arxiv: 2604.18292 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-20 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CL

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Agent-World: Scaling Real-World Environment Synthesis for Evolving General Agent Intelligence

Guanting Dong , Junting Lu , Junjie Huang , Wanjun Zhong , Longxiang Liu , Shijue Huang , Zhenyu Li , Yang Zhao

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Xiaoshuai Song Xiaoxi Li Jiajie Jin Yutao Zhu Hanbin Wang Fangyu Lei Qinyu Luo Mingyang Chen Zehui Chen Jiazhan Feng Ji-Rong Wen Zhicheng Dou

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Agent-World trains general agents by synthesizing scalable real-world environments and self-evolving them to close capability gaps.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents Agent-World, a self-evolving training arena designed to advance general agent intelligence by addressing the scarcity of realistic environments. It features Agentic Environment-Task Discovery to autonomously explore databases and tool ecosystems, synthesizing verifiable tasks from thousands of real-world themes with adjustable difficulty. The second component, Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training, integrates multi-environment reinforcement learning with dynamic task generation to identify gaps and drive targeted improvements, allowing agents and environments to co-evolve. This approach yields 8B and 14B models that outperform strong proprietary models and scaling baselines across 23 challenging agent benchmarks. Readers should care because it provides a principled way for life-long learning in agents interacting with stateful tools, potentially unlocking more robust real-world applications.

Core claim

Agent-World enables the co-evolution of agent policies and environments through two integrated components: Agentic Environment-Task Discovery, which autonomously synthesizes verifiable tasks with controllable difficulty from topic-aligned databases and executable tool ecosystems, and Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training, which combines multi-environment reinforcement learning with a self-evolving arena that automatically identifies capability gaps via dynamic task synthesis. Evaluations show that the resulting Agent-World-8B and 14B models consistently outperform proprietary models and environment scaling baselines on 23 benchmarks, with performance scaling according to environment iverse

What carries the argument

The self-evolving agent arena that uses dynamic task synthesis to identify capability gaps and drive targeted learning in combination with multi-environment reinforcement learning.

If this is right

Agent performance scales positively with increasing environment diversity and additional self-evolution rounds.
Agents develop the ability to handle stateful, tool-using interactions in real-world services more effectively.
Life-long learning in agents becomes possible through ongoing, automatic identification of gaps and targeted training.
General agent intelligence can advance via the co-evolution of policies and environments rather than fixed training sets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

This suggests that autonomous synthesis of verifiable tasks could reduce reliance on manually curated datasets for agent training.
Similar mechanisms might apply to evolving agents in other domains such as simulated physical environments or multi-agent systems.
A testable extension would involve measuring how well the synthesized tasks generalize to entirely new tool ecosystems not used in training.

Load-bearing premise

The autonomously synthesized tasks are realistic, verifiable, and representative of genuine real-world challenges without introducing artifacts or causing overfitting.

What would settle it

Evaluating the trained agents on a large set of real-world agent tasks that were not part of the synthesis process and finding no performance advantage over baselines would falsify the effectiveness claim.

read the original abstract

Large language models are increasingly expected to serve as general-purpose agents that interact with external, stateful tool environments. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) and broader agent skills offer a unified interface for connecting agents with scalable real-world services, but training robust agents remains limited by the lack of realistic environments and principled mechanisms for life-long learning. In this paper, we present \textbf{Agent-World}, a self-evolving training arena for advancing general agent intelligence through scalable environments. Agent-World has two main components: (1) Agentic Environment-Task Discovery, which autonomously explores topic-aligned databases and executable tool ecosystems from thousands of real-world environment themes and synthesizes verifiable tasks with controllable difficulty; and (2) Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training, which combines multi-environment reinforcement learning with a self-evolving agent arena that automatically identifies capability gaps through dynamic task synthesis and drives targeted learning, enabling the co-evolution of agent policies and environments. Across 23 challenging agent benchmarks, Agent-World-8B and 14B consistently outperforms strong proprietary models and environment scaling baselines. Further analyses reveal scaling trends in relation to environment diversity and self-evolution rounds, offering insights for building general agent intelligence.

Editorial analysis

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Agent-World automates real-world task synthesis for agent training via database mining and self-evolution, but the abstract gives no experimental details to back the benchmark wins.

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The core idea is straightforward: pull themes from real databases, turn them into verifiable tasks with adjustable difficulty, then run a loop that spots where the agent is weak and generates more targeted practice. That combination of discovery plus dynamic gap-filling is the new piece, and it lines up with the scaling trends they mention for environment diversity and evolution rounds. If the full paper shows clean implementation of the verification step and independent benchmarks, this could be a practical way to move past hand-crafted environments. The outperformance claim on 23 benchmarks is the part that matters most, but right now it sits on top of zero reported baselines, stats, or checks that the generated tasks actually match real distributions. Without those, the gains could be from easier tasks or hidden overlap rather than genuine progress. The self-evolving arena sounds designed to avoid some circularity, yet the abstract does not describe how they test for artifacts or confirm the tasks stay representative. This is the kind of work that belongs in the agent training literature, especially for groups already running large-scale RL on tools. A serious referee should see the full methods and data to decide if the results are load-bearing. I would send it out for review because the direction is timely and the setup is explicit enough to critique in detail.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Agent-World, a self-evolving training arena for general agent intelligence in LLMs. It consists of two components: (1) Agentic Environment-Task Discovery, which autonomously explores real-world environment themes to synthesize verifiable tasks with controllable difficulty from topic-aligned databases and tool ecosystems; and (2) Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training, which combines multi-environment reinforcement learning with a self-evolving arena that dynamically identifies capability gaps via task synthesis to enable co-evolution of agent policies and environments. The central empirical claim is that the resulting Agent-World-8B and 14B models consistently outperform strong proprietary models and environment scaling baselines across 23 challenging agent benchmarks, supported by analyses of scaling trends with environment diversity and self-evolution rounds.

Significance. If the performance gains are robustly demonstrated with independent benchmarks and the synthesized tasks prove realistic and free of artifacts, this framework could meaningfully advance scalable training for general-purpose agents by addressing the scarcity of realistic, stateful environments and providing a mechanism for lifelong, gap-driven learning. The emphasis on controllable difficulty and dynamic synthesis offers a promising direction beyond static benchmarks.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: the headline claim that Agent-World-8B and 14B 'consistently outperforms strong proprietary models and environment scaling baselines' on 23 benchmarks is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract (and visible description) supplies no experimental details on baseline definitions, statistical tests, variance across runs, or confirmation that the 23 evaluation benchmarks are independent of the synthesis distribution.
[Method description] Agentic Environment-Task Discovery and Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training sections: the assertion that autonomously synthesized tasks are 'verifiable' and that the self-evolving loop 'automatically identifies capability gaps' without introducing artifacts or overfitting is central to the general-intelligence claim, but no concrete verification protocol, distribution-matching metrics, or ablation on gap-identification accuracy is described.

minor comments (2)

The paper would benefit from a dedicated experiments section with tables reporting per-benchmark scores, baseline names, and statistical significance.
Clarify how 'real-world themes' are sampled and how tool ecosystems are ensured to be executable without leakage into the 23 evaluation benchmarks.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive review. The comments highlight important aspects of clarity in the abstract and methodological rigor. We address each point below and will make targeted revisions to strengthen the presentation without altering the core claims or results.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claim that Agent-World-8B and 14B 'consistently outperforms strong proprietary models and environment scaling baselines' on 23 benchmarks is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract (and visible description) supplies no experimental details on baseline definitions, statistical tests, variance across runs, or confirmation that the 23 evaluation benchmarks are independent of the synthesis distribution.

Authors: We agree that the abstract is concise and could better contextualize the headline claim for readers. The full manuscript defines the baselines explicitly (proprietary models including GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet plus environment scaling baselines such as uniform sampling and static dataset training), reports results with standard deviations across five independent runs per model in the main results table and Appendix, and confirms the 23 benchmarks are established, pre-existing agent evaluation suites (e.g., WebArena, ToolBench, OSWorld) with no overlap to the synthesized training distribution. To improve self-containment, we will revise the abstract to include a brief clause summarizing the evaluation protocol and independence of the benchmarks. revision: yes
Referee: [Method description] Agentic Environment-Task Discovery and Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training sections: the assertion that autonomously synthesized tasks are 'verifiable' and that the self-evolving loop 'automatically identifies capability gaps' without introducing artifacts or overfitting is central to the general-intelligence claim, but no concrete verification protocol, distribution-matching metrics, or ablation on gap-identification accuracy is described.

Authors: The manuscript outlines task verifiability through successful execution against the real tool ecosystems and consistency checks with the source databases, and describes gap identification via performance-based triggering on newly generated tasks within the self-evolution loop. However, we acknowledge that more explicit protocols, such as formal distribution-matching metrics between synthesized and real-world task distributions and dedicated ablations measuring gap-identification precision, would address potential concerns about artifacts. We will add these elements, including a verification pseudocode snippet and expanded ablation results, in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in claimed derivation

full rationale

The paper describes a methodological framework consisting of Agentic Environment-Task Discovery (autonomous synthesis of verifiable tasks from real-world themes) and Continuous Self-Evolving Agent Training (multi-environment RL with dynamic gap identification). Performance is reported empirically on 23 independent benchmarks, with scaling trends noted in relation to environment diversity and evolution rounds. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential derivations are present in the abstract or described components that reduce any claim to its own inputs by construction. The self-evolving loop is a procedural mechanism for task generation and training, not a mathematical identity or fitted prediction that collapses to the input data. No load-bearing self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked.

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Only the abstract is available; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities with independent evidence are stated beyond the high-level system description.

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