An annotated reading guide · compiled 6 October 2026 arXiv:2604.15097 · cs.SE
Skill → Gene

Reading notes on From Procedural Skills to Strategy Genes — how LLM agents should encode experience so it actually controls behavior.

arXiv:2604.15097
Wang · Ren · Zhang
Submitted 16 Apr 2026

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@misc{wang2026proceduralskillsstrategygenes,
  title         = {From Procedural Skills to Strategy Genes:
                   Towards Experience-Driven Test-Time Evolution},
  author        = {Junjie Wang and Yiming Ren and Haoyang Zhang},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2604.15097},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.SE},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2604.15097},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15097}
}

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Junjie Wang, Yiming Ren, and Haoyang Zhang.
"From Procedural Skills to Strategy Genes: Towards
Experience-Driven Test-Time Evolution."
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15097 (2026).
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.15097

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Table 1. Identifiers and access points.
WhatValue
arXiv identifierarXiv:2604.15097 [cs.SE]
Cross-listcs.CL
DOI10.48550/arXiv.2604.15097
PDFarxiv.org/pdf/2604.15097
HTML (experimental)arxiv.org/html/2604.15097v1
Submitted16 April 2026 (v1)
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