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New ARISE-RL framework enhances reinforcement learning for open-ended agents

Researchers have introduced ARISE-RL, a new framework designed to improve the training of open-ended agents using reinforcement learning. This framework addresses challenges like the lack of verifiable answers and scalable rubrics by coupling a task/rubric generator with a reasoning solver. ARISE-RL employs a co-evolutionary approach where the generator creates tasks based on tool observations, and the solver learns from rubric satisfaction signals. The system also incorporates Reward-Gated Self-Evolution Distillation (RG-SED) to refine policies and reduce imitation of noisy guidance. To facilitate evaluation, the researchers developed ECR-Bench, a benchmark suite for deep research and multi-tool planning tasks, demonstrating ARISE-RL's state-of-the-art performance. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more capable and robust open-ended AI agents, improving performance on complex reasoning and planning tasks.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new framework and benchmark for AI agents. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New ARISE-RL framework enhances reinforcement learning for open-ended agents

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Fanrui Zhang, Ruixue Ding, Qiang Zhang, Xi Chen, Boli Chen, Shihang Wang, Qiuchen Wang, Hongmin Zhan, Jinxin Bian, Li xingchao, Peijin Zheng, Hao cheng, Pengjun Xie, Kaipeng Zhang, Jiawei Liu, Zheng-Jun Zha ·

    ARISE-RL: Agentic Rubric-Grounded Iterative Self-Evolution with Reinforcement Learning

    arXiv:2609.01058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training open-ended agents via reinforcement learning (RL) is hindered by the lack of verifiable gold answers and scalable rubrics. Moreover, even near the model's capability boundary, long-horizon open-ended agentic tasks often yie…