agent adaptation 1contrastive learning 1knowledge transfer 1large language models 1skill distillation 1
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cs.AI2026
MerchantBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Long-Term Coherence in E-Commerce Operations
Qiming Shi, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin +10
Large language model agents are increasingly evaluated as autonomous tool users, yet most benchmarks focus on bounded tasks with immediate success criteria. Real-world deployments…
cs.AI2026
SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents
Qiming Shi, Yibo Dou, Jiawen Zhu +5
The paper introduces SKILL-KD, a contrastive skill distillation framework that creates explicit textual skill patches from teacher‑student failures to iteratively improve weaker LL…