让语言模型通过反思改进决策,提升强化学习效率。
Experiential Reinforcement Learning
- 引入反思-修正-固化循环,将反馈转化为行为改进。
- 在复杂多步任务中性能提升最高达81%。
- 适合需要持续优化的智能体与推理任务场景。
强化学习已成为语言模型从环境奖励或反馈中学习的核心方法。实践中,环境反馈通常稀疏且延迟。从此类信号中学习极具挑战,因语言模型需隐式推断观察到的失败如何转化为未来迭代的行为改变。本文提出体验式强化学习(Experiential Reinforcement Learning, ERL),将显式的经验-反思-巩固循环嵌入强化学习过程。给定任务后,模型生成初始尝试,接收环境反馈,并生成指导性反思,进而产生优化后的第二次尝试,其成功结果被强化并内化至基础策略中。该过程将反馈转化为结构化的行为修正,提升了探索效率并稳定了优化过程,同时在部署时无需额外推理开销。在稀疏奖励控制环境与代理推理基准上,ERL始终优于强基线,复杂多步环境中性能提升最高达+81%,工具使用推理任务中提升最高达+11%。结果表明,将显式自我反思融入策略训练,是将反馈转化为持久行为改进的有效机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning has become the central approach for language models (LMs) to learn from environmental reward or feedback. In practice, the environmental feedback is usually sparse and delayed. Learning from such signals is challenging, as LMs must implicitly infer how observed failures should translate into behavioral changes for future iterations. We introduce Experiential Reinforcement Learning (ERL), a training paradigm that embeds an explicit experience-reflection-consolidation loop into the reinforcement learning process. Given a task, the model generates an initial attempt, receives environmental feedback, and produces a reflection that guides a refined second attempt, whose success is reinforced and internalized into the base policy. This process converts feedback into structured behavioral revision, improving exploration and stabilizing optimization while preserving gains at deployment without additional inference cost. Across sparse-reward control environments and agentic reasoning benchmarks, ERL consistently improves learning efficiency and final performance over strong reinforcement learning baselines, achieving gains of up to +81% in complex multi-step environments and up to +11% in tool-using reasoning tasks. These results suggest that integrating explicit self-reflection into policy training provides a practical mechanism for transforming feedback into durable behavioral improvement.
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