arXiv AI

MEAL: A Benchmark for Continual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2506. 14990v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmarks play a central role in reinforcement learning (RL) research, yet their computational constraints often shape what is studied.

arXiv AI

Jun 2

Task diversity produces systematic transfer but inhibits continual reinforcement learning

arXiv:2606. 00880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning aims to produce agents that learn not only to improve at their current tasks but also to adapt as task distributions change.

By Purab Seth, Neil Shah, Kunal Jha, Samuel J. Gershman, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Wilka Carvalho

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arXiv AI

Aug 11

The Cell Must Go On: Agar.io for Continual Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2505. 18347v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning (RL) concerns agents that are expected to learn continually, rather than converge to a policy that is then fixed for evaluation.

By Mohamed A. Mohamed, Kateryna Nekhomiazh, Vedant Vyas, Marcos M. Jose, Andrew Patterson, Marlos C. Machado

agents reinforcement-learning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 8

Just-In-Time Reinforcement Learning: Continual Learning in LLM Agents Without Gradient Updates

arXiv:2601. 18510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Model (LLM) agents excel at general tasks, they inherently struggle with continual adaptation due to the frozen weights after deployment.

By Yibo Li, Zijie Lin, Ailin Deng, Xuan Zhang, Yufei He, Shuo Ji, Tri Cao, Bryan Hooi

llms agents reinforcement-learning fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 10

When Does Continual Learning Require Learning

arXiv:2607. 07847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable, the next question is how can we enable models to continually learn?

By Anne Harrington, Nayan Saxena, Michael Murphy, Anastasia Borovykh, Zeyu Yun, Sridhar Kamath, Ara Eindra Kyi, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, Yutong Bai

llms agents reinforcement-learning fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

RL Forgets! Towards Continual Policy Optimization

arXiv:2607. 04364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual post-training is becoming a central paradigm for adapting vision-language models to evolving tasks.

By Mao-Lin Luo, Zhe-Xu Wang, Zi-Hao Zhou, Bo Ye, Jian Zhao, Min-Ling Zhang, Tong Wei

llms reinforcement-learning fine-tuning multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 4

Position: Deployed Reinforcement Learning should be Continual

arXiv:2606. 04029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has received increasing attention and adoption in real-world use cases.

By Parnian Behdin, Kevin Roice, Golnaz Mesbahi

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Robust Instruction Compliance in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605. 12655v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in real-world use cases may need to adapt to external natural language instructions that interrupt ongoing behavior and conflict with long-horizon objectives.

By Wo Wei Lin, Ethan Rathbun, Enrico Marchesini, Xiang Zhi Tan

agents reinforcement-learning

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

CLaaS: Continual learning as a service for sample efficient online learning

arXiv:2606. 05559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed large language model agents must adapt to distribution shift in dynamic environments.

By Kion Fallah, Silen Naihin, Barak Widawsky, Qingqing Mao

llms agents safety

arXiv AI

Jun 6

Continual Learning Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI Systems in Real-World Stateful Environments

arXiv:2606. 05661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning, the ability of AI systems to improve through sequential experience, has attracted substantial interest, but no high-quality benchmark exists to evaluate it.

By Parth Asawa, Christopher M. Glaze, Gabriel Orlanski, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Benji Xu, Asim Biswal, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez

llms agents benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

Communication-Enhanced Tutoring for Efficient Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2508. 13661v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) is the dominant paradigm in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling agents to act independently at test time while leveraging additional information during training.

By Maciej Wojtala, Bogusz Stefa\'nczyk, Dominik Bogucki, {\L}ukasz Lepak, Pawe{\l} Wawrzy\'nski

agents diffusion reinforcement-learning

arXiv AI

Jul 7

ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602. 21534v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) has rapidly gained attention as a promising paradigm for training agents to solve complex, multi-step interactive tasks.

By Xiaoxuan Wang, Han Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yidan Shi, Ruoyan Li, Kaiqiao Han, Chenyi Tong, Haoran Deng, Renliang Sun, Alexander Taylor, Yanqiao Zhu, Jason Cong, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang

llms agents reinforcement-learning

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Simple Recipe Works: Vision-Language-Action Models are Natural Continual Learners with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603. 11653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a promising direction toward self-improving embodied agents that can adapt in openended, evolving environments.

By Jiaheng Hu, Jay Shim, Chen Tang, Yoonchang Sung, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Roberto Martin-Martin

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