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RetroAgent: Dual Intrinsic Feedback.

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Lesson-memory buffer distilling reusable lessons from failures. +18.3% ALFWorld, +27.1% Sokoban over GRPO. Agents learning from their own failures via language feedback improve faster than pure outcome training. arXiv:2603.08561

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