Top AI Papers: Agent Lightning v1.0 and Skill Trigger Bottleneck
dair_ai · x · 2026-08-23
dair.ai curates the top AI papers of the week (Aug 17-23), featuring:
- Agent Lightning v1.0: Addresses the awkwardness of training agents that run inside a harness owning tools, context, and control flow, as the harness runs the environment loop while the trainer handles policy updates.
- The Skill Trigger Bottleneck: Analyzes bottlenecks in triggering agent skills.
- The Control-Plane Tax: Explores overhead in the control plane.
- Demystifying Agent Skills: Breaks down agent skills.
Other highlights include SocialRL, Strategy Lock-In, and Harness-Level Forgetting.
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