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The Physics of Multi-Turn Long-Horizon Planning: From Pre-training to Post-training via Single- and Multi-Teacher On-Policy Agentic Distillation
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers studied how AI agents learn multi-step planning through pre-training, post-training refinement, and multi-teacher knowledge integration using controlled environments.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building foundation model agents need this when designing training pipelines for long-horizon planning tasks and understanding data quality tradeoffs.
- Watch out
- Study uses controlled synthetic environments, not real-world data. Findings about trajectory quality and teacher compatibility may not transfer to production settings.
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