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Large Language Model Agents: A Comprehensive Survey on Architectures, Capabilities, and Applications

Yiming Lei et al.

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Academic survey cataloguing LLM agent architectures, planning and reasoning methods, memory mechanisms, tool-use strategies, and multi-agent coordination. Also maps application domains from coding and science to robotics, with open challenges for each layer.

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2025

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International

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Foundations

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Public access

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