Autonomous agents must continually acquire reusable knowledge from experience without relying on costly large language model (LLM) reasoning for every decision. However, existing experience-based approaches often struggle to transform accumulated observations and reasoning into compact knowledge th…

Autonomous agents must continually acquire reusable knowledge from experience without relying on costly large language model (LLM) reasoning for every decision. However, existing experience-based approaches often struggle to transform accumulated observations and reasoning into compact knowledge th…

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In general, women intervene as bystanders more often than men to prevent or disrupt sexual assault. Gender socialization, including internalization and adherence to aspects of traditional gender role norms, may help explain this gender disparity in prosocial bystander intervention. We examined the association between conformity to masculine norms for college men (N = 412) and conformity to feminine norms for college women (N = 742) and bystander intervention (i.e., bystander attitudes, efficacy, intentions, and behaviors). Results indicated that higher endorsement of the masculine norms of asserting masculine dominance over women, being perceived as heterosexual, and controlling one’s emotions were associated with less bystander intervention among men, while engaging in more risk-taking behaviors was associated with more bystander intervention after controlling for the other norms. For women, endorsing feminine norms about restricting sexuality outside of a committed relationship and prioritizing romance were predictive of less bystander intervention, while conforming to norms about being perceived as nice and valuing friendship predicted more bystander intervention. These findings suggest that the specific aspects of gender role norms, rather than masculinity or femininity more generally, may be contributing to gender differences in intervention rates, and that men and women who identify with traditional gender roles may face competing pressures when confronted with sexual violence intervention opportunities. Parsing these associations has implications for gender socialization and bystander theories, as well as developing effective bystander training programs that deconstruct gender norms.

In recent years, agentic orchestration has been widely applied to solve complex human tasks. However, existing orchestration learning still faces key challenges, including hand-designed curricula, advantage collapse when a task's rollouts all reach the same outcome, and unreliable evaluation signals

The Internalization of Efficacy Failure The persistent repurchasing of ineffective, white-labeled wellness products by consumers who have repeatedly experienced zero physical transformation is one of the most perplexing phenomena in modern commerce. Logic dictates that a failed outcome should break the purchasing cycle, yet social commerce systematically redirects the blame for product failure away from the seller and onto the consumer. Influencers expertly frame efficacy as a variable dependent on user compliance—attributing a lack of results to insufficient hydration, inconsistent usage, stress, or underlying lifestyle flaws. Because the influencer stands as visible, living proof of an ideal physique, the consumer concludes that the product is inherently valid, but their own execution was flawed.

R²Orch recursively self-improves agent orchestration by distilling skills until zero reliance remains.