分层决策提升长程智能体规划能力,效果优于单纯加大模型规模。
HiMAC: Hierarchical Macro-Micro Learning for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
- 将高层推理与底层执行分层处理,用蓝图引导行动。
- 在多个任务上实现最优性能,样本效率显著提升。
- 适合需要长期规划的复杂任务研究者参考。
大型语言模型(LLM)智能体在交互式决策中展现出强大能力,但在需结构化规划与可靠执行的长程任务中仍受限。现有方法多采用扁平自回归策略,高阶推理与低阶动作在同一序列中生成,导致探索效率低且错误传播严重。本文提出HiMAC,一种分层代理强化学习框架,将长程决策显式分解为宏观规划与微观执行。HiMAC将推理建模为结构化蓝图生成过程,随后进行目标条件化动作执行,增强基于LLM智能体的鲁棒长程规划能力。为高效训练该层级结构,引入无评判器的分层策略优化范式,通过分层相对优势估计扩展群体强化学习至双层结构。此外,提出迭代协同演化训练策略,交替进行规划者探索与执行者适应,缓解分层学习中的非平稳性问题。在ALFWorld、WebShop和Sokoban上的大量实验表明,HiMAC持续优于强提示与强化学习基线,达到当前最佳性能,并在文本与视觉具身环境中均显著提升样本效率。结果表明,引入结构化层次比单纯扩大模型规模更关键,是实现稳健长程智能体的核心因素。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language model (LLM) agents have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in interactive decision-making, yet they remain fundamentally limited in long-horizon tasks that require structured planning and reliable execution. Existing approaches predominantly rely on flat autoregressive policies, where high-level reasoning and low-level actions are generated within a single token sequence, leading to inefficient exploration and severe error propagation over extended trajectories. In this work, we propose HiMAC, a hierarchical agentic RL framework that explicitly decomposes long-horizon decision-making into macro-level planning and micro-level execution. HiMAC models reasoning as a structured blueprint generation process followed by goal-conditioned action execution, enabling robust long-horizon planning within LLM-based agents. To train this hierarchy efficiently, we introduce a critic-free hierarchical policy optimization paradigm that extends group-based reinforcement learning to bi-level structures through hierarchical relative advantage estimation. Furthermore, we propose an iterative co-evolution training strategy that alternates between planner exploration and executor adaptation, mitigating the non-stationarity inherent in hierarchical learning. Extensive experiments on ALFWorld, WebShop, and Sokoban demonstrate that HiMAC consistently outperforms strong prompting and reinforcement learning baselines, achieving state-of-the-art performance and substantially improved sample efficiency across both text-based and visually grounded environments. Our results show that introducing structured hierarchy, rather than increasing model scale alone, is a key factor for enabling robust long-horizon agentic intelligence.
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