arXiv:2607. 14185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feedback-driven loops support iterative improvement in large language models, reinforcement learning, and autonomous discovery, yet their gains often diminish under repeated internal feedback.
Feedback-driven loops support iterative improvement in large language models, reinforcement learning, and autonomous discovery, yet their gains often diminish under repeated internal feedback. We study why closed-loop knowledge systems saturate and what external information can move them beyond their current attractors.
The paper introduces a framework for intrinsic‑extrinsic coupling in learning dynamics, where a learner’s current observations do not solely dictate its future training responses. It formalizes this coupling through a continuation‑conditioned value of a constrained learning‑state intervention and employs an executable finite‑frame classifier‑head to protect current logits while adjusting historical margins. Experiments across CLINC‑derived class‑incremental settings, output distillation with RoBERTa, and SGDW dynamics reveal that coupling can produce both positive and negative interactions, and that coordinated interventions can match or exceed development gains while reducing cross‑entropy loss compared to standard replay.
The paper introduces a framework for intrinsic‑extrinsic coupling in learning dynamics, defining it via a continuation‑conditioned value of a constrained learning‑state intervention and observation‑relative fibers. It presents an executable finite‑frame classifier‑head that protects current logits while repairing historical margins, and distinguishes local admissibility, intervention value, and complete‑policy performance. Experiments on CLINC‑derived class‑incremental tasks, output distillation with RoBERTa, and SGDW dynamics demonstrate that coupling can produce both positive and negative interactions, and that coordinated content controls can match or exceed development gains while guided allocation reduces cross‑entropy loss compared to standard replay.
arXiv:2607. 04470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a natural interface for translating human objectives into reward signals for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), yet the training-time dynamics of this integration remain poorly understood.
arXiv:2607. 16858v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Across environments with mixed sources of uncertainty, unsupervised reinforcement learning requires intrinsic motivation that does not precommit to a particular direction of surprise.
The paper introduces the concept of Stable but Wrong (SBW), describing situations where a learning process appears stable yet converges to a solution that is systematically biased away from a true objective. Using a minimal strongly convex model, the authors demonstrate that persistent bias in update directions can shift the convergence point from the optimal solution. Experiments across reinforcement learning, supervised learning, and continual fine-tuning of large language models reveal a recurring disconnect between normal optimization behavior and correctness under both static and feedback‑coupled biases, and show that recovery interventions can still modify subsequent learning trajectories.
arXiv:2607. 11906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of decision-pretrained transformers, algorithm distillation, long-context meta-RL, and retrieval-augmented agents has renewed interest in in-context reinforcement learning (ICRL): the ability of a pretrained or fine-tuned decision model to infer latent task rules and improve future behavior from interaction context, without test-time parameter updates.
arXiv:2605. 25582v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for large language models faces a fundamental trade-off between sample efficiency and asymptotic performance: strictly on-policy methods discard trajectories after a single update, while off-policy reuse introduces distribution mismatch that existing trust-region techniques mitigate primarily by enforcing conservative optimization, often leaving rich training signals underutilized.
arXiv:2608.20965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We define an atomic generation fact f=(u,tau,omega,z;rho), recording the origin, realized transformation, concrete occurrence, generated result and rel...
The paper introduces OSOL, a method for mitigating higher‑order interference in multi‑domain reinforcement learning. OSOL selects a focus domain each iteration, uses token‑level footprints from the previous checkpoint to rank rebound risk, and applies an adaptively scaled correction to the GRPO update. Experiments on Qwen3‑30B‑A3B show a 5.7% improvement over the best baseline without higher‑order differentiation.
The paper introduces Feedback‑Enriched Environments (FEEs) as a new approach to training large language models as autonomous agents for long‑horizon tasks. By shifting from action guidance to observation enrichment during later stages of exploration, FEEs improve performance across SciWorld and BFCL benchmarks with various Qwen3 model scales and RL algorithms. The study shows that FEEs stabilize training, promote proactive exploration, embed environmental guidance into policy weights, and highlight intra‑group feedback consistency as key for stable optimization.
arXiv:2606. 09929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical reservoir computing harnesses nonlinear mechanical dynamics but, by convention, freezes the substrate and trains only a linear readout, presuming the substrate is not usefully trainable.