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Survival is the Only Reward: Sustainable Self-Training Through Environment-Mediated Selection
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Aug 7
Autonomous Learning From Success and Failure: Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning with Negative Feedback
arXiv:2509. 03206v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from reward functions and imitation learning of demonstrations are the two principal approaches for training autonomous systems that interact with an environment through action and observation.
arXiv AI
2d ago
Co-Evolving Agents: Learning from Failures as Hard Negatives
The paper introduces a co‑evolving framework where a target agent improves by learning from its own failures, and a separate failure agent is trained to generate hard negative trajectories. These hard negatives, derived from plausible but incorrect attempts, help the target agent better distinguish successful behavior from subtle errors. Experiments on online shopping, scientific reasoning, and interactive SQL querying show a 5.7% average reward improvement over baseline methods.
arXiv AI
3d ago
Self-discovering RL in the Era of Experience: Is Learning History an Asset or a Burden?
arXiv:2609.35897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pursuit of recursive self-improvement (RSI) toward general intelligence is divided between macro-level language model scaling and the interaction-d...
arXiv AI
Sep 16
Intrinsic Motivation in Reinforcement Learning: A Research Agenda for Adaptive Self-Organisation
arXiv:2609.17325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological cells can be viewed as individual, interacting agents whose collective dynamics give rise to adaptive behaviour at multiple levels of organi...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27
Teaching LLMs to Self-Evolve: Cultivating Core Meta-Skills with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607. 21971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling through iterative self-evolution with environment feedback, as demonstrated by AlphaEvolve, shows remarkable performance gains.
arXiv AI
Aug 20
SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments
SPADE (Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments) is a reinforcement‑learning framework where a single large language model acts as both an Environment Designer—creating executable, long‑horizon training environments—and a Reasoning Agent—learning to act within those environments. The framework uses a regret signal based on the difference between rewarded performance with and without privileged hints to guide the Designer toward environments that are challenging yet solvable. Experiments show that, when scaled to 30‑billion‑parameter models, SPADE outperforms fixed‑environment baselines by significant margins across math, science, code, and reasoning benchmarks, and improves tool‑use performance on BFCL‑v4 and ACEBench‑Agent. whyItMatters":"By making environment design a learnable component, SPADE enables continuous self‑improvement and demonstrates that adaptive, self‑generated training environments can substantially boost language‑model performance across diverse tasks."