News / #agents Tag Agents + tool use 500 articles archived under #agents · RSS Sign in to follow r/LocalLLaMA community 3d ago Achievable 253 t/s - unsloth/Muse Glimmer 30B UD-Q5_K_M on a 5090 Benchmarked Muse Glimmer 30B on my RTX 5090 (32GB), 262k context, UD-Q5_K_M + dflash-kquant + mmproj. Workload Stock master + DFlash ngram-simple PR #26842 + DFlash Code patch 78 t/s 57 t/s 220-253 t/s Mixed agent turn 77 t/s 68 t/s 188-213 t/s Tool-call JSON 71 t/s 75 t/s… 15 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3d ago Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the… 17 r/LocalLLaMA community 3d ago Needle 2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots. Hey LocalLlaMa, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now… 15 Hugging Face official-blog 3d ago Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS Back to Articles a]:hidden"> Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS Enterprise + Article Published August 10, 2026 Upvote 4 Maryam Motamedi maryameee nvidia Mikyas Desta mdestanv nvidia Jason Li blisc nvidia… 20 r/LocalLLaMA community 3d ago Ante 0.2: a ~15MB coding agent that manages llama.cpp for you — point it at a GGUF and the whole agent loop runs offline Hello~ We just shipped Ante 0.2, and the part I think this community will care about most is offline mode. We wanted local to be a first-class way to run the agent, so Ante manages the inference engine itself: Managed llama.cpp. Ante installs a pinned, checksum-verified official… 7 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 3d ago Run Local Agentic AI Workflows with Meta’s Muse Glimmer on NVIDIA Meta returns to the open source ecosystem with the release of Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight dense model with a 120K+ context window built for local AI... 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 4d ago Introducing Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model optimized for always-on local agent workflows Hi r/LocalLLaMA 👋 Today we’re excited to release Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model built specifically for local agent workflows. We’re releasing the weights to the community under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. A few specs 30B params, dense Multimodal: interleaved text +… 35 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 4d ago Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241679 Points: 267 # Comments: 105 11 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago Capek 0.5: An Execution-Centric Vision-Language Model for Embodied Intelligence Abstract Vision-language models are increasingly serving as the reasoning core of embodied agents. Robot execution is inherently iterative: each action reshapes the scene and physical state, continually renewing what must be perceived, reasoned about, and verified. Meeting these… 25 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago Beyond Simply Environment Scaling: Designing Effective Environment Distributions for Multimodal Agent Learning Abstract Recent works train agents by constructing large-scale multimodal environment pools. However, we find that simply increasing the number of multimodal environments does not always benefit. We further analyze the limitations in current multimodal environment distributions… 35 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 4d ago Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents Article URL: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239751 Points: 203 # Comments: 131 8 Smol AI News news-outlet 4d ago not much happened today **Meta** re-enters the open-weight frontier with the release of **Muse Glimmer**, a **30B dense**, multimodal, agent-focused model under **Apache 2.0**, optimized for always-on local agents and consumer hardware. It features **quantization** to keep the model under **20GB**, a… 20 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events Abstract Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that remain coherent over extended interactions. A key component of such coherence is… 7 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago PrivacyPeek: Auditing What LLM-Based Agents Acquire, Not Just What They Say Abstract LLM-based agents are rapidly advancing, autonomously invoking external tools to complete multi-step tasks for users. However, agents often acquire more sensitive information than the task requires. Existing privacy benchmarks audit what the agent's response or outgoing… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Risk-Aware Decision Policies for Agents Under Noisy Perception arXiv:2608.06420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perception in biological systems is inherently noisy, requiring organisms to make decisions under uncertainty where misclassification can be costly or fatal. We present an Artificial Life predator-prey model of foraging under noisy… 23 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Toward Reliable Context Compression for Long-Horizon Agents: An Empirical Study of Execution Instability arXiv:2608.06503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent context compression controls context growth in long-horizon agents, but its behavioral effects remain poorly understood. In this preliminary empirical study, we show that compression can weaken the influence of recent… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Online Security Learning in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems under Hidden Byzantine Attacks arXiv:2608.06520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online cooperative control of a multi-agent system under Byzantine attacks. Namely, an unknown, fixed subset of agents are Byzantine comprised and can stealthily overwrite its own coordinates of the team's planned joint… 33 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Dueling World Models: Advantage-Style Action Channels for Common-Mode Distractor Rejection arXiv:2608.06706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models plan by predicting future states from an action, but when a scene contains motion the agent does not control, they quietly go action-blind: predictions for different actions become indistinguishable