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  1. VERA: Verifiable Feasibility Representations with Counterfactual Credit for Constrained Multi-Agent Control

    Sep 30, 2026Bo Yin, Dongbo Li, Hongkai Chen +2Multi-Agent ControlConstrained RL

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  2. ASCT: Attentive Search over Counterfactual Trees for Credit Assignment in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Yang Li, Jinhan Yang, hai liu +8Agentic RLCredit Assignment in RL

    University of Hong Kong · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University +1

  3. CounterRoute: Self-Routed Reasoning via Hierarchical Counterfactual Credit Assignment

    Sep 24, 2026Ruochen Jiao, Besnik Fetahu, Zhenyu Shi +1RL for Language Model ReasoningEfficient Language Model Reasoning

  4. Not All Tokens Deserve Equal Credit: Counterfactual Sensitivity Credit Reallocation for Long-CoT Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Qiangqiang He, Zhongheng Wu, ZiJian WangToken-Level Credit AssignmentRL for Language Model Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Institute of Wireless Communications Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  5. CoRT: Counterfactual Replay for Token-Level Rubric-Guided Policy Optimization

    Jul 28, 2026Bo-Wen Zhang, Junwei He, Wen Wang +5Token-Level Credit AssignmentRubric-Based RL

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University · ByteDance +1

  6. A Self-Evolving Default Action for Cooperative Tasks with Continuous Action Space

    Jul 21, 2026Shuangyao HuangPolicy GradientCredit Assignment

    Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University School of Internet of Things

  7. Counterfactual Shapley Credit Assignment

    Jul 18, 2026Mingxuan Li, Kai-Zhan Lee, Elias BareinboimCredit Assignment in RLTemporal Credit Assignment

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  8. CRAFT: Counterfactual Credit Assignment from Free Sibling Rollouts for Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 28, 2026Zibin Meng, Kani ChenAgentic RLKL-Regularized RL

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  9. Re-feeding Is Not Replaying: Measuring Replay Noise in Counterfactual Token-Credit Estimation

    Jun 14, 2026Nils MattesonCounterfactual EvaluationToken-Level Credit Assignment

    Northeastern University

  10. Causal Agent Replay: Counterfactual Attribution for LLM-Agent Failures

    Jun 6, 2026Jaineet ShahAgent Failure AnalysisAI Agent Reliability

  11. RICE-PO: Turning Retrieval Interactions into Credit Signals for Reasoning Agents

    May 25, 2026Mingchen Li, Hansi Zeng, Zhuo Qian +3RL for Language Model ReasoningCredit Assignment in RL

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst · Texas Tech University · University of Connecticut

  12. Credit Assignment with Resets in Language Model Reasoning

    May 25, 2026Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Ayush Jain +7RL for Language Model ReasoningCredit Assignment in RL

    1Meta AI · 2Columbia University · *Work done at Meta +2

  13. Barriers to Counterfactual Credit Attribution for Autoregressive Models

    May 2, 2026Aloni Cohen, Chenhao ZhangGenerative ModelingCounterfactual Credit Assignment

  14. Reducing Credit Assignment Variance via Counterfactual Reasoning Paths

    Apr 20, 2026Fei Ding, Yongkang Zhang, Youwei Wang +1RL for Language Model ReasoningCredit Assignment in RL

    Alibaba Group · Tsinghua University

  15. COSAC: Counterfactual Credit Assignment in Sequential Cooperative Teams

    Apr 20, 2026Shripad Deshmukh, Jayakumar Subramanian, Raghavendra Addanki +1Sequential MARLCredit Assignment in RL

    College of Information and Computer Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst · Adobe Research San Jose, CA

  16. Marginal-Contribution Policy Gradients under Filtered Feedback for Multi-Agent LLMs

    Apr 3, 2026Elai Ben-Gal, Stela TongMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent System Optimization

    Department of Mathematics Stanford University · Graduate School of Business Stanford University

  17. The Trace Is the State: Exact Credit Assignment for LLM Agent Teams

    Mar 6, 2026Yanjun Chen, Yirong Sun, Hanlin Wang +5Credit AssignmentCounterfactual Credit Assignment

    Eastern Institute of Technology · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Harbin Institute of Technology

  18. Transformer-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Networked Systems with Long-Range Interactions

    Nov 17, 2025Vidur Sinha, Muhammed Ustaomeroglu, Guannan QuCounterfactual Credit AssignmentGraph Transformer

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA