Abstract
GEPA-Curator improves agentic prompt optimization by filtering unreliable failure signals and retrieving past successes, boosting performance across multiple benchmarks.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in multi-turn agentic workloads that require sustained interaction with complex environments. Existing reflective prompt optimizers such as GEPA learn from failed rollouts, but agentic failures can also come from prompt weaknesses, harness limitations, stochastic execution, or noisy judges. We argue that such failures may not provide useful learning signal, and may even be harmful; and thus it is essential to curate which tasks are provided to the prompt optimizer for better performance. We introduce GEPA-Curator, a framework that augments the prompt optimizer to select which agent experiences should shape prompt optimization. In particular, GEPA-Curator consists of two components: task curation, which filters out tasks that are likely to provide noisy or unreliable learning signals, and prior success retrieval, which selectively retrieves past successful trajectories for a task and provides them as additional context to the prompt optimizer. We evaluate GEPA-Curator on GoBrowse, ALFWorld, AppWorld, and τ-bench, using both Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 5 as optimizer models. GEPA-Curator matches or exceeds the mean performance of both baselines, with gains of up to 20.7% over GEPA and 21.2% over ACE.
Community
Not all agent failures are equally useful for learning. Existing reflective prompt optimizers often learn indiscriminately from failed trajectories, even when failures stem from noisy feedback, stochasticity, or environment limitations rather than just poor prompts.
We introduce GEPA-Curator, which improves agent self-optimization through two mechanisms: task curation, filtering out unreliable learning signals, and prior success retrieval, leveraging successful past trajectories to guide prompt improvements.
Across four agentic benchmarks, GEPA-Curator outperforms GEPA and ACE by up to 20.7% and 21.2%, respectively.
This is an automated message from the Librarian Bot. I found the following papers similar to this paper.
The following papers were recommended by the Semantic Scholar API
- Self-Evolving Agents Can Repair Failures but Struggle to Generalize from Them (2026)
- Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents (2026)
- MetaCurate: Evolving Curation Filters for High-Quality Agentic Coding Data (2026)
- ServeLearnBench: How Well Can Agents Self-Improve from Serving Experience? (2026)
- LiteEvo: Automated, Cost-Efficient Harness Evolution for Generalization to Unseen Tasks (2026)
- Recurrent Harness for Agentic Continual Learning (2026)
- RLPE: Teaching LLMs to Prompt with Reinforcement Learning (2026)
Please give a thumbs up to this comment if you found it helpful!
If you want recommendations for any Paper on Hugging Face checkout this Space
You can directly ask Librarian Bot for paper recommendations by tagging it in a comment: @librarian-bot recommend
Get this paper in your agent:
hf papers read 2610.37651 Don't have the latest CLI?
curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash Models citing this paper 0
No model linking this paper
Datasets citing this paper 0
No dataset linking this paper
Spaces citing this paper 0
No Space linking this paper
Collections including this paper 0
No Collection including this paper