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RS-Claw-Evolution: Environment-Feedback-Driven Evolution for Lightweight Remote Sensing Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks

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arXiv:2609.22258 (cs)
[Submitted on 6 Sep 2026]

Title:RS-Claw-Evolution: Environment-Feedback-Driven Evolution for Lightweight Remote Sensing Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks

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Abstract:Large language model-driven remote sensing (RS) agents offer a promising approach to automating geospatial analysis. However, lightweight RS agents based on compact language models struggle with multi-step interactive tasks due to loss of long-horizon states, inefficient environmental feedback utilization, and sparse optimization signals. We propose RS-Claw-Evolution, an environment-feedback-driven framework that progressively improves lightweight agents through three stages. Interaction evolution uses executable code to control observations, maintain intermediate states, and reduce context redundancy. Experience evolution combines failure-aware trajectory generation with error-turn masking to learn from informative failure-recovery experiences without imitating faulty actions. Decision evolution uses reinforcement learning with multi-dimensional environment rewards and turn-level advantage protection to optimize tool-use behaviors and improve credit assignment in long sequences. On Earth-Bench, the optimized Qwen3-4B-based agent achieves 65.9% accuracy in Autonomous Planning mode, outperforming the untrained Qwen3-32B baseline (43.8%) and DeepSeek-V3.1 (60.8%), while approaching GPT-5 (71.6%). These results demonstrate that learning from environmental feedback can improve lightweight agents and narrow their performance gap with larger models in long-horizon RS tasks.
Comments: 30 pages, 5 figures, including supplementary material
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.22258 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2609.22258v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.22258
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From: Haifeng Li [view email]
[v1] Sun, 6 Sep 2026 10:16:33 UTC (3,996 KB)
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