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Structuring MoE Expert Selection for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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Briefings

This study investigates how agentic post-training behavior influences sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) model routing. Researchers found that standard RL algorithms fail to utilize the specialized structure of expert selection, which naturally aligns with semantically similar operations. The proposed hierarchical routing control framework successfully improves task performance by over 10 points on benchmarks. The findings suggest that agentic trajectory structure serves as a critical signal for optimizing MoE capacity during RL post-training.

Key points

• Standard RL algorithms ignore the specialized structure of expert routing that naturally aligns with semantically similar operations in off-the-shelf MoE models.
• The proposed hierarchical routing control framework achieves over 10-point improvements in success rate on all evaluated benchmarks.

Context

Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse MoE models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored. This work addresses the gap between observed routing patterns and standard RL algorithm limitations.

Limitations

Results are based on off-the-shelf MoE models and evaluated benchmarks. The study does not provide causal claims about the generalizability of the findings to other MoE architectures or different RL algorithms. The specific city or region where the experiments were conducted is not mentioned in the evidence.

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