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TeleTune: Evolving Agent Skills From Offline Telemetry

Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen, Pol Llado +5 more

Published

Oct 4, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

High

Usefulness score

65/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

80% (High)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Oct 6, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this as a practical starting point for protocol research, then validate against the original paper.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A benchmark-and-metrics comparison anchor.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
65/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

Abstract

Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software. User telemetry offers a scalable source of this knowledge. However, learning reusable skills from these logs requires addressing three challenges: (1) Goal Underspecification, since logs do not record the goal behind each action; (2) Non-Replayability, since past activity cannot be replayed to evaluate skill updates; and (3) Interleaved Trajectories, since logs may mix several tasks without marking their boundaries. To address these, we introduce TeleTune, a framework for learning a textual skill library from offline logs without recorded goals, cannot be replayed during optimization, and may interleave tasks. TeleTune uses action-prediction errors on logged trajectories to propose library edits and keep only those that improve held-out action-prediction accuracy, which we call skill-guided progress. The learned workflows also enable retrieval of demonstrations that cover the subgoals of a new task. At test time, the agent is provided with the learned library and the workflow-based retrieved demonstrations. Experiments on WorkArena and Online-Mind2Web show that TeleTune outperforms random retrieval, Agent Workflow Memory (AWM), and their combination. We find that the best baseline varies by setting, whereas TeleTune achieves average success rates of 77.1% and 80.6%, respectively, improving over the strongest baseline on each benchmark by 6.7% and 7.7%. Under the heaviest perturbation of the WorkArena training data,TeleTune keeps the highest average success rate at 68.5%, 6.3% above the strongest baseline. Our analyses show (1) skill optimization and workflow-based retrieval are complementary, (2) optimizing on fixed logs costs 5 to 75 times fewer tokens than validating the same edits with live episodes, (3) skill-guided progress tracks the live success rate.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Demonstrations

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"The learned workflows also enable retrieval of demonstrations that cover the subgoals of a new task."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software."

Benchmarks / Datasets

strong

Mind2Web, WorkArena

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"Experiments on WorkArena and Online-Mind2Web show that TeleTune outperforms random retrieval, Agent Workflow Memory (AWM), and their combination."

Reported Metrics

strong

Accuracy, Success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"TeleTune uses action-prediction errors on logged trajectories to propose library edits and keep only those that improve held-out action-prediction accuracy, which we call skill-guided progress."

Benchmarks and datasets

Mind2WebWorkArena

Reported metrics

accuracysuccess rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Demonstrations
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Trajectory
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
High
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Research brief

Metadata summary

Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software.
  • User telemetry offers a scalable source of this knowledge.
  • However, learning reusable skills from these logs requires addressing three challenges: (1) Goal Underspecification, since logs do not record the goal behind each action; (2) Non-Replayability, since past activity cannot be replayed to evaluate skill updates; and (3) Interleaved Trajectories, since logs may mix several tasks without marking their boundaries.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software.
  • To address these, we introduce TeleTune, a framework for learning a textual skill library from offline logs without recorded goals, cannot be replayed during optimization, and may interleave tasks.
  • We find that the best baseline varies by setting, whereas TeleTune achieves average success rates of 77.1% and 80.6%, respectively, improving over the strongest baseline on each benchmark by 6.7% and 7.7%.

Why it matters for eval

  • Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software.
  • We find that the best baseline varies by setting, whereas TeleTune achieves average success rates of 77.1% and 80.6%, respectively, improving over the strongest baseline on each benchmark by 6.7% and 7.7%.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Demonstrations

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: Mind2Web, WorkArena

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy, success rate