even as the… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago SkillAligner: Treating Retrieved Skills as Adaptable Drafts at Execution Time arXiv:2608.06880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose skills promise reusable procedural knowledge for language agents, yet semantic relevance does not guarantee execution utility: a retrieved skill may encode assumptions that conflict with the current task, execution… 23 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Learning Suffers More Than the Policy Class Under Partial Observability: A Closed-Form Analysis arXiv:2608.07228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a reinforcement learning agent cannot observe the full state, we usually blame its policies: it cannot see enough to represent a good one. We show that in a solvable case the bigger problem lies elsewhere. Even when a good… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Trajectory-Relative Hindsight Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2608.07371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent agentic reinforcement learning methods use hindsight to complement sparse outcome rewards. However, a completed rollout can yield many such signals, leaving their appropriate allocation across turns unclear. We introduce… 7 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Cascade: Exploiting SLO-Aware latency budget for fair and high goodput LLM inference serving arXiv:2608.06557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reasoning and agentic capabilities of large language models have expanded the range of applications they support, from short interactive exchanges to long, compute-heavy requests. LLM serving platforms today define… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events arXiv:2608.06485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that remain coherent over extended interactions. A key… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago The Horizon Gap: Planning, Memory, Execution, Training, and Evaluation for Long-Horizon LLM Agents arXiv:2608.06663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models solve reasoning problems in a single forward pass that would have been research contributions years ago, yet fail at multi-hour tasks: losing track of earlier decisions, declaring half-finished work done,… 9 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Explicit, Not Longer: What Makes Epistemic Stance Survive Memory Compression arXiv:2608.06953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent memory systems compress what they store, and compression is built to drop qualifiers, so a claim's epistemic standing tends not to survive being written to memory. We ask what governs whether it does. Matched notes carry the… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago An Agentic Hybrid Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Knowledge Graph Generation arXiv:2608.07023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizing thousands of unstandardized, multilingual expertise declarations is a persistent challenge for Human Resources (HR) platforms, directly impacting downstream tasks like accurate talent matching. To address this, we… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago ADIAS: Automated Design of Interactive Agentic Systems arXiv:2608.06410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated agent design improves agent harnesses through iterative revision, evaluation, and feedback summarization. Existing methods are largely candidate-centric: cross-round experience is organized around candidate agents,… 36 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago StepJack: Benchmarking Computer-Use Agent Safety Against Multi-Step Indirect Prompt Injection arXiv:2608.06477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) face a growing threat from indirect prompt injection, where adversarial instructions are planted in the environment such as web pages. In this paper, we introduce multi-step indirect prompt injection, a… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Online Monitoring and Corrective Steering of Programming Agents arXiv:2608.06701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fixing GitHub issues in large-scale projects is a long-horizon task, especially when a fix requires changes across multiple locations or the issue description lacks the information needed to localize and repair it. As a result,… 15 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago IB-RL: Isolated Bilateral Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Dialogue Agents arXiv:2608.06735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved strong results in improving large language models (LLMs) on tasks with stationary, verifiable rewards, such as mathematical reasoning and code execution. In these settings, the environment… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago PsychoAgent: An Affect-Sensitive Cognitive Architecture for Conflict-Aware Memory in LLM Agents arXiv:2608.07438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-like cognition does not select past experience by topical similarity alone: affective significance and unresolved conflict also shape what becomes accessible. We present PsychoAgent, a cognitive architecture for LLM agents… 15 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago SkillProx: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Proximal Textual Gradient Descent arXiv:2608.07449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly adapt to recurring tasks by accumulating procedural knowledge in skills. These skills are lightweight, reusable textual artifacts that are loaded into the agent's context without weight updates. Recent… 27 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Harnessing the Synergy between LLM Agents and Knowledge Graphs for Urban Socioeconomic Prediction arXiv:2411.00028v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Socioeconomic prediction aims to leverage various urban data to predict the socioeconomic indicators of regions such as population and commercial activity level, which plays an important role in understanding urban regions and… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence