MUA-RL is the first framework to integrate LLM-simulated users into the reinforcement learning loop for agentic tool use, enabling autonomous learning of models to communicate with users efficiently and use various tools to solve practical problems in dynamic multi-turn interactions.
MUA-RL achieves competitive performance across multiple multi-turn tool-using benchmarks:
The model outperforms or matches the performance of larger open-source models such as DeepSeek-V3-0324 and Qwen3-235B-A22B in non-thinking settings.
1@misc{zhao2025mua,
2 title={MUA-RL: Multi-turn User-interacting Agent Reinforcement Learning for Agentic Tool Use},
3 author={Weikang Zhao and Xili Wang and Chengdi Ma and Lingbin Kong and Zhaohua Yang and Mingxiang Tuo and Xiaowei Shi and Yitao Zhai and Xunliang Cai},
4 year={2025},
5 eprint={2508.18669},
6 archivePrefix={arXiv},
7 primaryClass={cs.AI},
8 url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18669}
9}