通过分阶段目标与里程碑奖励,显著提升大模型长程任务执行成功率。
A Subgoal-driven Framework for Improving Long-Horizon LLM Agents
- 将复杂任务分解为阶段性目标,实现实时动态规划。
- 在WebArena-Lite上使成功率达70.4%,较原模型提升10个百分点。
- 适合需要长期推理的自动化系统研发人员参考。
基于大语言模型(LLM)的智能体已成为数字环境(如移动界面、操作系统、浏览器)中强大的自主控制器。网页导航需处理动态内容和长序列操作,极具挑战性。现有模型在长程规划中面临两大困境:在线执行时易受新信息干扰,缺乏清晰且自适应的目标路径;强化学习微调中稀疏延迟的奖励导致难以识别成功动作,阻碍连贯推理。为此,本文提出两项贡献:一是引入基于子目标分解的实时规划框架,增强代理的在线决策能力;二是提出MiRA(Milestoning your Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Agent),采用密集的里程碑式奖励信号进行强化学习训练。该框架使专有模型Gemini在WebArena-Lite基准上成功率提升约10%绝对值至70.4%;对开源模型Gemma3-12B应用MiRA后,成功率从6.4%跃升至43.0%,超越GPT-4-Turbo(17.6%)、GPT-4o(13.9%)及先前开源最优结果WebRL(38.4%)。结果表明,显式的推理时规划结合里程碑奖励能显著增强智能体的长程能力,为更鲁棒、通用的自主系统铺路。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language model (LLM)-based agents have emerged as powerful autonomous controllers for digital environments, including mobile interfaces, operating systems, and web browsers. Web navigation, for example, requires handling dynamic content and long sequences of actions, making it particularly challenging. Existing LLM-based agents struggle with long-horizon planning in two main ways. During online execution, they often lose track as new information arrives, lacking a clear and adaptive path toward the final goal. This issue is further exacerbated during reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning, where sparse and delayed rewards make it difficult for agents to identify which actions lead to success, preventing them from maintaining coherent reasoning over extended tasks. To address these challenges, we propose two contributions. First, we introduce an agent framework that leverages proprietary models for online planning through subgoal decomposition. Second, we present MiRA (Milestoning your Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Agent), an RL training framework that uses dense, milestone-based reward signals. The real-time planning mechanism improves proprietary models such as Gemini by approximately a 10% absolute increase in success rate (SR) on the WebArena-Lite benchmark. Meanwhile, applying MiRA to the open Gemma3-12B model increases its success rate from 6.4% to 43.0%. This performance surpasses proprietary systems such as GPT-4-Turbo (17.6%) and GPT-4o (13.9%), as well as the previous open-model state of the art, WebRL (38.4%). Overall, our findings demonstrate that combining explicit inference-time planning with milestone-based rewards significantly improves an agent's long-horizon capabilities, paving the way for more robust and general-purpose autonomous systems.
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