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Rema: Learning to meta-think for llms with multi-agent reinforcement learning

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Recent research on Reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sought to further enhance their performance by integrating meta-thinking -- enabling models to monitor, evaluate, and control their reasoning processes for more adaptive and effective problem-solving. However, current single-agent work lacks a specialized design for acquiring meta-thinking, resulting in low efficacy. To address this challenge, we introduce Reinforced Meta-thinking Agents (ReMA), a novel framework that leverages Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to elicit meta-thinking behaviors, encouraging LLMs to think about thinking. ReMA decouples the reasoning process into two hierarchical agents: a high-level meta-thinking agent responsible for generating strategic oversight and plans, and a low-level reasoning agent for detailed executions. Through iterative reinforcement learning with aligned objectives, these agents explore and learn collaboration, leading to improved generalization and robustness. Empirical results from single-turn experiments demonstrate that ReMA outperforms single-agent RL baselines on complex reasoning tasks, including competitive-level mathematical benchmarks and LLM-as-a-Judge benchmarks. Additionally, we further extend ReMA to multi-turn interaction settings, leveraging turn-level ratio and parameter sharing to improve efficiency. Comprehensive ablation studies further illustrate the evolving dynamics of each distinct agent, providing valuable insights into how the meta-thinking reasoning process enhances the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Our code can be found in https://github.com/ziyuwan/ReMA-public

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cs.AI · 2026-06-25 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

CoT training in LLM agents improves prompt-action quality more than the advantage of generated reasoning, and selectively masking action supervision improves out-of-domain generalization.

AIPO: Learning to Reason from Active Interaction

cs.CL · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

AIPO adds active multi-agent consultation (Verify, Knowledge, Reasoning agents) plus custom importance sampling to RLVR training so LLMs expand their reasoning boundary and then operate without the agents.

PASK: Toward Intent-Aware Proactive Agents with Long-Term Memory

cs.AI · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

PASK introduces the DD-MM-PAS paradigm for streaming proactive agents with intent-aware detection, hybrid memory modeling, and a new real-world benchmark where the IntentFlow model matches top LLMs on latency while finding deeper intents.

Mathematical methods of reinforcement learning

math.OC · 2026-07-08 · accept · novelty 0.0

A survey unifying the operator-theoretic, probabilistic, and optimization-based mathematical structures underlying modern reinforcement learning algorithms.

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