Asynchronous Single-Rollout RL for Agents
de4dee · reddit · 2026-07-14
The paper proposes Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization (SAO) to address the stability and off-policy issues of asynchronous RL in long-horizon agent tasks.
Main Approach
- Replaces the intra-group sampling common in GRPO with a single rollout to reduce off-policy deviation during asynchronous training
- Introduces a more practical value model training design
- Incorporates strict two-sided token-level clipping to improve optimization stability
Results
- Training stably runs for 1,000 steps and consistently outperforms GRPO and its variants on benchmarks like SWE-Bench Verified, BeyondAIME, and IMOAnswerBench
- Also performs better in simulated online learning scenarios, demonstrating adaptability to changing environments
- This method has already been applied to the agentic RL training pipeline for the open-source GLM-5.2
Related event: SAO Outperforms GRPO in Coding and Reasoning Benchmarks(3 posts)→
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