arXiv AI

SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents

arXiv:2607. 28048v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skill-based prompting has become a practical mechanism for improving large language model (LLM) agents, yet existing skill acquisition methods often treat skills as experience summaries, memory entries, or direct summaries of successful demonstrations.

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Jun 10

SkillJuror: Measuring How Agent Skill Organization Changes Runtime Behavior

Agent Skills augment large language model (LLM) agents with procedural knowledge at inference time, but current benchmarks rarely distinguish what a Skill says from how it is organized. We study this distinction through Progressive Disclosure, where a concise root file points agents to supporting resources on demand, and compare it with a normalized flat baseline.

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
Jul 28

From Proprietary to Open-Source: Bridging the Distribution Gap via Multi-Agent Protocol Distillation in Agentic Search

arXiv:2607. 24280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic search enables large language models to solve knowledge-intensive tasks by interleaving multi-step reasoning with retrieval, yet optimizing this with outcome-based reinforcement learning (RL) provides only sparse supervision.

By Junlin Liu, Jiangwang Chen, Zixin Song, Shuaiyu Zhou, Chunji Lv, Hank Wu, Kailin Jiang, Jinyang Wu, Bohan Yu, Chenxi Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

SkillAligner: Treating Retrieved Skills as Adaptable Drafts at Execution Time

arXiv:2608. 06880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose skills promise reusable procedural knowledge for language agents, yet semantic relevance does not guarantee execution utility: a retrieved skill may encode assumptions that conflict with the current task, execution environment, or other retrieved skills.

By Qinfeng Li, Dalin He, Yuntai Bao, Ying Yang, Ruoxi Chen, Xinyan Yu, Lizhou Liang, Ge Su, Wenqi Zhang, Xuhong Zhang