arXiv:2608. 06197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents for long-horizon tool use typically relies on interactions with real or synthesized executable environments, whose construction and verification are costly, or on external simulators that are difficult to ground.
By Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Yifu Guo, Zhengxi Lu, Yuquan Lu, Jinyang Huang, Yan Xu, Yasheng Wang, Weinan Zhang, Xingshan Zeng, Weiwen Liu
arXiv:2606. 27483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capability in sequential decision-making, yet they remains fundamentally reactive in long-horizon tasks.
By Xuan Zhang, Zhijian Zhou, Lingfeng Qiao, Yulei Qin, Ke Li, Xing Sun, Xiaoyu Tan, Chao Qu, Yuan Qi
arXiv:2608. 02713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continually improving agents require dynamic interaction feedback beyond static supervision, yet direct real-environment interaction is costly, slow, unsafe, and hard to parallelize.
By Yu Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen, Lingdong Kong, Xiaobin Hu, Dongyue Lu, Wei Chow, Xiyan Huang, Yuxiang Feng, Yue Liao, Jianbiao Mei, Daocheng Fu, Rong Wu, Pinlong Cai, Ran Yi, Ying Tai, Jiangning Zhang, Botian Shi, Yong Liu, Shuicheng Yan
The paper introduces Imagine-then-Plan (ITP), a framework that lets agents learn by interacting with a learned world model to generate multi-step imagined trajectories. ITP features an adaptive lookahead mechanism that balances ultimate goals with task progress, producing richer signals about future outcomes. Experiments on various benchmarks show that ITP outperforms existing baselines, and analyses suggest the adaptive lookahead improves reasoning for complex tasks.
By Youwei Liu, Jian Wang, Hanlin Wang, Beichen Guo, Wenjie Li
Continually improving agents require dynamic interaction feedback beyond static supervision, yet direct real-environment interaction is costly, slow, unsafe, and hard to parallelize. World modeling offers a natural intermediate proxy that allows agents to query lower-cost, more controllable feedback before committing to real actions.
arXiv:2608.30067v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: How do LLM agents come to both understand environments they act in and master tasks set within them? Through controlled experiments combining world-m...
By Ruize Xu, Xiao Yu, Yujin Tang, Chenming Shang, Nikhil Singh
arXiv:2607. 28638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly learn from experience, they primarily rely on trajectory-level reflection to extract insights.
By Yan Song, Xidong Feng, Bo Liu, Xinyu Cui, Haotian Fu, Zichen Liu, Mengyue Yang, Cheng Deng, Jian Zhao, Jun Wang
The paper introduces Instruct-to-Act, a system that decouples planning and control by combining a vision‑language model (VLM) planner with a world‑model controller. The VLM generates sparse, high‑level text instructions, while the controller executes them at high frequency, trained via relabeling rollouts with synthetic instructions and joint optimization of behavior cloning, reward, and world‑model objectives. Across seven embodied environments—including multi‑agent settings—this approach outperforms controller‑only and direct VLM action methods, maintains fast control, and allows swapping pretrained VLM planners without fine‑tuning, achieving competitive results with strong baselines on most tasks.
By Zineng Tang, Kelsey R. Allen, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Ishita Dasgupta, Alane Suhr
Recent studies on world modeling for Large Language Model (LLM) agents typically formulate the learning objective as next-observation prediction. However, this objective ties supervision to what a transition happens to reveal, which may omit the dynamics most relevant to the agent's current decision.
arXiv:2607. 27973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for the post-training of Large Language Model (LLM) agents.
By Cong Li, Peixi Peng, Yisen Zhao, Xinyu Hu, Shudong Liu, Zhan Su, Zhuojian Li
The paper introduces Instruct-to-Act, a system that decouples high‑level planning from low‑latency control by combining a vision‑language model (VLM) planner with a world‑model controller. The VLM generates sparse, high‑level text instructions, while the controller executes them autonomously at high frequency. Experiments across seven embodied environments, including multi‑agent settings, show that this approach outperforms both controller‑only and direct VLM action‑generation methods, maintains fast control, and allows swapping in different pretrained VLM planners without fine‑tuning.
arXiv:2606. 15306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We envision continually learning agentic systems that become more useful over time: as they encounter sequences of related tasks, they should infer the hidden structure shared across those tasks and use it to improve future decisions.
By Daksh Mittal, Tommaso Castellani, Thomson Yen, Naimeng Ye, Fangyu Wu, Minghui Chen, Tiffany Cai, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, William Zeng, Hongseok Namkoong