让智能体学会从过往经验中持续进化,提升学习效率。
Complementary RL: Towards Efficient Experience-Driven Agent Learning
- 设计可与策略同步进化的经验提取器,避免经验滞后
- 单任务下性能提升10%,多任务场景表现更稳健
- 适合需要长期积累经验的复杂决策任务
强化学习在训练基于大模型的智能体方面展现出强大潜力,但受限于样本效率低下,原因不仅在于稀疏的结果反馈,还在于智能体无法跨回合有效利用历史经验。尽管引入历史经验被视为可行解决方案,现有方法存在关键缺陷:经验提取结果要么静态存储,要么未能随策略迭代而动态演化,导致经验与智能体能力逐渐脱节,削弱其价值。受神经科学中互补学习系统的启发,我们提出互补强化学习(Complementary RL),实现经验提取器与策略执行者在强化学习优化循环中的无缝协同进化。具体而言,策略执行者通过稀疏的结果奖励进行优化,而经验提取器则根据其提炼的经验是否实际促进执行者成功来优化,从而与其能力成长同步演进经验管理策略。实验表明,相较于不学习经验的基线方法,互补强化学习在单任务场景下性能提升10%,并在多任务设置中展现出强鲁棒性与可扩展性。该结果确立了互补强化学习作为高效经验驱动型智能体学习的新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training LLM-based agents, yet remains limited by low sample efficiency, stemming not only from sparse outcome feedback but also from the agent's inability to leverage prior experience across episodes. While augmenting agents with historical experience offers a promising remedy, existing approaches suffer from a critical weakness: the experience distilled from history is either stored statically or fail to coevolve with the improving actor, causing a progressive misalignment between the experience and the actor's evolving capability that diminishes its utility over the course of training. Inspired by complementary learning systems in neuroscience, we present Complementary RL to achieve seamless co-evolution of an experience extractor and a policy actor within the RL optimization loop. Specifically, the actor is optimized via sparse outcome-based rewards, while the experience extractor is optimized according to whether its distilled experiences demonstrably contribute to the actor's success, thereby evolving its experience management strategy in lockstep with the actor's growing capabilities. Empirically, Complementary RL outperforms outcome-based agentic RL baselines that do not learn from experience, achieving 10% performance improvement in single-task scenarios and exhibits robust scalability in multi-task settings. These results establish Complementary RL as a paradigm for efficient experience-driven agent learning.
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