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Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses
Microsoft Research Asia 开源 Agent Lightning v1.0：3,500 行代码的真实 harness 智能体 RL 训练框架
Agent Lightning: Lightweight RL agent-training framework
Microsoft ResearchTraining AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them:
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