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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Agentic Language-to-Objective Synthesis for Optofluidic Assembly
May 26, 2026Ivan Saraev, Elena Erben, Weida Liao +4Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation Agentic Workflows
1) Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · 2) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK · 3) Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK +1
Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standalone Framework for Measurement, Simulation, and Dashboarding
May 26, 2026Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal, Narayan RamasubbuAgentic Workflows AI Agent Governance
School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Ejento.ai, Seattle, Washington, USA
Detect by Yourself: Self-Designing Agentic Workflows for Few-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection
May 26, 2026Tairan Huang, Qiang Chen, Yili Wang +4Agentic Workflows Anomaly Detection
Central South University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
PathWISE: Multi-Agent Cancer Pathway Triaging Ontology Learning from Clinical Flowcharts
May 25, 2026Sofiat Abioye, Ufaq Khan, Shazad Ashraf +6Healthcare Clinical Triage
Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK +2
RocketSmith: Agentic Additive Manufacturing of High-Powered Rockets
May 25, 2026Peter Pak, Jesse Barkley, Rumi Loghmani +3Agentic Workflows Additive Manufacturing
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Tripoli Rocketry Association, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A Sober Look at Agentic Misalignment in Automated Workflows
May 22, 2026Wenqian Ye, Bo Yuan, Zhichao Xu +4AI Alignment Agentic Workflows
University of Virginia · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Utah +2
Redrawing the AI Map: A Theory of Accountability Boundaries in Agentic Ecosystems
May 22, 2026Muhammad Zia Hydari, Farooq MuzaffarAI Accountability Agentic Workflows
University of Pittsburgh
GraphFlow: A Graph-Based Workflow Management for Efficient LLM-Agent Serving
May 21, 2026Ao Li, Shangpeng Yang, Fahao Chen +3LLM Agent Orchestration Agentic Workflows
School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University, Jinan, China · 3Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Compiling Agentic Workflows into LLM Weights: Near-Frontier Quality at Two Orders of Magnitude Less Cost
May 21, 2026Simon Dennis, Rivaan Patil, Kevin Shabahang +1LLM Agent Orchestration Agentic Workflows
i14, University of Melbourne · i14
Toward AI VIS Co-Scientists: A General and End-to-End Agent Harness for Solving Complex Data Visualization Tasks
May 20, 2026Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Kuangshi Ai +4Scientific Visualization Data Visualization
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Vanderbilt University · University of Notre Dame
Energy per Successful Goal: Goal-Level Energy Accounting for Agentic AI Systems
May 20, 2026Deepak Panigrahy, Aakash Tyagi, Stephen Abkin +2LLM Agent Orchestration Agentic Workflows
Independent Researcher, USA · Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USA
Causal Past Logic for Runtime Verification of Distributed LLM Agent Workflows
May 20, 2026Benedikt BolligLLM Agent Orchestration Agentic Workflows
Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, LMF, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Evaluating Temporal Semantic Caching and Workflow Optimization in Agentic Plan-Execute Pipelines
May 20, 2026Alimurtaza Mustafa Merchant, Krish Veera, Sajal Kumar Goyla +3LLM Agent Orchestration Agentic Workflows
Columbia University · IBM · IBM Research
Agentic Agile-V: From Vibe Coding to Verified Engineering in Software and Hardware Development
May 19, 2026Christopher KochSoftware Engineering Agents Agentic Workflows
Independent Researcher
PopPy: Opportunistically Exploiting Parallelism in Python Agentic Workflows
May 18, 2026Stephen Mell, David Mell, Harry Y. H. Li +4Compiler Optimization Agentic Workflows
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Independent Researcher Juneau, Alaska, USA · University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA
Agents for Experiments, Experiments for Agents: A Design Grammar for AI-Enabled Experimental Science
May 18, 2026Yingjie Zhang, Chun Feng, Weizhang Zhu +1Agentic Workflows AI Agent Governance
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China · Xi’an Jiaotong University, Beijing, China · Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China
Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agentic Code Review
May 17, 2026Hüseyin Özgür Kamalı, Erdem Tuna, Vahid Haratian +1Agentic Workflows Automated Code Review
Department of Software Engineering Ankara University Ankara, Turkey · Microsoft Ankara, Turkey · Department of Computer Engineering Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey
Agentic AI Translate: An Agentic Translator Prototype for Translation as Communication Design
May 16, 2026Masaru YamadaAgentic Workflows Machine Translation
Rikkyo University; Translation Lab Inc.
ColPackAgent: Agent-Skill-Guided Hard-Particle Monte Carlo Workflows for Colloidal Packing
May 15, 2026Lijie Ding, Changwoo DoAgentic Workflows AI Agent Benchmarks
Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Runtime-Structured Task Decomposition for Agentic Coding Systems
May 14, 2026Shubhi Asthana, Bing Zhang, Chad DeLuca +2Software Engineering Agents Agentic Workflows
IBM Research · San Jose, California · Zoom +2
APWA: A Distributed Architecture for Parallelizable Agentic Workflows
May 14, 2026Evan Rose, Tushin Mallick, Matthew D. Laws +2Multi-Agent LLM Systems Multi-Agent Orchestration
Northeastern University
GraphFlow: An Architecture for Formally Verifiable Visual Workflows Enabling Reliable Agentic AI Automation
May 14, 2026Drewry H. Morris, Luis Valles, Reza Hosseini GhomiAI Agent Reliability Agentic Workflows
MedFlow, Inc.
A Deterministic Agentic Workflow for HS Tariff Classification: Multi-Dimensional Rule Reasoning with Interpretable Decisions
May 14, 2026Yu Zhang, Dongjiang Zhuang, Qu Zhou +4Agentic Workflows Classification
School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Department of Science and Technology (Shanghai), General Administration of Customs of the P.R.C. (GACC), Shanghai, China · Nanjing Jiyun Information Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China +2
Towards Discovery of Polymers for Insulin Delivery via Physics-Grounded Agentic Workflows
May 12, 2026Martins OtunMolecular Optimization Large Language Model-Guided Optimization
1Algonix AI Ltd., Scotland, United Kingdom
ProfiliTable: Profiling-Driven Tabular Data Processing via Agentic Workflows
May 12, 2026Wei Liu, Yang Gu, Xi Yan +5Multi-Agent LLM Systems Agentic Workflows
School of Software & Microelectronics, Peking University Beijing, China · Center for Machine Learning Research, Peking University Beijing, China Zhongguancun Academy Beijing, China
Intermediate Artifacts as First-Class Citizens: A Data Model for Durable Intermediate Artifacts in Agentic Systems
May 12, 2026Josh Rosen, Seth RosenAgentic Workflows
ThruWire, Inc.
Discovery of Interpretable Surrogates via Agentic AI: Application to Gravitational Waves
May 11, 2026Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Tejaswi Venumadhav +4Surrogate Modeling Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Kohn Hall, Lagoon Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. · Center for Gravitational Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. · Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. +5
Comment and Control: Hijacking Agentic Workflows via Context-Grounded Evolution
May 11, 2026Neil Fendley, Zhengyu Liu, Aonan Guan +2Adversarial Attacks on LLMs Agentic Workflows
Johns Hopkins University Maryland, USA · Wyze Labs Washington, USA
Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Workflow Store
May 11, 2026Roxana Geambasu, Mariana Raykova, Pierre Tholoniat +3Agentic Workflows LLM Agent Security
Columbia University and Google · Google
From Assistance to Agency: Rethinking Autonomy and Control in CI/CD Pipelines
May 8, 2026Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Taher A. Ghaleb, Safwat HassanSoftware Engineering Agents Agentic Workflows
Faculty of Information University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Department of Computer Science Trent University Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Agentic Language-to-Objective Synthesis for Optofluidic Assembly

