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New MiRL method corrects terminal agent misbehaviors with targeted RL

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Researchers have introduced MiRL, a novel error-targeted reinforcement learning method designed to correct specific misbehaviors in terminal agents. These agents interact with command shells to complete long-horizon tasks. MiRL identifies recurring errors, trains the agent to avoid them, and verifies the improvements. When applied to the Qwen3.5-4B model, MiRL reduced the frequency of measured misbehaviors by an average of 43% to 57% on unseen task prefixes. The method also demonstrated competitive performance against TMax-4B on benchmarks like Terminal-Bench Lite and Terminal-Bench 2.1, while requiring significantly fewer rollouts. AI

IMPACT This research offers a new approach to debugging and improving AI agents by targeting specific errors, potentially leading to more reliable and efficient AI systems.

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New MiRL method corrects terminal agent misbehaviors with targeted RL

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Runchu Tian, Zaid Khan, Zun Wang, Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Mohit Bansal ·

    MiRL: Error-Targeted Reinforcement Learning for Correcting Terminal Agent Misbehaviors

    arXiv:2610.35697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Error-targeted learning gives a legible way to improve a model: identify specific weaknesses of the model, train the model to fix these weaknesses, and check whether the weaknesses are fixed. We study how to apply error-targeted l…

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