AI Agents Papers

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Paper Categories

🔥: Recommended papers
📖: Survey papers
⚖️: Benchmark papers

• Agent Capabilities
  • Ideation
  • Planning
  • Reasoning
  • Profile
  • Perception
  • Tool Use
  • Self-Correction
  • Memory
  • Self-Evolution
  • Safety
  • Agent Tuning
  • Agent Evaluation
• AI Agents Architecture
  • Single-Agent
  • Multi-Agent
  • Agent-Ops
• AI Agents Applications
  • Embodied Agents
  • Digital Agents
    • GUI Agents
    • Web Agents
    • Mobile Agents
  • Software Agents
  • Data Agents
  • Research Agents
  • API Agents
  • Deep Research Agents
  • Agentic AI Systems
  • Enterprise Agents
  • Financial Agents
  • Multi-Agents
    • MAD
    • Problem Solving
    • World Simulation
• GenAI Agents Presentations
  • Tutorial & Lecture

References

• LLM Agents Papers
• Awesome LLM-Powered Agent
• Awesome LLM agents

Jan/26 Highlights

Agentic Reasoning

• 📖 "Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models" [paper]
• 📖 "Toward Efficient Agents: Memory, Tool learning, and Planning" [paper]

Self-Evolving Agents

• "JENIUS AGENT: Towards Experience-Driven Accuracy Optimization in Real-World Scenarios" [paper]
• "EvoRoute: Experience-Driven Self-Routing LLM Agent Systems" [paper]
• "MEMRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic Memory" [paper]
• "PACEvolve: Enabling Long-Horizon Progress-Aware Consistent Evolution" [paper]
• "Beyond Static Tools: Test-Time Tool Evolution for Scientific Reasoning" [paper]
• "WISE-Flow: Workflow-Induced Structured Experience for Self-Evolving Conversational Service Agents" [paper]
• "To Retrieve or To Think? An Agentic Approach for Context Evolution" [paper]
• "Controlled Self-Evolution for Algorithmic Code Optimization" [paper]
• "Learn Like Humans: Use Meta-cognitive Reflection for Efficient Self-Improvement" [paper]
• 📖 "From Storage to Experience: A Survey on the Evolution of LLM Agent Memory Mechanisms" [paper]
• "Inference-Time Scaling of Verification: Self-Evolving Deep Research Agents via Test-Time Rubric-Guided Verification" [paper]

Memory

• "Agentic Memory: Learning Unified Long-Term and Short-Term Memory Management for Large Language Model Agents" [paper]
• "SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents" [paper]
• "MEMRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic Memory" [paper]
• "Memory Matters More: Event-Centric Memory as a Logic Map for Agent Searching and Reasoning" [paper]
• "Controllable Memory Usage: Balancing Anchoring and Innovation in Long-Term Human-Agent Interaction" [paper]
• "Inside Out: Evolving User-Centric Core Memory Trees for Long-Term Personalized Dialogue Systems" [paper]
• "MineNPC-Task: Task Suite for Memory-Aware Minecraft Agents" [paper]
• "PACEvolve: Enabling Long-Horizon Progress-Aware Consistent Evolution" [paper]
• "The AI Hippocampus: How Far are We From Human Memory?" [paper]
• "MemoBrain: Executive Memory as an Agentic Brain for Reasoning" [paper]
• "AtomMem : Learnable Dynamic Agentic Memory with Atomic Memory Operation" [paper]
• "Fine-Mem: Fine-Grained Feedback Alignment for Long-Horizon Memory Management" [paper]
• "Structured Episodic Event Memory" [paper]
• "Active Context Compression: Autonomous Memory Management in LLM Agents"[paper]

Creative Task

• "Progressive Ideation using an Agentic AI Framework for Human-AI Co-Creation" [paper]
• "OpenNovelty: An LLM-powered Agentic System for Verifiable Scholarly Novelty Assessment" [paper]
• "Sci-Reasoning: A Dataset Decoding AI Innovation Patterns" [paper]
• "SuS: Strategy-aware Surprise for Intrinsic Exploration" [paper]
• "Proof of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Idea Judgments" [paper]
• "LLM Review: Enhancing Creative Writing via Blind Peer Review Feedback" [paper]
• "Agentic AI and Machine Learning for Accelerated Materials Discovery and Applications" [paper]
• "Who Owns Creativity and Who Does the Work? Trade-offs in LLM-Supported Research Ideation" [paper]
• "Improved Bug Localization with AI Agents Leveraging Hypothesis and Dynamic Cognition" [paper]
• "Rethinking the AI Scientist: Interactive Multi-Agent Workflows for Scientific Discovery" [paper]
• "Learning to Discover at Test Time" [paper]

Dec/25 Highlights (Updated 30 Dec)

Self-Evolving Agents

• "Strategic Self-Improvement for Competitive Agents in AI Labour Markets" [paper]
• "Guided Self-Evolving LLMs with Minimal Human Supervision" [paper]
• "Evolving Excellence: Automated Optimization of LLM-based Agents" [paper]
• "Remember Me, Refine Me: A Dynamic Procedural Memory Framework for Experience-Driven Agent Evolution" [paper]
• "Beyond Training: Enabling Self-Evolution of Agents with MOBIMEM" [paper]
• "SCOPE: Prompt Evolution for Enhancing Agent Effectiveness" [paper]
• "Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improving Agent with Skill Library" [paper]
• "MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems" [paper]

Hot Topics

• 📖 "Memory in the Age of AI Agents: A Survey Forms, Functions and Dynamics" [paper]
• 📖 "Adaptation of Agentic AI" [paper]
• 📖 "Deep Research: A Systematic Survey" [paper]
• 🔥 "Measuring Agents in Production" [paper]
• 🔥 "Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems" [paper]
• ⚖️ "Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery" [paper]
• 🔥 "How Far Are We from Genuinely Useful Deep Research Agents?" [paper]
• "Can Agentic AI Match the Performance of Human Data Scientists?" [paper]

2025 Highlights

04/25 ~ 12/25 [link]