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Who Grades the Grader? Co-Evolving Evaluation Metrics and Skills for Self-Improving LLM Agents
Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui +4
The paper introduces a framework that co‑evolves evaluation metrics and the skills of LLM agents using an evolutionary loop guided by anchored reference sets, enabling transparent…
The Blind Curator: How a Biased Judge Silently Disables Skill Retirement in Self-Evolving Agents
Xing Zhang, Yanwei Cui, Guanghui Wang +4
A self-evolving agent retires its bad skills by watching them fail, so what happens when the judge cannot see the failures? Skill retirement is the structural constraint that keeps…
Library Drift: Diagnosing and Fixing a Silent Failure Mode in Self-Evolving LLM Skill Libraries
Xing Zhang, Yanwei Cui, Guanghui Wang +4
Self-evolving skill libraries face a silent failure mode we term \emph{library drift}: unbounded skill accumulation without outcome-driven lifecycle management causes retrieval deg…
Experience Compression Spectrum: Unifying Memory, Skills, and Rules in LLM Agents
Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui +4
As LLM agents scale to long-horizon, multi-session deployments, efficiently managing accumulated experience becomes a critical bottleneck. Agent memory systems and agent skill disc…
Closing the Feedback Loop: From Experience Extraction to Insight Governance in Verbal Reinforcement Learning
Yanwei Cui, Xing Zhang, Yulong Zhang +4
Training-free verbal reinforcement learning enables LLM agents to learn from world feedback -- objective signals such as dynamic task outcomes, market returns, or demand forecasts…
Guardrails Beat Guidance: A Large-Scale Study of Rules, Skills, and Persistent Configuration for Coding Agents
Xing Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Yanwei Cui +4
Random rules improve a coding agent's task performance as much as expert-curated ones (both pp on a discriminative subset of SWE-bench Verified), and in our data every indiv…