arXiv:2607. 10601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are commonly trained from expert trajectories using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which treats multi-turn agent behavior as ordinary text imitation.
By Yixiong Chen, Alan Yuille
arXiv:2609. 40285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is a promising approach for training language agents, providing dense teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories.
By Yinghui He, Yapei Chang, Khushi Bhardwaj, Daniele Molinari, Tugrul Konuk, Jan Kautz, Ali Hatamizadeh
arXiv:2607. 04763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study on-policy distillation (OPD) for agentic tasks, where an LLM agent interacts with an environment over multiple turns and a student imitates a teacher over these multi-turn interaction histories.
By Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Christof Monz, Xinxing Xu, Li Dong, Furu Wei
PAUSE is a steering framework for coding agents that intervenes once before the agent’s first source‑code edit, eliminating the need for learned monitors, checkpoint searches, or extra model calls. By having a Planner generate a repair plan from the task and pre‑edit transcript, the same agent can resume execution with this plan, preserving context and workspace. Experiments on SWE‑bench Verified and Multilingual show that PAUSE improves resolution rates by up to 16.8% online and recovers 35.4% of failed tasks offline, while reducing Executor token usage by 33‑41% compared to restarts.
By Viral Patel, Boyin Tan, Jason Xue, Youcheng Sun
The paper introduces WebMRE, an offline benchmark comprising 541 tasks and 5,293 steps extracted from WebArena trajectories, designed to provide deterministic scoring for web agents without live environments. It enables the first systematic study of how guide sentences and grounded actions reinforce each other, showing that jointly decoding a guide improves element selection accuracy and that the guide acts as a causal instruction channel. The authors fine‑tune models that outperform leading zero‑shot baselines on all offline metrics.
By Chengguang Gan, Yunhao Liang, QingHao Zhang, Shiwen Ni
Rewind-IL is a training‑free online safeguard for generative action‑chunked imitation learning policies. It uses a zero‑shot failure detector based on Temporal Inter‑chunk Discrepancy Estimate (TIDE) and a state‑respawning mechanism that returns the robot to a verified safe intermediate state. The system builds a checkpoint library offline with a vision‑language model and monitors self‑consistency online, rewinding execution to the latest safe checkpoint when a failure is detected, thereby improving reliability in long‑horizon manipulation tasks.
By Gehan Zheng, Sanjay Seenivasan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi