EffiSkill: Agent Skill Based Automated Code Efficiency Optimization

Published in Under review via ACL Rolling Review., 2026

EffiSkill studies automated code-efficiency optimization with language-model agents. It mines reusable Operator and Meta Skills from paired slow and optimized programs, retrieves relevant skills for new programs, and composes optimization plans without execution feedback.

On EffiBench-X, the system improves optimization success rate over the strongest baseline across multiple model and language settings. The current public version is available on arXiv.

Recommended citation: Zimu Wang, Yuling Shi, Mengfan Li, Zijun Liu, Jie M. Zhang, Chengcheng Wan, Xiaodong Gu. Under review via ACL Rolling Review.

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