Ivan Saraev, Elena Erben, Weida Liao, Fan Nan+3

1) Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · 2) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK · 3) Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK+1

Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation Agentic Workflows LLM-Based Program Synthesis

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Light-based advanced manufacturing increasingly requires programmable, closed-loop tools that translate human design intent into executable operations at small length scales. Yet a key bottleneck persists across robotic and manufacturing modalities: turning user intent into machine-readable objectives that are reliably executable. While micro-robotics offers versatile manipulation via optical actuation of fluids, mathematically tractable goal specification remains manual and hard to reuse. Here, we introduce Speak-to-Objective, a modular agentic pipeline that uses a conditioned Large Language Model (LLM) to translate spoken or written commands into fully differentiable objective functions for assembling microparticles in a constraint-aware inverse solver (SLSQP) and on an experimental optofluidic platform. The approach employs a compact loop - perceive -> compose -> propose -> act -> report & learn - that treats the objective as the interface between intent and actuation, separating what to assemble or pattern from how to actuate, while learning from user feedback. The pipeline composes geometry, spacing, and assignment/topology terms to generate robust descriptive objectives that assemble from partial traces and recover after perturbations, as well as explicit objectives for precise placement, all in an actuator-agnostic fashion. Using laser-induced thermoviscous flows as the physical actuation modality, we demonstrate natural-language-programmable, light-based microscale assembly of particle patterns in a microfluidic environment. Beyond its immediate impact on programmable microassembly, and using laser-induced optofluidic actuation as a reduced-complexity experimental platform, our work points toward self-driving, AI-assisted optical manufacturing platforms in which natural language, differentiable objectives, and laser-based actuation are coupled into a reusable digital workflow.