Terminal agents can build adaptive environments for their own training

AutoEnvScaling uses solver rollouts to generate, test and calibrate new reinforcement-learning tasks, then updates the curriculum as the solver improves.

Big Tech
Simon Yu · Baolin Peng · Bo Liu · Zhengyan Shi · Zhaoyang Wang · Hao Cheng · +5 more

Northeastern University · Microsoft · Stanford University · University of Washington · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Digest··3 min read
The authors turn reinforcement-learning environment design into a task performed by a terminal agent.

AutoEnvScaling places a proposer agent in a coding sandbox with access to the current solver’s rollouts and online search.

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From Microsoft and 4 others

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AutoEnvScaling uses terminal agents to automate RL environment generation, improving performance and enabling recursive self-improvement.

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