arXivLinfang Shang, Ming Xu, Yiding Sun, Tianle Xia, Lingxiang Hu, Lan Xu, Ning ZhengThu, Aug 6, 2026, 2:43 AM PDT
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AI agents that teach themselves can get worse with more skills
Original: When Self-Evolution Backfires: Pre-Commit Gating against Skill Contamination in LLM Agents
Source: arxiv.org ↗
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