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5 papers

cs.AI2026

HarnessX: A Composable, Adaptive, and Evolvable Agent Harness Foundry

Tingyang Chen, Shuo Lu, Kang Zhao +11

AI agent performance depends critically on the runtime harness, comprising the prompts, tools, memory, and control flow that mediate how a model observes, reasons, and acts. Yet to…

cs.IR2026

RecThinker: An Agentic Framework for Tool-Augmented Reasoning in Recommendation

Haobo Zhang, Yutao Zhu, Kelong Mao +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized recommendation agents by providing superior reasoning and flexible decision-making capabilities. However, existing methods mainly f…

cs.IR2026

ChatShopBuddy: Towards Reliable Conversational Shopping Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Yiruo Cheng, Kelong Mao, Tianhao Li +3

Conversational shopping agents represent a critical consumer-facing application of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents, yet how to effectively apply post-training Reinforceme…

cs.AI2025

AI Benchmark Democratization and Carpentry

Gregor von Laszewski, Wesley Brewer, Jeyan Thiyagalingam +28

Benchmarks are a cornerstone of modern machine learning, enabling reproducibility, comparison, and scientific progress. However, AI benchmarks are increasingly complex, requiring d…

cs.CY2025

AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons

Shaona Ghosh, Heather Frase, Adina Williams +99

The rapid advancement and deployment of AI systems have created an urgent need for standard safety-evaluation frameworks. This paper introduces AILuminate v1.0, the first comprehen…