ICLR 2026 Efficient Agent 阅读笔记 - (English)

Generated: 2026-06-20 03:10:05

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Let me tell you something. It's really interesting.

You know what ancient armies feared most? Not that the enemy was too strong. It was that every battle meant training troops from scratch.

A general leads an army, fights a battle, and the troops disband. For the next fight, new recruits have to be taught everything from the beginning. Supplies, formations, experience—all wasted.

They called it "starting from zero every battle."

Now, AI agents have fallen into the exact same trap.

We've always thought that making AI smarter meant teaching it more and making it compute faster. But a paper at ICLR 2025 exposes a counterintuitive truth: **The problem with agents isn't that they're not smart enough