arXiv:2602.02276v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to advance general agentic intelligence. K2.5 emphasizes the joint optimization of text and vision so that two modalities enhance each other. This… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Joint Optimization of Reasoning and Dual-Memory for Self-Learning Diagnostic Agent arXiv:2604.07269v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clinical expertise improves not only by acquiring medical knowledge, but by accumulating experience that yields reusable diagnostic patterns. Recent LLMs-based diagnostic agents have shown promising progress in clinical… 34 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago When Privileged Guidance Misaligns: State-Matched Routing and Contextualized Self-Distillation for Multi-Turn Agents Abstract Privileged on-policy distillation provides dense supervision for multi-turn agents by allowing a synchronized teacher to re-score the student's response at every turn with access to training-only references, such as successful trajectories. In interactive environments,… 18 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago Douyin Multimodal Embedding Model Technical Report Abstract Multimodal representation learning is a cornerstone of modern AI. By encoding multimodal queries and targets into vectors, it powers industrial search and recommendation and underpins modern agents. Real-world platforms with complex modalities and massive-scale content,… 36 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago StreamArena: Toward Continuous, Interactive, and Long-Horizon Agentic Streaming Video Understanding Abstract Deploying autonomous multimodal agents in continuous, real-world environments requires them to ingest unbounded audio-visual streams and maintain hour-scale memory. However, current evaluations predominantly rely on brief clips and multiple-choice formats. This design… 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 4d ago KPMG Says Nearly Half Of Executives Pulled Back AI Agents Over Cost https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/08/09/kpmg-says-nearly-half-of-executives-pulled-back-ai-agents-over-cost/ Bubble started to burst?   submitted by   /u/MoodDelicious3920 [link]   [comments] 16 Hugging Face official-blog 4d ago Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source Back to Articles a]:hidden"> Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source! Published August 10, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 4 Pedro Cuenca pcuenq merve merve ben burtenshaw burtenshaw Aritra Roy Gosthipaty ariG23498 Great news from the OGs of open… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 4d ago DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Q8_K_XL sometimes stops mid-task in OpenCode - anyone else seeing this? Hey everyone, I've been experimenting with the new DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 release locally using the Unsloth Studio Q8_K_XL GGUF with OpenCode. Overall, it's been working really well, but I've noticed a strange behavior during longer agentic coding sessions. Once the context gets… 38 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4d ago The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models. 12 r/LocalLLaMA community 5d ago Building a budget 32GB → 48GB VRAM home AI server: 2-3x RX 9060 XT 16GB vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, AM5 vs used EPYC? I’m planning a dedicated home AI server, mainly for local LLM inference, agents/tool use, Docker services, and eventually larger MoE models with CPU offload. My plan is to start with 2x 16GB GPUs = 32GB VRAM , but I want to build the platform from day one knowing that I’ll… 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 5d ago Tesla V100 Qwen3.6 27B Performance Looking for V100 users to share your config and it's performance. GPU: Tesla V100 PCIE 32Gb Qwen3.6 27B Q4_K_M + Q8_0 MTP 128K context length Pi coding agent llama.cpp model preset: [*] spec-default = 1 ctx-size = 131072 mmap = 1 kv-unified = 1 n-gpu-layers = 999 threads = 18… 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 5d ago Claude Code in 9 lines python I was wondering what a minimal coding agent implementation would look like that can be used like Claude Code or Codex Not feature-by-feature of course but basically stripping everything out that is not needed here is what I came up with: 9 lines of python no 3rd party deps… 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 6d ago A local code index for coding agents that resolves imports without a language server (Rust, MIT, runs offline) Last time I posted about this here someone asked the right question: why not just use rust-analyzer, and how do you build a call graph without real semantics? I did not have a good answer then. I do now, and it comes with a concession. The concession first. This is not… 20 r/MachineLearning community 6d ago Real-Time Conversational Agents (RTCA) Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 — submissions now open, deadline Aug 29 AoE [N] Real-Time Conversational Agents (RTCA) workshop at NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney, Dec 11–12). Submissions are now open on OpenReview. What the workshop is about Conversational AI has crossed into real-time deployment — voice modes, embodied avatars, full-duplex speech agents — but the… 28 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 6d ago Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills Abstract Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-action, or VLA, models), and agents that write and refine their own executable skills as code. This survey organises the field around that axis of weights… 38 Vercel — AI dev-tools 6d ago Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent Hermes Agent can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM. Access 200+ models through AI Gateway at no markup on tokens, and every request appears in your AI Gateway dashboard with the rest of your usage… 36 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 6d ago Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently. 15 Page 4 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
