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While LLM-based agents excel at planning and executing long action sequences, their execution often remains inconsistent across trials, limiting reliability. Consolidating agent consistency requires distilling trial-error trajectories into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zihan Huang , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Qianqi Yan , Rohan Surana , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Lina Yao , Xin Eric Wang , Julian McAuley

Reusable skills let LLM agents package task-specific procedures, tool affordances, and execution guidance into modular building blocks. As skill ecosystems grow to tens of thousands of entries, exposing every skill at inference time becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 YanZhao Zheng , ZhenTao Zhang , Chao Ma , YuanQiang Yu , JiHuai Zhu , Yong Wu , Tianze Xu , Baohua Dong , Hangcheng Zhu , Ruohui Huang , Gang Yu

Scientific data visualization is pivotal for transforming raw data into comprehensible visual representations, enabling pattern recognition, forecasting, and the presentation of data-driven insights. However, novice users often face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kanika Goswami , Puneet Mathur , Ryan Rossi , Franck Dernoncourt

Software development is a complex, multi-phase process traditionally requiring collaboration among individuals with diverse expertise. We propose AgentMesh, a Python-based framework that uses multiple cooperating LLM-powered agents to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Sourena Khanzadeh

LLM agents increasingly adopt skills as a reusable unit of composition. While skills are shared across diverse agent platforms, current systems treat them as raw context, causing the same skill to behave inconsistently for different agents.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Le Chen , Erhu Feng , Yubin Xia , Haibo Chen

Large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems have shown promise for automated software development, but applying them to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) embedded and Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems remains challenging due to the tight…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yiming Li , Yuhan Cheng , Mingchen Ma , Yihang Zou , Ningyuan Yang , Wei Cheng , Hai "Helen" Li , Yiran Chen , Tingjun Chen

While reinforcement learning (RL) can empower autonomous agents by enabling self-improvement through interaction, its practical adoption remains challenging due to costly rollouts, limited task diversity, unreliable reward signals, and…

It is desirable for an agent to be able to solve a rich variety of problems that can be specified through language in the same environment. A popular approach towards obtaining such agents is to reuse skills learned in prior tasks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Geraud Nangue Tasse , Devon Jarvis , Steven James , Benjamin Rosman

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly extended at runtime via skill packages, structured natural-language instruction bundles loaded from a well-known directory. Community install tooling and registries exist, but two gaps…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sampriti Saha , Pranav Hemanth

AI agents can extend their capabilities at inference time by loading reusable skills into context, yet equipping an agent with too many skills, particularly irrelevant ones, degrades performance. As community-driven skill repositories grow,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Fangzhou Li , Pagkratios Tagkopoulos , Ilias Tagkopoulos

Deploying LLM-powered agents in enterprise scenarios such as cloud technical support demands high-quality, domain-specific skills. However, existing skill creators lack domain grounding, producing skills poorly aligned with real-world task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Xingyan Liu , Xiyue Luo , Linyu Li , Ganghong Huang , Jianfeng Liu , Honglin Qiao

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable advances in automated task-solving with multi-agent systems. However, most existing LLM-based multi-agent approaches rely on predefined agents to handle simple tasks, limiting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Guangyao Chen , Siwei Dong , Yu Shu , Ge Zhang , Jaward Sesay , Börje F. Karlsson , Jie Fu , Yemin Shi

Reusable skills are becoming a common interface for extending large language model agents, packaging procedural guidance with access to files, tools, memory, and execution environments. However, this modularity introduces attack surfaces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chang Jin , An Wang , Zeming Wei , Kai Wang , Biaojie Zeng , Qiaosheng Zhang , Chao Yang , Jingjing Qu , Xia Hu , Xingcheng Xu

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have revealed their potential for achieving autonomous agents possessing human-level intelligence. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating LLM Agents either use static datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Junzhe Chen , Xuming Hu , Shuodi Liu , Shiyu Huang , Wei-Wei Tu , Zhaofeng He , Lijie Wen

Small LLMs often struggle to match the agentic capabilities of large, costly models. While reinforcement learning can help, progress has been limited by two structural bottlenecks: existing open-source agentic training data are narrow in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yuanjie Lyu , Chengyu Wang , Lei Shen , Jun Huang , Tong Xu

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming automated program repair (APR) through agent-based approaches that localize bugs, generate patches, and verify fixes. However, the lack of high-quality, scalable training datasets, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Minh V. T. Pham , Huy N. Phan , Hoang N. Phan , Cuong Le Chi , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Synthetic data offers a scalable solution for vision-language pre-training, yet current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on scaling up a single generative backbone, which introduces generator-specific spectral biases and limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Leonardo Brusini , Cristian Sbrolli , Eugenio Lomurno , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Matteo Matteucci

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Llama3 have significantly impacted various fields by enabling high-quality synthetic data generation and reducing dependence on expensive human-generated datasets. Despite this, challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yue Huang , Siyuan Wu , Chujie Gao , Dongping Chen , Qihui Zhang , Yao Wan , Tianyi Zhou , Jianfeng Gao , Chaowei Xiao , Lichao Sun , Xiangliang Zhang

This technical report presents SkillTester, a tool for evaluating the utility and security of agent skills. Its evaluation framework combines paired baseline and with-skill execution conditions with a separate security probe suite. Grounded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Leye Wang , Zixing Wang , Anjie Xu

In the last few years, the research interest in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has grown significantly. VLN is a challenging task that involves an agent following human instructions and navigating in a previously unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Niyati Rawal , Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara