3 papers
cs.AI2026
Proactive Agent Research Environment: Simulating Active Users to Evaluate Proactive Assistants
Deepak Nathani, Cheng Zhang, Chang Huan +7
Proactive agents that anticipate user needs and autonomously execute tasks hold great promise as digital assistants, yet the lack of realistic user simulation frameworks hinders th…
cs.AI2026
CM2: Reinforcement Learning with Checklist Rewards for Multi-Turn and Multi-Step Agentic Tool Use
Zhen Zhang, Kaiqiang Song, Xun Wang +11
AI agents are increasingly used to solve real-world tasks by reasoning over multi-turn user interactions and invoking external tools. However, applying reinforcement learning to su…
cs.AI2026
Group-Evolving Agents: Open-Ended Self-Improvement via Experience Sharing
Zhaotian Weng, Antonis Antoniades, Deepak Nathani +3
Open-ended self-improving agents can autonomously modify their own structural designs to advance their capabilities and overcome the limits of pre-defined architectures, thus reduc…