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Author directory2026
SkillComposer: Learning to Evolve Agent Skills for Specification and Generalization
Qi Zhang | Zhaopeng Feng | Xiaonan Shi | Xiaomeng Hu | Liuchu | Pengjun Xie | Xiaobin Wang | Bryan Hooi | Haobo Wang | Junbo Zhao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Qi Zhang | Zhaopeng Feng | Xiaonan Shi | Xiaomeng Hu | Liuchu | Pengjun Xie | Xiaobin Wang | Bryan Hooi | Haobo Wang | Junbo Zhao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Agent skills, which consist of reusable strategies that guide agent reasoning and action, have shown strong potential for improving model capability at inference time. However, current skill construction methods treat the problem as one-shot extraction, overlooking a fundamental tension: a skill tailored to the specific task fails to transfer, while the abstracted skill often provides insufficient guidance. We attribute this fragility to the absence of explicit mechanisms for skill specification and generalization. To address this gap, we introduce SkillComposer, a framework that decomposes skill construction into three learnable operations: create, improve, and merge. Trained via systematic rejection sampling recipe, SkillComposer enables language models to self-evolve skills at inference time and supports three deployment modes: offline for building generalized libraries, online for task-specific refinement, and hybrid for combining both. Comprehensive experiments on -Bench, LiveCodeBench v6, and AppWorld show that SkillComposer consistently outperforms baselines. Our SkillComposer-4B improves a 27B executor by up to +4.5 on agent tasks and +3.4 on code tasks, while generalizing across domains and task types unseen during training. Analysis reveals that merge and improve address orthogonal quality dimensions and that skill composition is a transferable meta-ability, providing a practical recipe for skill-augmented inference.
DeltaMem: Towards Agentic Memory Management via Reinforcement Learning
Qi Zhang | Shen Huang | Liuchu | Shouqing Yang | Xiaomeng Hu | Pengjun Xie | Haobo Wang | Junbo Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qi Zhang | Shen Huang | Liuchu | Shouqing Yang | Xiaomeng Hu | Pengjun Xie | Haobo Wang | Junbo Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Recent advances in persona-centric memory demonstrate the promise of multi-agent systems for managing persona memory, especially in conversational scenarios. However, their complex pipelines often incur information loss and poor cross-scenario robustness, leading to suboptimal performance. In this paper, we propose DeltaMem, an agentic memory management system that formulates persona-centric memory management as an end-to-end task within a single-agent setting. To further improve the performance of our agentic memory manager, we draw inspiration from the evolution of human memory and synthesize a user-assistant dialogue dataset along with corresponding operation-level memory updating labels. Building on this, we introduce a novel Memory-based Levenshtein Distance to formalize the memory updating reward, and propose a tailored reinforcement learning framework to further enhance the management capabilities of DeltaMem. Extensive experiments show that both training-free and RL-trained DeltaMem outperform all product-level baselines across diverse long-term memory benchmarks, including LoCoMo, HaluMem, and PersonaMem.