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SPO++: Stream-Aligned Policy Optimization for Asynchronous Agentic RL

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TL;DR - SPO++ improves asynchronous reinforcement learning for tool-using agents by aligning advantage normalization with the token-level actor objective and organizing experience by the policy version that generated it. It learns more efficiently than SPO in matched ALFWorld and Math-TIR experiments.

  • Standardizes terminal-outcome advantages under the action-token measure, correcting a mismatch between trajectory-level centering and token-mean optimization.
  • Groups prompt evidence by its generating policy event rather than by learner receipt order.
  • Avoids waiting for sibling rollouts of the same prompt, supporting long, variable-duration agent trajectories.
  • Paired ablations identify action-token-measure normalization as the strongest tested component.

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SPO++: Stream-Aligned Policy Optimization for Asynchronous Agentic RL

arXiv cs.AI Kai Ruan, Jinghao Lin, Qianshan Wei, Ziqi Zhou, Zihe Huang 2026-08-25 arXiv:2608.24870
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TL;DR - SPO++ improves asynchronous reinforcement learning for tool-using agents by aligning advantage normalization with the token-level actor objective and organizing experience by the policy version that generated it. It learns more efficiently than SPO in matched ALFWorld and Math-TIR experiments.

  • Standardizes terminal-outcome advantages under the action-token measure, correcting a mismatch between trajectory-level centering and token-mean optimization.
  • Groups prompt evidence by its generating policy event rather than by learner receipt order.
  • Avoids waiting for sibling rollouts of the same prompt, supporting long, variable-duration agent trajectories.
  • Paired ablations identify action-token-measure normalization as the strongest tested component.
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