Zijing Zhang
2026
CRPS: Curriculum Replay via Progressive Suffixes from Successful Trajectories for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
Zijing Zhang | Xiajie Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zijing Zhang | Xiajie Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Long-horizon LLM agents trained with sparse terminal rewards tend to experience slow and unstable learning, and the issue is amplified by group-normalized on-policy objectives commonly used for LLM training (e.g., GRPO). When rollout groups collapse to nearly all failures early in training, within-group normalization yields degenerate advantages and weak learning signals. To address this, we propose Curriculum Replay via Progressive Suffixes from Successful Trajectories (CRPS), a lightweight RL-training strategy that turns serendipitous terminal successes into a within-trajectory curriculum. CRPS maintains a buffer of successful trajectories and restarts rollouts from suffix states, with an online controller adapting k to match agent competence and keep replay outcomes informative. Across ALFWorld and WebShop with different foundation models, CRPS consistently outperforms full-episode GRPO and naive experience replay. Group-level diagnostics further show that CRPS reduces degenerate groups ratio and increases within-group outcome diversity, aligning with faster and more stable training.
2025
ToolExpNet: Optimizing Multi-Tool Selection in LLMs with Similarity and Dependency-Aware Experience Networks
Zijing Zhang | Zhanpeng Chen | He Zhu | Ziyang Chen | Nan Du | Xiaolong Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Zijing Zhang | Zhanpeng Chen | He Zhu | Ziyang Chen | Nan Du | Xiaolong Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Tool learning enhances Large Language Models’ (LLMs) dynamic interaction with external tools, improving their ability to solve complex problems. However, current empirical methods, which primarily focus on isolated tools learning, still struggle with accurate multi-tool selection due to issues like confusing similar tools and neglecting dependencies. To address these challenges, we propose the Tool Experience Network (ToolExpNet), which integrates tools and trial-and-error experiences into a network characterized by semantic similarity and dependency relationships. ToolExpNet iteratively conducts simulated experiments using adaptive sampling to explore subtle differences and connections between tools, and summarizes these experiences to provide insightful guidance for LLM tool selection. Our experiments demonstrate that learning the relationships between tools helps achieve more comprehensive tool learning. Evaluations on multiple real-world API datasets show that ToolExpNet effectively addresses common challenges in multi-tool selection, significantly outperforming existing baselines across different foundation LLMs.