Tool-using agents normally generate an action, wait for the tool to execute it, then generate the next action.
Predicting tool outputs speeds reinforcement learning without corrupting rollouts
ObsSpec uses a small co-trained world model to anticipate tool observations, starting the agent’s next generation early while discarding work based on incorrect predictions.
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Kyle Montgomery · Wang Zhang · Chenguang Wang
UC Santa Cruz · ByteDance Inc.
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Montgomery, Zhang and Wang introduce ObsSpec, a speculative execution pipeline for reinforcement learning of tool-using agents.
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From ByteDance Inc. and UC Santa Cruz
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ObsSpec reduces agent latency by up to 14.2% in agentic reinforcement learning by speculating tool outputs using a co-trained world model.
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