Hierarchical routing control lifts MoE agent RL success rates by over 10 points on AppWorld and AutomationBench
This work systematically studies how agentic post-training interacts with MoE expert selection, observing that off-the-shelf MoE routers already show operation-grouped specialization (e.g., READ, UPDATE) that standard RL perturbs; the authors propose a hierarchical routing control framework that aligns turn-level expert selection with operation labels via mutual information, regularizes token-level adjacent consistency with a gap threshold, and adds entropy gating for stability, improving success rates by over 10 points across PPO, GRPO, LOOP, and GiGPO on AppWorld and AutomationBench while also improving inference efficiency.