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Evolving programmatic skill networks.arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03509

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We study continual skill acquisition in open-ended embodied environments where an agent must construct, refine, and reuse an expanding library of executable skills. We introduce the Programmatic Skill Network (PSN), a framework in which skills are executable symbolic programs forming a compositional network that evolves through experience. PSN defines three core mechanisms instantiated via large language models: (1)~\opreflect for structured fault localization over skill compositions, (2)~progressive optimization with maturity-aware update gating that stabilizes reliable skills while maintaining plasticity for uncertain ones, and (3)~canonical structural refactoring under rollback validation that maintains network compactness. We further show that PSN's learning dynamics exhibit structural parallels to neural network training. Experiments on MineDojo and Crafter demonstrate robust skill reuse, rapid adaptation, and strong generalization across open-ended task distributions.

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Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library

cs.LG · 2026-05-14 · conditional · novelty 6.0

EvoLib improves black-box LLM test-time performance by maintaining an evolving, self-scored library of reusable skills and insights, without parameter updates or ground-truth feedback.

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  • VideoWeaver: Evaluating and Evolving Skills for Agentic Long Video Generation cs.CV · 2026-06-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 42 · internal anchor

    Introduces VideoWeaver benchmark (16 categories, 285 cases) plus agent-as-judge and skill-evolution algorithm to assess and improve agentic long video generation across frameworks.

  • Mem-$\pi$: Adaptive Memory through Learning When and What to Generate cs.CL · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · none · ref 38 · internal anchor

    Mem-π is a framework using a dedicated model and decision-content decoupled RL to generate context-specific guidance on demand for LLM agents, outperforming retrieval baselines by over 30% on web navigation.

  • Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library cs.LG · 2026-05-14 · conditional · none · ref 27 · internal anchor

    EvoLib improves black-box LLM test-time performance by maintaining an evolving, self-scored library of reusable skills and insights, without parameter updates or ground-truth feedback.

  • A Comprehensive Survey on Agent Skills: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applications cs.IR · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 54 · 3 links · internal anchor

    A survey that defines agent skills as reusable procedural artifacts and reviews methods, resources, and applications across their representation, acquisition, retrieval, and evolution stages.