True Agents Model the World

The text explores the integration of world modeling in reinforcement learning (RL) for more effective and efficient learning, highlighting experiments with two environments: forth-lang, which is complex and under-explored, and deepdive, a web-search Q&A environment. The study posits that combining RL with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on tool outputs can improve generalization and efficiency, particularly in domains not heavily encountered in pre-training. Findings indicate that world modeling enhances in-domain generalization without consistently harming out-of-domain performance, though it may lead to overfitting in environments where memorization is prevalent, such as deepdive. The experiments suggest that world modeling works best when tool outputs are complex and predictable without memorization, and the model's ability to internalize knowledge is enhanced by training on documentation outputs rather than directly on the materials. The study highlights challenges related to overfitting and suggests that ECHO, the method employed in this research, shows promise in scaling open model training, especially where data is ample and overfitting can be managed.

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