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SAPO: Single-Rollout Autoregressive Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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TL;DR - SAPO is an agentic reinforcement-learning method that generates policy and value predictions from one shared autoregressive LLM backbone and requires only a single rollout. It improves task performance while reducing critic memory overhead and iteration time.

  • Separately optimizes PPO objectives and auxiliary on-policy SARSA objectives within the shared backbone.
  • Uses trajectory-level generalized advantage estimation with lambda-returns and batch normalization for turn-level credit assignment.
  • On ALFWorld and WebShop with Qwen2.5-1.5B/7B, SAPO outperformed PPO and GRPO by an average of 15.1 and 12.1 percentage points, respectively.
  • Eliminating a separate critic model reduced per-iteration runtime by 33.2% versus PPO.

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SAPO: Single-Rollout Autoregressive Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv cs.AI Dayang Liang, Lang Feng, Bo An, Yunlong Liu 2026-08-20 arXiv:2608.19842
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TL;DR - SAPO is an agentic reinforcement-learning method that generates policy and value predictions from one shared autoregressive LLM backbone and requires only a single rollout. It improves task performance while reducing critic memory overhead and iteration time.

  • Separately optimizes PPO objectives and auxiliary on-policy SARSA objectives within the shared backbone.
  • Uses trajectory-level generalized advantage estimation with lambda-returns and batch normalization for turn-level credit assignment.
  • On ALFWorld and WebShop with Qwen2.5-1.5B/7B, SAPO outperformed PPO and GRPO by an average of 15.1 and 12.1 percentage points, respectively.
  • Eliminating a separate critic model reduced per-iteration runtime by 33.2% versus PPO.
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