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Skill-Pro: Learning Reusable Skills from Experience via Non-Parametric PPO for LLM Agents

Artificial Intelligence 2026-05-29 v3

Abstract

LLM-driven agents excel at sequential decision-making but often rely on on-the-fly reasoning, re-deriving solutions even in recurring scenarios. This insufficient experience reuse leads to computational redundancy and instability. To bridge this gap, we propose Skill-Pro, a framework enabling agents to autonomously learn reusable procedural skills from interaction experiences without parameter updates. By formalizing a Skill-MDP, Skill-Pro transforms passive episodic narratives into executable Skills defined by activation, execution, and termination conditions to ensure executability. To achieve reliable reusability without capability degradation, we introduce Non-Parametric PPO, which leverages semantic gradients for high-quality candidate generation and a PPO Gate for robust Skill verification. Through score-based maintenance, Skill-Pro sustains compact, high-quality procedural memory. Experimental results across in-domain, cross-task, and cross-agent scenarios demonstrate that Skill-Pro achieves superior reuse rates and significant gains with extreme memory compression. Visualized evolutionary trajectories and Skill distributions further reveal how Skill-Pro transparently accumulates, refines, and reuses procedural knowledge to facilitate long-term autonomy.

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@article{arxiv.2602.01869,
  title  = {Skill-Pro: Learning Reusable Skills from Experience via Non-Parametric PPO for LLM Agents},
  author = {Qirui Mi and Zhijian Ma and Mengyue Yang and Haoxuan Li and Yisen Wang and Haifeng Zhang and Jun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01869},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted at ICML 2026 (spotlight); 22 Pages, 6 Figures, 5 Tables

R2 v1 2026-07-01T09:31:25.597Z