3 papers
cs.LG2026
Progress-conditioned Group Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
Kaibing Yang, Guangfeng Cai, Shengtian Yang +6
Group-based policy optimization has been increasingly used to train large language model (LLM) agents from sparse outcome rewards by comparing trajectories or steps within a group.…
cs.CL2026
Beyond Next-Observation Prediction: Agent-Authored World Modeling for Sequential Decision Making
Guangfeng Cai, Kaibing Yang, Shuo He +4
Recent studies on world modeling for Large Language Model (LLM) agents typically formulate the learning objective as next-observation prediction. However, this objective ties super…
cs.AI2026
PhGPO: Pheromone-Guided Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Tool Planning
Yu Li, Guangfeng Cai, Shengtian Yang +5
Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in executing complex tasks through tool use. However, long-horizon multi-step tool pl…