BlackArc15 topics · 162 papers
Topics
The whole field of agent research, sorted into 15 groupings. Start with architecture and memory, or follow the thread into security, reasoning, and the foundations the rest stands on.
Agent Architecture & Harnesses
The loop, the harness, and the plumbing that turns a model into a working agent.
- Papers
- 18
- Read time
- 4.9h
Memory Systems
How agents retain, recall, and reflect across long-running work.
- Papers
- 10
- Read time
- 2.7h
Context Engineering
Packing the right tokens into the window: retrieval, compression, and ultra-long context.
- Papers
- 7
- Read time
- 2.3h
Multi-Agent Systems
Orchestration, collaboration, roles, and why teams of agents succeed or fail.
- Papers
- 8
- Read time
- 2.1h
Reasoning & Test-Time Compute
Chains, trees, atoms, and System-2 thinking that trade compute for correctness.
- Papers
- 8
- Read time
- 2.3h
Self-Improving Agents
Agents that evolve their own prompts, skills, and harnesses from experience.
- Papers
- 20
- Read time
- 6.0h
Retrieval & RAG
Grounding generation in external knowledge, from classic RAG to reasoning retrieval.
- Papers
- 5
- Read time
- 1.4h
Knowledge Graphs
Graph-structured memory and retrieval for agents that need to connect facts.
- Papers
- 6
- Read time
- 1.7h
Security & Safety
Prompt injection, access control, guardrails, and the risk surface of autonomous agents.
- Papers
- 16
- Read time
- 4.6h
Evaluation & Benchmarks
Judging agents honestly: benchmarks, LLM-as-judge, and outcome measurement.
- Papers
- 6
- Read time
- 1.7h
Reinforcement Learning
Training agents end-to-end with rewards, from GRPO to deployment loops.
- Papers
- 7
- Read time
- 2.1h
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Agents on the shopfloor and across the supply network: scheduling, inventory, sourcing, and disruption response.
- Papers
- 15
- Read time
- 4.0h
Business Process
Agentic BPM: goal-driven process design, process mining, workflow graphs, and governing non-deterministic work.
- Papers
- 5
- Read time
- 1.4h
Applied & Industry
Agents in the real world: operations research, scientific discovery, document work, and the economics of adoption.
- Papers
- 11
- Read time
- 3.3h
Foundations & Infrastructure
The substrate: LLM internals, GPUs, serving systems, and the theory underneath.
- Papers
- 20
- Read time
- 6.7h