arXiv:2606.29502cs.AIcs.CL2026-06被引 8

让智能体学会动态判断何时用技能、如何改进技能,提升任务表现。

UCOB: Learning to Utilize and Evolve Agentic Skills via Credit-Aware On-Policy Bidirectional Self-Distillation

论文配图:UCOB: Learning to Utilize and Evolve Agentic Skills via Credit-Aware On-Policy Bidirectional Self-Distillation
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  • 同一状态中对比有无技能的回报,选更高回报作为局部教师
  • 在ALFWorld和WebShop上比顶尖方法高出18-23.5分
  • 适合需要持续学习与技能优化的复杂任务场景

技能记忆可通过文本引导复用过往经验,但检索到的技能并非始终正确:同一技能在某些状态下有帮助,却可能在另一些状态下误导策略。这使得‘特权教师’假设(即技能提示可作为固定教师)变得脆弱。我们提出UCOB框架,通过信用感知的在线双向自蒸馏,学习如何利用并演化智能体技能。UCOB将技能条件提示与无技能提示视为同一模型的两种在线上下文视图,在相同任务与锚定状态下比较其回报剩余,并以高回报视图为局部教师。该局部信用信号内化有效技能行为,纠正误导性技能使用,并指导任务/状态技能记忆更新、效用感知检索与反思自训练。在ALFWorld、WebShop和Search-QA等智能体任务上的实验表明,UCOB在不同模型规模下均优于无技能强化学习、技能记忆基线及自蒸馏方法,于ALFWorld和WebShop上分别超越最先进基线达23.5分和18.0分。消融与分析验证了其核心机制、跨环境持续适应能力及较低训练开销。代码已开源于https://github.com/TU2021/UCOB。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Skill memories can improve agentic reinforcement learning by reusing past experience as textual guidance, but retrieved skills are not oracular: they may help in one state while misleading the same policy in another. This makes the common privileged-teacher assumption fragile, namely that a skill-conditioned prompt can be treated as a fixed teacher for the no-skill prompt. We introduce UCOB, a framework for learning to utilize and evolve agentic skills via credit-aware on-policy bidirectional self-distillation. UCOB treats skill-conditioned and no-skill prompts as two on-policy context views of the same model, compares their return-to-go within the same task and anchor state, and uses the higher-return view as the local teacher. This local credit signal internalizes useful skill-conditioned behavior, corrects misleading skill usage, and guides task/state skill memory updates, utility-aware retrieval, and reflection self-training. Experiments on agentic tasks, including ALFWorld, WebShop, and Search-QA, show that UCOB outperforms skill-free RL, skill-memory baselines, and self-distillation methods across model scales, with up to 23.5 and 18.0 point gains over SOTA baselines on ALFWorld and WebShop. Ablations and analyses further validate its core mechanisms, continual adaptation across environments, and modest training overhead. Code is available at https://github.com/TU2021/UCOB.

强化学习智能体技能记忆自蒸馏

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