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ScholarPulse 日报 2026-08-04

2026-08-04 学术简报:2 篇。ACEM为代理软件工程开发了首个成本估算模型,整合了LLM token消耗、HITL监督和基础设施成本的非确定性特征。

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序号标题来源日期主题推荐等级
1ACEM: A Cost Estimation Model for Agentic Software EngineeringarXiv2026-08-03AI-Agent高
2RoMeRL: Balancing Feedback Coverage and the Memory-Reward Trap in Self-Evolving Agent Memory via Reduced-Order Utility StatesarXiv2026-08-03RAG高

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1. ACEM: A Cost Estimation Model for Agentic Software Engineering

一句话结论

ACEM为代理软件工程开发了首个成本估算模型,整合了LLM token消耗、HITL监督和基础设施成本的非确定性特征。

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摘要 Traditional software cost estimation models, such as COCOMO II, Function Points, and Story Points, assume that development effort is primarily driven by human labor in design, coding, and testing. Agentic software engineering, where autonomous AI agents perform substantial implementation work and humans focus on planning, specification, and validation, challenges this assumption. New cost dimensions arise: large language model (LLM) token consumption across agent actions, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) oversight effort, and infrastructure costs for agent orchestration and tooling. These costs are nondeterministic: identical tasks may consume different tokens, follow divergent reasoning paths, and require varying human correction, phenomena absent in traditional development. A new framework is needed to bridge standard sizing metrics with this cost structure. This paper proposes ACEM (Agentic Cost Estimation Model), which decomposes total agentic development cost into three additive dimensions: LLM, HITL, and infrastructure cost. ACEM introduces three constructs for agentic dynamics: the Revision Factor (RF), modeling token overhead from output rejection and retries; the Context Factor (CF), capturing rising token consumption as context accumulates; and the HITL Intensity Score (HIS), a four-level oversight classification scheme. It further maps Use Case Points, Story Points, and Function Points to estimated token consumption, enabling organizations to reuse existing project-scoping data for agentic cost forecasting. ACEM is presented as a fully specified model structure and calibration methodology, with constants left symbolic pending empirical grounding. As an early-stage proposal, it invites the research community to calibrate, test, and extend the model through real project data.

2. RoMeRL: Balancing Feedback Coverage and the Memory-Reward Trap in Self-Evolving Agent Memory via Reduced-Order Utility States

一句话结论

RoMeRL通过减少阶效用状态有效平衡了反馈覆盖与记忆-奖励陷阱,显著提升自演化代理记忆的效率与性能。

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摘要 Learning-based memory systems for self-evolving LLM agents face two tightly coupled challenges. First, trajectory-indexed utilities grow with the interaction history, thereby dispersing limited feedback over an ever-expanding state space. Second, because trajectory-level rewards are jointly assigned to co-retrieved memories, irrelevant experiences may receive misleading utility updates and consequently enter the memory-reward trap. To address these challenges, we introduce Reduced-Order Memory Reinforcement Learning (RoMeRL), which represents the growing trajectory-indexed utility space using a fixed-dimensional per-task memory state factorized by outcome polarity and memory dynamics. RoMeRL incorporates new experiences through a fixed set of semantic coordinates whose contents are updated or replaced over time, thereby concentrating feedback over a bounded utility support. Theoretically, we show that this reduced-order parameterization increases the average feedback received by each utility coordinate and characterize the steady-state occupancy of erroneous coordinates under a generic coordinate-transition model. Empirically, across ALFWorld and LifelongAgentBench, RoMeRL improves task performance, reduces the Cold-Q ratio by 80.0%, increases feedback density by approximately 6.0 times, reduces the maintained memory size by 84.4%, and cuts LLM calls by 21.1%. These results show that reduced-order utility states support efficient self-evolving agent memory while limiting persistent reward contamination. Code is available at: https://github.com/YOUNG-fnxm/RoMeRL