Reasoning and Tool-use Compete in Agentic RL:From Quantifying Interference to Disentangled Tuning

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arXiv:2602.00994v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic Reinforcement Learning (ARL) trains large language models to interleave reasoning with external tool execution to solve complex tasks. Most existing ARL methods train a single set of parameters to support both reasoning and tool-use behaviors, implicitly assuming that joint training leads to improved overall agent performance. Despite its widespread adoption, this assumption has rarely been examined empirically. In this paper, we systematically examine this assumption by introducing Capability Effect Attribution (CEA), which provides quantitative evidence of interference between reasoning and tool-use behaviors. Through an in-depth analysis, we show that these two capabilities often induce misaligned gradient directions, leading to training interference that undermines the effectiveness of joint optimization and challenges the prevailing ARL paradigm. To address this issue, we propose Disentangled Action--Reasoning Tuning (DART), a simple and efficient framework that explicitly decouples parameter updates for reasoning and tool use via separate low-rank adaptation modules. With this simple change alone, DART outperforms all joint-optimization baselines and approaches the 2-Agent upper bound across thirteen benchmarks on retrieval-augmented QA and NL2SQL, further supporting our finding of capability interference under shared optimization.

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