2 papers
cs.MA2026
From Evidence to Effect: Authority Semantics and Runtime Infrastructure for Stateful Agents
Yang Li, Sergey Volkov, Hai Liu +9
Stateful agents reuse artifacts after producing executions and permissions change. We formalize authority-sufficient observations and durable effects bound to execution and materia…
cs.AI2026
Agent-UCT: Upper Confidence Bounds Applied to Trees for Cost-Aware Agentic Workflow Optimization
Yang Li, Hai Liu, Dian Shao +9
Workflow search pays for complete quality observations, whose execution cost changes as reusable prefixes accumulate. AgentUCT uses an economic model of the remaining evaluation co…