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This paper introduces Learner2Skill, a method that externalizes learner simulation capabilities into reusable skills to reduce inference costs and enable cross-model adaptation without reconstructing the learner from scratch. By capturing recurring response patterns and evolving states, the approach offers a more efficient alternative to processing growing interaction histories in Large Language Models.
From Learner Behavior to Reusable Skills for Effective and Efficient Learner Simulation
arXiv:2609.37157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learner simulation aims to reproduce how a particular learner behaves on new tasks. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate increasingly fine-grained learning behaviors, existing approaches often need to repeatedly process a growing interaction history to reconstruct the learner. This introduces additional context and inference costs and makes the acquired learner-specific simulation capability difficult to reuse across different LLMs. We therefore propose Learner2Skill, which externalizes the simulation capability acquired from historical interactions into a persistent and reusable Simulation Skill. The Skill captures the learner's current learning state and recurring response patterns, evolves as new real interactions arrive, and can be adapted to a new LLM through lightweight executor calibration without reconstructing the learner from scratch. Experiments show that Learner2Skill more faithfully reproduces fine-grained learner behavior while reducing overall token cost, and that the same constructed Skills can be effectively reused across different LLM executors.
Abstract:Learner simulation aims to reproduce how a particular learner behaves on new tasks. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate increasingly fine-grained learning behaviors, existing approaches often need to repeatedly process a growing interaction history to reconstruct the learner. This introduces additional context and inference costs and makes the acquired learner-specific simulation capability difficult to reuse across different LLMs. We therefore propose Learner2Skill, which externalizes the simulation capability acquired from historical interactions into a persistent and reusable Simulation Skill. The Skill captures the learner's current learning state and recurring response patterns, evolves as new real interactions arrive, and can be adapted to a new LLM through lightweight executor calibration without reconstructing the learner from scratch. Experiments show that Learner2Skill more faithfully reproduces fine-grained learner behavior while reducing overall token cost, and that the same constructed Skills can be effectively reused across different LLM executors.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.37157 [cs.AI]
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