arXiv Computation and Language

When Occupation-derived Skills Don't Help: On the Limits of Skill-Augmented Career Path Prediction

arXiv AI
Sep 30

From Lexical Baselines to Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Structured Skill and Responsibility-Level Extraction with the SFIA Framework

The paper introduces a structured approach to extracting skill and responsibility level pairs from free text using the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). It evaluates five methods—including lexical baselines, retrieval‑augmented generation, and multi‑agent crews—against expert‑mapped European ICT role profiles, finding that generative strategies are more precise and that only explicit level‑prediction strategies reliably assign responsibility levels. The study also releases an automated SFIA‑9 corpus and establishes the first reproducible baseline for level‑aware skill extraction.

By Ranuga Disansa, U. S. Samarasinghe, Lasith Gunawardena
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

Detecting Soft Skills in ML Engineering Roles CVs

arXiv:2608. 10046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft skills shape collaboration among ML engineers, data scientists, and software engineers building ML-enabled systems, yet what we know about them comes almost entirely from the demand side.

By Aidin Azamnouri, Nouran Ayad, Justus Bogner, Stefan Wagner
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Characterizing Model-Native Skills

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...

By Feiyang Kang, Mahavir Dabas, Myeongseob Ko, Ruoxi Jia
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Prompt2Skill: Unsupervised Skill Optimization From Natural Language Instructions

Prompt2Skill is an unsupervised framework that constructs skills for Large Language Models directly from natural‑language task descriptions. It automatically derives task specifications, discovers or synthesizes datasets, and refines the skill through a reflective editing loop. In experiments across question answering, reading comprehension, spreadsheet manipulation, and mathematical reasoning, Prompt2Skill outperforms direct prompting, improving performance by an average of 10.8 points on both open‑source and frontier models.

By Bo Ni, Li Li, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Tyler Derr
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Parametric Skills

Since intelligence fundamentally relies on efficient skill acquisition (Chollet, 2019), the ability to leverage skills is critical. For LLMs, skills, manually authored or extracted from task trajectories, are textual recipes encoding mature problem-solving experience and are critical to agentic capabilities.

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