Interleaved teaching helps agents learn skills that transfer better

Socratic Skill Learning improved reuse on held-out tasks while issue-focused review sharply reduced the expert supervision required.

Chinese Tech
Letian Zhu · Han Li · Yifan Yao · Xinping Lei · Xinyu Che · Jiahao Wang · +6 more

Nanjing University · Alibaba Group

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Zhu et al.

The authors built SkillTransferBench, comprising 35 task families and 408 executable cases across six domains.

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Interleaving expert teaching with student practice improves transferable skill learning for LLM agents.

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