Ruizhen Gu

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2 Papers

11.7SEApr 10
SkillMOO: Multi-Objective Optimization of Agent Skills for Software Engineering

Jingzhi Gong, Ruizhen Gu, Zhiwei Fei et al.

Agent skills provide modular, task-specific guidance for LLM- based coding agents, but manually tuning skill bundles to balance success rate, cost, and runtime is expensive and fragile. We present SkillMOO, a multi-objective optimization framework that automatically evolves skill bundles using LLM-proposed edits and NSGA-II survivor selection: a solver agent evaluates candidate skill bundles on coding tasks and an optimizer agent proposes bundle edits based on failure analysis. On three SkillsBench software engineering tasks, SkillMOO improves pass rate by up to 131% while reducing cost up to 32% relative to the best baseline per task at low optimization overhead. Pattern analysis reveals pruning and substitution as primary drivers of improvement, suggesting effective bundles favor minimal, focused content over accumulated instructions.

5.8SEJul 7
Collaborative Multi-Agent Testing for Emergent Failure Discovery in Autonomous Driving Systems

Ruizhen Gu, Konstantinos Koufos, Donghwan Shin et al.

Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) can fail because of faults within individual modules as well as from interactions across perception, planning, and control. Yet existing ADS testing research often treats key testing functions, such as perturbation generation, behavioural assessment, and test case selection and exploration, as loosely coupled steps rather than coordinated roles for discovering such failures. We present CREAD, a collaborative multi-agent testing framework for testing ADS that organises perturbation generation, behavioural validation, and search coordination through a shared blackboard and an orchestrator. In the current work-in-progress instantiation, the framework focuses on perception-oriented perturbation generation, while remaining extensible to other ADS modules, including planning and control. It currently comprises a Perception Fuzzer Agent, a Metamorphic Validator Agent, and an Orchestrator Agent. Respectively, they generate perturbations, assess behavioural consistency across related scenario pairs, and coordinate further exploration. Experiments in HighwayEnv simulator show that the collaborative configuration improves failure discovery in the highway environment and remains competitive in the roundabout setting. Across the two environments, it yields about 2.1x as many failures per 100 scenarios as the single-agent baseline on average, while gains over a non-collaborative two-agent baseline vary across environments. These results suggest that collaborative multi-agent testing is a promising research direction for emergent ADS behaviour discovery.