Jiaxin Yin
Author directory2026
Communication Policy Evolution for Proactive LLM Agents
Xinbei Ma | Jiyang Qiu | Yao Yao | Zheng Wu | Yijie Lu | Xiangmou Qu | Jiaxin Yin | Xingyu Lou | Jun Wang | Weiwen Liu | Weinan Zhang | Zhuosheng Zhang | Hai Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xinbei Ma | Jiyang Qiu | Yao Yao | Zheng Wu | Yijie Lu | Xiangmou Qu | Jiaxin Yin | Xingyu Lou | Jun Wang | Weiwen Liu | Weinan Zhang | Zhuosheng Zhang | Hai Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
LLM agents have rapidly evolved into autonomous systems, yet a persistent information gap remains between users and agents: communication is costly, while users’ identical preferences further limit information exchange. To investigate how agents should communicate across modalities, this paper formalizes Communication Policy, establishes textual and UI-based policies, and then evaluates communication policies across diverse environments, personas, and model combinations. Building on information asymmetry for proactive agents, we set up two complementary settings, User–Agent and Planner–Executor. Experimental results reveal complementary strengths between interaction channels: text-based interaction often facilitates task performance, while structured UI improves agents’ response quality and persona compliance. Motivated by that, a hybrid method that combines these advantages, we further propose Communication Policy Evolution (CPE), a self-evolution framework for refining communication policies through rollout and prompt-level evolution. Without model modification, CPE achieves the best task success across multiple settings using prompt refinement alone. Our findings identify communication behavior as a critical yet underexplored design dimension for LLM agents.