arXiv Computation and Language

SkillChain: Closing the Loop on Skill Evolution for Image-Based E-Commerce AI Assistants

SkillChain is a system designed to automate the lifecycle of skills for image-based AI assistants on e-commerce platforms. It operates in three stages—Skill Creator, Route Optimizer, and Body Refiner—to bootstrap skills from task specifications, align routing, and iteratively refine skill bodies using dual-path LLM-Judge evaluation. In production, SkillChain improves response quality, especially in structural compliance and content quality, and an online A/B test shows increased user engagement, content consumption, and long‑term retention.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

SkillNet is an open infrastructure that enables the creation, evaluation, and organization of AI skills at scale. It structures skills within a unified ontology, supports multi‑dimensional evaluation (Safety, Completeness, Executability, Maintainability, Cost‑awareness), and integrates a repository of over 600,000 skills, an interactive platform, and a Python toolkit. Experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld demonstrate a 40% increase in average rewards and a 30% reduction in execution steps across multiple backbone models.

By Yuan Liang, Ruobin Zhong, Haoming Xu, Chen Jiang, Yi Zhong, Runnan Fang, Jia-Chen Gu, Shumin Deng, Yunzhi Yao, Mengru Wang, Shuofei Qiao, Yida Xue, Xin Xu, Tongtong Wu, Kun Wang, Yang Liu, Zhen Bi, Jungang Lou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Hangcheng Zhu, Gang Yu, Haiwen Hong, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Chenxi Wang, Yijun Wang, Zifei Shan, Xi Chen, Zhaopeng Tu, Feiyu Xiong, Xin Xie, Peng Zhang, Zhengke Gui, Lei Liang, Jun Zhou, Chiyu Wu, Jin Shang, Yu Gong, Junyu Lin, Changliang Xu, Hongjie Deng, Wen Zhang, Keyan Ding, Qiang Zhang, Fei Huang, Ningyu Zhang, Jeff Z. Pan, Guilin Qi, Haofen Wang, Huajun Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

CV-Arena: An Open Benchmark for Instructional Computer Vision Problem Solving with Human-AI Collaborative Preferences

arXiv:2606. 00931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-guided image editing is becoming a general interface for visual work, yet existing benchmarks still focus largely on narrow appearance edits and do not fully capture the diversity of real-image tasks in professional workflows.

By Fangzhou Lin, Peiran Li, Lingyu Xu, Wenjing Chen, Qianwen Ge, Shuo Xing, Mingyang Wu, Xiangbo Gao, Siyuan Yang, Kazunori Yamada, Ziming Zhang, Haichong Zhang, Zhen Dong, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Zhengzhong Tu
arXiv AI
Sep 25

SEEK: Skill-Routed Evaluation with Evolvable Knowledge for Industrial Search

SEEK (Skill‑Routed Evaluation with Evolvable Knowledge) is a framework that externalizes search evaluation criteria into a skill bank, dynamically routes relevant skills for each query‑result pair, and uses a task‑adapted listwise evaluator to generate page‑level judgments and failure‑mode attribution. It employs a two‑stage training pipeline to align evaluation with human preferences and a replay‑gated skill bank to incorporate new evaluation knowledge without retraining the model. Experiments on industrial short‑video search demonstrate that SEEK improves listwise quality evaluation accuracy and significantly advances attribution diagnosis, leading to its deployment at Kuaishou with over 400 million daily active users.

By Zhongxin Huang, Songyang Li, Renzhe Zhou, Feiran Zhu, Chenglei Dai, Zhen Xiao, Xuanping Li, Jingwei Zhuo
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Representation Affects Retrieval: A Case Study of Skill Discovery and Routing in a Multimodal Agent Harness

The paper examines how skill representations influence selection in a multimodal video agent harness called Tinycloud. It compares two types of skill representations—tool-skills and workflow-skills—and two prompt surfaces—full inlined bodies and one-line listings—across three exposure regimes. The study finds that full autoload exposure consistently selects the correct skill, while partial exposure can cause lexical competition that misroutes tasks, highlighting that in-prompt exposure is not always beneficial.

By Kevin Dela Rosa
arXiv AI
Jun 17

A Framework for Evaluating Agentic Skills at Scale

arXiv:2606. 17819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills -- structured, reusable knowledge artifacts that augment LLM agent capabilities -- have been rapidly adopted in industry, yet their cross-domain impact and use across commercial and open-source models remain under-studied, and no reusable methodology exists for evaluating an individual skill.

By Maksim Shaposhnikov, Nicolas Fortuin, Simon Stipcich, Maria I. Gorinova, Amy Heineike, Rob Willoughby
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

KwaiMind Technical Report

KwaiMind is a commercial image editing system that combines general editing capabilities with e-commerce specialization. It uses an agent-based data engine with 1.8 million editing pairs and a multimodal diffusion transformer trained through pre‑training, fine‑tuning, preference optimization, and online reinforcement learning. The system is guided by a vision‑language judge and specialized rewards for click‑through rate, text rendering, and product consistency, and it achieves top scores on ImgEdit, GEdit, REDEdit, and the new Ecom‑Bench, while improving predicted and actual CTR in offline and online experiments.

By Junlong Wu, Zijun Li, Yuting Hu, Jia Sun, Pengcheng Wei, Yimin Zhou, Honglie Wang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Fei Zuo, Haixuan Gao, Lihui Peng, Tingxuan She, Yuqing Li, Boheng Zhang, Fan Yang, Wenwu Ou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 24

SEEK: Skill-Routed Evaluation with Evolvable Knowledge for Industrial Search

SEEK (Skill‑Routed Evaluation with Evolvable Knowledge) is a framework that externalizes search evaluation criteria into a skill bank, dynamically routes relevant skills for each query‑result pair, and uses a task‑adapted listwise evaluator to generate page‑level judgments and failure mode attribution. It employs a two‑stage training pipeline to align the evaluator with human preferences and a replay‑gated skill bank to incorporate new evaluation knowledge without retraining the model. Experiments on Kuaishou’s short‑video search demonstrate that SEEK improves listwise quality evaluation accuracy and enhances attribution diagnosis, leading to better online search evaluation at scale.