Advancements in Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems

The field of large language models is moving towards the development of more advanced multi-agent reasoning systems. These systems employ multiple agents to iteratively refine solutions, offering a promising alternative to traditional single-agent approaches. Recent innovations have focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of these systems, including the introduction of novel reinforcement learning frameworks and fine-grained credit assignment mechanisms. Notably, the use of agentic pipeline parallelism and retrospective critic mechanisms has shown significant potential in advancing multi-agent reasoning systems. Furthermore, research has highlighted the importance of initializing large language models with diverse, high-quality reasoning primitives to achieve stable and sample-efficient reinforcement learning training. The development of rubric-driven RL frameworks has also enabled large language models to receive dense and informative rewards, leading to improved performance in multi-domain reasoning tasks. Overall, the field is witnessing a shift towards more sophisticated and specialized training methods, including the use of hierarchical extensions of Group Relative Policy Optimization and decoupled training pipelines. Some noteworthy papers in this regard include MarsRL, which introduces a novel reinforcement learning framework with agentic pipeline parallelism, and CriticSearch, which proposes a fine-grained credit-assignment framework via a retrospective critic mechanism. Additionally, Tailored Primitive Initialization has been shown to be essential for achieving stable and sample-efficient RL training, and Reward and Guidance through Rubrics has demonstrated the potential of rubric-driven RL frameworks in improving multi-domain reasoning performance.

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MarsRL: Advancing Multi-Agent Reasoning System via Reinforcement Learning with Agentic Pipeline Parallelism

CriticSearch: Fine-Grained Credit Assignment for Search Agents via a Retrospective Critic

Tailored Primitive Initialization is the Secret Key to Reinforcement Learning

Reward and Guidance through Rubrics: Promoting Exploration to Improve Multi-Domain Reasoning

The Good, The Bad, and The Hybrid: A Reward Structure Showdown in Reasoning Models Training

Multi-Agent Deep Research: Training Multi-Agent Systems with M-GRPO

Empowering Multi-Turn Tool-Integrated Reasoning with Group Turn Policy Optimization

The Impact of Quantization on Large Reasoning Model Reinforcement Learning

Pass@k Metric for RLVR: A Diagnostic Tool of Exploration, But Not an Objective

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