SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLMs via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Abstract
Self-evolving LLM agents promise to improve autonomously through continual interaction and learning, reducing their dependence on manually curated supervision. Realizing this promise requires not only updating the agent, but also evolving its training experience as its capabilities change. However, most existing pipelines rely on static datasets or separately updated synthesis models, causing previously useful tasks to become trivial while overly difficult tasks remain uninformative. This growing mismatch between agent capability and training experience limits sustained self-improvement. To address this problem, we propose SynCo, an agentic data synthesis co-training framework for self-evolving LLMs based on multi-agent reinforcement learning. SynCo jointly optimizes two parameter-independent agents: a Synthesizer that constructs training tasks from the Reasoner's evolving capability state, and a Reasoner that learns from the resulting experience. Each synthesized task induces multiple Reasoner rollouts whose outcomes provide complementary rewards to both agents. Correctness feedback improves the Reasoner, while task validity, reliability, novelty, diagnostic alignment, and realized teachability guide the Synthesizer. Their updates are fed back into subsequent synthesis rounds, allowing the task-solving policy and its training distribution to evolve together. Experiments across diverse mathematical reasoning benchmarks show that co-training consistently improves over a frozen-Synthesizer baseline, with the largest gains concentrated on previously unsolved but learnable problems.