Skill-Pro: Learning Reusable Skills from Experience via Non-Parametric PPO for LLM Agents

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Authors: Qirui Mi, Zhijian Ma, Mengyue Yang, Haoxuan Li, Yisen Wang, HaiFeng Zhang, Jun Wang
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Abstract

LLM-driven agents excel at sequential decision-making but often rely on on-the-fly reasoning, re-deriving solutions even in recurring scenarios. This insufficient experience reuse leads to computational redundancy and instability. To bridge this gap, we propose Skill-Pro, a framework enabling agents to autonomously learn reusable procedural skills from interaction experiences without parameter updates. By formalizing a Skill-MDP, Skill-Pro transforms passive episodic narratives into executable Skills defined by activation, execution, and termination conditions to ensure executability. To achieve reliable reusability without capability degradation, we introduce Non-Parametric PPO, which leverages semantic gradients for high-quality candidate generation and a PPO Gate for robust Skill verification. Through score-based maintenance, Skill-Pro sustains compact, high-quality procedural memory. Experimental results across in-domain, cross-task, and cross-agent scenarios demonstrate that Skill-Pro achieves superior reuse rates and significant gains with extreme memory compression. Visualized evolutionary trajectories and Skill distributions further reveal how Skill-Pro transparently accumulates, refines, and reuses procedural knowledge to facilitate long-term autonomy.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Reinforcement Learning in Robotics AI-based Problem Solving and Planning Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
2 February 2026
Document type
Preprint