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About this paper
Ao Yan, Xin Zhang, Jiawei Du, Joey Tianyi Zhou
The authors introduce GLoW, a memory system that stores procedures shared by task families and regenerates task-specific skills from execution feedback. Its global prior remains fixed during each task, while local skills capture instance-specific details. Across 12 model–benchmark runs, global-only improves hard success by an average of 17.2 percentage points over No-Skill; cross-domain transfer remains untested.
Key insights
- The "procedural family" serves as an effective intermediate unit for skill consolidation, balancing generalization and task specificity more effectively than prior extreme approaches.
- De-instantiating stable procedural knowledge into global priors while dynamically regenerating local, instance-specific details enables efficient and robust skill reuse across diverse tasks.
- A verifier-grounded commit mechanism is vital for maintaining the quality and preventing degradation of the global skill library by only admitting priors that demonstrate real performance improvement.
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