Li, Shicheng Li, Zihao Yue, Linghao Zhang, Hanglong Lv, Yuanxin Liu, Wenhan Ma, Hao Tian, Rang Li, Jinhao Dong, Yikai Zhao, Xiangwei Deng, Hailin Zhang, Liang Zhao, Qi Liu, Lingpeng Kong, Tong Yang, Fuli Luo · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Designer-RSI: Evolving Procedural Memory from User Traffic for Agentic Graphic Design
  Hongyang Du, Lan Yan, Christian Flores, Asim Kadav · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities
  Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova, Sanjay Chauhan, Chen Chen, Zhehuai Chen, Zijia Chen, Francesco Ciannella, Slyne Deng, Mikyas Desta, Harishchandra Dubey, Slim Essid, Nourchene Ferchichi, Boris Ginsburg, Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor, Negar Habibi, Kevin Hu, Anand Joseph, Viraj Karandikar, Myungjong Kim, Viacheslav Klimkov, Seelan Lakshmi Narasimhan, Lily Lee, Jason Li, Eileen Long, Ameya Mahabaleshwarkar, Aditya Malte, Adi Margolin, Sasha Meister, Valentin Mendelev, Oluwatobi Ola · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• ME-Dex 1.0: Bringing Heterogeneous Tactile Sensing into World Action Modeling
  Xuancheng Zhang, Xuetao Liu, Qianying Tang, Jizhe Wang, Zhijing Cheng, Bochen Lin, Haoran Wen, Ming Li, Kun Zhan, Yu Liu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Efficient Benchmarking in Production: A Study of an Evolving LLM Agent
  Yining She, Lei Lin · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Bayesian Belief Layer for Controllable Opinion Dynamics in LLM Agents
  Hafsa Akbar, Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, Hossein Rahnama · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• SWE-Proof: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World Issues with Machine-Checked Proofs?
  George Ma, Benjamin Mikek, Haoyu Li, Ferhat Erata, Yuhao Zhang, Zeren Shui, Behrooz Omidvar Tehrani, Jun Huan, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Somayeh Sojoudi, Hao Zhou, Anoop Deoras · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• CIPL: A Channel-Aware Framework for Recoverable Privacy Leakage in LLM Agents
  Tao Huang, Guosen Wu, Guolong Zheng, Jiayang Meng, Chen Hou, Xu Yang, Xuechao Yang, Feng Xia · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• EnterpriseVal: Quantifying the Efficacy, Reliability and Value of Generative AI in the Enterprise
  Abbas Raza Ali, Muhammad Ajmal Siddiqui, Moona Zahid · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments
  Mingfei Gao, Rui Tian, Haiming Gang, Bohan Zhai, Le Zhang, Yuanzheng Gong, Di Feng, Ege Özsoy, Kaixin Ma, Vishwesh Kirthivasan, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Roman Bachmann, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Afshin Dehghan · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Omni Demand Understanding: A Benchmark for Contextual User-Intent Inference in Multimodal Interaction
  Qi Chen, Yunfei Chu, Haolin He, Yifan Yang, Zihan Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Ziyang Ma, Ruiyang Xu, Meng Gao, Yinsong Yan, Ling Wang, Hui Wang, Wen Huang, Yiheng Chen, Guanrou Yang, Qiuqiang Kong, Jin Xu, Xie Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Verify, Don't Trust: Agentic Model Development for Video Discovery Retrieval at Scale
  Hao Fu, Baiting Zhu, Minglei Chen, Yinjie Huang, Shuai Ding · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• VideoResearcher: Self-Improving Tool Design for Long-Video Understanding
  Dingqiang Ye, Dongdi Zhao, Kaishen Wang, Qingqiao Hu, Jingchen Sun, Yijun Liang, Yuqi Jia, Yiqiao Huang, Yunjie Tian, Jiaxing Zhang, Chuanyang Jin, Ke Zhang, Vishal M. Patel, Di Fu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Dual-Axis Policy Optimization for LLM Agents: Bayesian Feedback Attribution and Trajectory Mass Normalization
  Yingxuan Zhuang, Binhe Yu, Jingxiao Yang, Ruopei Sun, Ziting Li, Cheng Tan, Xuhong Zhang, Jianwei Yin, Jintao Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• A Proposal for an Agentic AI Architecture to Support Multi-Domain Decision-Making in the Brazilian Armed Forces
  Gioliano de Oliveira Braga, Sidnei Barbieri, Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz, Wagner Comin Sonaglio, Henrique Curi de Miranda e Lourenço Alves Pereira · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• AutoData: Agentic Search for Pre-training Data Selection
  Yan Meng, Dhruv Srikanth, Bingchen Zhao, Zhengyao Jiang, Yuxiang Wu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• CoLearn: An Agentic Tutor that Learns its Learner in a Human--AI Co-Learning Loop
  Kailai He, Zhihao Wu, Linhai Zhang, Runcong Zhao, Yulan He, Jiazheng Li · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Semantic Action Graph: A Shared Representation for Agent Grounding and Human Interpretation of Sports Highlights
  Tica Lin, Deepak Chandran, Gauri Jagatap, Chen Chen, Andrea Fanelli, David Gunawan, Josh Kimball · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• UnifiedPlayers: Enhance Tool-Integrated Reasoning in Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  Wenjie Liao, Liangjie Zhao, Zehong Cao · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• DataCanvas-EDU: An Agentic Framework for Instructor-Guided Synthetic Data Generation in Business Analytics Education
