Why Do LLM Agents Fail in Exploring New Environments? A World-Modeling Perspective
Across unseen environments, SPA consistently and substantially improves over vanilla RL: for example, it raises the Sokoban success rate from 25.6% to 59.8% on Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct, letting sub-3B models surpass a 20B baseline on these tasks.