WISE-Flow: Workflow-Induced Structured Experience for Self-Evolving Conversational Service Agents

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Authors: Yuqing Zhou, Zhuoer Wang, Jie Yuan, Hong Wang, Samson Koelle, Ziwei Zhu, Wei Niu
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Abstract

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are widely deployed in user-facing services but remain error-prone in new tasks, tend to repeat the same failure patterns, and show substantial run-to-run variability. Fixing failures via environment-specific training or manual patching is costly and hard to scale. To enable self-evolving agents in user-facing service environments, we propose WISE-Flow, a workflow-centric framework that converts historical service interactions into reusable procedural experience by inducing workflows with prerequisite-augmented action blocks. At deployment, WISE-Flow aligns the agent's execution trajectory to retrieved workflows and performs prerequisite-aware feasibility reasoning to achieve state-grounded next actions. Experiments on ToolSandbox and $τ^2$-bench show consistent improvement across base models.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Speech and dialogue systems AI-based Problem Solving and Planning AI in Service Interactions

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
13 January 2026
Document type
Preprint