EvoCurr: Self-evolving Curriculum with Behavior Code Generation for Complex Decision-making
On the map: Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMs → Self-evolving LLM agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Complex decision-making often requires agents to progress through intermediate tasks rather than solve the final target directly. Existing LLM self-refinement methods typically iterate on a fixed target, while curriculum-learning methods often rely on hand-designed schedules, training-time optimization, or domain-specific difficulty metrics. To smooth out the learning curve with adaptive curriculum desgin, we introduce EvoCurr, a general inference-time framework that co-evolves curricula and executable policies. A Designer proposes verifiable intermediate tasks from the latest accepted progress and recent failures, while a Solver generates or trains policies for these tasks. A task-policy pair is accepted only when it passes hard feasibility checks and reaches a specified performance threshold meanwhile an accepted-floor constraint preserves the latest verified checkpoint and prevents failed harder attempts from overwriting mastered behavior. We evaluate EvoCurr across code-as-policy and closed-loop MARL settings on StarCraft II super-late-game micromanagement, hardest stress test, where EvoCurr achieves 96.7--99.2% macro-average win rates across three LLM backbones without LLM parameter training. The performance improvments on other experiments, Flatland, POGEMA, Overcooked, and LiveCodeBench Hard, reflect the generality of our EvoCurr.
Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Self-evolving LLM agents, one of 13 directions in Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMs. Builds on 39 of its 69 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Aug 2025.
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