  Bang An, Maria Hamdani, Joseph Fox · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Inference-Engine Fingerprinting Attacks are Practical: Exploring Model-Driven Environmental Discovery, Exploitation, and Escape
  Sarah Radway, Andrew Cheng, Vijay Janapa Reddi, James Mickens · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Chronicle: Cut-Point Replay for Regression Testing of LLM Agents
  Tisha Chawla, Susheem Koul · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Scaling Discovery through Test-Time Communication
  Jongho Park, Vasilis Kontonis, Shivam Garg, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dimitris Papailiopoulos · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• TRACE: Accountable Agentic Retrieval for Source Discovery in Digital Archives
  Donghan Bian, Marie Puren, Florian Cafiero · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Neuro-Symbolic Agentic AI for Networked Low-Altitude UAVs
  Yuqi Ping, Tianhao Liang, Nanchi Su, Guangyu Lei, Junwei Wu, Qinyu Zhang, Tingting Zhang · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• AURORA: A Natural Language-Driven Agentic Framework for Understanding, Reasoning, and Orchestrating Reliable Air-Ground Co-Simulation
  Keshu Wu, Hao Zhang, Rui Gan, Xiangbo Gao, Xiaopeng Li, Zhengzhong Tu, Yang Zhou · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Learn Before You Judge: Progressive Knowledge-to-Decision Alignment for Explainable Hateful Meme Detection
  Bo Xu, Chenyuan Wang, Xinyu Chen, Quanhao Zhu, Rui Lin, Liang Zhao, Hongfei Lin, Feng Xia · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• A Scalable Trust Discovery Architecture for the Internet of Agents
  Song Zhang, Jiankang Yao, Hongtao Li, Xiaojun Zhang, Xugang Shen, Xin Li, Yanbiao Li · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• A Dual-Process Perspective on Nudge Susceptibility in LLM-Based GUI Agents
  Haya Halimeh, Sascha Kaltenpoth, Kevin Bösch, Oliver Müller · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• RetireOPD: Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  Yan Yu, Zhengxi Lu, Yizhou Liu, Yichen Pan, Aozhe Wang, Qipeng Chen, Hua Yang, Wenqi Zhang, Weiming Lu, Qianglong Chen, Yongliang Shen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Red-Teaming Auto Mode: Improving Blocking Classifiers Against Malign Coding Agents
  Alex Remedios, Simon Storf, Fabien Roger, John Hughes · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Quantifying Overclaiming Propensity in Frontier LLM Agents
  Nolan Smyth, Yorguin-Jose Mantilla-Ramos, Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo, Saskia Helbling, Alberto Tosato, Mohamed Amine Merzouk, Nouha Dziri, Gauthier Gidel, Tommaso Tosato · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• SoK: Trading Agents or Market Crashers? Dissecting Robustness and Security Failures in Academic Financial LLM Trading Schemes
  Mengxiao Wang, Nitesh Saxena · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• A Unified Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy Large Language Models, Agentic AI, and Multimodal Systems
  Shaina Raza, Ahmed Y. Radwan, Imran Liaquat, Kathryn Hume · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• How Do Agent Harnesses Create Value? Planning Information and Release Control in Stateful LLM Agents
  Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen Chen · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Agentic AI Networking for Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Systems in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
  Nguyen Duc Minh Quang, Chang Liu, Shuangyang Li, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
  DeepSeek-AI, :, Anyi Xu, B. Li, Bangcai Lin, Bing Xue, BingCheng Xian, Bingzheng Xu, Bochao Wu, Bowei Zhang, Boyi Deng, C. C. Yu, Chao Jin, Chaofan Lin, Chen Dong, Chenbing Wang, Chenfan Feng, Chengda Lu, Chenggang Zhao, Chengqi Deng, Chengyuan Zhang, Chenhao Xu, Chenqi Zhao, Chenze Shao, Chuhao Wang, Chuqi Zhang, Damai Dai, Dejian Yang, Deli Chen, Di Huang, Di Wu, Donghao Li, Erhang Li, Eric Fu, F. Zhou, Fangwei Zhou, Fangyun Lin, Fangzhou Yuan, Feiyu Xia, Fucong Dai, Guangbo Hao, Guanglin Li, · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Reach or Solve? Attributing Agentic RL Gains with Checkpoint Handoffs
  Xuan Liu, Jingbin Qian · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• On-Demand Attention: Language Models Know When to Recall
  Haibo Feng, Ruiqi Liang, Hanyang Peng, Shiqi Yu · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Can Agents Design Better Chips with a Higher Level Abstraction?
  Zijian Ding, Yang Zou, Yizhou Sun, Jason Cong · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• DeliveryGym: An RL Environment for Long-Horizon Embodied Agent Planning with Adaptive Curriculum
  Haoqiang Kang, Yiming Zhang, Yiyang Guo, Chuying Li, Jianzhi Shen, Tianruo Rose Xu, Xiaokang Ye, Lianhui Qin · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• SoL-Pi: Recursively Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent Harness
  Haozhe Liu, Tian Ye, Sensen Gao, Qihang Cao, Yitong Li, Mingchen Zhuge, Duomin Wang, Ruihua Zhang, Ping Luo, Jiawang Bian, Lei Zhu, Ligeng Zhu, Enze Xie, Song Han · Sep 2026 · arXiv
• Self-Evolving Search Index
  Sangam Lee, Wonjae Lee, Sunghwan Kim, Deogyong Kim, Jaehoon Kim, Daye Nam, SeongKu Kang, Dongha Lee · Sep 2026 · arXiv