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Agent-Dice: Disentangling Knowledge Updates via Geometric Consensus for Agent Continual Learning

Computation and Language 2026-04-14 v4

Abstract

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents significantly extend the utility of LLMs by interacting with dynamic environments. However, enabling agents to continually learn new tasks without catastrophic forgetting remains a critical challenge, known as the stability-plasticity dilemma. In this work, we argue that this dilemma fundamentally arises from the failure to explicitly distinguish between common knowledge shared across tasks and conflicting knowledge introduced by task-specific interference. To address this, we propose Agent-Dice, a parameter fusion framework based on directional consensus evaluation. Concretely, Agent-Dice disentangles knowledge updates through a two-stage process: geometric consensus filtering to prune conflicting gradients, and curvature-based importance weighting to amplify shared semantics. We provide a rigorous theoretical analysis that establishes the validity of the proposed fusion scheme and offers insight into the origins of the stability-plasticity dilemma. Extensive experiments on GUI agents and tool-use agent domains demonstrate that Agent-Dice exhibits outstanding continual learning performance with minimal computational overhead and parameter updates. The codes are available at https://github.com/Wuzheng02/Agent-Dice.

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@article{arxiv.2601.03641,
  title  = {Agent-Dice: Disentangling Knowledge Updates via Geometric Consensus for Agent Continual Learning},
  author = {Zheng Wu and Xingyu Lou and Xinbei Ma and Yansi Li and Weiwen Liu and Weinan Zhang and Jun Wang and Zhuosheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03641},
  year   = {2026}
}
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