arXiv:2608. 19880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents learn by interacting with environments, yet these environments are hand-built and static: blind to an agent's weaknesses, and quickly left behind as it improves.
By Chengsong Huang, Zifeng Wang, Rujun Han, Jun Yan, Yanfei Chen, Zoey CuiZhu, Ke Jiang, Peng Xia, Han Yu, Yufan Zhuang, Yifei Ming, Jiaqi Pan, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiaxin Huang, Burak Gokturk, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee
arXiv:2609.05576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paradigm of LLMs has rapidly shifted from passive language interfaces to autonomous Claw-like agents that execute long-horizon tasks across statefu...
By Yirong Zeng, Shen You, Jinhang Feng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Hao Cong, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Wang Xu, Bibo Cai
LLM agents learn by interacting with environments, yet these environments are hand-built and static: blind to an agent's weaknesses, and quickly left behind as it improves. While recent environment generation methods attempt to address this, they require domain-specific pipelines, rely on expensive or unreliable verifiers, and still produce static environments.
arXiv:2606. 00619v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon autonomous agents require memory systems to retain historical information, track evolving states, and reuse relevant knowledge beyond finite context windows.
By Qingshan Liu, Guoqing Wang, Wen Wu, Jingqi Huang, Xinqi Tao, Dejia Song, Jie Zhou, Liang He
The paper introduces ALIGN, a lightweight framework that automatically generates enriched interfaces to reduce agent‑environment misalignment in large language model agents. By augmenting static environment information and step‑wise observations, ALIGN improves performance across diverse tasks such as embodied navigation, web browsing, and tool use, achieving up to a 45.67% success rate increase in ALFWorld. The method works without altering agent logic or environment code and generalizes across different agent architectures and LLM backbones.
By Kaiming Liu, Xuanyu Lei, Ziyue Wang, Peng Li, Yang Liu
EvoUndo is a framework that enables large language model agents to self‑evolve—modifying prompts, tools, and execution harnesses—while ensuring that these changes can be reliably reversed across different states. The study evaluates EvoUndo on 600 unseen one‑shot self‑evolution tasks, finding that 197 capability‑improving mutations fail recoverability checks. By extending the recovery language and adding exact state‑address diagnostics, the framework recovers up to 191 out of 197 failures, demonstrating that robust self‑evolution requires co‑designing verification, grounding, witness semantics, and recovery expressivity.
By Tanmay Sah, Dolly Sah, Harshul Jain, Tanya Sah
Darwin‑Claw is a new framework for large language model agents that enables environment‑adaptive, self‑evolving behavior. It systematically distills episodic experiences into prototype vectors through a hierarchical experience consolidation system, providing context‑sensitive perception patches and explicit optimization signals for skill refinement. The method is deployable with mainstream agent systems and, according to experiments on WildClawBench, delivers significant performance gains while maintaining controllability and stability.
By Mingze Yin, Xiaohan Wang, Dian Li, Longfei Luo, Jiahong Yan, Yiheng Zhu, Chang-Yu Hsieh
arXiv:2610.07832v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) equipped with terminal access have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks. However, e...
By Haibo Jin, Xinjie Li, Peng Kuang, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2610.15765v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language model agents are emerging as an important new class of users of desktop applications. However, existing desktop interfaces were design...
By Alan Wu, Wei Tao, Yiwen Guo
Terminal-Universe is a framework that transforms large collections of terminal‑based agent trajectories into reusable, executable environments. By replaying recorded file operations and completing missing files, it reconstructs the original workspace and task, then synthesizes new tasks and multi‑round interactions. The resulting 37.3k task‑sufficient environments enable significant performance gains when fine‑tuning language models on terminal‑based benchmarks.
By Jie Wu, Zhenru Zhang, Beichen Zhang, Xuwu Wang, Yuhui Su, Mouxiang Chen, Peng Wang, Zhihai Wang, Que Shen, Hao Zhou, An Yang, Fei Huang, Yujiu Yang, Dayiheng Liu
arXiv:2606. 28374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly improved without weight updates by evolving a natural-language artifact, such as reflections, workflows, playbooks, cheatsheets, or optimized prompts, that conditions a frozen policy.
By Michael Nguyen, Quoc Nguyen, Paul Vuong
SPADE (Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments) is a reinforcement‑learning framework where a single large language model acts as both an Environment Designer—creating executable, long‑horizon training environments—and a Reasoning Agent—learning to act within those environments. The framework uses a regret signal based on the difference between rewarded performance with and without privileged hints to guide the Designer toward environments that are challenging yet solvable. Experiments show that, when scaled to 30‑billion‑parameter models, SPADE outperforms fixed‑environment baselines by significant margins across math, science, code, and reasoning benchmarks, and improves tool‑use performance on BFCL‑v4 and ACEBench‑Agent.
whyItMatters":"By making environment design a learnable component, SPADE enables continuous self‑improvement and demonstrates that adaptive, self‑generated training environments can substantially boost language‑model performance across diverse tasks."
By Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang, Ao Qu, Andrew Zhao, Zichen Liu, Junsu Kim, Zijian Zhou, Seungone Kim, Tongzheng Ren, Mickel Liu, Hanfei Yu, Zhaorun Chen, Weiyan Shi, Paul Pu Liang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yejin Choi, Natasha Jaques