Stanford University

Dynamic In-Context Example Selection for Reliable Agentic Reasoning

A theoretically grounded method for agents to dynamically select optimal in-context examples during reasoning, boosting reliability across diverse tasks.

This paper cracks a core bottleneck in agent reliability: poor in-context examples. Instead of hand-curating prompts, the system queries a vector store of past trajectories, scores them via a calibrated meta-LLM, and injects the top-3 into the planner’s context. Results show consistent gains across planning, tool-use, and multi-step QA.

What changed. Dynamic example selection turns brittle prompting into a self-improving mechanism.

Why it matters. Reliability jumps from 60% to 90%+ on real benchmarks, closing the gap to classical systems.

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