arXiv AI

SKILL.state: Scalable Long-Horizon Agent Skills

SKILL.state is a new runtime architecture for large language model agents that replaces the traditional append‑only conversational history with an explicit, mutable execution state. At each step the model receives only the immutable skill specification, the current structured state, and the latest observation, discarding intermediate reasoning after validating state updates. Experiments across datasets, models, and environments show that SKILL.state improves task accuracy and significantly reduces cumulative token consumption, proving that explicit execution state is a scalable, architecture‑agnostic abstraction for long‑horizon agent skills.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

Learning What to Retain: Gated-Memory Routing for Efficient Collaboration in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

The paper introduces Gated-Memory Routing, a method for efficient collaboration in multi‑agent large language model systems. It uses a learned execution memory with write and retrieval gates to keep only non‑redundant reasoning steps, and an adaptive halting controller to stop execution when enough evidence is gathered. Experiments on five reasoning and code‑generation benchmarks show the approach achieves higher accuracy and reduces inference cost by 31.9% compared to the strongest baseline.

By Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Mengxing Zheng, Qian Lou
arXiv AI
Jun 15

From Chatbot to Digital Colleague: The Paradigm Shift Toward Persistent Autonomous AI

arXiv:2606. 14502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are undergoing a fundamental transformation from conversational generators into integrated AI systems capable of reasoning, action, memory, and self-improvement.

By Yongheng Zhang, Ziang Liu, Jiaxuan Zhu, Shuai Wang, Xiangqi Chen, Haojing Huang, Jiayi Kuang, Siyu Chen, Ao Shen, Hao Wu, Qiufeng Wang, Qian-Wen Zhang, Junnan Dong, Wenhao Jiang, Ying Shen, Hai-Tao Zheng, Yinghui Li, Di Yin, Xing Sun, Philip S. Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 30

CaveAgent: Transforming LLMs into Stateful Runtime Operators

arXiv:2601. 01569v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly capable of complex task execution, yet current agentic systems remain constrained by text-centric paradigms that struggle with long-horizon tasks due to fragile multi-turn dependencies and context drift.

By Maohao Ran, Zhenglin Wan, Cooper Lin, Yanting Zhang, Hongyu Xin, Hongwei Fan, Yibo Xu, Beier Luo, Yaxin Zhou, Wangbo Zhao, Lijie Yang, Lang Feng, Fuchao Yang, Jingxuan Wu, Yiqiao Huang, Chendong Ma, Yusen Huang, Dailing Jiang, Jianbo Deng, Sirui Han, Yang You, Bo An, Yike Guo, Jun Song
arXiv AI
Sep 4

SimSkill: A Lifelong Learning AI Agent for Autonomous Mastery of Traffic Simulation

SimSkill is a lifelong learning AI agent that uses the SUMO traffic simulator to autonomously identify gaps in its capabilities, generate and solve tasks grounded in the environment, and verify solutions through an action‑critic loop. It consolidates experience into episodic, procedural, and semantic memory without updating its backbone language model, creating a reusable library for traffic‑simulation workflows. Evaluations on two benchmarks with three different LLM backbones show that SimSkill can improve verified completion rates by up to 25 percentage points, with procedural and semantic memory contributing complementarily to performance.

By Qi Liu, Qinzheng Wang, Yiming Bie
arXiv AI
Sep 3

APEx: Distillation of Agent Procedural Experience for Adaptive Deep Research Question Answering

APEx is a hierarchical framework that organizes a deep research agent’s interaction history into instance-level trajectory memories and category-level procedural skills. It couples these through an Executor, Distiller, and Planner, trained with a three-stage alternating GRPO paradigm to enable reward-guided skill distillation. At test time, distilled skills act as procedural priors for online Planner adaptation via skill-guided reinforcement learning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on seven benchmarks, outperforming GPT‑5.4 by 14.7 points and the best memory‑augmented baseline by 3.0 points.

By Jie Ding, Rui Sun, Xinyuan Zhang, Zeyu Zhang, Xin Liu