arXiv AI

Who Deserves the Reward? SHARP: Shapley Credit-based Optimization for Multi-Agent System

arXiv:2602. 08335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with external tools via multi-agent systems offers a promising new paradigm for decomposing and solving complex problems.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

Who Gets the Reward & Who Gets the Blame? Evaluation-Aligned Training Signals for Multi-LLM Agents

arXiv:2511. 10687v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) in multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown promise for complex tasks, yet current training methods lack principled ways to connect system-level evaluation with agent- and message-level learning.

By Chih-Hsuan (Bella), Yang, Tanwi Mallick, Le Chen, Krishnan Raghavan, Amal Gueroudji, Ian T. Foster, Rajeev Thakur
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Beyond Trajectory-Level Attribution: Graph-Based Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605. 26684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved remarkable success in improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) and have been rapidly extended to agentic tasks.

By Xin Cheng, Shuo He, Lang Feng, HaiYang Xu, Ming Yan, Lei Feng, Bo An
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Counterfactual Credit Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent Collaboration

arXiv:2603. 21563v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collaborative multi-agent large language models (LLMs) can solve complex reasoning tasks by decomposing roles, but reinforcement learning for such systems is limited by credit assignment: shared terminal rewards obscure individual contributions and can encourage free-riding.

By Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Yikun Ban, Jinju Chen, Huiming Zhang, Yang Liu, Fuzhen Zhuang
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Fishing Out Free Riders: Shapley-Based Reward Attribution for Parallel Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 18979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at multi-step reasoning, yet current parallel reasoning approaches often fail to distinguish the contributions of individual reasoning paths.

By Wentao Zhang, Haoyu Zhang, Xinke Jiang, Yuxuan Cheng, Yuhan Pan, Miao Li, Zhipeng Qiao, Tao Feng, Zhen Tao, Dengji Zhao