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A Useful Skill Harmed the Coalition

Skill-bank audits found coalition pollution and utility reversals after cross-domain transfer.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-25-012
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Summary

Skill-bank audits found coalition pollution and utility reversals after cross-domain transfer.

The study uses sampled Shapley marginals to select skills and an unlabeled target-domain mask to suppress harmful transfers. Across LoCoMo, LongMemEval, HotpotQA and ALFWorld, the interventions improved performance and generalization while showing why isolation tests can miss a skill that damages the surrounding bank.

Why it matters

Skill-bank audits found coalition pollution and utility reversals after cross-domain transfer.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Skill-bank audits found coalition pollution and utility reversals after cross-domain transfer.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-25-012

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.22610arXiv · primary research

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