E3-TIR: Enhanced Experience Exploitation for Tool-Integrated Reasoning

View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR), existing training paradigms face significant limitations: Zero-RL suffers from inefficient exploration and mode degradation due to a lack of prior guidance, while SFT-then-RL is limited by high data costs and capability plateaus caused by low-entropy collapse. To address these challenges, we propose E3-TIR (Enhanced Experience Exploitation), a warm-up paradigm for the early stages of agent training. Specifically, we formulate training as the dynamic integration of three experience types: Expert Prefixes, Expert Guided, and Self-Exploration. By executing diverse branching exploration around expert "anchors" and employing a mix policy optimization mechanism, we effectively mitigate distribution shifts and resolve optimization conflicts arising from shared prefixes. Our method dynamically adapts the model's knowledge boundaries, effectively balancing exploration diversity with training this http URL results demonstrate that E3-TIR achieves a 6 performance improvement over traditional paradigms on tool-use tasks, while requiring less than 10 of the synthetic data. Furthermore, in terms of ROI, a comprehensive metric integrating performance, data cost, and training efficiency we achieve a 1.46x gain compared to baselines. Code is available at this https URL. Comments: 22 pages 10 figures, published in acl2026 Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.09455 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.09455v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.09455 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Weiyang Guo [view email] [v1] Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:14:48 UTC (951 KB)