arXiv AI By Gaoyuan Li, Meihao Fan, Yizhe Liu, Shaolei Zhang, Ju Fan, Siyi Wang, Jiaheng Hou, Xudong Weng, Honghan Tian, Zang Li

SkillAdam: Stable and Efficient Skill Evolution for Agents

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arXiv AI
Oct 1

Rep2Skill: Representation-Guided Skill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

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 AI
Oct 27

MultiEvoSkill: Structure-Aware Multi-Agent Skill Evolution for Generalizable Skill Artifacts

MultiEvoSkill is a skill‑optimization framework that transforms skill documents into typed graphs, enabling explicit procedural topology and parallel branches. It employs a heterogeneous agent system to generate revision suggestions based on diverse experiences, and a structure‑aware debate mechanism to resolve edits while respecting dependencies and importance constraints. Experiments show that this approach outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods and improves cross‑model generalization of skill artifacts.

By Kounianhua Du, Jianxing Liu, Ruoshui Shan, Yucheng Zhang, Ke Li, Xing Sun, Weinan Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

SkillSpec: Consensus-Gated Agent Skill Evolution via Representation Specialization

SkillSpec is a two‑phase framework for evolving natural‑language skills in large language model agents. The first phase, consensus‑gated evolution, generates candidate skills from complementary editing intents and commits updates only when paired evaluations reach consensus on overall improvement and non‑negative aggregate gain. The second phase, representation specialization, uses signals from the optimization trajectory to choose an appropriate flat, graph, or hybrid structure for the skill, improving success rates by an average of 6.89% over SkillOpt across six benchmarks and three target language models.

By Huancheng Chen, Xiaodi Sun, Zhaoqiong Huang, Shenyang Huang Shreya Singhal, Jingwen Lu
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
Oct 3

SkillEvoLean: Mutation-enhanced skill evolution for Lean provers

SkillEvoLean introduces a mutation‑enhanced skill evolution framework for Lean theorem provers, jointly refining a high‑level solving policy and its reference knowledge. The method combines progressive updates from successful and failed proof trajectories with mutation‑based exploration when no complete proof is found, sampling mathematical concepts to generate new skill candidates. Evaluations on MiniF2F, PutnamBench, IMO 2025, and USAMO 2026 show significant proof success improvements over baseline approaches.

By Kuo Zhou, ZiXion Yang, Lu Zhang