arXiv:2607.15610cs.CLcs.AI2026-07

用过程评分指导树状回溯,提升长程智能体强化学习效率

Process Reward Informed Tree Rollout for Effective Multi-Turn RL

论文配图:Process Reward Informed Tree Rollout for Effective Multi-Turn RL
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  • 基于任务反馈动态评估部分轨迹,选择性分支探索高潜力状态
  • 在SWE-Bench上提升5.0分,在FrozenLake上提升9.3分
  • 适合长程多轮决策任务,尤其适用于资源受限的RL训练

强化学习已成为训练大模型智能体的关键方法,但主流方法如GRPO/RLOO依赖独立采样的完整轨迹进行优势估计。在长程任务中,这种均匀回溯策略会浪费预算于无意义的死胡同尝试,而有潜力的中间状态又缺乏充分探索。由于智能体轨迹具有动作与观察交替的多轮结构,天然可组织为树形结构,每一轮作为探索的决策点。本文提出过程评分引导的自适应树回溯(PATR),利用任务相关的进程反馈对部分轨迹评分,选择性地从高潜力状态分支,复用共享前缀,并保守终止劣质路径,减少无效采样。该方法在保持与标准策略优化兼容的同时,显著提升了相同训练预算下的探索效率。我们在FrozenLake和挑战性任务SWE-Bench上进行了评估,结果表明PATR在SWE-Bench上性能提升最高达+5.0,在FrozenLake上提升+9.3,验证了过程引导的树回溯是实现可扩展多轮强化学习的有效策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key approach for training LLM agents, yet popular methods such as GRPO/RLOO rely on multiple independently sampled complete trajectories for advantage estimation. In long-horizon agentic tasks, such a uniform rollout strategy can waste budget on uninformative dead-end attempts, while promising intermediate states do not receive sufficient exploration. The multi-turn structure of agentic trajectories, with interleaved actions and observations, naturally supports organizing a trajectory group as a tree, where each turn serves as a decision point for exploration. This perspective reframes effective exploration as the problem of deciding where to branch. We propose Process-Scorer Guided Adaptive Tree Rollout (PATR), a quality-aware rollout framework for multi-turn agent RL. PATR uses task-appropriate process feedback to score partial trajectories, selectively branches from promising states, reuses shared prefixes, and conservatively stops degenerate paths to reduce wasted sampling. The resulting rollout groups remain compatible with standard policy optimization while providing more efficient exploration under the same training budget. We evaluate PATR on FrozenLake and the challenging SWE-Bench, which is largely unexplored by prior tree-rollout agent RL methods. Experiments show that PATR improves performance by up to +5.0 points on SWE-Bench and +9.3 points on FrozenLake, highlighting process-guided tree rollouts as an effective strategy for scalable multi-turn RL.

强化学习多轮决策树回溯智能体

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