Multi-turn RL improves LLM agent long-horizon performance
Agentic RL gains concentrate in error recovery and long-horizon tasks but require sufficient interaction budgets.
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Agentic RL gains concentrate in error recovery and long-horizon tasks but require sufficient interaction budgets.
Assess, Decide, Respond is trained with reinforcement learning and led multi-turn safety on 14 benchmarks across two model families.
A user simulator and conversation validator run inside Harbor to score whether the agent solves the task.
ACEdit stabilizes multi-turn image editing by distilling a teacher while the student edits its own outputs.
The student edits its own prior outputs while a teacher stays on the clean image with a compound instruction.
Authors report a 14.7–15.0% score gain over the strongest baseline and up to 36.7% more ColBench completions.

NVIDIA's PivotOPD trains multi-turn LLM agents to avoid and recover from early pivotal mistakes.
Intent-Eval shows rejected or replaced user changes can still derail multi-turn LLM task execution.
TRACE cut multi-turn attack success to the lowest rate in all 35 model-attack pairs with at most a 1.23-point utility drop.
STAIR reuses earlier response keys and values, lifting later-turn accuracy by up to 11.67 points on Qwen.
Gradient jailbreak detection that succeeds on synthetic chats fails on realistic multi-turn conversations.
MT-OPSD uses on-policy self-distillation so image editors stay stable across iterative multi-turn edits.
Researchers measure intent drift in LLM agents and show explicit state tracking only partly closes the gap.
Critical-State RL identifies which multi-turn tool-use calls to train, improving missing-function task performance about 14 points on BFCL v4.
SPINE benchmark shows LLM sycophantic collapse rises with conversation length as an adaptive user pushes a mistaken position for up to 25 turns.
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