Skill-SLM: Agent Skill-driven Small Language Models for Reliable Robot Operation

arXiv:2610.10812 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Distillation — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 8× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Task Decomposition — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Skills — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Task Success Rate — 5× in this paper
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Task Planning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Operation Success Rate — 2× in this paper
• Redundancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Automation Science and Engineering — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 1× in this paper
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Procedural Knowledge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics
• A Survey of Scaling in Large Language Model Reasoning
• Sensitivity of Small Language Models to Fine-tuning Data Contamination
• Agent Skill Framework: Perspectives on the Potential of Small to Medium Language Models in Industrial Environments
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Agent Skills for Large Language Models: Architecture, Acquisition, Security, and the Path Forward
• Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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