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arxiv: 2606.17680 · v1 · pith:72PDHB5Enew · submitted 2026-06-16 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.CL

EnvRL: Learn from Environment Dynamics in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zhitong Wang , Songze Li , Hao Peng , Shuzheng Si , Yi Wang , Maosong Sun , Juanzi Li This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.CL
keywords agentic reinforcement learningenvironment dynamicsstate predictioninverse dynamicsLLM agentslong-horizon tasksauxiliary objectives
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EnvRL adds state prediction and inverse dynamics objectives to agentic RL so agents internalize environment transitions from their own interaction trajectories.

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

Standard RL for LLM agents in long-horizon tasks relies on sparse final-outcome rewards and therefore underuses the transition information contained in rollout trajectories. EnvRL treats those trajectories as implicit supervision by adding two auxiliary objectives: one that predicts the next state and one that recovers the action responsible for a given state change. These objectives are optimized jointly with the main RL loss, so the policy is encouraged to build an internal model of how the environment responds to actions. Experiments show the combined training raises success rates over RL-only baselines on two established agent benchmarks. The authors present the gains as evidence that better dynamics internalization produces stronger policies.

Core claim

The paper claims that interaction experience inherently reveals the underlying transition mechanisms of the environment. By jointly optimizing state-prediction and inverse-dynamics objectives with the primary RL objective, the agent constructs a more accurate internal model of the environment from its own rollout data, which improves policy learning and produces higher success rates on long-horizon agentic tasks.

What carries the argument

Two auxiliary objectives—state prediction (forecasting future states from history) and inverse dynamics (recovering actions from observed state transitions)—optimized jointly with the RL loss to drive internalization of environment dynamics.

If this is right

  • When combined with GRPO, EnvRL raises Qwen-2.5-1.5B-Instruct success from 72.8% to 77.4% on ALFWorld.
  • The same training raises success from 56.8% to 67.0% on WebShop.
  • The approach applies to any RL method for agentic tasks that can access full interaction trajectories.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar auxiliary objectives could be added to other model-free RL setups to extract more signal per rollout without requiring extra environment steps.
  • The method offers a lightweight bridge toward model-based ideas by shaping the policy's internal representations rather than training a separate dynamics model.
  • One could measure whether the quality of the learned state predictions correlates with downstream planning or generalization behavior in the agent.

Load-bearing premise

The observed success-rate gains are produced by the agent learning accurate environment transition models rather than by the extra loss terms acting as generic regularizers or optimization aids.

What would settle it

Train identical models with the auxiliary objectives but replace the true next-state and inverse-action targets with randomly shuffled or noise targets; if the success-rate improvements over RL-only baselines disappear, the central claim is supported.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17680 by Hao Peng, Juanzi Li, Maosong Sun, Shuzheng Si, Songze Li, Yi Wang, Zhitong Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Interaction process in agentic RL. Exist￾ing agentic RL methods assign credit primarily from sparse, trajectory-level outcome rewards (e.g., “suc￾cessful completion”), while the rich environmental feedback during interactions is under-explored. Large language models (LLMs) are increas￾ingly deployed as autonomous agents to han￾dle complex tasks, ranging from utilizing soft￾ware tools [34, 35] to interactin… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our ENVRL framework. The LLM agent interacts with the environment to collect multiple rollouts, each producing an outcome reward. We then reuse the rollout trajectories to construct two auxiliary self-supervised training signals: State Prediction (SP) trains the agent to predict how the environment state changes after an action, and Inverse Dynamics (ID) trains the agent to infer which action c… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Empirical analysis of ENVRL. Left: Effect of decay schedules (cosine, linear, and no decay) on entropy loss during RL training. Right: Effect of the fraction of experience data used for training on agent success rate across ALFWorld and WebShop environments. 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Training Step 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Success Rate ALFWorld EnvRL-GRPO GRPO EnvRL reaches baseline @ step 109 0 20 40 60 80 … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Success rate over training iterations. The orange lines represent our method, and the blue [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) of interaction turns (left) and response lengths [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents. However, conventional RL methods for long-horizon agentic tasks often struggle with sparse outcome rewards. Intuitively, this overlooks the rich environment dynamics information contained in rollout interaction trajectories. We argue that the interaction experience inherently serves as an implicit supervision signal, reveals the underlying transition mechanisms of the environment, and enables the agent to construct a more accurate internal model of the environment.. Therefore, in this work, we investigate how to leverage this additional signal to improve policy learning. Specifically, we propose EnvRL, a framework that incorporates environment dynamics learning into agentic RL via two auxiliary objectives: state prediction and inverse dynamics. By jointly optimizing with the primary RL objective, we encourage the agent to internalize environment dynamics from its own interaction experience. Extensive experiments on two long-horizon agentic benchmarks demonstrate that EnvRL achieves significant improvements on success-rates over RL-only baselines, e.g., when trained with GRPO, lifting Qwen-2.5-1.5B-Instruct from 72.8% to 77.4% on ALFWorld, and from 56.8% to 67.0% on WebShop.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces EnvRL, which augments agentic RL (e.g., GRPO) for LLMs with two auxiliary objectives—state prediction and inverse dynamics—derived from rollout trajectories. It argues that jointly optimizing these with the primary RL loss encourages internalization of environment dynamics, yielding higher success rates on long-horizon tasks. Experiments on ALFWorld and WebShop report gains such as lifting Qwen-2.5-1.5B-Instruct from 72.8% to 77.4% on ALFWorld and 56.8% to 67.0% on WebShop under GRPO.

