AutoRAS: Learning Robust Agentic Systems with Primitive RepresentationsYang Yue, Xuancheng Zhu, Yuyang Ma et al.
The automated design of agentic systems offers a promising pathway for scaling large language models (LLMs) beyond single-agent reasoning. While prior work has advanced task performance through handcrafted or automatically generated multi-agent workflows, robustness is often treated as an afterthought, leaving systems vulnerable to external adversaries and internal failures. We propose AutoRAS, a framework for the Automated design of Robust Agentic Systems. AutoRAS formulates system design as generating a sequence of symbolic primitives that jointly encode structural connectivity and behavioral actions, and learns to optimize this sequence using execution-derived safety signals and flow-based sequence-level objectives. Extensive experiments show that AutoRAS achieves the best performance in both vanilla and adversarial settings, with the smallest performance degradation under attacks. Further analyses demonstrate strong transferability, stable optimization behavior, stability across primitive sets, and favorable cost trade-offs. Our code is available at $\href{https://github.com/guohezuy/AutoRAS}{\text{this https URL}}$.
24.7ROJun 22
LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Scalable Human Data for Robot ManipulationJiaming Liu, Yinxi Wang, Chenyang Gu et al.
Human-hand demonstrations provide a direct and scalable source of physical interaction data for robot learning. While manual retargeting is indispensable for establishing kinematic action correspondence across different morphologies, robust transfer requires going beyond geometry to address the underlying alignment of physical dynamics between human and robot manipulation. To address this, we introduce LaST-HD, a novel human-to-robot action learning paradigm that extends reasoning-before-acting VLA by aligning human-hand and robot demonstrations in a shared latent reasoning space. Rather than mimicking human kinematics, LaST-HD trains an auxiliary action-conditioned world model on unpaired human-hand and robot trajectories to synthesize unified latent targets. After aligning cross-embodiment representations in this shared forward-dynamics space, these targets supervise LaST-HD's latent reasoning process, enabling it to internalize shared physical dynamics and drive efficient human-hand action learning. Moreover, we develop Out-of-Lab (OOL) Glove, a low-cost motion-capture glove tailored to LaST-HD for human-hand data collection. The captured human data provide precise keypoints and serve as universal action supervision across grippers and dexterous hands. Armed with the aligned latent space and high-fidelity human-hand data, we develop a progressive mixed-to-human training recipe comprising mixed human-robot co-training and human-hand online correction post-training. Through mixed co-training, LaST-HD improves generalization to novel objects, scenes, and positions using only human-hand demonstrations. With online correction, LaST-HD further adapts to novel environments and achieves over 90\% accuracy using only 20 minutes of OOL glove data.
12.0CRJun 22
SelPE: Progressive Selection for Private Structured Text SynthesisXuancheng Zhu, Guoshun Nan, Han Zhang et al.
Many data-driven applications rely on structured textual records, such as clinical triage notes and financial transaction logs, for downstream learning and decision-making. In privacy-sensitive domains, access to such records is strictly regulated, often resulting in only a small number of available private examples for model development and analysis. Yet existing differential privacy data synthesis methods fall short: tabular techniques cannot faithfully model free-form text, while text-based approaches often break structural constraints. We propose SelPE, a selection-guided progressive evolution framework for small-sample private structured text synthesis. Rather than relying on noisy aggregation or private model training, SelPE concentrates privacy budget on a sequence of multi-batch top-1 selections, enabling efficient guidance under tight privacy constraints. To support faithful and valid synthesis, SelPE decouples semantic abstraction from schema realization via a two-stage generation pipeline, and evaluates candidates using a multi-channel distance kernel that jointly models textual, categorical, and numeric fields in their native representations. A non-private contrastive expansion mechanism further promotes diversity without incurring additional privacy cost. Extensive Experiments demonstrate that SelPE consistently improves structural validity, fidelity, and downstream utility under strict differential privacy budgets, particularly in low-data regimes.