Graph-structured skills improve LLM agents through evolutionary optimization

Across five agent benchmarks, evolving workflow graphs outperformed iterative optimization of unstructured natural-language instructions.

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Rui Sun · Zhi Zheng · Zhenkun Wang · Zhichao Lu

City University of Hong Kong · National University of Singapore · Southern University of Science and Technology

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The authors represent agent skills as directed graphs whose nodes specify execution steps and whose edges define context-dependent transitions.

The authors replaced free-form skill instructions with graph-structured natural-language artifacts.

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From City University of Hong Kong and 2 others · Released code · Part of Skill Selection for Agents, now 14 papers

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Graph-structured skills improve LLM agent performance more than unstructured skill optimization.

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