PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 13:21:04

SkillPager improves LLM agent efficiency with semantic node retrieval

Researchers have developed SkillPager, a novel two-stage framework designed to improve the efficiency of Large Language Model (LLM) agents when processing long procedural documents. SkillPager parses skill documents into semantic nodes and uses Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for query-conditioned node selection, significantly reducing token usage while maintaining high context sufficiency. This approach demonstrates that the efficiency gains are primarily due to the typed semantic granularity of the nodes rather than the retrieval algorithm itself, outperforming graph-based baselines by over 12%. The findings highlight typed intra-document retrieval as a critical challenge for skill-based agents. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM agent efficiency in handling complex documents, potentially improving performance in task-oriented applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new method for LLM agents.

Read on arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 2 sources. How we write summaries →

COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zicai Cui, Zihan Guo, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang ·

    SkillPager: Query-Adaptive Intra-Skill Navigation via Semantic Node Retrieval

    arXiv:2606.00822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill-based LLM agents increasingly rely on long procedural documents, but full-document prompting wastes tokens and dilutes information critical to execution. We study this setting as intra-skill retrieval, where the goal is to s…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Weinan Zhang ·

    SkillPager: Query-Adaptive Intra-Skill Navigation via Semantic Node Retrieval

    Skill-based LLM agents increasingly rely on long procedural documents, but full-document prompting wastes tokens and dilutes information critical to execution. We study this setting as intra-skill retrieval, where the goal is to select a minimal, execution-sufficient context from…