ProCeedRL: Process Critic with Exploratory Demonstration Reinforcement Learning for LLM Agentic Reasoning

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• ProCeedRL incorporates reflection-based demonstrations to guide agents in stopping the accumulation of errors.method 90%
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  ...incorporating reflection-based demonstrations to guide agents in stopping the accumulation of errors.

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a key component of the method.

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• Standard exploration strategies in RL for multi-turn agentic tasks are ineffective due to a cumulative feedback loop of errors caused by suboptimal actions and noisy environmental feedback.technical 90%
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  We identify a structural failure mode in agentic exploration: suboptimal actions elicit noisy observations into misleading contexts, which further weaken subsequent decision-making, making recovery increasingly difficult.

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  Directly stated in the abstract as the identified structural failure mode and problem being addressed.

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• ProCeedRL shifts exploration from passive selection to active intervention by using a process-level critic to monitor interactions in real time.method 90%
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  To mitigate this issue, we propose ProCeedRL: Process Critic with Explorative Demonstration RL, shifting exploration from passive selection to active intervention. ProCeedRL employs a process-level critic to monitor interactions in real time...

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  Directly stated in the abstract as the core methodological innovation of the proposed approach.

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• ProCeedRL significantly exceeds the model's saturated exploration performance, demonstrating substantial exploratory benefits.result 85%
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  We find that this approach significantly exceeds the model's saturated exploration performance, demonstrating substantial exploratory benefits.

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  Directly stated as a finding in the abstract, though specific performance metrics are not provided.

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• ProCeedRL significantly improves exploration efficiency by learning from exploratory demonstrations and on-policy samples.result 85%
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  By learning from exploratory demonstrations and on-policy samples, ProCeedRL significantly improves exploration efficiency...

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a key result of the method.

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• ProCeedRL achieves superior performance on complex deep search and embodied tasks.result 85%
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  ...and achieves superior performance on complex deep search and embodied tasks.

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a final performance claim, though specific tasks and metrics are not detailed.

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• Applying RL to multi-turn agentic tasks is challenging due to the long-horizon nature of interactions and the stochasticity of environmental feedback.technical 90%
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  Reinforcement Learning (RL) significantly enhances the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), yet applying it to multi-turn agentic tasks remains challenging due to the long-horizon nature of interactions and the stochasticity of environmental feedback.

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  Directly stated in the abstract as the foundational challenge motivating the work.

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Competitive landscape

A reinforcement learning framework that guides LLM agents to avoid reasoning errors in complex multi-turn tasks by actively intervening in exploration.