Jiabo Zhang
2026
Skill Weaving: Efficient LLM Improvement via Modular Skillpacks
Zhuo Li | Guodong DU | Zesheng Shi | Weiyang Guo | Weijun Yao | Yuan Zhou | Jiabo Zhang | Jing Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhuo Li | Guodong DU | Zesheng Shi | Weiyang Guo | Weijun Yao | Yuan Zhou | Jiabo Zhang | Jing Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
In this work, we introduce SkillWeave, a modular improvement framework that enables large language models to specialize under fixed memory budgets. SkillWeave partitions full capabilities of a general-purpose model into domain-specific skillpacks—lightweight, domain-specific delta modules—that reorganize and refine the model’s internal knowledge. To ensure deployment efficiency, SkillWeave incorporates SkillZip, a compression component that transforms specialized parameters into lightweight, inference-ready skillpacks. Together, these components allow SkillWeave to achieve strong multi-domain performance and inference-efficient execution. On multi-task and agentic benchmarks, a 9B SkillWeave model outperforms task-specific baselines and even surpasses a 32B monolithic LLM, while achieving up to 4× speedup.