Environments as Scaffold: Enriching Feedback to Bootstrap Self-Evolving Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks

arXiv:2609.08404 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: 21 Pages, 6 Figures, 7 Tables,

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Self-Evolving Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

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