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SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents

Skill-based prompting has become a practical mechanism for improving large language model (LLM) agents, yet existing skill acquisition methods often treat skills as experience summaries, memory entries, or direct summaries of successful demonstrations. This creates a mismatch for weaker student agents: when a student fails because it lacks task knowledge or operational strategy, its failed trajectory may not contain enough evidence to infer the missing behavior, while the teacher trajectory may

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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: HuggingFace Daily Papers
Category: Research
Topics: Children & education · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 6 August 2026

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