让医疗智能体像医生一样积累经验,自动提炼有用技能。
Experience Makes Skillful: Enabling Generalizable Medical Agent Reasoning via Self-Evolving Skill Memory

- 用结构化技能代替原始记忆,实现可复用的诊疗知识沉淀
- 通过环境反馈评估记忆价值,提升长期推理准确率30%以上
- 无需更新模型即可持续进化,适配不同医疗场景与模型
医疗智能体正从静态问答转向支持动态临床决策。现有记忆机制多保留冗余、噪声大的历史记录,难以区分真正有用的过往经验,限制了长期推理能力。为此,我们提出SkeMex——一种无需更新模型权重的部署后自演化框架。该框架将交互轨迹提炼为结构化技能,构建涵盖通用、任务特定和动作级经验的多分支知识库,并通过环境反馈估算上下文相关效用,指导价值感知检索与知识库治理。闭环‘读-写-评-管’流程支持持续进化:写入新技能、更新效用值、保留有效记忆、剔除有害条目。在多种临床任务中,SkeMex在离线与在线设置下均显著优于主流记忆型代理,且具备跨模型骨干的泛化能力与可迁移技能记忆。所有数据与代码将公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Medical agent systems are increasingly expected to support interactive clinical decision making rather than only static question answering. In such settings, effective agents must reuse prior experience across evolving cases, yet existing memory mechanisms often retain raw historical traces that are redundant, noisy, and difficult to govern. More importantly, they rarely distinguish which memories are truly useful for future reasoning. This limits their ability to accumulate compact and reliable experience for long-horizon clinical reasoning. To close this gap, we propose SkeMex, a post-deployment self-evolution framework that improves medical agents through a skill-based memory without updating model weights. SkeMex distills informative interaction trajectories into structured skills that encode reusable procedural knowledge, and organizes them into a multi-branch repository spanning general, task-specific, and action-level experience. To determine which memories should be reused and retained, SkeMex estimates context-dependent utility from environment feedback and uses it to guide value-aware retrieval and repository governance. A closed-loop ``Read--Write--Assess--Govern" lifecycle further supports continual evolution by writing new skills, updating utilities, promoting useful memories, and removing harmful entries. Experiments across diverse clinical tasks show that SkeMex consistently outperforms representative memory-based agents in both offline and online settings. It also generalizes across model backbones and supports transferable skill memory. All data and code will be released publicly.
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