Graph-based hindsight improves credit assignment for long-horizon language agents

GraphHCA derives step-level training signals from pooled rollout graphs without a critic, hindsight model, or additional forward pass.

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Haodong Zhu · Yangyang Ren · Changbai Li · Sheng Xu · Linlin Yang · haiguang liu · +1 more

Beihang University · Zhongguancun Academy · Communication University of China · Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University

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Zhu et al.

For terminal-goal tasks with deterministic transitions, the authors use Bayes' rule to express hindsight credit as the ratio of success probabilities at consecutive states.

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From Beihang University and 3 others · Part of Credit Assignment in Agentic RL, now 30 papers

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GraphHCA assigns step-level credit in long-horizon LLM agent tasks using closed-form hindsight ratios, achieving state-of-the-art results.

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