arXiv:2610.07349v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) avoids a separate critic by estimating advantages from rollout groups. For multi-turn agents, however, traj...
By Sayak Chakrabarti, Sathish Reddy Indurthi
arXiv:2610.15840v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model (LLM) agents remains challenging in long-horizon tasks with sparse outcome rewards, where assign...
By Kaijie Zhu, Weixiang Yan, Omar Attia, Abbas Kazerouni, Alexander Toshev, Andrew Szot
arXiv:2609.36178v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a promising approach for training large language model agents. However, its uniform assignment o...
By Dongwon Jung, Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Yifan Wang, Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Yu Hu, Muhao Chen, Varun Chandrasekaran, Andrzej Banburski-Fahey, Jaron Lanier
arXiv:2509. 02522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) have empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle challenging reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming, however existing RLVR methods often suffer from sparse reward signals and unstable policy gradient updates inherent to RL-based approaches.
By Jiaming Li, Longze Chen, Ze Gong, Yukun Chen, Lu Wang, Wanwei He, Run Luo, Min Yang
arXiv:2608. 06861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents in long-horizon environments requires assigning credit from sparse terminal outcomes to individual actions.
By Hongxi Yan, Ziyue Huang, Shichao Fan, Qingjie Liu
Long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents are typically optimized with sparse terminal outcomes, making fine-grained credit assignment across multi-step interactions difficult. Existing approache...
arXiv:2609.37825v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Assigning credit to intermediate steps remains a central challenge in training Large Language Models (LLMs) on multi-step reasoning tasks with sparse...
By Kun Liang, Chenming Tang, Clive Bai, Weijie Liu, Zeyuan Liu, Qingyang Zhang, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu
arXiv:2610.08402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-turn LLM agents often receive sparse task feedback across several interactions, while generating each response token by token. This creates two r...
By Jiaju Chen, Min Yang, Jinghua Piao, Xiaochong Lan, Xu Xia, Xiangnan He, Yong Li
arXiv:2607. 27973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for the post-training of Large Language Model (LLM) agents.
By Cong Li, Peixi Peng, Yisen Zhao, Xinyu Hu, Shudong Liu, Zhan Su, Zhuojian Li
Group-Graph Policy Optimization (G2PO) is a novel group-based reinforcement learning algorithm designed for long-horizon agentic tasks. It transforms linear interaction trajectories into a global state‑transition graph, aggregates identical observations across trajectories to reduce sampling variance, and redefines actions as transitions between state nodes. By employing an edge‑centric advantage estimation and globally standardizing TD errors, G2PO identifies and prioritizes critical transitions, achieving up to 22.2% higher success rates than state‑of‑the‑art baselines on benchmarks such as WebShop, ALFWorld, and AppWorld.
By Yunan Wang, Minghui Song, Zihan Zhang, Shaohan Huang, Haizhen Huang, Furu Wei, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang
arXiv:2610.29427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL) have substantially improved the performance of LLM agents on complex, long-horizon interactiv...
By Shaojin Ma, Ruitao Wang, Pengyi Li, Jie Yang, Liangyu Chen, Gangyi Zhao, Hongyao Tang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
arXiv:2604.10701v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Credit assignment is a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). Classical actor-critic methods address this challenge through fine-g...
By Zikang Shan, Han Zhong, Liwei Wang, Li Zhao