arXiv AI

CREDO: Variance-Guided Rubric Evolution for Replay-Corrected Credit Assignment

arXiv AI
4d ago

Targeting Pivotal Decisions for Credit Assignment in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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 Machine Learning
Sep 4

TIGPO: Temporal Instance-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

TIGPO (Temporal Instance-Graph Policy Optimization) extends graph-based credit assignment for long-horizon LLM agents by maintaining a persistent transition graph per task across policy updates. It allocates rollout budgets to both new exploration and revisiting past tasks, pairing current rollouts with earlier ones to create cross‑temporal references that stabilize advantage estimation. Experiments on ALFWorld and WebShop show TIGPO consistently outperforms previous group‑based and graph‑based policy optimization methods.

By Jinwei Gan
arXiv AI
Jun 10

TRACE: A Unified Rollout Budget Allocation Framework for Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 11119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a promising approach for enhancing reasoning and agentic behavior in large language models.

By Heming Zou, Qi Wang, Yun Qu, Yuhang Jiang, Lizhou Cai, Yixiu Mao, Ru Peng, Xin Xu, Weijie Liu, Kai Yang, Saiyong Yang, Xiangyang Ji