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Rewrite What Matters: Adaptive Multilingual Query Rewriting for Reasoning via Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Abstract

In multilingual scenarios, queries with equivalent semantics but in different languages could guide the model into different reasoning trajectories, leading to performance disparities. Previous studies typically apply a one-size-fits-all query rewriting strategy, such as translation, which overlooks the fact that different scenarios requires diverse types of semantic transformations. In this paper, we propose mRewriter-R1, an agentic multilingual query rewriting framework with reinforcement learning. Unlike single-turn rewriting, mRewriter-R1 formulates multilingual query rewriting as a multi-turn sequential decision-making process, where the model dynamically performs multi-aspect optimization through adaptive operator selection. Experimental results demonstrate that \ours outperforms all strong multilingual rewriting baselines on different large reasoning backbones. Further analyzes show that the learned policy can adaptively decide on rewriting operators according to query characteristics, exhibiting strong generalization ability across diverse reasoning tasks, and plug-and-play compatibility with heterogeneous reasoning language models.

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