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The rapid advancement of Generative AI has catalyzed the emergence of autonomous AI agents, presenting unprecedented challenges for enterprise computing infrastructures. Current enterprise API architectures are predominantly designed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Vaibhav Tupe , Shrinath Thube

Test-time skill evolving is regarded as a new paradigm for enhancing deployed agentic systems. Existing works mainly focus on hard-coded skill evolving strategies or parametric learning that rely on expensive parameter updates in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xujun Li , Kehan Zheng , Mingyuan Zhao , Yize Geng , Jinfeng Zhou , Qi Zhu , Fei Mi , Lifeng Shang , Minlie Huang , Hongning Wang

General-purpose computer-use agents have shown impressive performance across diverse digital environments. However, our new benchmark, OSExpert-Eval, indicates they remain far less helpful than human experts. Although inference-time scaling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiateng Liu , Zhenhailong Wang , Rushi Wang , Bingxuan Li , Jeonghwan Kim , Aditi Tiwari , Pengfei Yu , Denghui Zhang , Heng Ji

Long-horizon LLM agents leave traces that could become reusable experience, but raw trajectories are noisy and hard to govern. We treat Agent Skills as an experience schema that couples executable scripts, with non-executable guidance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongyi Liu , Haoyan Yang , Tao Jiang , Bo Tang , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

Addressing intricate real-world problems necessitates in-depth information seeking and multi-step reasoning. Recent progress in agentic systems, exemplified by Deep Research, underscores the potential for autonomous multi-step research. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jialong Wu , Baixuan Li , Runnan Fang , Wenbiao Yin , Liwen Zhang , Zhengwei Tao , Dingchu Zhang , Zekun Xi , Gang Fu , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Skills are a promising way to improve LLM agent capabilities without retraining, while keeping the added procedure reusable and controllable. However, high-quality skills are still largely written by hand. We introduce SkillGen, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Han Bao , Haomin Zhuang , Swadheen Shukla , Michel Galley , Xiangliang Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

We present a scalable pipeline for automatically generating high-quality training data for web agents. In particular, a major challenge in identifying high-quality training instances is trajectory evaluation - quantifying how much progress…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Jaekyeom Kim , Sungryull Sohn , Creighton Glasscock , Honglak Lee

State-of-the-art multimodal web agents, powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), can autonomously execute many web tasks by processing user instructions and interacting with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Current strategies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Gaurav Verma , Rachneet Kaur , Nishan Srishankar , Zhen Zeng , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Third-party software, or skills, are essential components in Smart Personal Assistants (SPA). The number of skills has grown rapidly, dominated by a changing environment that has no clear business model. Skills can access personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jide S Edu , Xavier Ferrer-Aran , Jose M Such , Guillermo Suarez-Tangil

In this work, we propose MetaAgent, an agentic paradigm inspired by the principle of learning-by-doing, where expertise is developed through hands-on practice and continual self-improvement. MetaAgent starts with a minimal workflow,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hongjin Qian , Zheng Liu

We investigate whether giving LLM agents the collaborative tools and autonomy that humans naturally use for problem solving can improve their performance. We equip Claude Code agents with MCP-based social media and journaling tools and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Harper Reed , Michael Sugimura , Angelo Zangari

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks but remain fundamentally static, unable to adapt their internal parameters to novel tasks, evolving knowledge domains, or dynamic interaction…

Large language models are increasingly expected to serve as general-purpose agents that interact with external, stateful tool environments. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and broader agent skills offer a unified interface for connecting…

What is a useful skill hierarchy for an autonomous agent? We propose an answer based on a graphical representation of how the interaction between an agent and its environment may unfold. Our approach uses modularity maximisation as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Joshua B. Evans , Özgür Şimşek

Many businesses and consumers are extending the capabilities of voice-based services such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri to create custom voice experiences (also known as skills). As the number of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Sampat Biswas , Ryan Summers , Ahmed Elmalt , Andy McCraw , Michael McPhilips , John Peach

The rapid proliferation of scientific knowledge presents a grand challenge: transforming this vast repository of information into an active engine for discovery, especially in high-stakes domains like healthcare. Current AI agents, however,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinghao Zhu , Yifan Qi , Zixiang Wang , Lei Gu , Dehao Sui , Haoran Hu , Xichen Zhang , Ziyi He , Junjun He , Liantao Ma , Lequan Yu

AI agents are rapidly expanding in both capability and population: they now write code, operate computers across platforms, manage cloud infrastructure, and make purchasing decisions, while open-source frameworks such as OpenClaw are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiaohang Nie , Zihan Guo , Kezhuo Yang , Zhichong Zheng , Bochen Ge , Shuai Pan , Zeyi Chen , Youling Xiang , Yu Zhang , Weiwen Liu , Yuanjian Zhou , Weinan Zhang

Software Engineering Agents (SWE agents) can autonomously perform development tasks on benchmarks like SWE Bench, but still face challenges when tackling complex and ambiguous real-world tasks. Consequently, SWE agents are often designed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aayush Kumar , Yasharth Bajpai , Sumit Gulwani , Gustavo Soares , Emerson Murphy-Hill

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the ability to harness and integrate knowledge across various domains stands as a paramount challenge and opportunity. This study introduces a novel approach to cross-domain…

Skills, i.e., structured workflow instructions distilled for large language models (LLMs), are becoming an increasingly important mechanism for improving agent performance on real-world downstream tasks. However, as the open-source skill…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiahao Ying , Boxian Ai , Wei Tang , Siyuan Liu , Yixin Cao