arXiv AI By Hongliang Wei (Harbin Institute of Technology, Alibaba Cloud), Xiaobing Tu (Alibaba Cloud), Yinggui Wang (Alibaba Cloud), Zhengxi Liu (Alibaba Cloud), Rongkun Xue (Alibaba Cloud), Jinkui Ren (Alibaba Cloud), Xiantao Zhang (Alibaba Cloud), Debin Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiaopeng Fan (Harbin Institute of Technology)

HarnessBandit: Joint Learnability-Transferability Scheduling for Multi-Harness Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

EvoHarness-RL: Learning Self-Evolving Runtime Harness for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 05446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, invoke tools, verify outcomes, and reuse experience across interactions.

By Xuying Ning, Dongqi Fu, Tianxin Wei, Hanqing Zeng, Yuanchen Bei, Bingxuan Li, Zihao Li, Qifan Wang, Xiang Shen, Yifan Wu, Jiayi Liu, Hong Li, Yinglong Xia, Xiangjun Fan, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He
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
Sep 22

CHART: A Harness-Rotation Curriculum for Harness-Robust Search Agents

The paper introduces CHART, a curriculum that rotates harnesses during training to teach search agents parallel search strategies robustly across different harness configurations. Unlike static harness augmentation, CHART gradually consolidates behavior by graduating learned harnesses and replacing them, maintaining a reward gap that drives learning. Experiments show CHART enables agents to parallelize on 89% of held‑out harnesses, improves performance on a new QA task by 5.6pp, and benefits more from meta‑harness search than baselines.

By Xinlu Zhang, Ying-Chun Lin, Zhihan Zhang, Besnik Fetahu, Xi Chen