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This research introduces Lean4AgenticRL, a novel framework that integrates multi-level process rewards into agentic reinforcement learning using Lean4 formalization to improve Large Language Model performance on complex software engineering tasks. By grounding agent behavior in verifiable workflows rather than relying solely on high-level outcome rewards, the approach yields models like LAR-27B that significantly outperform existing baselines on TerminalBench. This work represents a significant methodological advance in making agentic RL more effective and controllable for open-ended problem solving.
Lean4AgenticRL: Advancing Agentic RL with Verifiable Multi-level Process Rewards
arXiv:2610.22448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing the agentic capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle complex software engineering (SWE) and general terminal-usage problems is a pressing challenge. Current state-of-the-art LLMs often go through large-scale agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, they mostly rely on high-level outcome rewards, with minimal consideration of low-level toolcall and mid-level workflow-stage rewards, which makes the training less effective. To overcome this limitation, we propose **Lean4AgenticRL**, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first framework that grounds multi-level process rewards in the unified Lean4 formalization schema for open-ended agentic RL. **Lean4AgenticRL** first builds a *problem-specific workflow* system that balances the agent's own capability and controllability during execution, laying the foundation for further verification. Subsequently, our workflow formalization and multi-level reward annotation methods enable agent behavior verification within a general harness system. It provides multi-level rewards to support more effective agentic RL with the workflow-stage-normalized GRPO algorithm. Using **Lean4AgenticRL**, we train **LAR-9B/27B**, a family of models with enhanced agentic capability. Extensive experiments indicate that our model outperforms the leading model of similar size. **LAR-27B** achieves **77.3%** on TerminalBench-2.1. On average, our models outperform the base model by **9.89%** and surpass the second-best model of comparable size we know by **5.07%**. These results indicate the potential of integrating formal methods in enhancing open-ended agentic RL.
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