Forecasting future actions makes language-agent training more sample-efficient

CoPE trains agents to predict several subsequent actions from each interaction history, improving five benchmark results without adding inference-time computation.

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Haofei Yu · Yixing Chen · Yining Zhao · Xuyan Ye · Yuxiang Liu · Zhigang Hua · +3 more

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of California San Diego · Meta AI

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Yu and colleagues introduce CoPE, an auxiliary training objective that extracts more supervision from successful agent trajectories by asking the policy to forecast future action sequences.

CoPE supplements Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with multi-step action forecasting.

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Training agents to forecast their own future actions on successful trajectories improves agentic RL performance and sample efficiency without inference overhead.

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