Agentic RL Daily

VOL. 042

8 research signals

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Daily Signals: Thomson: Continual Learning of Frontier Models for SovereignAI

A dated Agentic RL Daily snapshot with 8 verified primary-source signals across papers, official releases, deployment evidence, and safety or alignment findings.

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Archived / 2026-08-29

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PapersPapers

Thomson: Continual Learning of Frontier Models for SovereignAI

Thomson: Continual Learning of Frontier Models for SovereignAI

The development of frontier models is commonly perceived to be the exclusive remit of a small number of heavily funded players, creating an information, economic and power asymmetry between developers and the diverse user base of modern AI. Recent public discourse acknowledges this concern, calling

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When Tool Outputs Become Commands: Separating Action Induction from Runtime Authorization in Tool-Augmented LLM Agents

When Tool Outputs Become Commands: Separating Action Induction from Runtime Authorization in Tool-Augmented LLM Agents

Tool-augmented LLM agents must rely on untrusted runtime Observations to complete open-ended tasks; however, when tool outputs no longer merely provide data but begin to specify concrete actions, they effectively become ``commands'' that can drive real-world side effects beyond user intent. We argue

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Open SourceOpen Source

OpenRLHF/OpenRLHF Release v0.11.0

OpenRLHF/OpenRLHF Release v0.11.0

## What's Changed * Fix two latent bugs: dr_grpo n=1 guard and masked_normalize broadcast by @hijkzzz in https://github.com/OpenRLHF/OpenRLHF/pull/1250 * fix: allow eval_dataset with MultiTurnAgentExecutor (#1242) by @codewithyug06 in https://github.com/OpenRLHF/OpenRLHF/pull/1251 * Fix Qwen3.5 ZeRO

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PapersPapers

SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

SWE-Prime: Fewer Trajectories, Better Performance

To improve large language models' ability to resolve real-world software issues, prior work has focused on constructing large-scale agent trajectory datasets and performing supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on successful trajectories. However, task success does not guarantee high-quality supervision: suc

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PapersPapers

RedEvoAgent: Automatic Red-Teaming Agent with Experience-Driven Skill Evolution

RedEvoAgent: Automatic Red-Teaming Agent with Experience-Driven Skill Evolution

LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in product-level execution harnesses, where jailbreaks can trigger harmful tool use and persistent state changes, creating greater risks than unsafe text generation alone. Existing automatic red-teaming methods often rely on fixed attacks, while recent agen

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PapersPapers

Safety Does Not Compose: Non-Decaying Loop State for Autonomous LLM Agents

Safety Does Not Compose: Non-Decaying Loop State for Autonomous LLM Agents

Large language model agents are increasingly deployed as autonomous loops. Starting from one human goal, such a system repeatedly discovers work, plans, executes tool calls, verifies outcomes and persists state across many unattended iterations. The agent safeguards in wide use, however, are defined

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PapersPapers

A Contract-Centered Architecture for Scalable and Manageable Agentic Runtimes

A Contract-Centered Architecture for Scalable and Manageable Agentic Runtimes

Enterprise AI deployment is a coordination problem across business units, application and AI teams, testing, platform engineering, infrastructure, security, operations, and data governance. Use-case benchmarks show whether one agent completes one task, but not how changing capabilities, models, runt

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Open SourceOpen Source

verl-project/verl v0.9.0

verl-project/verl v0.9.0

官方来源补充信号:# v0.9.0 ## Highlights ### Training #### Megatron - DeepSeek-V4 GRPO end-to-end with Megatron-Bridge actor/ref, vLLM rollout and FP8/MXFP4 weight transfer (#6473), plus a contiguous context-parallel layout (#7221) and CP fixes that make long-context DeepSeek-V4 runnable (#7297). - [Megatron Lite (`mlite`)](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advance/megatron_lite_backend.html) backend for DeepSeek-V4, GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5/K2.6, with 256-GPU GRPO launchers (#6791, #7091). - Muon optimizer support via Megatron-Core `TensorParallelMuon`, with AdamW fallback for non-2D params and an opt-in `muon_

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