Privileged self-practice beats self-distillation for multi-turn language-model agents

A gated training method uses privileged instructions to generate useful practice trajectories without forcing agents to imitate an information-rich teacher.

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Texas A&M University · AWS AI, Amazon

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The authors tested three student models on AppWorld, a benchmark for agents operating applications, and SWE-bench Verified, which evaluates software issue resolution.

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From AWS AI, Amazon and Texas A&M University

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Privileged Self-Practice injects task-specific instructions into failing agent rollouts to improve multi-turn agent training.

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