arXiv:2603.08706cs.AIcs.CL2026-03被引 2

让AI模型学会自主判断行动优劣,提升智能体决策能力。

Agentic Critical Training

  • 用强化学习训练模型对比不同行动并判断优劣。
  • 在三个基准上平均比模仿学习高5.07分,比强化学习高4.62分。
  • 无需额外推理数据,可提升泛化能力和通用推理表现。

将大语言模型训练为自主智能体通常始于模仿学习,但仅教会模型做什么,而非为何这么做:模型从未对比成功与次优行为,缺乏对行动质量的认知。近期方法通过专家与替代行为的对比引入自省监督,但训练范式仍是模仿学习——模型模仿预构建的反思文本,而非自主推理。本文提出代理批判训练(ACT),一种强化学习范式,使模型学会在多个选项中识别更优行动。通过奖励模型判断正确性,ACT推动模型自主发展行动质量推理能力,生成真实自省而非模仿。在三个挑战性智能体基准上,ACT结合不同后训练方法均显著提升性能,平均优于模仿学习5.07分、强化学习4.62分。相较于通过知识蒸馏注入反思能力的方法,ACT亦具优势,平均提升2.42分。此外,ACT在代理基准上展现强分布外泛化能力,并在无需推理专项训练数据的情况下提升通用推理基准表现,凸显其价值。结果表明,ACT是构建更具反思性与能力的LLM智能体的可行路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Training large language models (LLMs) as autonomous agents often begins with imitation learning, but it only teaches agents what to do without understanding why: agents never contrast successful actions against suboptimal alternatives and thus lack awareness of action quality. Recent approaches attempt to address this by introducing self-reflection supervision derived from contrasts between expert and alternative actions. However, the training paradigm fundamentally remains imitation learning: the model imitates pre-constructed reflection text rather than learning to reason autonomously. We propose Agentic Critical Training (ACT), a reinforcement learning paradigm that trains agents to identify the better action among alternatives. By rewarding whether the model's judgment is correct, ACT drives the model to autonomously develop reasoning about action quality, producing genuine self-reflection rather than imitating it. Across three challenging agent benchmarks, ACT consistently improves agent performance when combined with different post-training methods. It achieves an average improvement of 5.07 points over imitation learning and 4.62 points over reinforcement learning. Compared to approaches that inject reflection capability through knowledge distillation, ACT also demonstrates clear advantages, yielding an average improvement of 2.42 points. Moreover, ACT enables strong out-of-distribution generalization on agentic benchmarks and improves performance on general reasoning benchmarks without any reasoning-specific training data, highlighting the value of our method. These results suggest that ACT is a promising path toward developing more reflective and capable LLM agents.

智能体强化学习自省推理

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