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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 277/10

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PANDO: Efficient Multimodal AI Agents via Online Skill Distillation

PANDO introduces an efficient multimodal AI agent framework that improves performance while reducing computational costs through online skill distillation, achieving 58.3% success on VisualWebArena tasks with 58-61% fewer tokens than competing approaches. The system addresses inefficiencies in web agent design by maintaining a skill library and employing hierarchical routing, visual compression, and cache-aware prompting without requiring expensive pre-evaluation.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 127/10

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Evidence Over Plans: Online Trajectory Verification for Skill Distillation

Researchers introduce SPARK, a framework that verifies AI agent skills through direct environment interaction rather than relying on pre-written plans. The Posterior Distillation Index (PDI) metric ensures skills are grounded in actual task evidence, producing student models that match or exceed human-written skills while reducing inference costs by up to 1,000x.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · May 296/10

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OptSkills: Learning Generalizable Optimization Skills from Problem Archetypes via Cluster-Based Distillation

OptSkills, a new AI system, advances automated optimization problem-solving by clustering problems by underlying mathematical archetypes rather than surface narratives, achieving 68.27% accuracy on diverse benchmarks and outperforming DeepSeek-V3.2-Thinking on large-scale problems. The system uses skill distillation and trajectory learning to improve generalization across both known and novel problem types.