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arxiv:2610.37651

GEPA-Curator: Curated Learning for Self Improving Agents

Published on Oct 27
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Nicholas Lee
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Abstract

GEPA-Curator improves agentic prompt optimization by filtering unreliable failure signals and retrieving past successes, boosting performance across multiple benchmarks.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in multi-turn agentic workloads that require sustained interaction with complex environments. Existing reflective prompt optimizers such as GEPA learn from failed rollouts, but agentic failures can also come from prompt weaknesses, harness limitations, stochastic execution, or noisy judges. We argue that such failures may not provide useful learning signal, and may even be harmful; and thus it is essential to curate which tasks are provided to the prompt optimizer for better performance. We introduce GEPA-Curator, a framework that augments the prompt optimizer to select which agent experiences should shape prompt optimization. In particular, GEPA-Curator consists of two components: task curation, which filters out tasks that are likely to provide noisy or unreliable learning signals, and prior success retrieval, which selectively retrieves past successful trajectories for a task and provides them as additional context to the prompt optimizer. We evaluate GEPA-Curator on GoBrowse, ALFWorld, AppWorld, and τ-bench, using both Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 5 as optimizer models. GEPA-Curator matches or exceeds the mean performance of both baselines, with gains of up to 20.7% over GEPA and 21.2% over ACE.

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Not all agent failures are equally useful for learning. Existing reflective prompt optimizers often learn indiscriminately from failed trajectories, even when failures stem from noisy feedback, stochasticity, or environment limitations rather than just poor prompts.

We introduce GEPA-Curator, which improves agent self-optimization through two mechanisms: task curation, filtering out unreliable learning signals, and prior success retrieval, leveraging successful past trajectories to guide prompt improvements.

Across four agentic benchmarks, GEPA-Curator outperforms GEPA and ACE by up to 20.7% and 21.2%, respectively.

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