The papers

Most central to this idea first, not most recent.

• Top Universitycs.CR

  Retained Tool Outputs Can Repeatedly Inflate LLM Agent Costs

  Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Separating state tracking from actions improves multi-turn tool reliability

  Aug 2026

• Big Techcs.CL

  RL with live server state boosts multi-step tool use in LLMs

  IBM Research · June 2026

• Top Universitycs.CV

  Reinforcement learning trains video AI agents to use external tools effectively

  Princeton University, Stanford University · Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.AIcode

  Civilization benchmark exposes agents’ weak monitoring and long-term follow-through

  University of Oxford, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.CL

  Simulated user personas improve agents’ handling of multi-turn workflows

  State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, Peking University · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.LG

  Sparse verifier feedback makes broad credit assignment outperform turn targeting

  Institute of Science Tokyo, Zhejiang University · Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.LG

  Dense credit assignment from gold-answer log-probabilities improves long-horizon agent RL

  University of Wisconsin–Madison, Microsoft Research · July 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  New framework lets you train AI agents inside the same harness systems they use at inference

  Columbia University, Dartmouth College · July 2026

• Chinese Techcs.AIcode

  Automated safety testing reveals 93.9% attack success rate across four agent frameworks

  AntGroup, Zhejiang University · July 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Pruning context to recent tool calls improves agent reliability and efficiency

  June 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CV

  Conversational image editing agent learns interpretable tool use

  Shanghai Innovation Institution, Huawei Technologies Ltd. · June 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Voice-agent models diverge most beyond choosing the correct tool

  Sept 2026