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EnvACE: World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

ai-technology · 2026-08-07

A new method for training large language model agents, called EnvACE, replaces external environment interaction with world rehearsal. The policy alternates between acting and rehearsing: it generates a tool call, then simulates the environment's response, and conditions subsequent decisions on that rehearsed response. Both roles are optimized end-to-end using task-success rewards. This approach internalizes environment dynamics in the model's parameters, creating an agent world model that supports decision making. The method was evaluated on BFCL-v4, tau^2-Bench, VitaBench, and Fi

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  • EnvACE is an agentic reinforcement learning method.
  • It replaces external environment interaction with world rehearsal.
  • The policy alternates between acting and rehearsing.
  • It generates a tool call and then simulates the environment's response.
  • Both roles are jointly optimized end-to-end using task-success rewards.
  • The policy internalizes the relationship between actions and environment responses.
  • It yields an agent world model that directly supports decision making.
  • Evaluated on BFCL-v4, tau^2-Bench, VitaBench, and Fi.

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