The authors define a pivotal mistake as an action that moves an agent farther from task completion.
Training agents around decisive errors improves prevention and recovery
PivotOPD identifies consequential mistakes in student rollouts, then distills both the preferred action and subsequent recovery behavior.
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Yinghui He · Yapei Chang · Khushi Bhardwaj · Daniele Molinari · Tugrul Konuk · Jan Kautz · +1 more
Princeton University · NVIDIA · University of Maryland
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He and colleagues study why language agents fail during multi-turn tasks, where one bad action can alter the environment and compound later errors.
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PivotOPD jointly trains agents to prevent and recover from pivotal mistakes, achieving top average performance across three benchmarks.
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