While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel as static solvers, transforming them into autonomous agents remains challenging. This transition requires continuous environmental interaction, yet current agents lack the necessary persistent procedural memory.
arXiv:2606. 06787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise as tool-using agents but remain limited in long-horizon tasks that require remembering, organizing, and reusing knowledge.
By Runzhe Wang, Huilin Lu, Shengjie Liu, Li Dong, Jason Zhu
arXiv:2605. 24828v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the continuous advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), intelligent agents are becoming increasingly vital.
By Wentong Chen, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Yaxi Lu, Siyuan Zhao, Yesai Wu, Qinyu Luo, Haotian Chen, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
Rep2Skill introduces a representation-guided framework that enables large language model agents to self-evolve their textual skills by analyzing internal representation trajectories from agent rollouts. The method identifies execution turns that deviate from successful dynamics and uses these signals, together with execution contexts, as actionable feedback for targeted skill revision. Experiments with two open-source LLMs across two agent environments demonstrate that Rep2Skill consistently outperforms purely text-based approaches, showing that incorporating internal representations can enhance agent self-improvement.
By Kaixing Zhang, Changming Li, Yingdong Shi, Zheng Zhang, Kaitao Song, Wenjie Shi, Jingang Wang, Kan Ren
arXiv:2608.29459v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Skills, as a useful abstraction for the procedural capabilities of large language models (LLMs), capture how models perform structured, multi-step reas...
By Xunyi Jiang, Junda Wu, Yuxin Xiong, Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, David Arbour, Ritwik Sinha, Julian McAuley, Hongyi Wen
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