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MDSKILL: Learning to Internalize Skill Memory through Multi-View Distillation for Efficient Dynamic Agent Self-Evolution

/ Paper arXiv 2611.05313

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7.1%MDSKILL improves upon SOTA performance by up to 7.1% and 8.1% on ALFWorld and WebShop

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Skill memories encode past experiences as textual prompts to improve reinforcement learning (RL) for self-evolving agents. Complementing RL, On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) provides dense, fine-grained supervision to internalize knowledge from skill-guided trajectories and accelerate policy learning. However, self-generated memories often contain noisy supervision and functionally entangled, redundant, or conflicting knowledge, making direct distillation difficult. Under limited training budgets, these issues can hinder knowledge internalization and even degrade performance. To address this problem, we propose MDSKILL, a multi-view distillation approach for skill memory internalization. MDSKILL organizes skill memories into three complementary functional views (state grounding, action planning, and execution control) and selects high-quality skills using dynamic metrics to construct view-specific and integrated reasoning branches. OPSD then transfers and consolidates complementary experiential knowledge across these branches into a shared policy, enabling efficient skill internalization and continuous agent self-evolution. We evaluate MDSKILL on three agent benchmarks against RL, skill-augmented, and self-distillation baselines that do not rely on stronger external teacher models. Without additional computational overhead, MDSKILL improves upon SOTA performance by up to 7.1% and 8.1% on ALFWorld and WebShop. Extensive ablations and evolution analyses further validate its effectiveness in knowledge internalization and policy improvement. The code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MDSKILL-CF53.

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