arXiv AI

Policy Iteration with Human Feedback: Bringing Post-Training RL to In-context Learning

arXiv:2608. 16831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative pretraining established reusable task representations; later work on language-based task conditioning and in-context learning showed that a fixed model could adapt its behavior from instructions and demonstrations.

arXiv AI
Aug 13

Teaching agentic AI to learn expert reasoning for rare disease diagnosis

arXiv:2606. 16149v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rare disease diagnosis depends on expert reasoning that is scarce and difficult to transfer; off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) rank the correct disease first in only 35.

By Minh-Ha Nguyen, Erica Gray, Bryce A. Schuler, Kevin W. Byram, Chih-Ting Yang, Fan Ma, Hua Xu, Wu-Chen Su, Chao Yan, Wei-Qi Wei, Adam Wright, Lisa Bastarache, Josh Peterson, Lingyao Li, Siyuan Ma, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Rizwan Hamid, Thomas A. Cassini, Cathy Shyr
arXiv AI
Aug 10

ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments

arXiv:2608. 07418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In medical education, physicians convert academic knowledge into clinical expertise through residency: years of training across thousands of encounters, with diverse sources of feedback and progressively greater autonomy.

By Valentin Li\'{e}vin, Samuel Schmidgall, Tim Strother, Alex Bijamov, Akshay Goel, Anil Palepu, Chunjong Park, Vahid Balazadeh, Min Woo Sun, Marius Guerard, Justin Chen, Dave Steiner, Vikram Dhillon, Ibrahim Azar, Akhil Mehta, Nicholas Spetsieris, Shilpan Shah, Maen Abdelrahim, Amit Dahiya, Yun Liu, Katherine Chou, Yossi Matias, Avinatan Hassidim, Dale R. Webster, Quoc V. Le, Raia Hadsell, Joelle Barral, Carey Radebaugh, Aleksandra Faust, Shekoofeh Azizi, Mike Schaekermann, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Tao Tu, David Racz, Lin Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Teaching agentic AI to generalize expert diagnostic reasoning in rare diseases

arXiv:2606.16149v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rare disease diagnosis depends on expert reasoning that is scarce and difficult to transfer. Large language models rank the correct disease first i...

By Minh-Ha Nguyen, Erica Gray, Bryce A. Schuler, Kevin W. Byram, Chih-Ting Yang, Fan Ma, Hua Xu, Wu-Chen Su, Chao Yan, Wei-Qi Wei, Adam Wright, Lisa Bastarache, Josh F. Peterson, Lingyao Li, Siyuan Ma, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Rizwan Hamid, Thomas A. Cassini, Cathy Shyr
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

CAST: Critique-Aware Supervision for Training Reliable Long-Horizon Tool-Calling Agents

CAST is a critique‑aware training framework that transforms sparse task outcomes into action‑level supervision for both critique learning and policy optimization. By analyzing agent trajectories, CAST synthesizes structured rationales that explain action validity under partial observability, enabling the creation of richer training data. Fine‑tuned Qwen3‑family models trained with CAST show significant reliability gains, outperforming GPT‑OSS‑120B by over 10% on Retail tasks and improving Telehealth performance by 9% in an out‑of‑domain setting.

By Amir Saeidi, Zehua Zhang, Rishitosh Singh, Naman Ahuja, Vivek Gupta, Ali Payani, Gaowen Liu, Jayanth Srinivasa, Chitta Baral
arXiv AI
2d ago

Agent Error Dataset: Scaling 50,000 Error--Diagnosis Pairs for Failure Analysis and Error-Aware Post-Training

The Agent Error Dataset (AED) presents 50,228 error–diagnosis pairs collected from 9,961 source tasks across 33 environments, 19 harness families, and 23 policy models in text‑based agent systems. A five‑stage Agentic Error‑to‑Training (AET) pipeline generates diagnoses and proposed corrections, verifies them against recorded evidence, and creates separate training views for diagnosis and actor recovery. Experiments show that first‑proposal corrections improve verifier pass rates from 18.4% to 51.1%, and fine‑tuning with full‑diagnosis data raises Qwen3‑8B’s exact‑step agreement from 47.2% to 63.6% on a holdout set.

By Kunlun Zhu, Xuyan Ye, Yibo Li, Cheng Qian, Beibin Li, Heng Ji