arXiv:2606. 17871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web navigation requires agents to follow natural language goals, interact with web pages, and produce accurate answers.
arXiv:2607. 01754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy exploration is a crucial component for training robust Vision-Language Navigation agents, as it exposes the policy to a broader state distribution.
On-policy exploration is a crucial component for training robust Vision-Language Navigation agents, as it exposes the policy to a broader state distribution. However, such exploration inevitably leads to trajectories that deviate from expert demonstrations, resulting in a semantic mismatch between the executed visual stream and the original language instruction.
CounterRoute is an online reinforcement‑learning framework that jointly learns how to route a language model’s reasoning between a ‘think’ and a ‘direct answer’ mode, using a single shared policy derived from a dual‑mode checkpoint. It employs counterfactual rollouts to credit routing decisions and a curriculum that starts with forced dual‑mode rollouts before shifting to self‑routed updates, achieving better accuracy‑efficiency trade‑offs across nine benchmarks. The method reduces generated tokens by up to 51% on Qwen3‑8B while improving macro‑average accuracy, and its routing strategy generalizes to unseen coding, science, and commonsense tasks.
arXiv:2610.35142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often produce plausible but incorrect answers, motivating reinforcement learning methods that reward correct answers, pena...
SeekVLN is a new framework for Vision‑Language Navigation that addresses the problem of agents acting on insufficient evidence, termed Progress Myopia. It combines semantic progress reasoning with active evidence seeking, trained first with Future‑guided Reverse Generation to augment expert trajectories, and then refined via Counterfactual Contrastive Policy Optimization to reward beneficial seeking actions. Experiments on simulated benchmarks show significant gains, improving success rates by 12.7% on R2R‑CE and 7.5% on RxR‑CE, and real‑world tests demonstrate human‑like evidence‑seeking behavior.
arXiv:2507.21931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce plausible but poorly-calibrated answers, limiting their reliability on reasoning-intensive tasks....
arXiv:2606. 29892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become indispensable for pushing Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) beyond static imitation learning.
Long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents are typically optimized with sparse terminal outcomes, making fine-grained credit assignment across multi-step interactions difficult. Existing approache...
The paper investigates whether language models can learn to abstain from answering when uncertain, focusing on Qwen3-14B for factual questions. Two approaches are examined: training the model itself and training a separate answer selector. The learned selector improves utility over the model’s calibrated confidence filter on TriviaQA, raising coverage from 20.2% to 30.9% and reducing error rate from 23.0% to 14.5%, though gains are inconsistent across datasets and reinforcement‑learning changes do not consistently help.
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly extended into deep search agents that solve complex questions through multi-step interaction with external search and browsing tools. However, existing agents often incur substantial computational and interaction costs, generating lengthy trajectories that contain redundant queries, inefficient exploration, and irrelevant observations.
arXiv:2607. 20668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: TextGrad improves language-model systems by revising text from feedback.
Recent advances in equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with search tools and outcome-reward reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved new state-of-the-art results on open-domain QA tasks. However, we argue that current training paradigms harbor a critical vulnerability: they predominantly reward correct answers but fail to penalize fabricated ones when retrieval fails, thereby implicitly exacerbating hallucinations.