Ax Diego Calvanese, Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Marlon Dumas, Fabiana Fournier, Timotheus Kampik, Emanuele La Malfa, Lior Limonad, Andrea Marrella, Andreas Metzger, Marco Montali, Daniel Amyot, Peter Fettke, Artem Polyvyanyy, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Sebastian Sardi\~na, Niek Tax, Barbara Weber 4/14/2026

Agentic Business Process Management: A Research Manifesto

Manifesto proposing Agentic Business Process Management (APM) framework extending BPM to govern autonomous agents executing organizational processes with agent-oriented abstractions.

Ax Karen Hambardzumyan, Nicolas Baldwin, Edan Toledo, Rishi Hazra, Michael Kuchnik, Bassel Al Omari, Thomas Simon Foster, Anton Protopopov, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Ishita Mediratta, Kelvin Niu, Michael Shvartsman, Alisia Lupidi, Alexis Audran-Reiss, Parth Pathak, Tatiana Shavrina, Despoina Magka, Hela Momand, Derek Dunfield, Nicola Cancedda, Pontus Stenetorp, Carole-Jean Wu, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Yoram Bachrach, Martin Josifoski 4/14/2026

AIRA_2: Overcoming Bottlenecks in AI Research Agents

AIRA_2 addresses three bottlenecks in AI research agents: synchronous GPU execution, generalization gaps, and fixed LLM operator limitations through improved architectural design.

Ax Hanrong Zhang, Shicheng Fan, Henry Peng Zou, Yankai Chen, Zhenting Wang, Jiayu Zhou, Chengze Li, Wei-Chieh Huang, Yifei Yao, Kening Zheng, Xue Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, Philip S. Yu 4/14/2026

CoEvoSkills: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Co-Evolutionary Verification

CoEvoSkills framework enables LLM agents to self-evolve structured multi-file skill artifacts through co-evolutionary verification without manual authoring.

Ax Anushree Sinha, Srivaths Ranganathan, Debanshu Das, Abhishek Dharmaratnakar 4/14/2026

Beyond Fluency: Toward Reliable Trajectories in Agentic IR

Position paper on failure modes in agentic IR systems, analyzing error cascades in multi-step reason-act-observe workflows despite linguistic fluency.

Ax Mohamed Elfeki, Tu Trinh, Kelvin Luu, Guangze Luo, Nathan Hunt, Ernesto Montoya, Nandan Marwaha, Yannis He, Charles Wang, Fernando Crabedo, Alessa Castilo, Bing Liu 4/14/2026

HiL-Bench (Human-in-Loop Benchmark): Do Agents Know When to Ask for Help?

HiL-Bench evaluates whether coding agents know when to request help with incomplete specifications, exposing judgment gaps in frontier models.

Ax Charlie F. Ruan, Yucheng Qin, Akaash R. Parthasarathy, Xun Zhou, Ruihang Lai, Hongyi Jin, Yixin Dong, Bohan Hou, Meng-Shiun Yu, Yiyan Zhai, Sudeep Agarwal, Hangrui Cao, Siyuan Feng, Tianqi Chen 4/14/2026

WebLLM: A High-Performance In-Browser LLM Inference Engine

WebLLM inference engine enabling high-performance LLM execution directly in web browsers for on-device deployment without server GPUs.