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cs.CV2026

ComputerSD: Online Self-Distillation from Real-Time Feedback for Computer-Use Agents

Yong Du, Tongbo Chen, Zhengxi Lu +5

Online training enables computer-use agents (CUAs) to improve through interaction with executable environments. However, existing methods primarily rely on sparse outcome rewards,…

cs.CL2026

RetireOPD: Self-Retiring On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Yan Yu, Zhengxi Lu, Yizhou Liu +8

Multi-turn agents trained with reinforcement learning (RL) receive a single scalar reward per trajectory, which motivates self on-policy distillation (OPD) to supply dense token-le…

cs.CL2026

PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation

Yuhan Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Yuchen Yan +6

Research planning is the decisive capability of AI scientists. Yet a research plan admits no verifiable answer, so reinforcement learning lacks the environment it requires: tasks p…

cs.CL2026

TTPO: Test-Time Policy Optimization

Aozhe Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Jianze Wang +8

Recent prominent post-training methods, such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) and On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD), have driven rapid progress in mathematical reasoning for large l…

cs.CL2026

BrowserForge: Scaling Web Episode via Parallel Browser Sandboxes

Fei Tang, Huawen Shen, Zhiqiong Lu +7

Web agents that act from rendered pixels avoid the fragility and heavy token cost of reading a page's HTML or accessibility tree, but training them depends on large amounts of high…

cs.AI2026

Agent-G: Gaussian Guidance for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zixuan Wang, Yanrui Miao, Zhengxi Lu +6

Hint-based reinforcement learning addresses reward sparsity in long-horizon agentic tasks by retaining a prefix of an expert trajectory before each rollout, letting the policy expl…

cs.AI2026

EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen +9

Training large language model agents for long-horizon tool use typically relies on interactions with real or synthesized executable environments, whose construction and verificatio…

cs.AI2026

AgentOPSD: Recursive Self-Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zi-Han Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao +10

Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards constructs trajectory-level advantage estimates, yet it often fails to credit the few pivotal decisions that determine outcomes…

cs.CL2026

Distill Where You Fail: Recovering Learning Signals of Negative RL-Groups from Adaptive Teacher Guidance

Zhuowen Han, Jinwei Xiao, Zhengxi Lu +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard paradigm for post-training large language models (LLMs). While Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)…

cs.CV2026

VAD: Attributing Visual Evidence for Target Reconstruction in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

Kangning Zhang, Yixing Li, Shuai Shao +9

Multimodal on-policy distillation (OPD) transfers fine-grained visual knowledge by supervising student-generated trajectories with a privileged-view teacher. Yet its next-token cor…

cs.LG2026

SkillRise: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Cross-Task Skill Evolution

Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu +13

Large language model agents often encounter related yet distinct tasks that share reusable solution patterns. Yet standard agentic reinforcement learning treats tasks as independen…

cs.CL2026

SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Jinyang Wu, Shuo Yang, Zhengxi Lu +8

Large language models are increasingly trained as interactive agents for long-horizon tasks involving multi-turn interaction, tool use, and environment feedback. Outcome-based rein…

cs.CL2026

OPID: On-Policy Skill Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Shuo Yang, Jinyang Wu, Zhengxi Lu +8

Outcome-based reinforcement learning provides a stable optimization backbone for language agents, but its sparse trajectory-level rewards provide little guidance on which intermedi…

cs.AI2026

Finding the Evidence: Discovering Decision-Supporting Tokens for On-Policy Reasoning Distillation

Jinwei Xiao, Zhuowen Han, Yueqing Sun +6

On-policy distillation transfers reasoning ability through dense token-level supervision, yet the nature of the transferable signal remains unclear. We discover that reasoning chai…

cs.CL2026

GUI-CIDER: Mid-training GUI Agents via Causal Internalization and Density-aware Exemplar Reselection

Zheng Wu, Chengcheng Han, Zhengxi Lu +5

Despite the rapid progress of multimodal large language models in building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, their real-world task completion is fundamentally bottlenecked by…

cs.LG2026

Maestro: Reinforcement Learning to Orchestrate Hierarchical Model-Skill Ensembles

Jinyang Wu, Guocheng Zhai, Ruihan Jin +7

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and modular skills has endowed autonomous agents with increasingly powerful capabilities. Existing frameworks typically rely on mo…

cs.LG2026

SKILL0: In-Context Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Skill Internalization

Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Jinyang Wu +7

Agent skills, structured packages of procedural knowledge and executable resources that agents dynamically load at inference time, have become a reliable mechanism for augmenting L…

cs.LG2026

Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Zhuowen Han +8

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a central paradigm for post-training LLM agents, yet its trajectory-level reward signal provides only coarse supervision for long-horizon…

cs.AI2026

Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Yaorui Shi, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu +6

A persistent skill library allows language model agents to reuse successful strategies across tasks. Maintaining such a library requires three coupled capabilities. The agent selec…

cs.CV2026

UI-Zoomer: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive Zoom-In for GUI Grounding

Fei Tang, Bofan Chen, Zhengxi Lu +8

GUI grounding, which localizes interface elements from screenshots given natural language queries, remains challenging for small icons and dense layouts. Test-time zoom-in methods…

cs.LG2026

UI-Copilot: Advancing Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization

Zhengxi Lu, Fei Tang, Guangyi Liu +8

MLLM-based GUI agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex user interface interaction tasks. However, long-horizon scenarios remain challenging, as these agents are bur…

cs.AI2026

KnowU-Bench: Towards Interactive, Proactive, and Personalized Mobile Agent Evaluation

Tongbo Chen, Zhengxi Lu, Zhan Xu +13

Personalized mobile agents that infer user preferences and calibrate proactive assistance hold great promise as everyday digital assistants, yet existing benchmarks fail to capture…

cs.CL2026

Code-A1: Adversarial Evolving of Code LLM and Test LLM via Reinforcement Learning

Aozhe Wang, Yuchen Yan, Nan Zhou +5

Reinforcement learning for code generation relies on verifiable rewards from unit test pass rates. Yet high-quality test suites are scarce, existing datasets offer limited coverage…

cs.DC2026★ 1 cited

MemGUI-Bench: Benchmarking Memory of Mobile GUI Agents in Dynamic Environments

Guangyi Liu, Pengxiang Zhao, Yaozhen Liang +12

Reliable mobile GUI agents must retain and reuse information across actions, applications, and repeated interactions. However, current benchmarks systematically underrepresent thes…