arXiv:2608.21871v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become the dominant recipe for improving large language model reasoning, yet it presumes large human...
By Jing Yu, Shengchao Chen, Yiyun Tan
UnifiedPlayers is a cooperative framework that jointly adapts planning, execution, and evaluation for tool-integrated reinforcement learning agents. It consists of a Planning Player that generates tasks, an Execution Player that creates multi-turn trajectories with Python tool calls, and an Evaluation Player that builds executable verifiers, all coordinated by role‑specific rewards under GRPO. The approach outperforms prior baselines on mathematical and general reasoning benchmarks and yields a verifier with high adversarial detection accuracy and more discriminative reward signals.
By Wenjie Liao, Liangjie Zhao, Zehong Cao
The paper introduces Trace, a framework that transforms sparse-reward trajectories into executable walkthroughs by identifying progress anchors, propagating credit, and estimating action prerequisites. Trace compiles noisy trajectories into state‑conditioned, verifiable procedures that remove loops and detours, enabling reuse, intermediate‑state resumption, and programmatic verification. Experiments on J‑TTL, WebShop, and ScienceWorld with three open‑source LLMs show that Trace outperforms eight baselines, improving average AUC and Final‑$3$ by 30.0% and 40.5% while using fewer inference tokens.
By Kaijie Chen, Chenyu Fang, Liang Yan, Bo Li, Bo Zhang, Peng Ye
arXiv:2608. 04964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive video world models are essential for long-horizon planning and exploration, yet they suffer from compounding errors.
By Bohai Gu, Yueyang Yuan, Taiyi Wu, Dazhao Du, Jian Liu, Xiaoyi Pang, Jie Zhang, Xiaocheng Lu, Haobin Zhong, Xiaotong Zhao, Alan Zhao, Song Guo
arXiv:2605.14211v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Long-horizon visuomotor tasks remain a fundamental challenge in AI, as current methods rely on hand-engineered rewards or action-labeled demonstrat...
By Benjamin Schneider, Xavier Schneider, Victor Zhong, Sun Sun
SPADE (Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments) is a reinforcement‑learning framework where a single large language model acts as both an Environment Designer—creating executable, long‑horizon training environments—and a Reasoning Agent—learning to act within those environments. The framework uses a regret signal based on the difference between rewarded performance with and without privileged hints to guide the Designer toward environments that are challenging yet solvable. Experiments show that, when scaled to 30‑billion‑parameter models, SPADE outperforms fixed‑environment baselines by significant margins across math, science, code, and reasoning benchmarks, and improves tool‑use performance on BFCL‑v4 and ACEBench‑Agent.
whyItMatters":"By making environment design a learnable component, SPADE enables continuous self‑improvement and demonstrates that adaptive, self‑generated training environments can substantially boost language‑model performance across diverse tasks."
By Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang, Ao Qu, Andrew Zhao, Zichen Liu, Junsu Kim, Zijian Zhou, Seungone Kim, Tongzheng Ren, Mickel Liu, Hanfei Yu, Zhaorun Chen, Weiyan Shi, Paul Pu Liang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yejin Choi, Natasha Jaques
arXiv:2608. 07959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long egocentric video understanding requires reasoning over temporally sparse evidence distributed across hours or days, challenging current multimodal models with limited context and the grounding of key video segments.
By Keyang Zhong, Kuo Wang, Peng Liu, Quanlong Zheng, Junlin Xie, Zhijia Liang, Yanhao Zhang, Guanbin Li
arXiv:2604.00055v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Existing robotic foundation policies are trained primarily via large-scale imitation learning. While such models demonstrate strong capabilit...
By Silong Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Evan Sheehan, Anurag Shivaprasad, Yaqi Xie, Katia Sycara, Yesh Dattatreya
arXiv:2605. 14211v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon embodied tasks remain a fundamental challenge in AI, as current methods rely on hand-engineered rewards or action-labeled demonstrations, neither of which scales.
By Benjamin Schneider, Xavier Schneider, Victor Zhong, Sun Sun
arXiv:2610.18868v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Long-horizon agents have drawn growing attention for their ability to work autonomously -- from hours to days -- on economically valuable tasks, a ca...
By Wenbo Hu, Shraman Pramanick, Krishna Kumar Singh, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang, Yong Jae Lee
S3Gym is an interactive benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their ability to self-improve through self-testing, self-judging, and self-improvement. It separates permissive exploration from strict held-out evaluation across seven text-based games with executable environment verifiers. Experiments show that self-improvement varies by task, with different experience incorporation pathways (direct history, summary memory, or parameter training) yielding mixed results and highlighting the need for agents to transform feedback into executable, transferable policies.
By Jiajun Shi, Siyuan Tao, Yuhao Wu, Zexuan Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiaheng Liu, Xinping Lei, Xinrong Zhang, Siyuan Fang, Zhewen Tan, Tianle Cai, Junhao Fang, Jiameng Huang, Yueyang Wang, Jinkai Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Jian Yang, Zhoujun Li, Shen Yan, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang
The paper introduces SUTURE, a structured verification method for video temporal grounding that leverages the joint structure of rollout groups rather than scoring each rollout independently. SUTURE conditions verification on the entire rollout group, using disagreement across rollouts to reweight targets and coverage at each position to redistribute reward mass. Experiments on five benchmarks show that SUTURE consistently improves grounding performance across all IoU thresholds and reduces video-start anchoring in reasoning traces, indicating that the joint structure of a rollout group can provide a more informative temporal verifier.
By Youngjae Cho, Won Young Jhoo, Jongsuk Kim