arXiv Machine Learning

PRACTICE: From Experience to Expertise in Self-Evolving Embodied Agents

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

SkillRL is a framework that enhances large language model agents by automatically discovering and evolving skills from raw experience. It builds a hierarchical skill library called SkillBank, uses an adaptive retrieval strategy for heuristics, and allows the skill library to co‑evolve with the agent’s policy during reinforcement learning. These techniques reduce token usage and improve reasoning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on ALFWorld, WebShop, and seven search‑augmented tasks, outperforming baselines by 15.3% and remaining robust as task complexity grows.

By Peng Xia, Jianwen Chen, Hanyang Wang, Jiaqi Liu, Kaide Zeng, Yu Wang, Siwei Han, Yiyang Zhou, Xujiang Zhao, Haifeng Chen, Zeyu Zheng, Cihang Xie, Huaxiu Yao
arXiv AI
Aug 7

SkillMemo: Expert-guided Skill Memory Framework for Compositional Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on robotic manipulation benchmarks.

By Changyuan Wang, Chubin Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Runhao Li, Angyuan Ma, Ke Chao, Yinan Liang, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Yansong Tang, Jiwen Lu
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL) is an agent-centered architecture that transforms a few successful demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks, enabling a robot to compose, execute, and revise behaviors in new scenes without task-specific policy retraining. The system maintains a Skill Library and structured Experience Memory to capture successes, failures, and repairs, allowing persistent reuse and agent-directed adaptation. Evaluation on the LIBERO benchmark shows state-of-the-art performance, and the authors propose a scaling-law hypothesis suggesting that accumulated reusable experience reduces future-task error and teaching demand following a power-law trend.

By Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 30

From Learner Behavior to Reusable Skills for Effective and Efficient Learner Simulation

The paper introduces Learner2Skill, a method that transforms historical learner interactions into a reusable Simulation Skill. This Skill encapsulates a learner’s current state and recurring response patterns, allowing it to evolve with new interactions and be adapted to different LLMs without reconstructing the learner from scratch. Experiments demonstrate that Learner2Skill more accurately reproduces fine‑grained learner behavior while reducing token costs and enabling cross‑LLM reuse.

By Zijian Chen, Zheng Zhang, Miao Jia, Xingchen Hu, Weibo Gao, Linan Yue