2 papers
cs.AI2026
SkillProx: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Proximal Textual Gradient Descent
Mingxuan Zheng, Yujin Zhou, Chuxue Cao +6
LLM agents increasingly adapt to recurring tasks by accumulating procedural knowledge in skills. These skills are lightweight, reusable textual artifacts that are loaded into the a…
cs.CL2026
Not Just the Destination, But the Journey: Reasoning Traces Causally Shape Generalization Behaviors
Pengcheng Wen, Yanxu Zhu, Jiapeng Sun +5
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is often viewed as a window into LLM decision-making, yet recent work suggests it may function merely as post-hoc rationalization. This raises a critical ali…