Te Sun
Author directory2026
Skill or Skip? Learning Selective Skill Invocation in Agentic Tasks via Dual-Granularity Preference Learning
Chishui Chen | Jiaye Lin | Te Sun | Yi Yang | Junxi Wang | Cong Qin | Yangen Hu | Lu Pan | Ke Zeng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Chishui Chen | Jiaye Lin | Te Sun | Yi Yang | Junxi Wang | Cong Qin | Yangen Hu | Lu Pan | Ke Zeng
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Agent skills are callable procedural modules that provide reusable knowledge and execution policies for complex agentic tasks. However, existing methods mainly focus on selecting relevant skills or improving the skills themselves, while overlooking whether a relevant skill should actually be invoked at the current decision point. Unhelpful invocations may introduce irrelevant context and disrupt an otherwise correct execution process. To address this issue, we propose SelSkill, a dual-granularity preference-learning framework for selective skill invocation. SelSkill formulates skill use as a skill-or-skip decision, uses predictive uncertainty to prioritize candidate decision points, and constructs controlled invoke-skip preference pairs from shared trajectory prefixes. It further combines episode-level outcome preferences with step-level invocation preferences to capture both overall trajectory quality and the local effectiveness of skill invocation. On ALFWorld with Qwen3-8B, SelSkill improves task success by 10.9 points over the skill-enabled baseline and 7.8 over No-Skill, with 29.1-point higher execution precision. On BFCL, task success and execution precision improve by 5.7 and 29.5 points, respectively. Zero-shot results on Tau-bench and PopQA suggest partial transfer to unseen domains and skills.
StreamMeCo: Long-Term Agent Memory Compression for Efficient Streaming Video Understanding
Junxi Wang | Te Sun | Jiayi Zhu | Junxian Li | Haowen Xu | Zichen Wen | Xuming Hu | Zhiyu li | Linfeng Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Junxi Wang | Te Sun | Jiayi Zhu | Junxian Li | Haowen Xu | Zichen Wen | Xuming Hu | Zhiyu li | Linfeng Zhang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Vision agent memory has shown remarkable effectiveness in long-video understanding; however, storing such memory for videos incurs substantial overhead, leading to high costs in both storage and computation. To address this issue, we propose StreamMeCo, an efficient Stream Agent Memory Compression framework. Specifically, based on the connectivity of the memory graph, StreamMeCo introduces edge-free minmax sampling for isolated nodes and edge-aware weight pruning for connected nodes, evicting redundant memory nodes while maintaining accuracy. In addition, we introduce a time-decay memory retrieval mechanism to mitigate the performance degradation caused by memory compression. Extensive experiments on three challenging benchmark datasets (M3-Bench-robot, M3-Bench-web, and Video-MME-Long) demonstrate that under 70% memory graph compression, StreamMeCo achieves a 1.87× speedup in memory retrieval while delivering an average accuracy improvement of 1.0%. Our code is available at https://github.com/Celina-love-sweet/StreamMeCo.
Evolving Beyond Snapshots: Harmonizing Structure and Sequence via Entity State Tuning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting
Siyuan Li | Yunjia Wu | Yiyong Xiao | Pingyang Huang | Peize Li | Ruitong Liu | Yan Wen | Te Sun
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Siyuan Li | Yunjia Wu | Yiyong Xiao | Pingyang Huang | Peize Li | Ruitong Liu | Yan Wen | Te Sun
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) forecasting requires predicting future facts by jointly modeling structural dependencies within each snapshot and temporal evolution across snapshots. However, most existing methods are stateless: they recompute entity representations at each timestamp from a limited query window, leading to episodic amnesia and rapid decay of long-term dependencies. To address this limitation, we propose Entity State Tuning (EST), an encoder-agnostic framework that endows TKG forecasters with persistent and continuously evolving entity states. EST maintains a global state buffer and progressively aligns structural evidence with sequential signals via a closed-loop design. Specifically, a topology-aware state perceiver first injects entity-state priors into structural encoding. Then, a unified temporal context module aggregates the state-enhanced events with a pluggable sequence backbone. Subsequently, a dual-track evolution mechanism writes the updated context back to the global entity state memory, balancing plasticity against stability. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that EST consistently improves diverse backbones and achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting the importance of state persistence for long-horizon TKG forecasting.