Modern reinforcement learning (RL) post-training pipelines for large language models (LLMs) increasingly combine rollout workloads across multiple domains and feedback paradigms. Prefix-aware routing improves inference efficiency through cache reuse and load balancing, but it does not control how heterogeneous rollout sessions compete for KV-cache capacity.
arXiv:2607. 17299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon rollout generation has become the dominant systems bottleneck in agentic reinforcement learning (RL).
By Ryan Xu, Atlas Zhao, David Bao, Frank Du
arXiv:2608. 10402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models is moving toward multi-turn agentic workloads, where rollout tasks repeatedly pause for external environments, resume with growing contexts, and finish at highly variable times.
By Yanyu Ren, Xizheng Wang, Xiao Liu, Bowen Lv, Hanchen Zhang, Shudan Zhang, Hanyu Lai, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Dan Li, Jie Tang
arXiv:2606. 26997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training for reasoning increasingly relies on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), where models learn from ground-truth feedback on mathematical, logical, and scientific tasks.
By Rongjian Chen, Jianmin Hu, Kejiang Ye, Minxian Xu
arXiv:2609.36830v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Fully asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) improves resource utilization in large language model post-training by overlapping rollout generation wi...
By Chenliang Li, Neiwen Ling, Zijun Wei, Alfredo Garcia
arXiv:2607. 07508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming increasingly important for post-training large language models (LLMs).
By Zhenyu Hou, Yujiang Li, Jie Tang, Yuxiao Dong
Reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming increasingly important for post-training large language models (LLMs). Previous RL pipelines for LLMs were mostly synchronous and batch-interleaved, which is inefficient for long-horizon agentic tasks.
arXiv:2608. 12146v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models for reinforcement learning (RL) couples two load-balancing problems: sequence composition determines dense attention work in each data-parallel microbatch, while token routing determines sparse expert work on expert-parallel ranks.
By Yibo Shen, Xudong Han, Xiaowei Zhu, Gen Li, Zhenxuan Pan
The paper addresses the memory bottleneck in reinforcement learning for large language models caused by the large Key-Value (KV) cache during rollout phases. It highlights that while KV cache compression can reduce memory usage, it introduces a significant off‑policy bias that standard statistical corrections cannot adequately mitigate. The authors argue that even tiny compression errors are amplified by RL’s instability, leading to inefficient learning.
By Rui Zhu, Weiheng Bai, Qiushi Wu, Yang Ren, Haixu Tang, Yuchu Liu
arXiv:2606. 03077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), extending beyond preference alignment to complex reasoning and multi-turn agentic behaviors.
By Kaiwen Chen, Xin Tan, Jingzong Li, Hong Xu
arXiv:2512. 22560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) trains LLMs through multi-turn interactions with environments, producing workloads that mix compute-bound prefill, bandwidth-bound decoding, CPU-heavy environment execution, and bursty reward evaluation.
By Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Tianyuan Wu, Shaopan Xiong, Weixun Wang, Dakai An, Lunxi Cao, Dilxat Muhtar, Zichen Liu, Haizhou Zhao, Ju Huang, Siran Yang, Yongbin Li, Wenbo Su, Jiamang Wang, Lin Qu, Bo Zheng, Wei Wang
arXiv:2609.13058v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become central to post-training of large language models. Recent advances in RL for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models hav...
By Hongyi He, Zhenghao Lin, Xiao Liu, Peng Cheng, Yan Lu, Yeyun Gong