arXiv AI
2d ago

Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents

arXiv:2610.01892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal agents commonly generate free-form reasoning before each action. For small models, limited model capacity can result in lengthy reasoning...

By Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Jiqi Yang, Rui Yang, Arnab Kumar Mondal, Yancheng Wang, Xinke Deng, Jean Oh, Reid Simmons, Joerg Liebelt, Xiang Kong, Zhongyu Jiang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Learning to Reason with Curriculum I: Provable Benefits of Autocurriculum

The paper investigates whether the high costs of training chain-of-thought reasoning models can be reduced through algorithmic design. It introduces an autocurriculum approach that lets the model select which problems to focus on during training, showing that this method provably improves both supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning. For supervised fine‑tuning, autocurriculum requires exponentially fewer reasoning demonstrations by targeting prompts where the model struggles, while for reinforcement learning it decouples computational cost from the quality of the reference model, making the burn‑in cost nearly independent of target accuracy.

By Nived Rajaraman, Audrey Huang, Miro Dudik, Robert Schapire, Dylan J. Foster, Akshay Krishnamurthy
arXiv AI
Sep 1

AgenticRag-R1: Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Stack Memory for Multi-Step Reasoning, Retrieval and Memorizing

AgenticRag‑R1 is a reinforcement‑learning framework that integrates reasoning, retrieval, and memory through a stack and fine‑grained action space. It uses hierarchical action‑aware rewards and an information‑aware trajectory rejection strategy to support long‑horizon learning. Experiments on multi‑hop, open‑domain, and agentic reasoning benchmarks show that AgenticRag‑R1 outperforms strong baselines and produces robust, interpretable, memory‑aware reasoning behaviors.

By Xinke Jiang, Yue Fang, Zhibang Yang, Jiaran Gao, Zhixin Zhang, Tao Feng, Rihong Qiu, Wentao Zhang, Hongxin Ding, Ruizhe Zhang, Yongxin Xu, Yuheng Huang, Xu Chu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang