Autonomous Data Agents: A New Opportunity for Smart Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18710v2
• Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:36:12 GMT
• Title: Autonomous Data Agents: A New Opportunity for Smart Data
• Authors: Yanjie Fu, Dongjie Wang, Wangyang Ying, Xinyuan Wang, Xiangliang Zhang, Huan Liu, Jian Pei,
• Abstract summary: Report argues that DataAgents represent a paradigm shift toward autonomous data-to-knowledge systems.<n>DataAgents transform complex and unstructured data into coherent and actionable knowledge.<n>We first examine why the convergence of agentic AI and data-to-knowledge systems has emerged as a critical trend.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: As data continues to grow in scale and complexity, preparing, transforming, and analyzing it remains labor-intensive, repetitive, and difficult to scale. Since data contains knowledge and AI learns knowledge from it, the alignment between AI and data is essential. However, data is often not structured in ways that are optimal for AI utilization. Moreover, an important question arises: how much knowledge can we pack into data through intensive data operations? Autonomous data agents (DataAgents), which integrate LLM reasoning with task decomposition, action reasoning and grounding, and tool calling, can autonomously interpret data task descriptions, decompose tasks into subtasks, reason over actions, ground actions into python code or tool calling, and execute operations. Unlike traditional data management and engineering tools, DataAgents dynamically plan workflows, call powerful tools, and adapt to diverse data tasks at scale. This report argues that DataAgents represent a paradigm shift toward autonomous data-to-knowledge systems. DataAgents are capable of handling collection, integration, preprocessing, selection, transformation, reweighing, augmentation, reprogramming, repairs, and retrieval. Through these capabilities, DataAgents transform complex and unstructured data into coherent and actionable knowledge. We first examine why the convergence of agentic AI and data-to-knowledge systems has emerged as a critical trend. We then define the concept of DataAgents and discuss their architectural design, training strategies, as well as the new skills and capabilities they enable. Finally, we call for concerted efforts to advance action workflow optimization, establish open datasets and benchmark ecosystems, safeguard privacy, balance efficiency with scalability, and develop trustworthy DataAgent guardrails to prevent malicious actions.

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