SoftSkill proposes a method to compress natural-language skills into compact latent priors, improving task performance on SearchQA, LiveMath, and DocVQA. It outperforms SkillOpt by 5.2 to 12.5 points on key benchmarks while replacing hundreds to thousands of Markdown tokens with a few virtual tokens.
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51d ago
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SoftSkill: Behavioral Compression for Contextual Adaptation
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arXiv cs.AI
Alibaba (Qwen)
AI agents
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