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This paper addresses the limitations of current reinforcement learning (RL) environments for language-based agents. It proposes a novel pipeline for automated environment synthesis, focusing on high-difficulty tasks and addressing the instability of simulated users. The work's significance lies in its potential to improve the scalability, efficiency, and stability of agentic RL, as validated by evaluations on multiple benchmarks and out-of-domain generalization.
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The paper proposes a unified pipeline for automated and scalable synthesis of simulated environments associated with high-difficulty but easily verifiable tasks; and an environment level RL algorithm that not only effectively mitigates user instability but also performs advantage estimation at the environment level, thereby improving training efficiency and stability.

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This paper addresses the limitations of current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in utilizing fine-grained visual information and generalizing across domains. The proposed Bi-directional Perceptual Shaping (BiPS) method aims to improve VLM performance by shaping the model's perception through question-conditioned masked views. This approach is significant because it tackles the issue of VLMs relying on text-only shortcuts and promotes a more robust understanding of visual evidence. The paper's focus on out-of-domain generalization is also crucial for real-world applicability.
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BiPS boosts Qwen2.5-VL-7B by 8.2% on average and shows strong out-of-domain generalization to unseen datasets and image types.

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This paper investigates the impact of different Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence estimators used for regularization in Reinforcement Learning (RL) training of Large Language Models (LLMs). It highlights the importance of choosing unbiased gradient estimators to avoid training instabilities and improve performance on both in-domain and out-of-domain tasks. The study's focus on practical implementation details and empirical validation with multiple LLMs makes it valuable for practitioners.
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Using estimator configurations resulting in unbiased gradients leads to better performance on in-domain as well as out-of-domain tasks.