arXiv Machine Learning

Do Modules Stay in Their Lane? Role Drift in Compound LLM Systems

arXiv:2607. 21627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end reinforcement learning can improve the accuracy of compound LLM systems, but it does not constrain how modules divide labor internally.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

When Does Multi-Agent RL Improve LLM Workflows? Workflow, Scale, and Policy-Sharing Tradeoffs

arXiv:2605. 24202v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent LLM workflows route inference through specialized roles to lift end-task accuracy, but jointly training those roles with reinforcement learning is unstable in ways that are poorly understood.

By Yifan Zeng, Yiran Wu, Yaolun Zhang, Wentian Zhao, Kun Wan, Qingyun Wu, Huazheng Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Connect the Dots: Training LLMs for Long-Lifecycle Agents with Cross-Domain Generalization Via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 20002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work presents a general framework for training large language models (LLMs) to "Connect the Dots" (CoD), a meta-capability required by long-lifecycle agents: as an LLM-based AI agent gets deployed in an environment, it solves a long sequence of tasks while continuously exploring the environment, learning from its own experiences, and iteratively self-updating its context about the environment, thereby achieving progressively better performance on future tasks conditioned on the updated context.

By Yanxi Chen, Weijie Shi, Yuexiang Xie, Boyi Hu, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou
arXiv AI
Jun 18

LLMZero: Discovering Adaptive Training Strategies for RL Post-Training via LLM Agents

arXiv:2606. 18388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RL post-training strategies are dataset-dependent and reveal a recurring empirical pattern: capacity parameters accumulate monotonically across stages, while regularization parameters predominantly oscillate in response to shifting training dynamics.

By Haoyang Fang, Wei Zhu, Boran Han, Alex Zhang, Zhenyu Pan, Shuo Yang, Shuai Zhang, Jiading Gai, Peng Tang, Cuixiong Hu, Xuan Zhu, Huzefa Rangwala, George Karypis, Bernie Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Toward Plasticity-Preserving KL Regularization for Capability Retention in LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 01743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central paradigm for large language model (LLM) post-training, but optimization toward new objectives can degrade capabilities already present in the base model.

By Li Wang, Xiaodong Lu, Xiaohan Wang, Jiajun Chai, Wei Lin, Tianhao Peng, Guojun Yin