Agent Lightning v1.0 is a lightweight framework that enables harnessed agentic reinforcement learning, where the agent harness—managing tools, context, and control flow—directly participates in model post‑training. It supports arbitrary agent harnesses and addresses challenges such as retokenization, sample merging, and advantage calculation, providing a reproducible pipeline for instruction‑following, search, and coding agents. In experiments, RL training on 6K examples improved Qwen3.5‑9B’s performance on SWE‑bench from 41.8% to 56.4%.
By Zhiyuan He, Siwei Zhang, Zhiwen Zhou, Yuqing Yang, Yu Kang, Yuge Zhang, Luna K. Qiu, Tin Yan Tsui, Jiahang Xu, Chong Luo
arXiv:2604. 17931v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful training paradigm for LLM-based agents.
By Wanli Li, Bince Qu, Bo Pan, Jianyu Zhang, Zheng Liu, Pan Zhang, Wei Chen, Bo Zhang
arXiv:2606. 03108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous LLM training is often framed as recipe search, which leaves the training harness largely static.
By Guhong Chen, Yingcheng Shi, Yongbin Li, Binhua Li, Xander Xu, Hu Wei, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang, Jieping Ye
AgentFly is an agentic reinforcement learning framework that introduces a unified resource layer to manage heterogeneous environments—such as sandboxes, model services, and external APIs—through a single scheduling engine. The framework is organized into four layers: an agent layer that abstracts agents, tools, and rewards; a rollout layer that composes agent loops and computes rewards; a context layer that organizes rollouts and injects contextual information; and a low‑level resource layer that handles resource management. AgentFly offers prebuilt tools and environments, demonstrates successful agent training across multiple tasks and models, and provides the first controlled cross‑framework throughput comparison against other agentic RL frameworks.
By Renxi Wang, Rifo Ahmad Genadi, Bilal El Bouardi, Yongxin Wang, Fajri Koto, Zhengzhong Liu, Timothy Baldwin, Haonan Li
arXiv:2607. 05773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into autonomous agents, traditional static evaluation fails to capture multi-step decision-making.
By Akshay Arora, Ishan Nigam, Ashutosh Aggarwal, Shefali Bansal, Krishna Singh, Sweta Kumari, Nikhil Mittal, Shariq Farhan, Siddarth Malreddy
arXiv:2610.16523v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Training LLM agents to interact with users over multiple turns is challenging because the learning signal depends not only on the agent, but also on th...
By Min Cai, Dan Zhang, Gao Xing, Libin Ma, Zhaohui Xu, Xi Ye
arXiv:2606. 26327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In actor-critic reinforcement learning, network architectures are typically manually designed.
By Boyun Zhang, Chao Wang, Kai Wu
Today, we’re releasing new tools to help developers go from prototype to production faster: AgentKit, expanded evals capabilities, and reinforcement fine-tuning for agents.
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure.
By Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv:2602. 21534v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) has rapidly gained attention as a promising paradigm for training agents to solve complex, multi-step interactive tasks.
By Xiaoxuan Wang, Han Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yidan Shi, Ruoyan Li, Kaiqiao Han, Chenyi Tong, Haoran Deng, Renliang Sun, Alexander Taylor, Yanqiao Zhu, Jason Cong, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
arXiv:2610.19789v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Self-distillation in agentic reinforcement learning has produced a growing number of methods. However, existing evaluations often reuse published bas...
By Linhao Zhong, Bozhen Fang, Xuehao Wang, Duochao Shi, Zekai Luo, Guangming Yao, Yi Yuan, Hao Chen, Jingdong Chen, Chunhua Shen
arXiv:2606. 14249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agent performance depends critically on the runtime harness, comprising the prompts, tools, memory, and control flow that mediate how a model observes, reasons, and acts.
By Tingyang Chen, Shuo Lu, Kang Zhao, Weicheng Meng, Hanlin Teng, Tianhao Li, Chao Li, Xule Liu, Jian Liang, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuan Xie, Heng Qu, Kun Shao, Jian Luan