Dyad: Extending Large Language Models with Native Typed Decision-Making

Abstract

We study how to build more capable general-purpose agents by extending large language models (LLMs) with native typed decision-making. We introduce Dyad, an architecture that augments a pretrained LLM with an environment-conditioned action encoder that embeds each candidate action description in parallel, then scores these embeddings against the LLM's internal state to yield a distribution over typed actions. By factorizing decision-making into representations of the evolving interaction state and environment-specific action semantics, Dyad introduces an inductive bias for learning reusable representations while keeping action scoring efficient even as the action space grows. We investigate two complementary reinforcement learning settings driven by environment interaction. With the LLM frozen, training the action encoder alone achieves consistent gains across four unseen environments, enabling modular adaptation without modifying any LLM parameters. Jointly optimizing both components outperforms conventional RL post-training across diverse interactive tasks and model scales, including a 3.80% average absolute gain on ALFWorld with a 9B model, while improving general knowledge, reasoning, and coding.