arXiv:2608.21946cs.CLcs.AI2026-08中稿 · EMNLP被引 1

让AI智能体从探索经验中持续学习,提升长期任务解决能力。

EDGE: Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

论文配图:EDGE: Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration in Agentic Reinforcement Learning
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  • 将历史探索经验转化为训练时临时支架,逐步内化为策略能力
  • 在多个任务上比强基线最高提升12.5分,且无需推理时依赖外部支持
  • 适合研究长期决策、自主探索的强化学习方向

基于结果目标的强化学习(如GRPO)使大模型智能体能解决复杂长程任务,但交互轨迹中的可复用探索模式在单次策略更新后常被丢弃。现有增强经验方法在推理时检索历史指导,却未考虑策略能力变化,且造成对外部检索的持续依赖。本文提出EDGE(Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration),将检索到的经验视为训练期临时支架,逐步将其收益内化至参数化策略中。具体而言,EDGE将每个回溯组划分为经验条件与无经验轨迹,仅在估计出正边际增益时才引入,避免额外采样;并通过反KL目标在其自身经验分布上蒸馏行为。一个协同进化的经验库进一步融合新出现的失败模式并剔除过时条目。在具身、网页和搜索型问答任务中,EDGE相比强基线最多提升12.5分,且无需推理时支架或专用反思器。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning with outcome-based objectives such as GRPO enables LLM-based agents to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, yet the reusable exploration patterns embedded in interaction trajectories are largely discarded after a single policy update. Existing experience-augmented approaches retrieve historical guidance at inference time, but they apply experiences without accounting for the policy's evolving capability and create persistent dependencies on external retrieval. We propose EDGE (Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration), a framework that treats retrieved experiences as temporary training-time scaffolds and progressively internalizes their benefits into the parametric policy. Concretely, EDGE partitions each rollout group into experience-conditioned and experience-free trajectories to estimate and admit only positive marginal gains without extra sampling, then distills the induced behavior into the base policy via a reverse-KL objective on its own empirical support. A co-evolutionary experience bank further synthesizes guidance from emerging failure modes and prunes obsolete entries as the policy evolves. Across embodied, web, and search-based QA tasks, EDGE improves over strong RL baselines by up to 12.5 points and remains effective without inference-time scaffolds or a proprietary reflector. The code is available at https://github.com/xvolcano02/EDGE.

强化学习大模型智能体探索优化经验蒸馏

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