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 ## ⚡ Articles
 
+- *Exploratory Memory-Augmented LLM Agent via Hybrid On- and Off-Policy Optimization* (EMPO²) arXiv paper. The corresponding implementation code is being prepared and will be released in this repository.
 - 12/17/2025 [Adopting the Trajectory Level Aggregation for Faster Training](https://agent-lightning.github.io/posts/trajectory_level_aggregation/) Agent-lightning blog.
 - 11/4/2025 [Tuning ANY AI agent with Tinker ✕ Agent-lightning](https://medium.com/@yugez/tuning-any-ai-agent-with-tinker-agent-lightning-part-1-1d8c9a397f0e) Medium. See also [Part 2](https://medium.com/@yugez/tuning-any-ai-agent-with-tinker-agent-lightning-part-2-332c5437f0dc).
 - 10/22/2025 [No More Retokenization Drift: Returning Token IDs via the OpenAI Compatible API Matters in Agent RL](https://blog.vllm.ai/2025/10/22/agent-lightning.html) vLLM blog. See also [Zhihu writeup](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1965067274642785725).