3 papers
cs.CL2026
Deep-Reporter: Deep Research for Grounded Multimodal Long-Form Generation
Fangda Ye, Zhifei Xie, Yuxin Hu +5
Recent agentic search frameworks enable deep research via iterative planning and retrieval, reducing hallucinations and enhancing factual grounding. However, they remain text-centr…
cs.AI2025
Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment
David Abel, Michael Bowling, André Barreto +13
Agents are minimally entities that are influenced by their past observations and act to influence future observations. This latter capacity is captured by empowerment, which has se…
cs.AI2025
Agency Is Frame-Dependent
David Abel, André Barreto, Michael Bowling +13
Agency is a system's capacity to steer outcomes toward a goal, and is a central topic of study across biology, philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Determini…