Significance. If the gains are shown to arise specifically from improved dynamics modeling rather than generic auxiliary-loss effects, the framework would supply a lightweight, data-efficient way to exploit interaction trajectories in sparse-reward agentic settings. The concrete numerical improvements on two established benchmarks constitute a clear empirical contribution, though the causal mechanism requires further isolation to strengthen the central claim.

major comments (3)
  1. [Experiments] Experiments section: the reported success-rate lifts are shown only versus RL-only baselines; no ablation with non-dynamics auxiliary objectives (e.g., random-target prediction or unrelated heads) is presented to isolate whether gains stem from environment-dynamics internalization or from incidental regularization, gradient diversity, or multi-task effects.
  2. [§4] §4 (results tables): success rates are given as single point estimates (e.g., 72.8% → 77.4%, 56.8% → 67.0%) with no standard deviations, number of independent runs, or statistical significance tests, preventing assessment of whether the differences are reliable.
  3. [Method] Method section: the weighting coefficients λ_state and λ_inv between the RL loss and the two auxiliary losses are not specified, nor is any sensitivity analysis or hyper-parameter sweep reported, which bears directly on reproducibility of the joint-optimization claim.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the term 'significant improvements' is used without reference to the tables or statistical support; consider qualifying it as 'empirical' or citing the specific results.
  2. Notation: the precise formulation of the state-prediction and inverse-dynamics losses (e.g., whether they operate on token embeddings or full states) should be stated explicitly with equations for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each point below and will incorporate revisions to improve the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the reported success-rate lifts are shown only versus RL-only baselines; no ablation with non-dynamics auxiliary objectives (e.g., random-target prediction or unrelated heads) is presented to isolate whether gains stem from environment-dynamics internalization or from incidental regularization, gradient diversity, or multi-task effects.

    Authors: We agree that ablations with non-dynamics auxiliary objectives would provide stronger evidence for the specific benefit of dynamics learning. In the revised version, we will add experiments including a random prediction auxiliary task and an unrelated head to isolate the effect. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (results tables): success rates are given as single point estimates (e.g., 72.8% → 77.4%, 56.8% → 67.0%) with no standard deviations, number of independent runs, or statistical significance tests, preventing assessment of whether the differences are reliable.

    Authors: We acknowledge the importance of reporting statistical reliability. We will conduct additional runs with different random seeds, report mean success rates with standard deviations, and include significance tests in the updated results section. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Method] Method section: the weighting coefficients λ_state and λ_inv between the RL loss and the two auxiliary losses are not specified, nor is any sensitivity analysis or hyper-parameter sweep reported, which bears directly on reproducibility of the joint-optimization claim.

    Authors: The values of λ_state and λ_inv used in our experiments will be explicitly stated in the revised method section. Additionally, we will include a sensitivity analysis showing the impact of different weighting coefficients on performance. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical framework with independent experimental claims

full rationale

The provided abstract and description contain no equations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or self-citation chains. The method adds auxiliary state-prediction and inverse-dynamics losses to RL training and reports benchmark success-rate gains. These gains are not shown to reduce by construction to the inputs (no self-definitional re-use of the same quantities, no renaming of known results, no load-bearing uniqueness theorems). The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-finding.

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