arXiv:2608.20274cs.AIcs.CL2026-08

研究大模型智能体如何拆解任务、传递技能,提升学习效率。

Break It Down, Pass It On: Cross-Task Skill Transfer in LLM Agents

论文配图:Break It Down, Pass It On: Cross-Task Skill Transfer in LLM Agents
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  • 按子任务而非整任务提取技能,效果更好。
  • 文本形式技能比代码更易跨任务迁移。
  • 提出技能效用评分,可提前判断技能是否可用。

大型语言模型(LLM)智能体可通过完成任务生成技能并复用,从而随经验增强能力。但现有方法中,技能迁移常不可靠,甚至损害性能。本文系统比较了两种关键差异:任务级与子任务级技能提取、文本与代码格式技能。结果显示,任务级技能使平均性能低于无记忆基线,而子任务级技能则显著提升性能;文本技能的跨任务迁移表现优于代码技能。进一步分析发现,技能的特异性(与真实任务匹配程度)和抽象性(在任务间分布的均匀性)共同决定其有效性,二者结合形成「技能效用分数」。该分数仅需技能和任务描述即可计算,无需执行任务,可作为技能记忆的实用诊断工具,且与实际任务成功率高度相关。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language model (LLM) agents can induce skills from completed tasks and reuse them later to grow more capable with experience. In practice, induced skills may transfer unreliably and can even harm the agent that retrieves them. When agent-induced skills transfer reliably across tasks remains an open question. We conduct a comprehensive and controlled study of how the way skills are induced shapes their transfer across tasks. Specifically, we compare task-level with subtask-level skill induction and text with code skill formats, the two axes along which existing methods differ. Task-level skills mostly reduce the agent's performance below its no-memory baseline while subtask-level skills raise it above on average, and text skills transfer better than code skills. To further understand our findings, we examine two complementary properties of the induced skills: specificity, which measures how closely a skill matches real tasks, and abstractness, which measures how evenly its relevance spreads across tasks. Neither property alone predicts task success, but their combined effect does, which we propose as a skill utility score. The score correlates consistently with task success when skills are transferred, and subtask-level and text skills score higher. Computing skill utility only needs the skills and task descriptions but not any task execution, so our score serves as a practical diagnostic of a skill memory before any new task runs.

大模型智能体技能迁移效用评分

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