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One Policy Is Enough: Single-Agent Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Tree Search for Chemistry Tool Learning

arXiv AI
Jun 3

Synthesize and Reward -- Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Tool Use in Live Environments

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

TRACE: Turn-level Reward Assignment via Credit Estimation for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2607. 13988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn agents solve complex tasks through extended sequences of tool interactions before producing a final answer, making credit assignment a fundamental challenge during post-training.

By Leitian Tao, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Tao Ge, Hao Cheng, Mike Hang Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Sharon Li
arXiv AI
Oct 12

Masked Diffusion Language Agents for Tool-Integrated Chemical Reasoning

The paper introduces ChemDiffAgent, a masked diffusion language agent designed for tool‑integrated chemical reasoning. Unlike traditional autoregressive agents, it treats reasoning as iterative denoising over interleaved reasoning and tool‑use trajectories, allowing joint decision making under full‑trajectory context. A two‑stage post‑training framework further refines tool use and reasoning, and the authors benchmark the model on six chemistry tasks, reporting a ~20% performance gain over autoregressive baselines and competitive results against larger models.

By Mengdi Liu, Chenghao Jia, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan
arXiv AI
Sep 18

MATCH: Model-Aware Tool Learning with Curriculum Scheduling and Hierarchically Gated Rewards

MATCH is a closed‑loop framework for model‑aware tool learning that combines curriculum scheduling with hierarchically gated rewards. It introduces Model‑Aware Curriculum Learning (MACL), which dynamically adjusts sample difficulty based on reward signals, and Hierarchical Tool‑call Gated Reward (HTGR), which allocates credit at the tool name, argument key, and argument value levels only when prerequisites are met. Experiments on API‑Bank and BFCL V3 show MATCH achieving 72.19% and 62.87% overall accuracy, outperforming both supervised and RL‑based baselines across multiple backbone models.

By Shihao Liu, Hao Yin, Lijun Liu, Zhengzong Chen, Yuanyuan Zhao, Fei Huang
arXiv AI
6d ago

KnowGPO: Knowledge-Grouped Policy Optimization for Search Agents

KnowGPO introduces a reinforcement learning framework that groups search agent trajectories by the task-relevant knowledge they acquire, rather than by surface observations. By decomposing required information into atomic knowledge conditions and using the incremental knowledge gain as a process reward, KnowGPO provides finer-grained credit assignment for deep search tasks. Experiments on Xbench, BrowseComp-ZH, and GAIA demonstrate that KnowGPO outperforms outcome-only and process-supervision baselines by 3.8 to 4.2 points, with an 8B model rivaling or exceeding most 32B open-source systems.

By Siqi Chen, Zhengxi Lu, Yuchen Yan, Xingyu Wu, Qipeng Chen, Xin Zhang, Aiting Liu, Chao Deng, Jie Liu, Jin Ma, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yongliang Shen