arXiv Machine Learning

HARTS: Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid-Attention Models over Arbitrary Rollout Trees

HARTS (Hybrid‑Attention RL over Tree Structures) is a new system that jointly plans microbatches, data‑parallel replica assignments, and microbatch‑slot schedules to efficiently train agentic reinforcement learning models with hybrid attention over arbitrary rollout trees. It uses prefix compression and a linear‑time algorithm for chunkwise linear attention to avoid recomputing shared prefixes, enabling activation recomputation and bounded state replay while preserving trajectory‑wise training benefits. In experiments on an Agentic RL workload derived from SWE‑bench tasks, HARTS delivers 4.81–4.87× speedups in forward, backward, and gradient computations across multiple parallel configurations, with numerical differences comparable to baseline self‑rerun variation and a similar reward trend over the first 120 training steps.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

DualKV: Shared-Prompt Flash Attention for Efficient RL Training with Large Rollouts and Long Contexts

arXiv:2605. 15422v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern RL post-training methods such as GRPO and DAPO train on N response sequences of R tokens sampled from a shared prompt of P tokens, but standard FlashAttention replicates all P prompt tokens N times across both forward and backward passes -- duplicating compute and memory on identical hidden states.

By Jiading Gai, Shuai Zhang, Xiang Song, Bernie Wang, George Karypis
arXiv AI
Aug 18

ClawGym II: Exploring Black-Box RL on Agent Harness

arXiv:2608. 16798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent harnesses have substantially improved performance on long-horizon tasks by coordinating agent interactions with the environment.

By Huatong Song, Fei Bai, Ming Yang, Renyuan Li, Jia Deng, Jujie He, Zhange Zhang, Daixuan Cheng, Yan Xing, Qi Yun, Xuxing Chen, Danyang Li, Feng Chang, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Jian Yang, Bryan Dai, Wayne Xin Zhao, Mingjie Tang, Ji-Rong Wen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

AREAL-DTA: Dynamic Tree Attention for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 00482v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training for large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, as it generates many rollout sequences that frequently share long token prefixes.

By Jiarui Zhang, Yuchen Yang, Ran Yan, Zhiyu Mei, Liyuan Zhang, Daifeng Li, Wei Fu, Jiaxuan Gao, Shusheng Xu, Yi Wu, Binhang Yuan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

LongStraw: Long-Context RL Beyond 2M Tokens under a Fixed GPU Budget

arXiv:2607. 14952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing gap separates inference context lengths from RL post-training: inference systems are approaching million-token contexts, while post-training workloads often remain at 256K tokens or below and rely on length generalization at deployment.

By Changhai Zhou, Kieran Liu, Yuhua Zhou, Qian Qiao, Jun Gao, Harry Zhang, Irvine Lu, Nolan Ho, Lucian Li, Andrew Lei, Cleon Cheng, Steven Chiang, Yihang Zeng, Di Zhang, Rio Yang, Kaijie Chen, Andrew Chen, Pony Ma, Weizhong Zhang, Cheng Jin