Intervening During Rollouts Helps Agents Learn Beyond Their Initial Limits

A training pipeline corrects pivotal rollout errors, filters implausible corrections and teaches language-model agents from tasks they rarely solve unaided.

Chinese Tech
Chen Xi · Ding Ruixue · Wang Zhigaoyuan · Zhang Fanrui · Zhang Qiang · Chen Boli · +6 more

Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group · HKUST (Guangzhou) · Amap, Alibaba Group

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Chen and colleagues introduce Rollout-Time Intervention (RTI), a reinforcement-learning method that turns selected failed agent rollouts into successful training trajectories using evaluation rubrics.

The authors target an exploration problem in agent reinforcement learning: if a model almost never completes a difficult task, successful examples are too scarce to provide a useful training signal.

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Reward-aware correction of failed rollouts at intervention time lets LLM agents learn from trajectories they could not generate on their own, pushing RL beyond policy limits.

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