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SkillProx: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Proximal Textual Gradient Descent
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- SkillProx refines LLM agent skills through proximal gradient descent, combining diagnostic feedback loops with utility-aware consolidation to improve task accuracy by 3 percentage points.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building LLM agents that accumulate reusable procedural knowledge and need to improve skill quality without retraining model weights.
- Watch out
- Paper is recent preprint with no indicated code release or reproduction details yet available; real-world applicability across diverse agent architectures remains unvalidated.
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