Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-training
University of Hong Kong · ShanghaiTech University · Zhejiang University · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Alibaba Cloud · HKUST · Peking University UniPat AI · Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group · UniPat AI · University of Science and Technology of China · Peking University · Shanghai Jiaotong University · Alibaba DAMO Academy · The University of Hong Kong
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摘要
Large language models (LLMs) have evolved into agentic systems capable of autonomous tool use and multi-step reasoning for complex problem-solving. However, post-training approaches building upon general-purpose foundation models consistently underperform in agentic tasks, particularly in open-source implementations. We identify the root cause: the absence of robust agentic foundation models forces models during post-training to simultaneously learn diverse agentic behaviors while aligning them to expert demonstrations, thereby creating fundamental optimization tensions. To this end, we are the first to propose incorporating Agentic Continual Pre-training (Agentic CPT) into the deep research agents training pipeline to build powerful agentic foundational models. Based on this approach, we develop a deep research agent model named AgentFounder. We evaluate our AgentFounder-30B on 10 benchmarks and achieve state-of-the-art performance while retains strong tool-use ability, notably 39.9% on BrowseComp-en, 43.3% on BrowseComp-zh, and 31.5% Pass@1 on HLE.