arXiv:2606. 06523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) to execute reliable multi-step workflows has become a central challenge in artificial intelligence.
By Ruida Wang, Jerry Huang, Pengcheng Wang, Xuanqing Liu, Luyang Kong, Tong Zhang
The paper introduces the Agentic Compositional Generalization hypothesis, suggesting that reinforcement learning (RL) primarily refines high‑level decision‑making behaviors that orchestrate pre‑trained low‑level skills, rather than teaching new domain‑specific skills from scratch. It proposes River, a training recipe that enhances reward quality by filtering low‑quality synthetic environments and adding process‑level behavior regularization. Using River, RL‑trained agents outperform other open‑source 8B models on four terminal‑agent benchmarks, achieving significant gains with fewer than 30% of the training environments.
By Yihang Yao, Bo Pang, Xuan Phi Nguyen, Ding Zhao, Shafiq Joty, Semih Yavuz
arXiv:2603. 14465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have evolved into tool-using agents, they remain brittle in long-horizon interactions.
By Shengda Fan, Xuyan Ye, Yupeng Huo, Zhi-Yuan Chen, Yiju Guo, Shenzhi Yang, Wenkai Yang, Shuqi Ye, Jingwen Chen, Haotian Chen, Xin Cong, Yankai Lin
arXiv:2607. 10891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly shifting toward agents that solve tasks through diverse interfaces, including web and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
By Qijia Shen, Zhiqi Huang, Vamsidhar Kamanuru, Aznaur Aliev, Jay Rainton, Ahmed Awelkair, Zhichen Zeng, Jiajun Li, Shi Dong, Yueming Yuan, Boyuan Ma, Qizheng Zhang, Jiwei Fu, Yuzhen Mao, Wendong Fan, Ping Nie, Philip Torr, Bernard Ghanem, Changran Hu, Jonathan Lingjie Li, Urmish Thakker, Guohao Li
AgentFly is an agentic reinforcement learning framework that introduces a unified resource layer to manage heterogeneous environments—such as sandboxes, model services, and external APIs—through a single scheduling engine. The framework is organized into four layers: an agent layer that abstracts agents, tools, and rewards; a rollout layer that composes agent loops and computes rewards; a context layer that organizes rollouts and injects contextual information; and a low‑level resource layer that handles resource management. AgentFly offers prebuilt tools and environments, demonstrates successful agent training across multiple tasks and models, and provides the first controlled cross‑framework throughput comparison against other agentic RL frameworks.
By Renxi Wang, Rifo Ahmad Genadi, Bilal El Bouardi, Yongxin Wang, Fajri Koto, Zhengzhong Liu, Timothy Baldwin, Haonan Li
arXiv:2608. 10538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills represent a standardized format for packaging procedural knowledge and domain expertise, serving within agent harness systems as an essential mechanism to continually constrain a language model's behavior space for repeatable, high-quality task execution.
By Chenhao Dang, Siyuan Xiong, Conghui He, Weijia Li
arXiv:2609.15066v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present Salesforce Koa, an enterprise language model built by post-training the open-weight Nemotron-3-Super-120B foundation model with reinforcem...
By Zixiang Chen, Sufeng Niu, Yingchi Liu, Wenting Zhao, Akshara Prabhakar, Shubham Mehrotra, Bin Bi, Zhujun Lan, Katherine Tan, Mohammad Ramezanali, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Monojit Banerjee, Jielin Qiu, Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Zhepeng Cen, Anupam Tripathi, Ali Ziaei, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Darvish Lee Shadravan, Shelby Heinecke, Sitaram Asur, Silvio Savarese, James Zhu, Phil Mui, Huan Wang
arXiv:2609.22068v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Training capable coding agents via reinforcement learning (RL) requires diverse tasks with reliable verifiers. Open-source codebases offer a rich sourc...
By Bowen Ye, Lei Li, Shicheng Li, Zihao Yue, Linghao Zhang, Hanglong Lv, Yuanxin Liu, Wenhan Ma, Hao Tian, Rang Li, Jinhao Dong, Yikai Zhao, Xiangwei Deng, Hailin Zhang, Liang Zhao, Qi Liu, Lingpeng Kong, Tong Yang, Fuli Luo
arXiv:2510. 05592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outcome-driven reinforcement learning has advanced reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but prevailing tool-augmented approaches train a single, monolithic policy that interleaves thoughts and tool calls under full context; this scales poorly with long horizons and diverse tools and generalizes weakly to new scenarios.
By Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu
arXiv:2606. 03892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training LLMs to orchestrate multi-step tool calls is held back by three coupled obstacles: realistic stateful execution environments are costly to build, synthetic training queries are often detached from the server's actual state (so the generated tool calls fail to execute), and recall-based RL rewards incentivize verbose tool-calling patterns.
By Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Asim Munawar, Kinjal Basu, Maxwell Crouse, Chulaka Gunasekara, Suneet Katrekar, Pavan Kapanipathi
The paper introduces Verifiable Process Rewards (VPR), a framework that uses symbolic or algorithmic task-solving oracles as action-level verifiers to provide dense rewards for intermediate actions in agentic reasoning tasks. VPR is applied to Sokoban, Sudoku, and Minesweeper, and improves policy performance over outcome-reward baselines. The authors also demonstrate VPR’s effectiveness in a tool‑use benchmark, highlighting its reliance on reliable task oracles and the difficulty of extending it to less structured environments.
By Huining Yuan, Zelai Xu, Huaijie Wang, Xiangmin Yi, Jiaxuan Gao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Yu Wang, Chao Yu, Yi Wu
arXiv:2601. 03555v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training reliable tool-augmented agents remains a significant challenge, largely due to the difficulty of credit assignment in multi-step reasoning.
By Yuxuan Jiang, Francis Ferraro