AgentCPM-Explore: Realizing Long-Horizon Deep Exploration for Edge-Scale Agents

TL;DR

This paper introduces AgentCPM-Explore, a 4B-parameter agent model that overcomes key bottlenecks in edge-scale models, achieving state-of-the-art results and surpassing larger models through a holistic training framework focused on stability and exploration.

Contribution

The paper presents the first systematic training framework for 4B-scale agent models, addressing core bottlenecks and significantly improving performance and stability.

Findings

Achieves 97.09% accuracy on GAIA tasks.

Surpasses 8B-class SOTA models on four benchmarks.

Outperforms larger models like Claude-4.5-Sonnet in five benchmarks.

Abstract

While Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown remarkable potential for solving complex tasks, existing systems remain heavily reliant on large-scale models, leaving the capabilities of edge-scale models largely underexplored. In this paper, we present the first systematic study on training agentic models at the 4B-parameter scale. We identify three primary bottlenecks hindering the performance of edge-scale models: catastrophic forgetting during Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), sensitivity to reward signal noise during Reinforcement Learning (RL), and reasoning degradation caused by redundant information in long-context scenarios. To address the issues, we propose AgentCPM-Explore, a compact 4B agent model with high knowledge density and strong exploration capability. We introduce a holistic training framework featuring parameter-space model fusion, reward signal denoising, and contextual information refinement. Through deep exploration, AgentCPM-Explore achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance among 4B-class models, matches or surpasses 8B-class SOTA models on four benchmarks, and even outperforms larger-scale models such as Claude-4.5-Sonnet or DeepSeek-v3.2 in five benchmarks. Notably, AgentCPM-Explore achieves 97.09% accuracy on GAIA text-based tasks under pass@64. These results provide compelling evidence that the bottleneck for edge-scale models is not their inherent capability ceiling, but rather their inference stability. Based on our well-established training framework, AgentCPM-Explore effectively unlocks the significant, yet previously underestimated, potential of edge-scale models.