RefCon: Iterative Refinement and Contrastive Memory Extraction for Context-Evolving Agent
RefCon extracts agent memories via self-refinement and contrast, beating unlabeled baselines on AppWorld and BFCL-V3.
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RefCon extracts agent memories via self-refinement and contrast, beating unlabeled baselines on AppWorld and BFCL-V3.
AdviSD trains a small advisor with selective self-distillation, beating advisor-GRPO on BFCL-v3 and EnvScaler.
AdviSD trains a Qwen3-8B advisor to steer frozen Gemini and Claude executors via selective self-distillation.
WEFT scales full agent systems for tool-use post-training and beats size-matched baselines on major agent benchmarks.
An Imprint Reader describes frozen weight updates and guides edits that raise refusal and tool-use scores.
SLCA-GRPO assigns separate advantages to tool and summary tokens, improving tool-calling reinforcement learning.
Critical-State RL identifies which multi-turn tool-use calls to train, improving missing-function task performance about 14 points on BFCL v4.

Google Research and partners introduce ToolGrad, a verified tool-chain-first data generation framework reaching 99.8% pass rate and boosting Gemma-3-12B to 83.1 on BFCL.
ToolLoop introduces a closed-loop synthetic data framework whose 11K examples lift a 4B model to 86.40% on BFCL tool-use evaluation.
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