The paper introduces the Agentic Compositional Generalization hypothesis, suggesting that reinforcement learning (RL) primarily refines high‑level decision‑making behaviors that orchestrate pre‑trained low‑level skills, rather than teaching new domain‑specific skills from scratch. It proposes River, a training recipe that enhances reward quality by filtering low‑quality synthetic environments and adding process‑level behavior regularization. Using River, RL‑trained agents outperform other open‑source 8B models on four terminal‑agent benchmarks, achieving significant gains with fewer than 30% of the training environments.
By Yihang Yao, Bo Pang, Xuan Phi Nguyen, Ding Zhao, Shafiq Joty, Semih Yavuz
AgentMercury is a scalable framework that synthesizes executable environments from high‑level business scenarios instead of task‑specific benchmarks. It creates a persistent world with entities, services, tools, and invariants, allowing diverse tasks and interaction trajectories to emerge naturally. The authors generated 4,783 environments across 14 industries and 50 countries, and training reinforcement‑learning agents on them improved performance on enterprise workflows and out‑of‑domain benchmarks, while the construction process itself can be learned to increase authoring success.
By Minbyul Jeong, Chanwoong Yoon
arXiv:2607. 01531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning how an environment behaves from interaction is central to building agents that adapt to unfamiliar tasks.
By David Courtis, Wenhao Li, Scott Sanner
arXiv:2609.22592v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Training agents with reinforcement learning requires a gym, comprising a task, an executable environment in which the task can be attempted, and a ve...
By Aarati Andrea Noronha, Kavya Ravikumar, Carly Xiaoyu Lin
arXiv:2608. 10504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As coding agents increasingly handle implementation, the central challenge shifts from building individual agents to building an infrastructure that systematically improves them.
By Jung Hwan Lee, Kyu Ho Lee, Gwang Hoon Yoo
arXiv:2608. 04968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capabilities of an LLM agent depend not only on its model but on the harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifies results, and recovers from failure.
By Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Qianshu Cai, Yiu-ming Cheung, Xinmei Tian, Bo Han
arXiv:2606. 03841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in Large Language Model (LLM) agents has enabled promising advances in automated data science.
By Zherui Yang, Fan Liu, Yansong Ning, Hao Liu
arXiv:2606. 15306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We envision continually learning agentic systems that become more useful over time: as they encounter sequences of related tasks, they should infer the hidden structure shared across those tasks and use it to improve future decisions.
By Daksh Mittal, Tommaso Castellani, Thomson Yen, Naimeng Ye, Fangyu Wu, Minghui Chen, Tiffany Cai, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, William Zeng, Hongseok Namkoong
arXiv:2605. 30407v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on general tasks, while often struggling to adapt to specialized domains without high-quality domain-specific data.
By Yujie Luo, Xiangyuan Ru, Jingsheng Zheng, Jingjing Wang, Yuqi Zhu, Jintian Zhang, Runnan Fang, Kewei Xu, Ye Liu, Zheng Wei, Jiang Bian, Zang Li, Shumin Deng
arXiv:2606. 18837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based automatic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) generation has become a crucial frontier for tackling complex tasks.
By Hehai Lin, Qi Yang, Chengwei Qin
arXiv:2607. 06233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-powered data agents are playing an increasingly important role in data-driven decision making.
By Ziting Wang, Yin Li, Zuhao Yang, Xiuchang Li, Jiale Bai, Gao Cong
arXiv:2607. 01531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning how an environment behaves from interaction is central to building agents that adapt to unfamiliar tasks.
By David Courtis, Wenhao Li, Scott Sanner