CoEvolve: Training LLM Agents via Agent-Data Mutual Evolution

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Authors: Shidong Yang, Ziyu Ma, Tongwen Huang, Yiming Hu, Yong Wang, Xiangxiang Chu
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Abstract

Reinforcement learning for LLM agents is typically conducted on a static data distribution, which fails to adapt to the agent's evolving behavior and leads to poor coverage of complex environment interactions. To address these challenges, we propose CoEvolve, an agent-data mutual evolution framework that enables LLM agents to improve through closed-loop, interaction-driven training. Specifically, CoEvolve extracts feedback signals such as forgetting and uncertainty from rollout trajectories to identify failure-prone interaction patterns, and utilizes them to guide LLM-based task synthesis. The synthesized tasks are validated through environment interaction and utilized to update the data distribution, enabling joint adaptation of the agent and its data. Extensive experiments on AppWorld and BFCL across Qwen2.5-7B, Qwen3-4B, and Qwen3-30B-A3B demonstrate consistent and significant improvements over strong base models, yielding absolute gains of 19.43%, 15.58%, and 18.14%, respectively.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Machine Learning and Data Classification

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
17 April 2026
Document type
Preprint