arXiv AI By Zhikun Xu, Yu Feng, Jacob Dineen, Taiwei Shi, Jieyu Zhao, Ben Zhou

Skill Reuse as Compression in Agentic RL

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The paper introduces ReuseRL, a method that applies the Minimum Description Length principle to agentic reinforcement learning. By extracting a shared skill dictionary from successful trajectories and adding a segmentation cost to the RL objective, ReuseRL discourages idiosyncratic behaviors and promotes reusable abstract patterns. Experiments on ALFWorld, TextWorld-Cooking, and Countdown-Stepwise show that ReuseRL improves both in‑distribution and out‑of‑distribution success compared to vanilla GRPO and other baselines.

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