arXiv AI

AgentEvolver: System-Wide Self-Evolution Through Task Execution

AgentEvolver is a system that enables agents to develop reusable capabilities while executing tasks, without altering the underlying foundation model. It uses eight entity families to expose operations, methods, agents, control flow, interfaces, and state for revision, coordinated by a shared Runtime and persistent planning. In evaluations on SWE-bench Pro Public, it achieved an 82.08% resolution rate, demonstrating retained capabilities across subsequent website, game, and research tasks, though some objectives remained incomplete.

arXiv AI
5d ago

DynaRev: Benchmarking Web Agents under Dynamic Goal Revision

DynaRev is a new benchmark comprising 181 tasks designed to evaluate web agents when users revise their goals during interaction. It introduces semantic milestones to trigger additive, unconditional, and runtime-conditioned revisions, and assesses agents on correctness, responsiveness, and efficiency via trajectory‑grounded evaluation. Experiments with five models show that agents often only partially satisfy revised tasks, with performance varying by task source, revision type, and model, and highlight the benefits of instruction rewriting versus browser resets.

By Shiqi Zhang, Guochen Zhou, Zesheng Wei, Hai Zhao, Zhisong Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 27

How Do Coding-Agent Harnesses Self-Evolve? An Empirical Study of Retrospective Adaptation

The paper investigates how coding agents can self‑evolve their harnesses—software, configuration, and instructions—by reviewing completed sessions and proposing changes. Using Claude Code on 30 SWE‑bench issues, the authors analyzed 125 proposals from the etro skill, implemented 24, and evaluated 12 changes on subsequent tasks. The results show mixed effectiveness: some changes eliminated targeted problems, others reduced or had no impact, and some added unrelated work, indicating that self‑evolution requires mechanisms to assess and refine changes.

By Christoph Treude, Sebastian Baltes
arXiv AI
Sep 2

UniACE: A Unified Framework for Evaluating LLM Agentic Capabilities

UniACE is a unified framework that standardizes the evaluation of large language model (LLM) agents by representing each benchmark as an instruction–tool–environment triplet and running models through a shared, task‑agnostic harness in isolated runtimes. It preserves native success criteria, offers an offline mode for dynamic‑resource tasks, and standardizes efficiency metrics, execution records, and failure attribution. Applying UniACE to 7 benchmarks across 24 domains and 15 models revealed significant score shifts, ranking reversals, and sensitivity to evidence representation, highlighting the impact of evaluation configuration on reported agent performance.

By Pengyu Zhu, Lijun Li, Yaxing Lyu, Qianxin Luo, Jingyi Yang, Yi Liu, Tingfeng Hui, Xinyu Yuan, Li Sun, Sen Su, Jing Shao
arXiv AI
5d ago

Goal-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Tasks

The paper introduces Goal-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Collaboration (GAD), a framework that assigns distinct duties to separate agents with individualized contexts to tackle long-horizon tasks. It employs a growing execution graph to structure subtasks and their dependencies, ensuring each agent retains the original instruction, task goal, and acceptance conditions. GAD dynamically adapts collaboration and information sharing, using verification and recovery checks to monitor subtask results and overall task completion, providing feedback for repair when checks fail.

By Xu Shen, Lingyong Yan, Shuaiqiang Wang, Jianmin Wu, Zhikai Chen, Jiliang Tang, Jie Ren
arXiv AI
Sep 7

From Interaction Traces to Persistent Skills: Online Evolution for Computer-Use Agents

The paper introduces an online skill‑evolution framework that transforms interaction traces and evaluator feedback into a persistent, versioned library of reusable procedures for computer‑use agents. By executing each iteration against a frozen library snapshot, the system updates skills without altering the underlying model parameters. Experiments across four OSWorld domains show that the evolving library consistently outperforms an empty‑library baseline, with gains ranging from 5.7 to 18.6 percentage points, while also revealing domain‑specific temporal stability and challenges in skill retrieval and revision.

By Longtao Hu, Xiao Liang, Linchao Zhu