Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation for Reinforcement Learning of Skill-Based LLM Agents
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TL;DR - An arXiv preprint proposing BCSD (Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation), an RL framework that trains LLM agents to better exploit external natural-language skills. It matters because task-level rewards alone give weak supervision on how well a policy actually uses provided guidance.
- Core idea: evaluate each trajectory from two complementary skill-context views instead of a single privileged context — an augmented view adding higher-level "Meta-Skill" guidance, and a reduced view that prunes general guidance to expose task-specific skills.
- The token-level signals from both views are combined to rescale the RL advantage, providing finer-grained supervision on skill utilization than task-level reward alone.
- Reported results: strongest overall performance across model scales on ALFWorld and WebShop; ablations indicate the augmented and reduced views contribute complementarily.
- Authors state code will be released for reproducibility; no specific numeric scores or baselines are given in the abstract.
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TL;DR - An arXiv preprint proposing BCSD (Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation), an RL framework that trains LLM agents to better exploit external natural-language skills. It matters because task-level rewards alone give weak supervision on how well a policy actually uses provided guidance.
- Core idea: evaluate each trajectory from two complementary skill-context views instead of a single privileged context — an augmented view adding higher-level "Meta-Skill" guidance, and a reduced view that prunes general guidance to expose task-specific skills.
- The token-level signals from both views are combined to rescale the RL advantage, providing finer-grained supervision on skill utilization than task-level reward alone.
- Reported results: strongest overall performance across model scales on ALFWorld and WebShop; ablations indicate the augmented and reduced views contribute complementarily.
- Authors state code will be released for reproducibility; no specific numeric scores or baselines are given in the abstract.