Agentic Reasoning

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Agentic reasoning examines how AI systems carry out goals through sequences of decisions, tool use, and interaction with an environment, rather than producing a single answer. Common approaches include ReAct-style reasoning and acting, task decomposition, retrieval and memory, multi-agent coordination, reinforcement learning, and verification with external tools or formal solvers. Work evaluates these methods on coding, multi-hop question answering, web research, and interactive environments, increasingly measuring process quality and resource use as well as final accuracy. A central tension is that planning, more tool use, and longer reasoning can improve difficult tasks but also add cost and failure points, so agents must learn when to gather evidence, verify, or stop.

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  1. Putnam 2025 Problems in Rocq using Opus 4.6 and Rocq-MCP

    Mar 20, 2026Guillaume Baudart, Marc Lelarge, Tristan Stérin +1Large Language Model-Guided Theorem ProvingAutomated Theorem Proving

    IRIF, Université Paris Cité, Inria, CNRS · DI ENS, PSL University, Inria · PRGM DEV

  2. MiroThinker-1.7 & H1: Towards Heavy-Duty Research Agents via Verification

    Mar 16, 2026MiroMind Team, S. Bai, L. Bing +41Autonomous Research AgentsLong-Horizon LLM Agents

  3. HeartAgent: An Autonomous Agent System for Explainable Differential Diagnosis in Cardiology

    Mar 11, 2026Shuang Zhou, Kai Yu, Song Wang +11Clinical Decision SupportDifferential Diagnosis

    Division of Computational Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA · College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA +6

  4. Deep Tabular Research via Continual Experience-Driven Execution

    Mar 10, 2026Junnan Dong, Chuang Zhou, Zheng Yuan +7Table QALong-Horizon LLM Agents

    Tencent Youtu Lab · Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University

  5. DenoiseFlow: Uncertainty-Aware Denoising for Reliable LLM Agentic Workflows

    Feb 28, 2026Yandong Yan, Junwei Peng, Shijie Li +7LLM Agent ReliabilityLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University · China Southern Power Grid +6

  6. CoME: Empowering Channel-of-Mobile-Experts with Informative Hybrid-Capabilities Reasoning

    Feb 27, 2026Yuxuan Liu, Weikai Xu, Kun Huang +9Mobile GUI AgentsAgentic Reasoning

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc. · Nanyang Technological University +1

  7. SideQuest: Model-Driven KV Cache Management for Long-Horizon Agentic Reasoning

    Feb 26, 2026Sanjay Kariyappa, G. Edward SuhKV-Cache CompressionLLM Inference Acceleration

    NVIDIA

  8. AgenticRAGTracer: A Hop-Aware Benchmark for Diagnosing Multi-Step Retrieval Reasoning in Agentic RAG

    Feb 22, 2026Qijie You, Wenkai Yu, Wentao ZhangMulti-Hop QALLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Science and Technology Beijing · 2Peking University · 3Zhongguancun Academy +1

  9. Reasoning and Tool-use Compete in Agentic RL:From Quantifying Interference to Disentangled Tuning

    Feb 1, 2026Yu Li, Mingyang Yi, Xiuyu Li +6RL for Language Model ReasoningGradient Interference

    School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · Bytedance Inc., Beijing, China · Bytedance Inc., San Jose, USA

  10. TimeART: Towards Agentic Time Series Reasoning via Tool-Augmentation

    Jan 20, 2026Xingjian Wu, Junkai Lu, Zhengyu Li +5Time Series ReasoningTime Series QA

    East China Normal University, Shanghai, China · Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  11. EndoCogniAgent: Closed-Loop Agentic Reasoning with Self-Consistency Validation for Endoscopic Diagnosis

    Aug 10, 2025Yi Tang, Kai-Ni Wang, Liang-Peng Pu +3EndoscopyMedical Imaging

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China · Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomaterials and Devices, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China · State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China +2

  12. Generative to Agentic AI: Survey, Conceptualization, and Challenges

    Apr 26, 2025Johannes SchneiderAgentic AIAgentic Reasoning

    University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.