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WISE-Flow: Workflow-Induced Structured Experience for Self-Evolving Conversational Service Agents

Computation and Language 2026-01-14 v1

Abstract

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are widely deployed in user-facing services but remain error-prone in new tasks, tend to repeat the same failure patterns, and show substantial run-to-run variability. Fixing failures via environment-specific training or manual patching is costly and hard to scale. To enable self-evolving agents in user-facing service environments, we propose WISE-Flow, a workflow-centric framework that converts historical service interactions into reusable procedural experience by inducing workflows with prerequisite-augmented action blocks. At deployment, WISE-Flow aligns the agent's execution trajectory to retrieved workflows and performs prerequisite-aware feasibility reasoning to achieve state-grounded next actions. Experiments on ToolSandbox and τ2\tau^2-bench show consistent improvement across base models.

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@article{arxiv.2601.08158,
  title  = {WISE-Flow: Workflow-Induced Structured Experience for Self-Evolving Conversational Service Agents},
  author = {Yuqing Zhou and Zhuoer Wang and Jie Yuan and Hong Wang and Samson Koelle and Ziwei Zhu and Wei Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08158},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages

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