arXiv AI

SIRI: Self-Internalizing Reinforcement Learning with Intrinsic Skills for LLM Agent Training

arXiv:2606. 02355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents can benefit from reusable skills, yet existing skill-based methods often rely on external skill generators during training or persistent skill retrieval at inference, increasing engineering complexity, context length, and deployment latency.

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
6d ago

Latent On-Policy Self-Distillation

Enabling agents to learn from experience and internalize it into their policy has become a central problem in self-evolving AI. On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) offers an effective pathway by using a privileged self-teacher to provide dense supervision on the student's own trajectories; however, existing methods still rely heavily on designer-specified privileged artifacts (e.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

UCOB: Learning to Utilize and Evolve Agentic Skills via Credit-Aware On-Policy Bidirectional Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606. 29502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill memories can improve agentic reinforcement learning by reusing past experience as textual guidance, but retrieved skills are not oracular: they may help in one state while misleading the same policy in another.

By Songjun Tu, Chengdong Xu, Qichao Zhang, Yiwen Ma, Yaocheng Zhang, Linjing Li, Dong Li, Xiangyuan Lan, Dongbin Zhao
arXiv AI
Aug 7

Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 05245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reusable skills, which encapsulate the procedural knowledge required to solve real-world professional tasks, offer LLM-based agents a path toward self-evolution in expert domains.

By Muyang Ye, Tian Lan, Feihu Jiang, Yongshi Ye, Wuyunsiqin, Bin Zhu, Qianghuai Jia, Zhao Xu, Weihua Luo, Ye Wang, Jinyang Zhang, Longyue Wang, Lingfeng Bao
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Self-Play Meets Skill Evolution: Self-Evolving Search Agents that Pose, Solve, and Remember

arXiv:2607. 29468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-play agents can generate training problems without questions from target benchmarks, but their curricula lack persistent state: failures affect gradients yet do not explicitly shape future practice.

By Zenghuang Fu, Zhaoyang Li, Qiuyuan Ai, Haoyu Wu, Minghui Wu, Chenxu Zhao, Ante Wang, Guannan He, Changwei Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

SKILLER: Language-Level Reinforcement Learning for Reusable Skill Extraction in Small Language Models

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.

arXiv AI
Aug 12

SKILLER: Language-Level Reinforcement Learning for Reusable Skill Extraction in Small Language Models

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.

By Chenhao Dang, Siyuan Xiong, Conghui He, Weijia Li