The authors held the base model and tools fixed while allowing persistent artifacts—such as memories or skills—to evolve across an experience stream.
Checkpoint testing reveals hidden weaknesses in self-evolving agent memories
EvoPathBench tracks generalization, retention, and rule adaptation as agents repeatedly update persistent artifacts.
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Hongqiang Lin · Chao Liu · Xiaofan Bai · Xuan Jin · Yuhong Li · Nenggan Zheng · +1 more
Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group
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Lin et al.
Why this paper
From Alibaba Group and Zhejiang University · Part of Agent Self-Improvement, now 10 papers
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Process-level evaluation is necessary because endpoint performance hides capability degradation in self-evolving agents.
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