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8 research signalsDAILY EDITION / SAVED SNAPSHOT
A dated Agentic RL Daily snapshot with 8 verified primary-source signals across papers, official releases, deployment evidence, and safety or alignment findings.
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Archived / 2026-08-13
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One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for human-AI interaction typically relies on a single large language model to simulate user behavior. We show that this approach systematically fails to generalize, and trace the failure to simulator collapse: because the simulator LLM is mode-collapsed, an LLM pol
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Learning Loco-Manipulation From SMPC Demonstrations With Sparse Offline-to-Online RL
Integrating locomotion and manipulation is essential for robot autonomy, but scaling standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) to complex tasks is severely bottlenecked by the slow, manual process of dense reward shaping. To bypass this limitation, we leverage Sample-based Model Predictive Control (SMPC)
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DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Aerial vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to integrate visual evidence over time, plan future actions, and determine when it has reached a navigation goal under partial observability. Although recent VLA models offer a promising perception-to-action paradigm, adapting them t
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Convergent Detour Hijacking: Task-Preserving Resource Amplification in Skill-Based LLM Agents
LLM agents increasingly rely on third-party skills, using natural-language descriptions for selection and instruction bodies for planning. This progressive-disclosure design exposes two sequential control points to untrusted publishers: a static skill may steer an otherwise correct task onto an unne
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Beyond Trial-and-Error: Agentic Optimization for Image-to-Video Adherence
Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows. Their inherent stochasticity causes minor variations in textual prompts or hyperpa
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Do LLMs Take Care of Their Own? Similarity Signals Can Induce Cooperation
As LLM-based agents with user-instructed goals are becoming widely deployed, they increasingly encounter each other in strategic interactions, and face challenges of finding mutually beneficial outcomes. Prior literature has argued that cooperation problems such as the Prisoner's Dilemma are resolva
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Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence
AI models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet the mechanisms underlying their capabilities and the risks they may pose remain poorly understood. As AI development becomes faster and increasingly automated, mechanistic exploration remains largely manual, widening the gap betw
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VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies
Agents deployed in enterprise settings must reason across structured APIs and document collections, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation. We introduce VAKRA (e\textbf{V}aluating \textbf{A}PI and \textbf{K}nowledge \textbf{R}etrieval \textbf{A}gents), a benchmark of over $