arXiv:2606. 27814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training small language-model agents for long-horizon interactive tasks requires both fast imitation and reward-driven improvement.
By Qitai Tan, Zefang Zong, Yang Li, Peng Chen
arXiv:2607. 05804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student policy by matching a stronger teacher on the student's own trajectories, offering a promising framework for language agent training.
By Yuhang Zhou, Kai Zheng, Haoling Li, Dengyun Peng, Can Xu, Jingjing Chen
arXiv:2509. 14257v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model agents achieve strong performance on multi-step reasoning and tool-use tasks, but their impressive capabilities typically rely on extremely large backbones.
By Yuanjie Lyu, Chengyu Wang, Jun Huang, Tong Xu
arXiv:2608. 12764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep search agents operate over trajectories spanning dozens of steps, yet standard reinforcement learning provides only a single outcome reward per trajectory, which is far too sparse for effective credit assignment.
By Haoze Wu, Chuqiao Kuang, Tianyi Zhuang, Xiaoguang Li
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful recipe for improving language-model reasoning, but it is expensive to repeat on every new strong model because the target model must generate many rollouts during training. As models scale, post-training itself becomes a bottleneck.
arXiv:2608. 03223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning enables LLM agents to learn through interaction, but sparse trajectory-level rewards reveal success without identifying which intermediate decisions deserve credit.
By Ranxu Zhang, Guinan Chen, Chenshaodong, Jinghao Lin, Xiaozhou Xu, Sunzhe, Yanyong Zhang, Chao Wang
arXiv:2607. 24280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic search enables large language models to solve knowledge-intensive tasks by interleaving multi-step reasoning with retrieval, yet optimizing this with outcome-based reinforcement learning (RL) provides only sparse supervision.
By Junlin Liu, Jiangwang Chen, Zixin Song, Shuaiyu Zhou, Chunji Lv, Hank Wu, Kailin Jiang, Jinyang Wu, Bohan Yu, Chenxi Zhou
arXiv:2606. 15912v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn agents that plan, invoke tools, and interact with environments offer a promising paradigm for solving complex tasks, yet their capabilities typically rely on very large models whose inference cost is prohibitive in practice.
By Gengsheng Li, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song, Ruiqi Liu, Tianyu Yang, Jie Sun, Qiyong Zhong, Haiyun Guo, Junfeng Fang, Dan Zhang, Jinqiao Wang
arXiv:2608. 16333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student model with a teacher's logit distribution on student-generated trajectories.
By Changhui Sun, Lanbo Liu, Hang Lei, Tong Ling, Jiahang Xie, Zhiyong Zheng, Yujia Wang, Hao Liu, Feng Xiao, Lu Liu, Yanlong Du, Zifeng Cheng, Ziwei Jiang, Qing Gu
arXiv:2607. 19450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale online reinforcement learning (RL) is the predominant means of eliciting advanced abilities including long-term reasoning and agentic tool use in large language models (LLMs).
By Yunjie Chen, Xiaoxin Chen, Fang Wang
arXiv:2607. 17247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training is essential for improving reasoning, adaptation, and alignment.
By Chen Wang, Zhaochun Li, Jionghao Bai, Yining Zhang, Hexuan Deng, Ge Lan, Yue Wang
arXiv:2608. 05987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards constructs trajectory-level advantage estimates, yet it often fails to credit the few pivotal decisions that determine outcomes in long-horizon, multi-turn agentic tasks.
By Zi-Han Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Jinyang Wu, Jie Wu, Zhengzhou Cai, Yueqing Sun, Ziang Ye, Linji Hao, Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, Yongliang Shen, Yujiu Yang