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ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model

ALTK-Evolve, a customer service agent, has recently outperformed retail competitors on the τ²-bench benchmark by utilizing GPT-4.1 without updating model weights. This non-reasoning model achieved a Pass^4 of 67.5% across four independent attempts on tasks within the retail benchmark. The agent operates using GPT-4.1's stock ReAct scaffold with learned guidelines appended to its system prompt.

ALTK-Evolve extracts these guidelines from the agent's training-task attempts and incorporates them into the agent's prompt for subsequent conversations, thereby improving its performance without the need for additional weight updates or human annotation.

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