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Self evolving group agents improve shared memory handling

EvoGroup: A Self-Evolving Harness for Group Agents in Shared Contexts

Abstract: With the rise of Group Agent such as Claude Tag, agents increasingly serve as digital workers for long-term team collaboration. These agents operate over shared contexts that continuously accumulate through multi-user interactions. However, existing agent memory systems are mainly designed for individual users and struggle to capture group-level knowledge in shared contexts, including group relationships and collaboratively formed knowledge. Manual memory strategies further limit adaptation to diverse and evolving shared contexts. To this end, we propose \textbf{EvoGroup (EvoG)}, a self-evolving harness for group agents that starts from a minimal six-tool cold start and adapts through interaction with shared context. EvoG uses confidence and task outcomes to select informative trajectories, while also eliciting self-reflections on uncertainty in low-confidence cases. The analysis agent then examines selected trajectories through adaptive progressive disclosure, followed by bucketed analysis to synthesize high-level findings that guide the evolve agent in revising the Harness. Empirically, pass@1 on held-out split of EverMemBench improves from 71.07\% to 89.58\%, surpassing both self-evolving memory and human-designed harnesses, including Claude Code (85.83\%). To evaluate generalization, we freeze the evolved harness and evaluate it on the unseen GroupMemBench, where, with GPT-5.5, it demonstrates effective generalization and outperforms both memory baselines and human-designed harnesses.

Mon 2 NovComputation and Language
The gist
Group agents help multiple people work together by keeping track of shared information. However, current systems struggle to remember group knowledge and relationships well. The authors designed EvoGroup, a system that learns and improves over time by picking useful information, reflecting on uncertainties, and refining itself. Their tests show EvoGroup remembers group information better than other methods and works well even with new groups and tasks.
Open → 2611.03868v1

Diffusion of social norms favors simpler rules but interaction preserves complexity

Preservation and loss of algorithmic structure in experimental diffusion of joint-action norms

Abstract: Everyday norms of social interaction - e.g. norms of sharing space, taking turns, or queuing - are essential to large societies, offering structured procedures for common interactions. However, it remains unclear how the underlying algorithms of these implicit joint plans evolve as they diffuse through populations. Here we show that this process of diffusion can select against complex algorithms in the earliest stages. We conducted a large-scale study of experimental diffusion of novel social norms among human participants, leveraging advances in program synthesis to characterize the procedures people developed in independent populations. Inherited procedures became structurally simplified and lost during interactions between participants who inherited different variants of joint-action norms; however, opportunities for interactive repair offset this pressure, preserving complex algorithms despite misalignment. These results demonstrate that interactive reasoning mediates selective pressures on structural complexity during cultural evolution of procedural norms.

Fri 16 OctComputation and LanguageMultiagent Systems
The gist
Social norms help people interact smoothly in daily life, like taking turns or sharing space. This study by the authors shows that when new social rules spread among people, simpler versions tend to be kept early on because complex rules get lost. However, when people interact and try to fix misunderstandings together, these more complicated rules can survive. This means the way people talk and work through differences helps keep social behaviors from becoming too simple.
Open → 2610.24150v1