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Structuring MoE Expert Selection for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Bolian Li, Ting-Yao Hu, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Sanjoy Chowdhury +2 more

Published

Oct 5, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

25/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Domain Experts

Signals refreshed

Oct 5, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
25/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored. In this work, we comprehensively study the connections between agentic post-training and MoE expert selection. In off-the-shelf MoE models, we observe expert selection exhibits a specialized structure that naturally aligns with agentic trajectories. Specifically, expert routing overlaps more between turns where the agent performs semantically similar operations (e.g., READ, UPDATE) than between turns with differing operations. However, standard RL algorithms ignore this specialization, allowing the MoE routing to go uncontrolled during training, which empirically limit task performance and inference efficiency. To address this, we introduce a hierarchical routing control framework for agentic tasks. We explicitly encourage turn-level expert selections to align with agentic operations while regularizing token-level expert selections to maintain local consistency. To resolve stability issues that arise during post-training with the proposed methods, we further introduce an entropy-gated control mechanism. Overall, our routing control framework achieves over 10-point improvements in success rate on all evaluated benchmarks. These results demonstrate that agentic trajectory structure provides an effective signal for optimizing MoE capacity during RL post-training.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored."

Reported Metrics

partial

Success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Overall, our routing control framework achieves over 10-point improvements in success rate on all evaluated benchmarks."

Rater Population

partial

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

success rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Domain Experts
Unit of annotation
Trajectory (inferred)
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
Long Horizon
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored.
  • In this work, we comprehensively study the connections between agentic post-training and MoE expert selection.
  • In off-the-shelf MoE models, we observe expert selection exhibits a specialized structure that naturally aligns with agentic trajectories.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Long-horizon tasks) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored.
  • In this work, we comprehensively study the connections between agentic post-training and MoE expert selection.
  • To address this, we introduce a hierarchical routing control framework for agentic tasks.

Why it matters for eval

  • Long-horizon LLM agents are frequently implemented using sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models, yet the co-design of agentic behavior and MoE structures remains underexplored.
  • To address this, we introduce a hierarchical routing control framework for agentic tasks.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: success rate