arXiv AI

Recursive Experiential-Working Memory Evolution for Long-Horizon Agent Harnesses

The paper introduces Recuris, a recursive Experiential‑Working Memory architecture that lets long‑horizon agents track task progress and select skills based on current needs rather than full history. By coupling working memory with experiential memory, execution becomes structured evidence that localizes failures to specific memory components, enabling a bounded recursive memory‑evolution loop. Across four benchmarks and ten models, Recuris improves task success in 35 of 37 model‑benchmark pairs, raising state‑of‑the‑art performance on tau‑bench and SkillFlow and reducing common long‑horizon failures by up to 80%.

arXiv AI
Sep 3

CHIME: Credit-Aware Hierarchical Memory Evolution for Long-Horizon Agentic Planning

CHIME introduces a credit‑aware hierarchical memory evolution framework that separates planning and execution experiences into distinct memory banks. By attributing each task outcome to the plan, execution, both, or neither before memorization, CHIME mitigates bias from noisy final outcomes and improves long‑horizon agent planning. Experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that CHIME outperforms existing training‑based and self‑evolving memory methods, requires fewer memory items, and transfers effectively across backbone models.

By Yongshi Ye, Tian Lan, Feihu Jiang, Muyang Ye, Bin Zhu, Qianghuai Jia, Longyue Wang, Zhao Xu, Weihua Luo, Xiaodong Shi
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
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Self-Evolving Harness on Multiple Tasks with the Agent as Its Own Optimizer

The paper introduces a self‑evolving harness framework where a frozen language‑model agent first solves tasks and then edits its own harness based on run records. Using a 49‑line seed harness, the evolved harness improves average scores on in‑distribution benchmarks by 4.48 points and on out‑of‑distribution benchmarks by 12.64 points, surpassing Codex on the former and matching it on the latter. Continued evolution on a specific out‑of‑distribution benchmark further raises performance, and the study analyzes emergent mechanisms such as output truncation and history compaction.

By Qiankai Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses

The paper introduces Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses (RRSI), a method that applies regularization principles to the iterative editing of an LLM agent’s harness—prompts, control flow, tooling, memory, and context management. RRSI limits the number of edits per candidate, encourages novel trajectories, and uses a critic and pruner to filter out benchmark‑specific or ineffective changes, thereby favoring reusable agent mechanisms. Experiments on eight benchmarks show RRSI improves performance by up to 14.1 points on the training split and 4.7 points on out‑of‑distribution tests, while reducing policy token usage by 30% compared to unregularized evolution.

By Peng Xia, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang, Yanfei Chen, Yufan Zhang, Yoonho Lee, Chengsong Huang, Han Yu, Zhongying CuiZhu, Yifei Ming, Huaxiu Yao, Burak Gokturk, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee
arXiv AI
Aug 25

CONTRAMEM: Learning Self-Evolving Procedural Memory from Contrasting Multi-Model Trajectories

arXiv:2608.22533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous computer-use agents are increasingly applied to long-horizon tasks requiring coordinated application calls, persistent state tracking, and v...

By Zheyuan Deng, Binghang Lu, Hanqi Feng, Shirley Huang, Dianzhuo Wang, Yuanda Xu, Zhiwei Zhang, Yige Sun, Changhong Mou, Runyu Zhang, Yuexing Hao, Barnabas Poczos, Xiaomin Li
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

Remember When It Matters: Proactive Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Agents

In long-horizon tasks, decision-relevant state is often scattered across an expanding trajectory, while the action agent must surface it and act. As trajectories grow, task requirements, environment facts, prior attempts, diagnoses, and open subgoals can be buried in the context window or pushed beyond it, failing to influence decisions when needed.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

Breaking the Environment Wall: Evolving LLM Agent Environments for Recursive Self-Improvement

The paper introduces Env‑Rethink, a 27B post‑trained model system designed to help large language model agents better interact with complex, evolving environments. It builds Collection Maps and Event Logs to organize scattered information, uses offline trajectory learning to detect noise, and generates virtual event histories to evolve environments for more challenging tasks. Experiments show that Env‑Rethink improves downstream task performance by over 15.1% rubric pass rate across nine models on 30 tasks.

By Yukai Wu, Yuanjing Yang, Le Zhou, Shaokun Han, Haoyu Wang, Zirui Tang, Weihuang Zheng, Maxm Pan, Xuanhe Zhou, Fan Wu