让大模型智能体自我进化,用内分布强化学习实现高效长程决策。
Self-evolving LLM agents with in-distribution Optimization

- 通过混合专家示范与自生成轨迹,构建稳定的价值函数。
- 在稀疏奖励环境中实现密集且可靠的步骤级奖励监督。
- 无需人工标注或环境回溯,适合复杂任务的智能体迭代优化。
大型语言模型(LLMs)近年来成为复杂环境中交互式智能体的强大控制器,但如何训练其完成可靠、长期的决策仍是根本挑战。核心难点在于信用分配:智能体通常仅在回合结束时获得延迟奖励。本文提出Q-Evolve,一种统一自动过程奖励标注与策略学习的自进化框架,基于内分布强化学习范式。在每次演化迭代中,方法从混合了专家示范与智能体自生成轨迹的离线数据集中学习一个内分布批判者,通过加权隐式Q-learning目标,在稀疏奖励设置下稳定贝尔曼更新。学习到的价值函数用于通过优势估计推导步骤级过程奖励,实现无需环境回溯或人工标注的密集可靠监督。利用这些信号,执行行为邻近策略优化,使智能体在用于过程奖励标注的数据上迭代进化,避免分布偏移加剧。我们在AlfWorld、WebShop和ScienceWorld上评估,结果表明Q-Evolve在样本效率、鲁棒性和总体任务表现上优于强基线。结果表明,通过过程监督与策略的协同演化,可在共享的内分布学习循环中实现稳定智能体自进化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful controllers for interactive agents in complex environments, yet training them to perform reliable long-horizon decision making remains a fundamental challenge. A key difficulty lies in credit assignment: agents often receive delayed rewards only at the end of episodes. In this paper, we propose Q-Evolve, a self-evolving framework for LLM agents that unifies automatic process-reward labeling and policy learning within a principled in-distribution reinforcement learning paradigm. In each evolving iteration, our method learns an in-distribution critic from a hybrid off-policy dataset that combines expert demonstrations with agent-generated trajectories, stabilizing Bellman backups in sparse-reward settings via a weighted Implicit Q-Learning objective. The learned value function is then used to derive step-wise process rewards through advantage estimation, enabling dense and reliable supervision without environment backtracking or human annotation. Leveraging these signals, we perform behavior-proximal policy optimization that evolves the agent over the data used for process reward labeling, allowing iterative self-improvement without exacerbating distribution shift. We evaluate our method on AlfWorld, WebShop, and ScienceWorld, showing Q-Evolve outperforms strong baselines in sample efficiency, robustness, and overall task performance. Our results demonstrate that stable agent self-evolution is achievable through the co-evolution of process-level supervision and policy, both grounded within a shared in-distribution learning loop.
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