让智能体同时优化指令和工具,失败时精准定位问题根源。
EGL-SCA: Structural Credit Assignment for Co-Evolving Instructions and Tools in Graph Reasoning Agents

- 双空间协同:指令策略与可执行工具并行优化
- 92.0%平均成功率,超越纯提示与固定工具基线
- 失败归因精准:自动区分该改指令还是修工具
从自然语言输入出发的图推理智能体需解决耦合问题:从文本重建结构化图、判断现有计算资源是否充足、在严格执行协议下调用工具,并通过外部验证器检查结构正确性而非文本合理性。现有方法通常孤立优化指令或工具,失败后难以确定改进方向。本文提出EGL-SCA,一种以验证器为中心的双空间框架,将智能体建模为两个协作组件:指令侧策略空间(用于推理策略)和工具侧程序空间(用于可执行算法工具)。核心机制为结构化信用分配,将轨迹证据映射至条件更新,精确将失败归因于提示优化或工具合成修复。为提供充分学习信号,引入按任务族分层的训练分布,结合帕累托风格保留策略,平衡成功、泛化与简洁性。在四个图推理基准上的实验表明,EGL-SCA实现92.0%的平均成功率,显著优于纯提示与固定工具箱基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Graph reasoning agents operating from natural-language inputs must solve a coupled problem: they must reconstruct a structured graph instance from text, decide whether existing computational assets are sufficient, interact with tools under a strict execution protocol, and satisfy an external verifier that checks structured correctness rather than textual plausibility. Existing approaches usually improve either the instruction side or the tool side in isolation, which leaves unclear what should be updated after failure. We propose EGL-SCA, a verifier-centric dual-space framework that models a graph reasoning agent using two collaborative components: an instruction-side policy space for reasoning strategies, and a tool-side program space for executable algorithmic tools. Our central mechanism is structural credit assignment, which maps trajectory evidence to conditional updates, precisely routing failures to either prompt optimization or tool synthesis and repair. To provide sufficient learning signals for dual-space adaptation, we introduce a training distribution stratified by task family, coupled with a Pareto-style retention strategy to balance success, generality, and parsimony. Experiments on four graph reasoning benchmarks show that EGL-SCA achieves a state-of-the-art 92.0\% average success rate. By effectively co-evolving instructions and tools, our framework significantly outperforms both pure-prompting and fixed-toolbox baselines.
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