Offline trajectories can train agents without environment interaction while limiting forgetting

SAPD decomposes recorded multi-turn histories into decision prefixes and uses relative step advantages to stabilize policy distillation, improving results on ALFWorld, WebShop and Search-based QA.

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Juncheng Diao · Haibin Wang · Wei Shi · Yifan Ding · Qingbin Li · Rongxiang Weng · +1 more

Meituan · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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The authors propose Step-Advantage Policy Distillation (SAPD), a method that trains LLM agents from recorded interaction histories without revisiting executable environments.

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