单轨迹异步优化方法用于智能体强化学习 / Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文提出了一种名为SAO的新型异步强化学习方法,通过用单条轨迹采样替代传统的分组采样,并引入严格的词级剪辑策略,解决了大语言模型在智能体任务中训练不稳定和策略偏差问题,显著提升了代码生成和数学推理等复杂任务的性能。
Reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming increasingly important for post-training large language models (LLMs). Previous RL pipelines for LLMs were mostly synchronous and batch-interleaved, which is inefficient for long-horizon agentic tasks. Recently, asynchronous RL has emerged as a more efficient alternative by updating the model as rollouts arrive. However, existing asynchronous RL systems often emphasize throughput, while leaving training stability and task effectiveness largely underexplored. For example, a key challenge is that group-wise sampling in the widely-used GRPO framework does not naturally fit asynchronous agentic training. In this paper, we present Single-rollout Asynchronous Optimization (SAO) to address the stability and off-policy challenges in asynchronous RL. To reduce off-policy effects and improve generalization, we replace group-wise sampling with single-rollout sampling, that is, using one rollout per prompt. We further improve this single-rollout strategy with practical value-model training designs. To improve optimization stability, we introduce a strict double-side token-level clipping strategy. SAO is able to train stably for one thousand steps and consistently outperform GRPO and its variants on agentic coding and reasoning benchmarks, such as SWE-Bench Verified, BeyondAIME, and IMOAnswerBench. We also demonstrate that single-rollout RL is particularly effective in a simulated online learning setting, where the model must adapt to changing evolving environments. To this end, SAO is successfully deployed in the agentic RL pipeline for training the open GLM-5.2 model (750B-A40B).
单轨迹异步优化方法用于智能体强化学习 / Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
本文提出了一种名为SAO的新型异步强化学习方法,通过用单条轨迹采样替代传统的分组采样,并引入严格的词级剪辑策略,解决了大语言模型在智能体任务中训练不稳定和策略偏差问题,显著提升了代码生成和数学推理等复杂任务的性能。
源自 arXiv: 2607.07508