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EnvSched: Environment-Aware Scheduling for Rollout-Efficient Agent Reinforcement Learning
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- EnvSched is a scheduler that improves reinforcement learning efficiency for language agents by prioritizing which task-environment pairs to train on based on rollout history.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers training agent models under limited computational budgets who need to maximize learning from each expensive environment rollout.
- Watch out
- Paper shows results on specific benchmarks with one model size; generalization to other architectures and whether gains hold at larger scales remains unclear.
- agent
- agentic
- eval
- reinforcement learning
The patterns behind this
- Resource-Aware Scheduling
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback
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