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New Harness-RL framework enhances LLM agent training

Researchers have developed Harness-RL, a new reinforcement learning framework designed to improve the training of large language model agents that operate within multi-agent harnesses. This framework addresses challenges related to optimizing shared sequence-level signals for actions and their arguments, and handling dynamic, interdependent sessions. Harness-RL utilizes Conflict-Aware Policy Optimization (CAPO) and black-box trajectory construction to decouple policy gradients and accurately capture session dynamics. In evaluations across seven benchmarks, Harness-RL achieved strong performance with Qwen2.5 models, demonstrating the effectiveness of its approach. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of training complex multi-agent LLM systems for long-horizon tasks.

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  1. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yasha Wang ·

    Harness-RL: Black-Box Reinforcement Learning with Action-Args Decoupling for Central-Agent Multi-Agent Harnesses

    Large language model agents increasingly solve long-horizon tasks through multi-agent harnesses in which a central agent coordinates specialized sub-agents, tools, and environments. Training the central policy in such a harness raises two challenges. First, an action label is a l…