arXiv Machine Learning

Memento No More: Coaching AI Agents to Master Multiple Tasks via Hints Internalization

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Evaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions

arXiv:2507. 05257v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for Large Language Model (LLM) agents primarily focus on evaluating reasoning, planning, and execution capabilities, while another critical component-memory, encompassing how agents memorize, update, and retrieve long-term information-is under-evaluated due to the lack of benchmarks.

By Yuanzhe Hu, Yu Wang, Julian McAuley
arXiv AI
Sep 3

APEx: Distillation of Agent Procedural Experience for Adaptive Deep Research Question Answering

APEx is a hierarchical framework that organizes a deep research agent’s interaction history into instance-level trajectory memories and category-level procedural skills. It couples these through an Executor, Distiller, and Planner, trained with a three-stage alternating GRPO paradigm to enable reward-guided skill distillation. At test time, distilled skills act as procedural priors for online Planner adaptation via skill-guided reinforcement learning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on seven benchmarks, outperforming GPT‑5.4 by 14.7 points and the best memory‑augmented baseline by 3.0 points.

By Jie Ding, Rui Sun, Xinyuan Zhang, Zeyu Zhang, Xin Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation for Reinforcement Learning of Skill-Based LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 09555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: External natural-language skills provide large language model (LLM) agents with reusable and editable guidance for solving complex tasks.

By Tianjun Pan, Yuan Li, Hongda Wang, Linbo Jin, Mengfei Song, Lei Gao, Qiming Shi, Shaokang Fu, Jiarong Zhao, Chengyu Wang, Chengfu Huo
arXiv AI
Sep 15

CLEAR: Context Augmentation from Contrastive Learning of Experience via Agentic Reflection

arXiv:2604.07487v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents rely on effective model context to obtain task-relevant information for decision-making. Many existing context engineer...

By Linbo Liu, Guande Wu, Han Ding, Yawei Wang, Qiang Zhou, Yuzhe Lu, Zhichao Xu, Huan Song, Panpan Xu, Lin Lee Cheong
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

When Not to Imitate: Boundary-Aware Skill Memory for Reliable Tool-Use LLM Agents

The paper introduces Boundary-Aware Skill Memory (BASM), a method that enriches skill memories for large language model agents with explicit boundary fields such as applicability conditions, risk cues, avoidance rules, and recovery notes. This approach transforms retrieved skills from unconditional templates into state‑conditioned guidance, preventing the Skill Imitation Trap where more skills lead to incorrect tool usage. Experiments on three agent benchmarks and four model scales show that BASM improves task success rates, accuracy, and reduces attack success while cutting average steps compared to memory‑free baselines.

By Zihan Lin, Zhenyu Chen, Jiawen Wei, Xiaohan Wang, Jie Cao, Jiajun Chai, Wei Lin, Guojun Yin, Ran He
arXiv AI
Aug 14

MindMemOS: A Portable and Self-Evolving Memory Operating Layer for AI Agents

arXiv:2608. 12428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory is a core component of AI agents, enabling them to accumulate experience, maintain personalization, and adapt over long-term interactions.

By Kaichao Liang, Yuqi Cui, Hao Kong, Xinyuan Huang, Guohaotian Hou, Qingcan Kang, Liang Chen, Yiyang Yin, Ke Ye, Jiaquan Guo, Da Chen, Lingan Zeng, Yixing Peng, Rong Yao, Shixiong Kai, Mingxuan Yuan
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

Learning to Coach for Experiential Learning

arXiv:2609.15851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models can learn from experience, but raw solution trajectories are often too long and noisy to provide effective guidance. In this work, we p...

By Guanheng Chen, Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Xun Wu, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei