Dynamic Dual-Granularity Skill Bank for Agentic RL

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Main Authors: Tu, Songjun, Xu, Chengdong, Zhang, Qichao, Zhang, Yaocheng, Lan, Xiangyuan, Li, Linjing, Li, Dong, Zhao, Dongbin
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author Tu, Songjun
Xu, Chengdong
Zhang, Qichao
Zhang, Yaocheng
Lan, Xiangyuan
Li, Linjing
Li, Dong
Zhao, Dongbin
author_facet Tu, Songjun
Xu, Chengdong
Zhang, Qichao
Zhang, Yaocheng
Lan, Xiangyuan
Li, Linjing
Li, Dong
Zhao, Dongbin
contents Agentic RL can benefit substantially from reusable experience, yet existing skill-based methods mainly extract trajectory-level guidance and often lack principled mechanisms for maintaining an evolving skill memory. We propose D2Skill, a dynamic dual-granularity skill bank for agentic RL that organizes reusable experience into task skills for high-level guidance and step skills for fine-grained decision support and error correction. D2Skill jointly trains the policy and skill bank through paired baseline and skill-injected rollouts under the same policy, using their performance gap to derive hindsight utility signals for both skill updating and policy optimization. Built entirely from training-time experience, the skill bank is continuously expanded through reflection and maintained with utility-aware retrieval and pruning. Experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and Search-Augmented QA tasks show that D2Skill substantially improves performance over skill-free baselines across models of different scales. Further ablations and analyses show that both dual-granularity skill modeling and dynamic skill maintenance are critical to these gains, while the learned skills exhibit higher utility, transfer across evaluation settings, and introduce only modest training overhead.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Dual-Granularity Skill Bank for Agentic RL
Tu, Songjun
Xu, Chengdong
Zhang, Qichao
Zhang, Yaocheng
Lan, Xiangyuan
Li, Linjing
Li, Dong
Zhao, Dongbin
Artificial Intelligence
68T05
I.2.6; I.2.11
Agentic RL can benefit substantially from reusable experience, yet existing skill-based methods mainly extract trajectory-level guidance and often lack principled mechanisms for maintaining an evolving skill memory. We propose D2Skill, a dynamic dual-granularity skill bank for agentic RL that organizes reusable experience into task skills for high-level guidance and step skills for fine-grained decision support and error correction. D2Skill jointly trains the policy and skill bank through paired baseline and skill-injected rollouts under the same policy, using their performance gap to derive hindsight utility signals for both skill updating and policy optimization. Built entirely from training-time experience, the skill bank is continuously expanded through reflection and maintained with utility-aware retrieval and pruning. Experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and Search-Augmented QA tasks show that D2Skill substantially improves performance over skill-free baselines across models of different scales. Further ablations and analyses show that both dual-granularity skill modeling and dynamic skill maintenance are critical to these gains, while the learned skills exhibit higher utility, transfer across evaluation settings, and introduce only modest training overhead.
title Dynamic Dual-Granularity Skill Bank for Agentic RL
topic Artificial Intelligence
68T05
I.2.6; I.2.11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28716