Han Ding
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2026
CLEAR: Context Augmentation from Contrastive Learning of Experience via Agentic Reflection
Linbo Liu | Guande Wu | Han Ding | Yawei Wang | Qiang Zhou | Yuzhe Lu | Zhichao Xu | Huan Song | Panpan Xu | Lin Lee Cheong
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Linbo Liu | Guande Wu | Han Ding | Yawei Wang | Qiang Zhou | Yuzhe Lu | Zhichao Xu | Huan Song | Panpan Xu | Lin Lee Cheong
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language model agents rely on effective model context to obtain task-relevant information for decision-making. Many existing context engineering approaches primarily rely on the context generated from the past experience and retrieval mechanisms that reuse these context. However, retrieved context from past tasks must be adapted by the execution agent to fit new situations, placing additional reasoning burden on the underlying LLM. To address this limitation, we propose a generative context augmentation framework using Contrastive Learning of Experience via Agentic Reflection (CLEAR). CLEAR first employs a reflection agent to perform contrastive analysis over past execution trajectories and summarize useful context for each observed task. These summaries are then used as supervised fine-tuning data to train a context augmentation model (CAM). Then we further optimize CAM using reinforcement learning, where the reward signal is obtained by running the task execution agent. By learning to generate task-specific knowledge rather than retrieve knowledge from the past, CAM produces context that is better tailored to the current task. We conduct comprehensive evaluations on the AppWorld and WebShop benchmarks. Experimental results show that CLEAR consistently outperforms strong baselines. It improves task completion rate from 72.62% to 81.15% on AppWorld test set and averaged reward from 0.68 to 0.74 on a subset of WebShop, compared with baseline agent.