RESEARCH PROJECT

EvoCost & SkillAdam: Agent Self-Evolution

ICLR 2027 submissions

EvoCost: Lead, First Author · SkillAdam: Co-author

EvoCost: Developed harness evolution that mines avoidable interactions from trajectory dependency graphs and validates updates to instructions, skills, tools, and executor logic with a fixed backbone model.
SkillAdam: Co-authored skill optimization with persistent issue memory and adaptive edit budgets; reduced optimization tokens by 67.3% versus SkillOpt on DeepPlanning, with test accuracy improving from 21.7% to 28.3%.

ruc-datalab/SkillAdam — 86 GitHub stars, checked 2026-09-29.