SkeMex:通过自进化技能记忆实现可泛化医学智能体推理
阅读原文· arxiv.orgSkeMex 是一种部署后自进化框架,通过技能记忆提升医学智能体的临床交互推理能力,无需更新模型权重。它将历史交互轨迹蒸馏为结构化技能(可复用流程知识),组成跨通用、任务特定及行动级的多分支仓库。利用环境反馈估计上下文效用,指导价值感知检索与仓库治理,形成“读取—写入—评估—治理”闭环生命周期。实验表明,在多种临床任务中,SkeMex 在离线和在线设置下均优于代表记忆型智能体,且能跨模型骨干泛化并实现可转移技能记忆。
Medical agent systems are increasingly expected to support interactive clinical decision making rather than only static question answering. In such settings, effective agents must reuse prior experience across evolving cases, yet existing memory mechanisms often retain raw historical traces that are redundant, noisy, and difficult to govern. More importantly, they rarely distinguish which memories are truly useful for future reasoning. This limits their ability to accumulate compact and reliable experience for long-horizon clinical reasoning. To close this gap, we propose SkeMex, a post-deployment self-evolution framework that improves medical agents through a skill-based memory without updating model weights. SkeMex distills informative interaction trajectories into structured skills that encode reusable procedural knowledge, and organizes them into a multi-branch repository spanning general, task-specific, and action-level experience. To determine which memories should be reused and retained, SkeMex estimates context-dependent utility from environment feedback and uses it to guide value-aware retrieval and repository governance. A closed-loop ``Read--Write--Assess--Govern" lifecycle further supports continual evolution by writing new skills, updating utilities, promoting useful memories, and removing harmful entries. Experiments across diverse clinical tasks show that SkeMex consistently outperforms representative memory-based agents in both offline and online settings. It also generalizes across model backbones and supports transferable skill memory. All data and code will be released publicly.