The paper introduces Consistent Plan-Act (ConPAct), a method that addresses coordination failures between high-level planners and low-level actors in long-horizon agentic tasks. By prompting both agents to produce structured state assertions and programmatically detecting contradictions, the authors identify a systematic planner-actor state mismatch. ConPAct feeds these detected contradictions back to both agents, fine‑tunes them on consistent interactions, and achieves notable performance gains, such as raising MiniGrid success rates from 38.6% to 54.4% with GPT‑5.6‑sol/terra.
By Heng-Zhuang Li, Yi-Kai Zhang, Yu Wang, Yueqing Sun, Jiayuan Zhang, Qi Gu, Han-Jia Ye
arXiv:2605. 18077v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication is a key component in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for mitigating partial observability, yet prior approaches often rely on inefficient information exchange or fail to transmit sufficient state information.
By Sangjun Bae, Yisak Park, Sanghyeon Lee, Seungyul Han
arXiv:2606. 30966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal specification is a powerful tool to guide the learning process and provides significant advantages over reward shaping: (1) mathematical rigor; (2) expressiveness to specify objectives and constraints, and (3) the ability to define tactics to achieve objectives.
By Arshia Rafieioskouei, Tzu-Han Hsu, Matthew Lucas, Borzoo Bonakdarpour
arXiv:2607. 00155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study runtime human oversight of an AI agent when private information runs in both directions: the human privately knows her reward function, while the AI privately knows the quality of the action it proposes.
By Yunjin Tong
arXiv:2606. 08340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, they must coordinate with others over long horizons in open-ended interactive tasks.
By Kale-ab Abebe Tessera, Andras Szecsenyi, Cameron Barker, Alexander Rutherford, Davide Paglieri, Aidan Scannell, Henry Gouk, Elliot J. Crowley, Tim Rockt\"aschel, Amos Storkey
The paper proposes CANOPY, a minimalist reinforcement learning protocol that addresses two common pitfalls—signal starvation and policy drift—in outcome‑only RL for long‑horizon interactive tasks. By scaling same‑task exploration, keeping updates on‑policy, and anchoring updates with KL divergence, CANOPY enables a Qwen3‑14B agent to achieve top leaderboard results on the AppWorld coding benchmark without auxiliary supervision or elaborate scaffolding. The approach also improves performance on SWE‑bench for a Qwen3.5‑9B model.
By Liming Pu, Xiaoxia Li, Yifu Liu, Teng Cao, Bin Yang
arXiv:2602. 17737v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mutual adaptation is a central challenge in human-AI teaming, as humans naturally adjust their strategies in response to an AI agent's behavior.
By Upasana Biswas, Durgesh Kalwar, Subbarao Kambhampati, Sarath Sreedharan
arXiv:2608. 01133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) policies in autonomous driving fundamentally relies on extrinsic statistical indicators (e.
By Ye Han, Lijun Zhang, Dejian Meng
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
arXiv:2603. 12109v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a de facto paradigm for building LLM-based agents that act, interact, and reason over extended task horizons.
By Deyu Zou, Yongqiang Chen, Fan Feng, Mufei Li, Pan Li, Yu Gong, James Cheng
Agentick is a unified benchmark for sequential decision‑making agents that evaluates RL, LLM, VLM, hybrid, and human agents on 37 procedurally generated tasks across six capability categories, four difficulty levels, and five observation modalities via a single Gymnasium‑compatible interface. It includes a Coding API, oracle reference policies, pre‑built SFT datasets, a composable agent harness, and a live leaderboard. An evaluation of 27 configurations and over 90,000 episodes shows no single approach dominates, with GPT‑5 mini leading overall, PPO excelling in planning and multi‑agent tasks, and the reasoning harness boosting LLM performance by 3‑10×, while ASCII observations outperform natural language.
By Roger Creus Castanyer, Pablo Samuel Castro, Glen Berseth
arXiv:2508. 12480v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to cooperate with unknown partners is a central challenge in cooperative AI and widely studied in the form of zero-shot coordination (ZSC), which evaluates an algorithm by measuring the performance of independently trained agents when paired.
By Constantin Ruhdorfer, Matteo Bortoletto, Johannes Forkel, Jakob Foerster, Andreas Bulling