arXiv:2608. 05102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon search agents must make multiple sequential actions (steps) to search, retrieve, verify, and integrate evidence to reach a final answer.
By Yijun Lu, Rui Ye, Jiajun Wang, Yuwen Du, Tian Jin, Songhua Liu, Siheng Chen
arXiv:2608. 16156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents are typically optimized with sparse terminal outcomes, making fine-grained credit assignment across multi-step interactions difficult.
By Huan Zhang, Mingju Chen, Dongxu Zhou, Can Lv, Heng Chang, Sen Cui, Faguo Wu, Shiji Zhou
arXiv:2607. 13988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn agents solve complex tasks through extended sequences of tool interactions before producing a final answer, making credit assignment a fundamental challenge during post-training.
By Leitian Tao, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Tao Ge, Hao Cheng, Mike Hang Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Sharon Li
arXiv:2607. 25659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based reinforcement learning enriches language model training by evaluating model outputs against explicit criteria.
By Bo-Wen Zhang, Junwei He, Wen Wang, Song-Lin Lv, Wentao Ma, Rongyi Lin, Shuhan Zhong, Lan-Zhe Guo
arXiv:2608. 06861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents in long-horizon environments requires assigning credit from sparse terminal outcomes to individual actions.
By Hongxi Yan, Ziyue Huang, Shichao Fan, Qingjie Liu
arXiv:2608. 07118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit assignment in multi-turn agent reinforcement learning operates at two levels: assigning trajectory-level credit to actions and distributing each action's credit across its tokens.
By Lichao Ma, Yang Sun, Shuaitao Zhao, Yangyi Fang, Cong Qin, Xiaoliang Fu, Yuhang Tian, Yuchen Wei, Junbo Zhu, Yang Wei, Lu Pan, Jiaye Lin