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This research introduces RePro, a training framework that leverages retrospective progress assessment to enhance long-horizon LLM agent performance without requiring separate process reward models or continuous teacher annotation. By combining forward action estimation with hindsight-aligned reflection on completed trajectories, the method achieves significant success rate improvements across diverse environments like WebShop and ALFWorld. The findings highlight the potential of self-generated supervision signals to overcome limited explicit feedback in complex task completion scenarios.
Retrospective Progress-Aware Self-Refinement for LLM Agent Training
arXiv:2606.14302v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon LLM-based agents receive rich environmental observations during interaction, yet outcome rewards provide limited explicit supervision about how individual actions advance task completion. We investigate whether agents can turn this interaction evidence into useful training signals through retrospective progress assessment. A WebShop pilot shows that direct progress prompting reduces task success, whereas hindsight-annotated demonstrations improve it. We introduce RePro, Retrospective Progress-Aware Training, with a forward-then-reflect rollout: the agent estimates progress while acting, then reassesses each step using the completed trajectory and outcome. After warmup with externally generated demonstrations, policy optimization combines self-generated progress differences, online-retrospective alignment, and format rewards with environment feedback, requiring neither a separate process reward model nor ongoing teacher annotation. Experiments on WebShop, ALFWorld, and Sokoban show that RePro enhances the Qwen family's performance, with up to 11.57% success rate gains.
Abstract:Long-horizon LLM-based agents receive rich environmental observations during interaction, yet outcome rewards provide limited explicit supervision about how individual actions advance task completion. We investigate whether agents can turn this interaction evidence into useful training signals through retrospective progress assessment. A WebShop pilot shows that direct progress prompting reduces task success, whereas hindsight-annotated demonstrations improve it. We introduce RePro, Retrospective Progress-Aware Training, with a forward-then-reflect rollout: the agent estimates progress while acting, then reassesses each step using the completed trajectory and outcome. After warmup with externally generated demonstrations, policy optimization combines self-generated progress differences, online-retrospective alignment, and format rewards with environment feedback, requiring neither a separate process reward model nor ongoing teacher annotation. Experiments on WebShop, ALFWorld, and Sokoban show that RePro enhances the Qwen family's performance, with up to 11.57% success rate gains.
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arXiv:2606.14302 [cs.CL]
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