Persistent evidence helps long-horizon agents recover from earlier mistakes

BeliefWeaver retains evidence across retries, models relationships among possible repairs, and uses prospective reasoning to choose what to attempt next.

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Xiyang Wu · Zhichao Liu · Shengxin zhang · Zongxia Li · Ming Li · Tianyi Zhou · +1 more

University of Maryland · Google · MBZUAI

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Wu and colleagues introduce BeliefWeaver, a recovery framework for agents whose failures may originate many actions before they become apparent.

The authors represent recovery as a persistent relational state containing repair frontiers, previous attempts, observations and checkpoints.

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Persistent belief updates across rollback plus an implicit world model improve failure recovery in long-horizon agents, and distillation cuts teacher cost.

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