Reverse scoring helps diffusion agents escape repeated failed actions

Reflect Reverse reranks candidate actions by how well they explain the task, reducing retry loops without additional training.

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Jiacheng Qiu · Christopher E. Mower · Jan Peters · Haitham Bou-Ammar · Matthieu Zimmer

Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · Technical University of Darmstadt · UCL Centre for AI

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The authors model action selection using a task description, interaction history and candidate next action.

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Diffusion language model agents retry failed actions due to task-blind bias; reverse scoring corrects this without retraining.

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