Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents

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Hauptverfasser: Yu, Xiao, Peng, Baolin, Xu, Ruize, Galley, Michel, Cheng, Hao, Nath, Suman, Gao, Jianfeng, Yu, Zhou
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author Yu, Xiao
Peng, Baolin
Xu, Ruize
Galley, Michel
Cheng, Hao
Nath, Suman
Gao, Jianfeng
Yu, Zhou
author_facet Yu, Xiao
Peng, Baolin
Xu, Ruize
Galley, Michel
Cheng, Hao
Nath, Suman
Gao, Jianfeng
Yu, Zhou
contents Recent progress in reasoning with large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, demonstrates impressive capabilities in domains like mathematics and coding, by exhibiting complex cognitive behaviors such as verification, goal decomposition, and self-reflection. However, it is unclear what behavior is effective and what behavior is missing for long-horizon AI agents tasks. In this work, we propose Dyna-Think, a thinking framework that integrates planning with an internal world model with reasoning and acting to enhance AI agent performance. To enable Dyna-Think, we propose Dyna-Think Imitation Learning (DIT) and Dyna-Think Dyna Training (DDT). To initialize a policy with Dyna-Think, DIT reconstructs the thinking process of R1 to focus on performing world model simulation relevant to the proposed (and planned) action, and trains the policy using this reconstructed data. To enhance Dyna-Think, DDT uses a two-stage training process to first improve the agent's world modeling ability via objectives such as state prediction or critique generation, and then improve the agent's action via policy training. We evaluate our methods on OSWorld and WindowsAgentArena, and demonstrate that Dyna-Think improves the agent's in-domain and out-of-domain performance, achieving similar best-of-n performance compared to R1 while generating 2x less tokens on average. Our extensive empirical studies reveal that 1) using critique generation for world model training is effective to improve policy performance; and 2) AI agents with better performance correlate with better world modeling abilities. We believe our results suggest a promising research direction to integrate world model simulation into AI agents to enhance their reasoning, planning, and acting capabilities.
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spellingShingle Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents
Yu, Xiao
Peng, Baolin
Xu, Ruize
Galley, Michel
Cheng, Hao
Nath, Suman
Gao, Jianfeng
Yu, Zhou
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Recent progress in reasoning with large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, demonstrates impressive capabilities in domains like mathematics and coding, by exhibiting complex cognitive behaviors such as verification, goal decomposition, and self-reflection. However, it is unclear what behavior is effective and what behavior is missing for long-horizon AI agents tasks. In this work, we propose Dyna-Think, a thinking framework that integrates planning with an internal world model with reasoning and acting to enhance AI agent performance. To enable Dyna-Think, we propose Dyna-Think Imitation Learning (DIT) and Dyna-Think Dyna Training (DDT). To initialize a policy with Dyna-Think, DIT reconstructs the thinking process of R1 to focus on performing world model simulation relevant to the proposed (and planned) action, and trains the policy using this reconstructed data. To enhance Dyna-Think, DDT uses a two-stage training process to first improve the agent's world modeling ability via objectives such as state prediction or critique generation, and then improve the agent's action via policy training. We evaluate our methods on OSWorld and WindowsAgentArena, and demonstrate that Dyna-Think improves the agent's in-domain and out-of-domain performance, achieving similar best-of-n performance compared to R1 while generating 2x less tokens on average. Our extensive empirical studies reveal that 1) using critique generation for world model training is effective to improve policy performance; and 2) AI agents with better performance correlate with better world modeling abilities. We believe our results suggest a promising research direction to integrate world model simulation into AI agents to enhance their reasoning, planning, and acting capabilities.
title Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00320