arXiv:2608.05987cs.AIcs.LG2026-08

让智能体在长任务中精准定位关键决策,提升强化学习效果。

AgentOPSD: Recursive Self-Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

论文配图:AgentOPSD: Recursive Self-Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
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  • 通过递归贝叶斯更新,将局部信号转化为逐轮信用分配
  • 在ALFWorld上用Qwen2.5-7B达89.1%成功率,优于基线
  • 无需额外评价值函数或采样,适配主流策略优化框架

基于可验证奖励的强化学习能构建轨迹级优势估计,但在长时序、多轮智能体任务中常无法正确归因少数决定性决策。现有工作引入特权自蒸馏以提供更密集的监督信号,但其如何表征序列信用仍不明确。本文提出AgentOPSD,一种无评价值函数的递归方法,实现智能体强化学习中的逐轮信用分配。该方法将标记级教师-学生对数概率差聚合为轮次级证据,并在对数几率空间中递归更新贝叶斯信念状态。这提供了一种合理的重加权机制,将稀疏结果监督转化为逐轮信用信号,并通过连续状态间的边际信念修正识别关键轮次。方法完全兼容标准策略优化,无需额外评价值函数或额外采样。我们在ALFWorld、WebShop和Search-QA上使用两个尺度的Qwen2.5模型(3B和7B)进行评估。AgentOPSD优于GRPO和强自蒸馏基线,在Qwen2.5-7B上于ALFWorld达到89.1%成功率。消融实验表明性能提升源自逐轮聚合与依赖历史的递归信念更新。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards constructs trajectory-level advantage estimates, yet it often fails to credit the few pivotal decisions that determine outcomes in long-horizon, multi-turn agentic tasks. Recent work introduces privileged self-distillation for credit assignment, providing denser supervision, but it remains unclear how such local signals should represent sequential credit. We propose AgentOPSD, a critic-free, recursive method for turn-level credit assignment in agentic reinforcement learning. AgentOPSD aggregates token-level teacher-student log-probability gaps into turn-level evidence and recursively updates a Bayesian belief state in log-odds space. This yields a principled reweighting scheme that converts sparse outcome supervision into turn-level credit signals and identifies pivotal turns through the marginal belief revision between consecutive states. The method is fully compatible with standard policy optimization and requires neither an additional critic nor extra rollouts. We evaluate AgentOPSD on ALFWorld, WebShop, and Search-QA using Qwen2.5 models at two scales (3B and 7B). AgentOPSD outperforms GRPO and strong self-distillation baselines, achieving 89.1% success on ALFWorld with Qwen2.5-7B. Ablation studies attribute the gains to turn-level aggregation and history-dependent recursive belief updates.

强化学习智能体信用分配自蒸馏

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