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Deep reinforcement learning has proven to be a great success in allowing agents to learn complex tasks. However, its application to actual robots can be prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, the unpredictability of human behavior in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mohammad Thabet , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Angelo Cangelosi

Geospatial modeling provides critical solutions for pressing global challenges such as sustainability and climate change. Existing large language model (LLM)-based algorithm discovery frameworks, such as AlphaEvolve, excel at evolving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Peng Luo , Xiayin Lou , Yu Zheng , Zhuo Zheng , Stefano Ermon

AI agents are increasingly deployed on complex, domain-specific workflows -- navigating enterprise web applications that require dozens of clicks and form fills, orchestrating multi-step research pipelines that span search, extraction, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Haebin Seong , Li Yin , Haoran Zhang , Zhan Shi

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven effective for closed-ended tasks, extending it to open-ended social language games via self-play reveals a critical issue: evolution impasse. Due to the vast strategy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Minzheng Wang , Run Luo , Yanbo Wang , Zichen Liu , Yuqiao Tan , Tao Tan , Xu Nan , Yinhe Zheng , Wenji Mao

Self-evolving agents should not train on examples they cannot justify. Data-free self-evolving search agents offer a scalable route to systems that generate their own questions, answer them, and improve from their own feedback without human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yamato Arai , Yuma Ichikawa

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but many methods still rely on large human-labeled datasets. While self-play reduces this dependency, it often lacks explicit planning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yulin Peng , Xinxin Zhu , Chenxing Wei , Nianbo Zeng , Leilei Wang , Ying Tiffany He , F. Richard Yu

Experience-driven self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the autonomy of large language model agents, yet its reliance on self-curated experience introduces underexplored safety risks. In this study, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weixiang Zhao , Yichen Zhang , Yingshuo Wang , Yang Deng , Yanyan Zhao , Xuda Zhi , Yongbo Huang , HaoHe , Wanxiang Che , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Long-horizon embodied intelligence requires agents to improve through interaction, not merely to execute plans generated from static goals. A central challenge is therefore to transform past executions into knowledge that can shape future…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengwei Xie , Zhisheng Chen , Ziyan Weng , Jinhan Li , Chenglong Li , Zikai Xiao , Jingwei Song , Jinhao Jing , Vireo Zhang , Kun Wang

Coding agents are increasingly used as general-purpose problem solvers, but their flexibility does not by itself confer the domain expertise needed for specialized tasks. Recent work addresses this through \textit{agent skills}: reusable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Salaheddin Alzubi , Noah Provenzano , Jaydon Bingham , Weiyuan Chen , Tu Vu

When deploying autonomous agents in the real world, we need effective ways of communicating objectives to them. Traditional skill learning has revolved around reinforcement and imitation learning, each with rigid constraints on the format…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Mark Woodward , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

Recent advances in large language models have sparked growing interest in AI agents capable of solving complex, real-world tasks. However, most existing agent systems rely on manually crafted configurations that remain static after…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinyuan Fang , Yanwen Peng , Xi Zhang , Yingxu Wang , Xinhao Yi , Guibin Zhang , Yi Xu , Bin Wu , Siwei Liu , Zihao Li , Zhaochun Ren , Nikos Aletras , Xi Wang , Han Zhou , Zaiqiao Meng

Most agents today ``self-evolve'' by following rewards and rules defined by humans. However, this process remains fundamentally dependent on external supervision; without human guidance, the evolution stops. In this work, we train agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qifan Zhang , Dongyang Ma , Tianqing Fang , Jia Li , Jing Tang , Nuo Chen , Haitao Mi , Yan Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) has become a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) in human-centric interaction. Beyond accurate recognition, coherent emotional expression is also crucial, yet both are limited by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shaowei Zhang , Faqiang Qian , Yan Chen , Ziliang Wang , Kang An , Yong Dai , Mengya Gao , Yichao Wu

Biological genotypes do not code directly for phenotypes; developmental physiology is the control layer that separates genomes from capacities ascertained by selection. A key aspect is competency, as cells are not a passive material but…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-01 Lakshwin Shreesha , Michael Levin

Humans naturally adapt to diverse environments by learning underlying rules across worlds with different dynamics, observations, and reward structures. In contrast, existing agents typically demonstrate improvements via self-evolving within…

The paradigm of automated program generation is shifting from one-shot generation to inference-time search, where Large Language Models (LLMs) function as semantic mutation operators within evolutionary loops. While effective, these systems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mert Cemri , Shubham Agrawal , Akshat Gupta , Shu Liu , Audrey Cheng , Qiuyang Mang , Ashwin Naren , Lutfi Eren Erdogan , Koushik Sen , Matei Zaharia , Alex Dimakis , Ion Stoica

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

We present Sparrow, an information-seeking dialogue agent trained to be more helpful, correct, and harmless compared to prompted language model baselines. We use reinforcement learning from human feedback to train our models with two new…

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely applied for solving dynamic constrained optimization problems (DCOPs) as a common area of research in evolutionary optimization. Current benchmarks proposed for testing these problems in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Maryam Hasani-Shoreh , María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin , Wilson Blaikie , Frank Neumann , Marc Schoenauer

Deep reinforcement learning has over the past few years shown great potential in learning near-optimal control in complex simulated environments with little visible information. Rainbow (Q-Learning) and PPO (Policy Optimisation) have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Per-Arne Andersen , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo