Agentic Workflows

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Agentic workflows study how language-model agents plan and carry out multi-step tasks by calling tools, coordinating specialized agents, and maintaining state or artifacts. Systems range from fixed graphs and typed protocols with deterministic checks to dynamically planned workflows that use reusable skills, human approval, and execution feedback. Work includes scientific and enterprise automation, workflow generation and evaluation, and serving methods such as model routing, caching, scheduling, and parallel execution. A central challenge is balancing flexible autonomy and efficiency with dependable, auditable behavior, since successful outputs can conceal unsafe shortcuts, semantic errors, privacy leaks, or failures that compound across steps.

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  1. Agentic Hazard Mapper: Emulating Expert Map-Making with AI Agents for Risk Communication

    Oct 23, 2026Sidi Wu, Lifeng Lin, Yizi Chen +2Data VisualizationAgentic Workflows

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland · University of Tokyo, Japan

  2. Design Anything, Design at Scale

    Oct 17, 2026Xuchao Ren, Siyuan Feng, Jing Huang +8Agentic WorkflowsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University · Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology · Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology +1

  3. Decentralized LLM Workflows via Sequential Auctions

    Oct 15, 2026Ian Gemp, Shubhendu Trivedi, Adam Fisch +7Agentic WorkflowsAutomated Bidding

    Google DeepMind · Google Research · University of Waterloo

  4. A Strong Harness Narrows the Model Gap: A Comparative Evaluation for Legislative Document-to-XML Conversion

    Oct 14, 2026Palvika Bansal, Rittika Jindal, Ruichong WangLegal NLPAgentic Workflows

    Thomson Reuters Technology

  5. Structure Before Intelligence: Gating What Agentic Scientific Workflows Release

    Oct 14, 2026Ashish Acharya, Aman Al Amin, Hong QinAgentic WorkflowsRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA · Department of Computer Science, School of Data Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

  6. Why Agentic Workflows Fail: A Taxonomy Derived from Literature and Empirical Data

    Oct 12, 2026Xin Li, Rami Bahsoon, Tao ChenAgent Failure AnalysisAgentic Workflows

    School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  7. Frustratingly Easy Agentic RAG via Portable Skills: A Case Study in Customer Support

    Oct 10, 2026Istok Bako, Bonan Min, Tiffany Shao +2Agentic RAGTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Airbnb, Inc., USA

  8. ANASSA: From High-Level Framework to Low-Level Architecture for Spatial Agentic AI

    Oct 9, 2026Constantinos Papantoniou, Brian HiltonAgentic WorkflowsAI Agent Governance

    Anassa.ai USA · Research Scientist USA

  9. Evaluating LLMs as Agentic Workflow Executors in Real-World Customer Support Skills

    Oct 9, 2026Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Gundeep Singh, Xue-Yong Fu +11LLM Agent EvaluationAgentic Workflows

    Dialpad Inc.

  10. Ask Your Advisor: Learning When to Consult Stronger Models in Agentic Systems

    Oct 9, 2026Pascal Sowietzki, Steffen Holter, Yannick Metz +3Agentic WorkflowsCost-Aware Inference

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  11. CB-Orchestrator: Adaptive Workflow Optimization for LLM Agents via Contextual Bandits

    Oct 9, 2026Jiahang Sun, Zhiwei Shang, Zhipiao Liu +4LLM Agent Workflow OptimizationAgentic Workflows

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Huawei Technologies · City University of Hong Kong

  12. We Query, Therefore We Compute: On Oracle Computation beyond the Machine, with an Application to Agents

    Oct 7, 2026Kefan Liu, Fengning Ou, Yelin Luo +1Agentic WorkflowsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Institute of Computing Technology, CAS · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Nanjing University +2

  13. RA-MoWE: Workflow-Affinity Embeddings for Query Clustering and Agentic Workflow Generation

    Oct 6, 2026Qi Cheng, Shengyu Chen, Wei Cheng +4LLM Agent Workflow OptimizationAgentic Workflows

    Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ · University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA · NEC Labs America Princeton, NJ +1

  14. Process Constitutions and Process Stewards: Towards the Next Generation of BPM for Agentic Organizations

    Oct 5, 2026Amin Jalali, Majid RafieiAgentic WorkflowsAI Agent Governance

    Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden · SAP Signavio, Berlin, Germany

  15. Fusion is the New Mutation: Bandit-Guided Evolution on Workflow Graphs

    Oct 4, 2026Zhiwei Shang, Jiahang Sun, Mingrong Gong +9Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationAgentic Workflows

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China +1

  16. AegisFlow: A Multi-Agent Agentic AI Framework for Autonomous Remediation and Self-Healing in Fragile Data Ecosystems

    Oct 3, 2026Muhammad Bilal Awan, Zubair Hussain, Abdul ShahidAgentic WorkflowsAutomated Program Repair

    Ministry of Defense, Doha, Qatar · IQRA University, Islamabad, Pakistan · South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland

  17. SoK: Decentralized Agent Economic Infrastructure

    Oct 1, 2026Rui Sun, Xihan Xiong, Qin Wang +5AI Agent AuditingAgentic Workflows

    Newcastle University, UK · University of Bristol, UK · CSIRO, Australia +5

  18. Pay for the Fault, Not the Flow: Label-Free In-Flow Multi-Agent Workflow Optimization

    Oct 1, 2026Xuehang Guo, Haoyu Wang, Shengyu Chen +4Multi-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Orchestration

    William & Mary · NEC Corporation of America

  19. SQD-Agent: LLM-driven agentic framework for Quantum Chemistry workflows

    Sep 30, 2026Kislaya Tiwari, Anupama RayQuantum ChemistryAgentic Workflows

    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi · IBM Quantum, IBM Research

  20. MoFlow: Multi-Objective Agentic Workflow Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Yining Lu, Aurelie Lozano, Xi Yang +3Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningAgentic Workflows

    University of Notre Dame · IBM

  21. DynBranch: Speculative Subgraph Reuse for Dynamic Agentic LLM Serving

    Sep 25, 2026Junyi Shen, Noppanat Wadlom, Zhengyuan Su +1LLM Agent Workflow OptimizationLLM Agent Serving

    National University of Singapore Singapore

  22. Developing a Roadmap to an AI-first Organization: A Case Study in Embedded Software Development

    Sep 25, 2026Viktor Kjellberg, Srijita Basu, Simin Sun +2Organizational AI AdoptionSoftware Engineering

    University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology

  23. AgentRouter: Heterogeneous Model Routing for Cost-Optimal Multi-Step Agentic Workflows

    Sep 19, 2026Rudrendu Kumar Paul, Sourav NandyLLM Agent RoutingCost-Aware Inference

    Boston University, Boston, MA, USA · University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  24. Compositional Policy Violations: When Step-Level Compliance Fails In Agentic AI Workflows

    Sep 16, 2026Ashwini Kurady, Sri Sai Charith Grandhi, Rajesh Gupta +1Agentic WorkflowsAI Agent Monitoring

    RunCtrl

  25. Designing Agentic AI Workflow Portfolios under Imperfect Selection and Compute Cost

    Sep 16, 2026Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, Stefanus Jasin, Boyu WangCost-Aware InferenceAgentic Workflows

    Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, United States

  26. When Tool Calls Succeed but Workflows Fail: Anomalies at the Agent-Tool Boundary

    Sep 14, 2026Artem Trofimov, Boris NovikovAgent Failure AnalysisAgentic Workflows

    AVIV Group · Independent Researcher

  27. Comparative Framework Analysis for Enterprise Generative AI Applications: Chatbot, Automation, and Oracle-to-PostgreSQL Migration

    Sep 11, 2026Oleg Grynets, Olena Pochernina, Alona Seletska +4Agentic WorkflowsBusiness Process Automation

    EPAM Systems McLean, Virginia, USA · EPAM Systems Lviv, Ukraine · EPAM Systems Kyiv, Ukraine +1

  28. Unified Agentic Video Editing Across Levels of Complexity and Creativity

    Sep 11, 2026Surabhi S. Nath, Kim Ferres, Milan Petrović +1Agentic Video EditingVideo Summarization

    Bertelsmann AI Hub · Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics · scieneers GmbH

  29. Agentic TCAD Calibration Workflow for Oxide Semiconductor Transistors

    Sep 10, 2026Gyujun Jeong, Junmo Lee, Sungwon Cho +11Agentic WorkflowsModel Calibration

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  30. Local Edits, Global Ripples: Replay-Informed Policy Adaptation for Workflow Synthesis

    Sep 10, 2026Manqing Mao, Hong Wang, Samson Koelle +8Agentic WorkflowsLLM-Based Program Synthesis

    Amazon, Inc.