Jiaojiao Han

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2026

LLM Agents Harnesses are hand-designed and stay fixed, so agents accumulate experience but never learn how to use it: which memories to retrieve, when retrieved evidence is misleading, and when the retrieval strategy itself should change. We introduce Agent Evolving Learning (AEL), a two-timescale framework that evolves the harness, recasting memory use as online policy selection. A fast Thompson Sampling bandit selects among memory-retrieval policies episode by episode, while slow LLM reflection follows a diagnose-before-prescribe principle: it first explains why performance degraded, then injects a targeted new retrieval policy as a bandit arm when the current pool plateaus. AEL outperforms ten self-improving and nonLLM baselines on a sequential portfolio benchmark, lifting Sharpe by 27% over the strongest memory-only variant with the lowest variance among all stochastic methods, and generalizes to a support-ticket routing stream, where it improves accuracy by 18% over reflectionfree Thompson Sampling and by 51% over the best prior baseline. Mechanism studies further show that the gains are causal: reflection helps precisely when regimes demand different retrieval behavior, and is provably no-harm/nogain when the best policy is stable.
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, yet their internal mechanisms remain largely opaque, posing a significant challenge to their safe and reliable deployment. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising tool for decomposing LLM representations into more interpretable features, but explaining the features captured by SAEs remains a challenging task. In this work, we propose SAGE (SAE Agentic Explainer), an agent-based framework that recasts feature interpretation from a passive, single-pass generation task into an active, explanation-driven process. SAGE implements a rigorous methodology by systematically formulating multiple explanations for each feature, designing targeted experiments to test them, and iteratively refining explanations based on empirical activation feedback. Experiments on features from SAEs of diverse language models demonstrate that SAGE produces explanations with significantly higher generative and predictive accuracy compared to state-of-the-art baselines.