The paper argues that open‑world AI requires three core capabilities: inference‑time learning, rich representations that capture more than IID generalization, and predictive disentanglement aligning inputs and outputs into low‑dimensional groups. It derives these needs from modeling tasks as sharing latent factors and shows that language models meeting these criteria improve with related data, while others degrade. The study tests these claims on up to 8B‑parameter language models, focusing on qualitative properties rather than quantitative performance.
arXiv:2607. 04409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning and planning in imagination using world models provides an effective paradigm for training agents for decision-making.
arXiv:2606. 16774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equipping Large Language Model (LLM) agents with effective skills is crucial for solving complex tasks in real-world systems like OpenClaw.
arXiv:2511. 20639v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) extend large language models (LLMs) from independent single-model reasoning to coordinative system-level intelligence.
arXiv:2604. 24594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) evolve into agentic problem solvers, they increasingly rely on external, reusable skills to handle tasks beyond their native parametric capabilities.
arXiv:2608. 10538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills represent a standardized format for packaging procedural knowledge and domain expertise, serving within agent harness systems as an essential mechanism to continually constrain a language model's behavior space for repeatable, high-quality task execution.
arXiv:2606. 02027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot learning must produce policies that generalize to new combinations of constraints, teammates, and environments.
The paper introduces Skill Abstraction with Interpretable Latents (SAIL), a method that models human skill as a persistent, multi‑dimensional construct inferred from naturalistic behavior over time. SAIL produces a robust skill embedding that blends expert and novice bases, learns transferable subskills through counterfactual subskill swaps, and supports skill‑informed behavior prediction across various in‑domain contexts. Experiments on racing and baseball demonstrate that SAIL achieves strong predictive performance, improves behaviorally grounded disentanglement compared to baselines, and enhances downstream AI coaching outcomes.
arXiv:2604.17614v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Skills are a natural unit for describing what a language model can do and how its behavior can be changed. However, existing characterization...
arXiv:2610.18868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon agents have drawn growing attention for their ability to work autonomously -- from hours to days -- on economically valuable tasks, a ca...
arXiv:2609.27717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-written agent skills encode rich workflows for real-world problem solving, but are typically used as external inference-time instructions rather...
arXiv:2501. 14622v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning efficient representations for decision-making policies is a challenge in imitation learning (IL).
Agent skills represent a standardized format for packaging procedural knowledge and domain expertise, serving within agent harness systems as an essential mechanism to continually constrain a language model's behavior space for repeatable, high-quality task execution. However, because strong closed-source models entail high inference costs, current popular agent harnesses, such as Codex and OpenClaw, remain prohibitively expensive when deploying these skills to accomplish real-world tasks.