arxiv: 2605.14477 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.LG

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Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library

Weijia Xu , Alessandro Sordoni , Chandan Singh , Zelalem Gero , Michel Galley , Xingdi Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

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keywords test-time learningevolving librarylarge language modelsknowledge accumulationunsupervised adaptationmathematical reasoningcode generationagentic environments

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The pith

Large language models improve on complex reasoning by building and evolving a shared library of skills extracted from their own inference trajectories without any parameter updates or external supervision.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces EvoLib, a framework that lets language models collect modular skills and reflective insights directly from the steps they take while solving problems one by one. These pieces are stored in a common library and adjusted through a weighting system that balances quick usefulness on the current task with broader value for future ones. The library starts with narrow, instance-specific items and gradually turns them into more general abstractions that the model can reuse. Everything happens at test time with no changes to the underlying model weights and no access to correct answers or human feedback. Experiments across math reasoning, code writing, and multi-turn agent tasks show clear gains over existing test-time scaling approaches.

Core claim

EvoLib maintains a shared library of knowledge abstractions, including modular skills and reflective insights, automatically extracted from the model's own inference trajectories. A principled weighting and consolidation mechanism jointly optimizes for immediate utility and long-term value, allowing simple, instance-specific abstractions to evolve into more general and reusable ones over time.

What carries the argument

The evolving library of modular skills and reflective insights extracted from inference trajectories, together with a weighting and consolidation mechanism that trades off short-term and long-term value.

If this is right

Performance rises substantially on mathematical reasoning tasks compared with other test-time scaling methods.
Code generation improves through reuse of previously extracted modular skills.
Multi-turn agentic environments benefit from the gradual shift toward more general strategies.
Models can keep improving across a sequence of problems without retraining or labeled data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same library idea could support continuous adaptation in deployed systems where external feedback is unavailable.
Linking the library to external memory stores might extend its reach to longer planning horizons.
Applying the approach to models of different sizes would test whether the consolidation process scales with capacity.

Load-bearing premise

That modular skills and reflective insights automatically extracted from the model's own inference trajectories can be weighted and consolidated into increasingly general and reusable abstractions that deliver long-term value without any external supervision or ground-truth signals.

What would settle it

Running the method on the reported mathematical reasoning, code generation, and agent benchmarks and finding no substantial gains over the strongest test-time scaling baselines, or observing that the stored abstractions stay narrow and fail to generalize across instances.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.14477 by Alessandro Sordoni, Chandan Singh, Jianfeng Gao, Michel Galley, Weijia Xu, Xingdi Yuan, Zelalem Gero.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of the EVOLIB algorithm. EVOLIB performs test-time learning by repeatedly: (i) solving tasks using sampled abstractions, (ii) extracting new abstractions, consolidating them into the library, and propagating credit to both new and previously used abstractions via Information Gain (IG) and Future IG. reflective insights from model-generated programs or trajectories together with feedback [25–29]. F… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Cost–performance curves comparing EVOLIB with competitive baselines on (a) BigCodeBench and (b) LiveCodeBench. Each curve plots performance (y-axis) as the test-time compute cost (x-axis) increases for each method. gains indicate that learning and sharing knowledge across problem instances yields consistent improvements over TTS. Compared to TTL baselines, EVOLIB consistently outperforms DC, the best TTL … view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Ablation study on BigCodeBench. (a) Comparison of variants using different abstraction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

We introduce EvoLib, a test-time learning framework that enables large language models to accumulate, reuse, and evolve knowledge across problem instances without parameter updates or external supervision. Instead of adapting model parameters, our approach maintains a shared library of knowledge abstractions, including modular skills and reflective insights, automatically extracted from the model's own inference trajectories. To support continual improvement, we introduce a principled weighting and consolidation mechanism that jointly optimizes for immediate utility and long-term value. This allows simple, instance-specific abstractions to evolve into more general and reusable ones over time. Across challenging benchmarks in mathematical reasoning, code generation, and multi-turn agentic environments, EvoLib improves substantially over the top test-time scaling and learning methods without ground-truth feedback.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

EvoLib builds a persistent library of skills and insights extracted from the model's own test-time traces, with weighting to favor both immediate and future use, but the no-supervision setup makes error accumulation the central open question.

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The main thing to know is that this paper describes EvoLib, a test-time framework that extracts modular skills and reflective insights from an LLM's own inference trajectories, then uses a weighting scheme to consolidate them into a shared library that evolves toward more general forms across instances. No parameter updates or external labels are involved. The approach is positioned for mathematical reasoning, code generation, and multi-turn agent tasks, with claims of gains over existing test-time scaling methods. What is actually new is the combination of automatic trajectory-based extraction with an explicit mechanism that jointly scores for short-term utility and long-term reusability, allowing simple per-instance items to be merged or generalized over time. The paper does a reasonable job sketching how this could support continual improvement without fine-tuning, which is a practical direction for agent-style systems that need to carry knowledge forward. The description of the weighting and consolidation steps is clear enough at the conceptual level to see the intended logic. The soft spot is exactly the one the stress-test note flags. Because extraction, weighting, and evolution all run on the model's own outputs with no ground-truth or verifier signal, locally coherent but incorrect steps can be promoted into the library and then reused on later problems. In math and code domains this risk is real, since models frequently produce plausible intermediate reasoning that fails globally. The abstract asserts substantial improvements, but the framework's value hinges on whether the weighting heuristic reliably down-weights or discards flawed abstractions; without that, the library could degrade rather than help. The full paper presumably contains the numbers, baselines, and ablations needed to check this, but the core assumption remains unverified from the high-level description alone. This is for researchers working on test-time adaptation and memory mechanisms in LLMs or agents. A reader looking for concrete ideas on building reusable inference-time knowledge would find the framework worth examining, even if they end up testing the error-handling claims themselves. I would send it to peer review so the experiments can be scrutinized directly, particularly any analysis of how the library behaves when trajectories contain errors.

Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces EvoLib, a test-time learning framework for large language models that maintains a shared evolving library of knowledge abstractions (modular skills and reflective insights) automatically extracted from the model's own inference trajectories. It proposes a weighting and consolidation mechanism to jointly optimize immediate utility and long-term value, allowing instance-specific abstractions to evolve into more general reusable ones, and claims substantial improvements over top test-time scaling and learning methods on mathematical reasoning, code generation, and multi-turn agentic benchmarks without ground-truth feedback or parameter updates.

Significance. If the central claims hold with rigorous empirical support, the work would be significant for enabling unsupervised continual adaptation in LLMs at inference time. It offers a modular, library-based alternative to parameter updates that could accumulate reusable knowledge across tasks, addressing a key limitation in current test-time scaling approaches.

major comments (3)

[Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of 'substantial improvements' over existing methods is asserted without any quantitative results, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or error analysis. This absence is load-bearing because the manuscript's value rests entirely on demonstrating net long-term gains from the self-extracted library.
[Weighting and consolidation mechanism] Weighting and consolidation mechanism (described in abstract): the process extracts and weights abstractions solely from the model's inference trajectories with no external verifier or ground-truth signal. No concrete mechanism, equation, or example is supplied showing how systematic errors or locally coherent but globally incorrect steps are prevented from being promoted into the library, which directly risks undermining the long-term value claim.
[Experimental Evaluation] Experimental section (implied by benchmark claims): no details are given on the specific benchmarks, number of instances, evolution of library size over time, or statistical significance of gains. Without these, it is impossible to evaluate whether the consolidation step delivers the claimed reusable abstractions or merely reinforces model biases.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] The abstract uses 'principled weighting' without defining the objective function or optimization procedure, which should be formalized early for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive review. We address each major comment below by referencing the full manuscript content and indicate where revisions will be made to strengthen clarity and support for the claims.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of 'substantial improvements' over existing methods is asserted without any quantitative results, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or error analysis. This absence is load-bearing because the manuscript's value rests entirely on demonstrating net long-term gains from the self-extracted library.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from including key quantitative highlights to immediately convey the empirical support. The full manuscript (Section 4 and Tables 1-3) provides the requested comparisons, ablations, and error analysis across benchmarks, showing consistent gains. We will revise the abstract to incorporate representative quantitative results and a brief mention of the evaluation scope. revision: yes
Referee: [Weighting and consolidation mechanism] Weighting and consolidation mechanism (described in abstract): the process extracts and weights abstractions solely from the model's inference trajectories with no external verifier or ground-truth signal. No concrete mechanism, equation, or example is supplied showing how systematic errors or locally coherent but globally incorrect steps are prevented from being promoted into the library, which directly risks undermining the long-term value claim.

Authors: Section 3.2 of the manuscript details the weighting and consolidation mechanism, including the utility function that balances immediate task performance with reuse frequency and a generalization score computed across instances. Self-reflection steps during extraction are used to mitigate propagation of errors. We acknowledge that an explicit worked example of error filtering would improve accessibility and will add one in the revised version. revision: partial
Referee: [Experimental Evaluation] Experimental section (implied by benchmark claims): no details are given on the specific benchmarks, number of instances, evolution of library size over time, or statistical significance of gains. Without these, it is impossible to evaluate whether the consolidation step delivers the claimed reusable abstractions or merely reinforces model biases.

Authors: The experimental section (Section 4) specifies the benchmarks (e.g., GSM8K, MATH, HumanEval, WebShop), instance counts, library size trajectories (visualized in Figure 3), and statistical tests (paired t-tests with p-values). We will expand the text to include additional details on library evolution and an explicit discussion of potential bias reinforcement in the revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Self-contained framework with no load-bearing circularity in derivation

full rationale

The EvoLib framework extracts modular skills and reflective insights directly from the model's own inference trajectories and applies an internal weighting and consolidation mechanism to evolve them into reusable abstractions. No equations, predictions, or central claims in the abstract reduce by construction to fitted parameters, self-defined quantities, or prior self-citations; the improvements are presented as emerging from the iterative internal process itself rather than from any tautological renaming or imported uniqueness theorem. The derivation chain remains independent of external benchmarks or ground-truth signals by design, qualifying as a normal non-circular outcome with only minor potential for self-referential elements that do not carry the load of the main result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that self-generated inference trajectories contain extractable, reusable abstractions whose consolidation can be optimized without supervision; no free parameters or invented physical entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Inference trajectories contain extractable modular skills and reflective insights that can be automatically identified and stored.
This underpins the entire library construction process described in the abstract.

invented entities (1)

Evolving library of knowledge abstractions no independent evidence
purpose: To accumulate and consolidate reusable skills and insights across problem instances for continual improvement
Core new construct introduced by the framework; no independent evidence outside the paper is provided.

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Aaron Hurst, Adam Lerer, Adam P Goucher, Adam Perelman, Aditya Ramesh, Aidan Clark, AJ Ostrow, Akila Welihinda, Alan Hayes, Alec Radford, et al. Gpt-4o system card.arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21276, 2024. 12 Table A.2: Summary of datasets used in evaluation. Domain Dataset # Instances Notes Math Reasoning HMMT Feb 2025 30 Competitive math problems HMMT Nov ...

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