arXiv AI

Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation for Reinforcement Learning of Skill-Based LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 09555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: External natural-language skills provide large language model (LLM) agents with reusable and editable guidance for solving complex tasks.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
6d ago

Latent On-Policy Self-Distillation

Enabling agents to learn from experience and internalize it into their policy has become a central problem in self-evolving AI. On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) offers an effective pathway by using a privileged self-teacher to provide dense supervision on the student's own trajectories; however, existing methods still rely heavily on designer-specified privileged artifacts (e.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

SIRI: Self-Internalizing Reinforcement Learning with Intrinsic Skills for LLM Agent Training

arXiv:2606. 02355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents can benefit from reusable skills, yet existing skill-based methods often rely on external skill generators during training or persistent skill retrieval at inference, increasing engineering complexity, context length, and deployment latency.

By Zhongyu He, Yuanfan Li, Fei Huang, Tianyu Chen, Siyuan Chen, Xingyang Li, Meng Hsuan Yu, Xiangrong Liu, Leyi Wei, Lu Pan, Ke Zeng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv AI
Jun 30

UCOB: Learning to Utilize and Evolve Agentic Skills via Credit-Aware On-Policy Bidirectional Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606. 29502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill memories can improve agentic reinforcement learning by reusing past experience as textual guidance, but retrieved skills are not oracular: they may help in one state while misleading the same policy in another.

By Songjun Tu, Chengdong Xu, Qichao Zhang, Yiwen Ma, Yaocheng Zhang, Linjing Li, Dong Li, Xiangyuan Lan, Dongbin Zhao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Instruction-Conditioned Exploration with Asymmetric Reinforcement Learning and Self-Distillation

Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an important tool for improving model capabilities, but the LLM action-space structure introduces challenges distinct from classical RL, with implications for inducing exploration. New methods are required that leverage the broad knowledge and flexibility of pre-trained LLMs to deliberately generate diverse experience at training time.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

SkillRise: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Task Skill Evolution

arXiv:2607. 26784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents often encounter related yet distinct tasks that share reusable solution patterns.

By Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu, Zishan Xu, Yueqing Sun, Yifu Guo, Yuquan Lu, Zhengzhou Cai, Kangning Zhang, Zhuowen Han, Zi-Han Wang, Ziang Ye, Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, Weiwen Liu, Yongliang Shen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Instruction-Conditioned Exploration with Asymmetric Reinforcement Learning and Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608. 02087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an important tool for improving model capabilities, but the LLM action-space structure introduces challenges distinct from classical RL, with implications for inducing exploration.

By Jim Dilkes, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Instruction-Conditioned Exploration for Reinforcement Learning with Self-Distillation to an Unconditioned Policy

arXiv:2608. 02087v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an important tool for improving model capabilities, but the LLM action-space structure introduces challenges distinct from classical RL, with implications for inducing exploration.

By Jim Dilkes, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

SkillRise: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Task Skill Evolution

Large language model agents often encounter related yet distinct tasks that share reusable solution patterns. Yet standard agentic reinforcement learning treats tasks as independent episodes, while existing approaches to skill learning either focus on repeated attempts of one task or use pipelines with multiple stages that entangle extraction, retrieval, and execution.