arXiv:2608.09292cs.LGcs.CL2026-08被引 1

让大模型自我进化突破能力极限,无需标注也能优化参数。

Beyond the Capability Boundary: Zeroth-Order Optimization for Self-Evolving LLM Agents

论文配图:Beyond the Capability Boundary: Zeroth-Order Optimization for Self-Evolving LLM Agents
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  • 通过扰动LoRA参数实现零阶优化,无需轨迹标注
  • 在难题上成功轨迹数显著提升,超越强基线
  • 适合希望提升模型自主进化能力的研究者

自进化方法通过从底层大模型采样轨迹并从中学习来提升大模型智能体的能力。然而,这些方法难以突破智能体固有的能力边界,因为面对困难样本时,智能体无法采样出正确轨迹以进一步改进。本文提出一种零阶自进化框架,通过扰动大模型的LoRA参数,在不依赖轨迹标注的情况下,使智能体能够适应困难样本并实现能力突破。具体而言,我们扰动LoRA参数,运行智能体,计算扰动前后损失差值,以此估计梯度并更新参数;再用更新后的模型采样轨迹进行监督微调,形成闭环自进化。引入并行扰动推理和自适应查表机制降低优化耗时,并采用答案困惑度损失确保零阶损失平滑稳定。在多个深度研究基准测试中,本方法获得显著更多成功轨迹,尤其在困难样本上持续优于强基线。代码与发布成果见https://github.com/hidk1911/ZOForLLMAgents。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Self-evolving methods improve the capabilities of LLM agents by sampling trajectories from the underlying LLMs and learning from these trajectories. However, these methods struggle to learn beyond the inherent capability boundary of the agents, since the agents cannot sample correct trajectories on difficult examples for further improvements. In this paper, we propose a zeroth-order self-evolution framework that enables agents to learn beyond their capability boundary by perturbing LLM parameters to adapt to difficult examples without any trajectory annotations. Specifically, we perturb LoRA parameters of LLMs, run the agent, compute the losses under the perturbed and original parameters, and use the loss difference to estimate gradients and further update the LoRA parameters. We sample trajectories using the updated LLMs for supervised fine-tuning to break through the capability boundary of the agents, forming a closed self-evolution loop. We introduce a parallel perturbation inference mechanism and an adaptive lookup mechanism to reduce time consumption in zeroth-order optimization, with an answer perplexity loss that provides smooth and stable zeroth-order loss values. Experiments on multiple deep research benchmarks show that our method obtains substantially more successful trajectories and consistently outperforms strong baselines, especially on difficult examples. The code and released artifacts are available at https://github.com/hidk1911/ZOForLLMAgents.

自进化零阶优化大模型LoRA

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