arXiv Machine Learning

The Mechanism Matters: When Knowledge Graphs Help Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 19616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are widely used to inject prior knowledge into reinforcement learning (RL), yet the literature is dominated by single-domain, positive-result method papers, so we lack a systematic account of when KG structure helps an agent, when it is neutral, and when it hurts.

arXiv AI
Aug 24

AUSO: Action-Level Unified Skill Optimization from Internalization to Utilization

AUSO (Action-level Unified Skill Optimization) is a method that unifies skill learning and skill use through a progressive, action-aware optimization process. It starts by jointly learning from teacher guidance and environmental outcomes, then shifts to outcome-based policy optimization, and finally evaluates each action under skill-conditioned and skill-free contexts to strengthen beneficial skill-sensitive actions while suppressing harmful ones. Experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and SearchQA demonstrate that AUSO consistently improves agent performance and out-of-distribution generalization compared to competitive baselines.

By Huizu Lin, Chengkai Huang, Tianqi Gao, Tao Huang, Daijiao Liu, Tongxin Li, Xiaoyan Sun, Lina Yao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Skill-RM: Unifying Heterogeneous Evaluation Criteria via Agent Skill

arXiv:2606. 03980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models (RMs) provide critical feedback signals for LLM post-training, notably in reinforced fine-tuning (RFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) pipelines.

By Tao Chen, Gangwei Jiang, Pengyu Cheng, Siyuan Huang, Yihao Liu, Jingwei Ni, Jiaqi Guo, Mengyu Zhou, Kai Tang, Junling Liu, Qinliang Su, Xiaoxi Jiang, Guanjun Jiang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

ReSkill: Reconciling Skill Creation with Policy Optimization in Agentic RL

arXiv:2606. 01619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) enables LLM agents to improve continuously from environment rewards, yet the resulting policies do not systematically accumulate reusable strategies that generalize across tasks.

By Zelin He, Haotian Lin, Boran Han, Wei Zhu, Haoyang Fang, Bernie Wang, Xuan Zhu, Runze Li, Matthew Reimherr
arXiv AI
1d ago

RISED: RubrIcs for agentic multi-environment Selection and sElf-Distillation

RISED introduces a framework that uses rubric-based textual feedback to improve training of a single large language model (LLM) agent across multiple interactive environments. By having an LLM judge tag rollouts with a shared rubric vocabulary, the system guides both online data selection and policy supervision, enabling richer cross‑environment relationships and within‑group reward contrast. Experiments show that RISED achieves the highest mean pass rate and ranks first or second in every individual environment, with rubric analysis revealing behavioural changes behind these gains.

By Jingtan Wang, Sirajul Salekin, Young mok Jung, Javier Movellan, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Manjot Bilkhu
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Reconciling Process Supervision with Outcome-Based Credit in Agentic Policy Optimization

The paper introduces TASPO, a method that transforms privileged information (PI) into outcome‑grounded action credit for language‑model agents. TASPO constructs decision‑applicable PI from verified successful experience, aggregates PI‑induced likelihood shifts at the executable‑action level, and converts relative action support into positive, bounded, mean‑preserving weights on the original trajectory advantage. Experiments on three agentic benchmarks show TASPO improves over GRPO by 10.6% and generalizes better to unseen tasks, while reducing supervision mismatch and stabilizing policy optimization.

By Jingxiao Yang, Wangjie Gan, Yingxuan Zhuang, Wenqi Zhang, Jintao Chen, Xuhong Zhang