arXiv:2510. 05592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outcome-driven reinforcement learning has advanced reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but prevailing tool-augmented approaches train a single, monolithic policy that interleaves thoughts and tool calls under full context; this scales poorly with long horizons and diverse tools and generalizes weakly to new scenarios.
By Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu
arXiv:2606. 15367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents aim to solve complex knowledge-intensive tasks through long-horizon planning, evidence gathering, reasoning, and report generation.
By Yao Dong, Xinglin Xiao, Liwei Dong, Xinlong Jin, Zhengbo Li, Heng Zhang, Duyun Wang, Nan Xu
APEx is a hierarchical framework that organizes a deep research agent’s interaction history into instance-level trajectory memories and category-level procedural skills. It couples these through an Executor, Distiller, and Planner, trained with a three-stage alternating GRPO paradigm to enable reward-guided skill distillation. At test time, distilled skills act as procedural priors for online Planner adaptation via skill-guided reinforcement learning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on seven benchmarks, outperforming GPT‑5.4 by 14.7 points and the best memory‑augmented baseline by 3.0 points.
By Jie Ding, Rui Sun, Xinyuan Zhang, Zeyu Zhang, Xin Liu
PlanPO introduces a group planning-aware policy optimization method for multi-turn agentic large language models, addressing the issue of advantage collapse caused by treating all successful trajectories equally. By incorporating coarse-to-fine advantage signals that reflect differences in trajectory and turn lengths, PlanPO encourages agents to learn generalizable planning and generation behaviors. Experiments show a 27.2% average improvement over GRPO on benchmarks such as ALFWorld, WebShop, and SciWorld, with minimal extra training cost.
By Dayang Liang, Liyuan He, Xuan Feng, Shuxin Li, Bo An, Yunlong Liu
arXiv:2606. 13710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research and agent evolution serve as de-facto tasks for AI agents in real-world applications toward artificial general intelligence.
By Hongming Piao, Chi Liu, Mengzhuo Chen, Yan Shu, Derek Li, Ying Wei, Bryan Dai
arXiv:2606. 10507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities as autonomous agents across a wide range of tasks, their performance often degrades in multi-turn long-horizon agentic tasks.
By Juncheng Diao, Zhicong Lu, Peiguang Li, Yongwei Zhou, Changyuan Tian, Qingbin Li, Rongxiang Weng, Jingang Wang, Xunliang Cai
arXiv:2607. 16205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has emerged as a standard approach for enhancing reasoning in large language models, which typically optimizes the policy by contrasting multiple self generated rollouts.
By Dayu Wang, Jiaye Yang, Weikang Li, Jiahui Liang, Liwei Qian, Xin Pei, Jizhou Huang
DeepRefine is a reinforcement learning framework that improves the quality of pre‑constructed structured knowledge bases—such as knowledge graphs or LLM‑Wikis—by engaging in multi‑turn interactions with the base. It performs abductive diagnosis to locate defects, then applies targeted refinement actions to incrementally update the knowledge base. The system uses a Gain‑Beyond‑Draft reward to train its refinement policy end‑to‑end, achieving consistent downstream performance gains over strong baselines.
By Haoyu Huang, Jiaxin Bai, Shujie Liu, Yang Wei, Huihao Jing, Hong Ting Tsang, Yisen Gao, Zhongwei Xie, Yufei Li, Yangqiu Song
arXiv:2603.08814v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; y...
By Piyush Gupta, Sangjae Bae, Jiachen Li, David Isele
arXiv:2608. 03502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool-use, enabling new forms of autonomous agents.
By Christophe D. Hounwanou, John Emeka Eze, Ya\'e Ulrich Gaba
arXiv:2606. 03762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) equips large language models (LLMs) with tool-use capabilities that substantially improve reasoning on complex tasks.
By Hongye Cao, Nuo Yan, Haoyuan Deng, Ziwei Wang, Tianpei Yang, Jing Huo, Yuyao Zhang, Yang Gao
arXiv:2607. 06987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the standard paradigm for enhancing the complex reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
By Chongyu Fan, Pengfei Liu, Jingjia Huang, Sijia Liu, Yi Lin