arXiv AI

From Trajectories to Differentiated Skills: Cognitive Differentiation for Self-Improving Agents

arXiv AI
Sep 25

A Wrong Turn Does Not Ruin the Journey: Deviation-Guided Skill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

The paper introduces SkillPivot, a framework that guides large language model agents to evolve their skills by pinpointing the exact moment a useful problem‑solving sequence turns into an erroneous suffix. SkillPivot uses execution validity, goal progress, and action diversity to detect this deviation point, then employs a stronger teacher to generate a successful alternative from the same prefix. By contrasting the failed and successful suffixes, the method produces localized, compact skill updates that preserve existing effective guidance, outperforming other skill‑evolution techniques on benchmarks such as ToolQA, LogicBench, and WildClawBench.

By Yichun Feng, Jiawei Wang, Haozhe Sun
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Darwin-Claw: Environment-Adaptive Experience Consolidation for Recursively Self-Evolving Agents

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 Computation and Language
Oct 27

Hierarchical Skill Evolution for Coding Agent

arXiv:2610.35616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skills provide agents with reusable experience to guide future decisions without modifying the underlying model. However, coding trajectories are often...

By Jun Gao, Yun Peng, Changhai Zhou, Yuhan Zhu, Xiangyu Zeng, Shiyang Zhang Yuhua Zhou, Luozheng Qin, Qian Qiao, Xiaoteng Ma, Baian Chen Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jack Jiang, Lizhi Liao, Xiaoxue Ren
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 24

A Wrong Turn Does Not Ruin the Journey: Deviation-Guided Skill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

The paper introduces SkillPivot, a framework that guides large language model agents to improve their natural-language skills by focusing on the point where a successful solution path deviates into an error. SkillPivot identifies this transition using execution validity, goal progress, and action diversity, then employs a stronger teacher to generate a successful alternative from the same prefix. By contrasting the failed and successful suffixes, the method produces localized, compact skill updates that preserve existing effective guidance and outperform other skill-evolution approaches on multiple benchmarks.

arXiv AI
Aug 12

CoEvoSkills: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Co-Evolutionary Verification

arXiv:2604. 01687v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Anthropic proposes the concept of skills for LLM agents to tackle multi-step professional tasks that simple tool invocations cannot address.

By Hanrong Zhang (Steve), Shicheng Fan (Steve), Henry Peng Zou (Steve), Yankai Chen (Steve), Zhenting Wang (Steve), Jiayu Zhou (Steve), Chengze Li (Steve), Wei-Chieh Huang (Steve), Yifei Yao (Steve), Kening Zheng (Steve), Xue (Steve), Liu, Xiaoxiao Li, Philip S. Yu