arXiv AI By Haotian Zhao, Songlin Zhou, Yuxin Zhang, Stephen S. -T. Yau, Wenyu Zhang, Lun Tian, Tianshu Zhu, Yifeng Huang, Yucheng Zeng, Jingnan Gu, Daxiang Dong, Jianmin Wu

AEM: Adaptive Entropy Modulation for Multi-Turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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AEM: Adaptive Entropy Modulation for Multi‑Turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning proposes a supervision‑free credit assignment technique that adjusts entropy dynamics at the response level during RL training. By aligning uncertainty estimation with the granularity of LLM agent actions and rescaling advantages based on a response‑level uncertainty proxy, AEM improves the exploration‑exploitation balance without relying on dense intermediate supervision. Experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and SWE‑bench‑Verified show consistent performance gains across models from 1.5B to 32B, including a 1.4% improvement in a state‑of‑the‑art software‑engineering RL framework.

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