The papers

Most central to this idea first, not most recent.

• Industrycs.LG

  Anchored hypergraphs provide stable credit assignment for multi-agent teams

  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Independent Researcher · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.LG

  Sparse verifier feedback makes broad credit assignment outperform turn targeting

  Institute of Science Tokyo, Zhejiang University · Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.AIcode

  Dynamic rubrics improve credit assignment for long-horizon agent training

  Carnegie Mellon University, IBM Research · Sept 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Game-theoretic filtering helps agents suppress harmful memories during long tasks

  Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.AI

  Privileged supervision improves action-level credit for language-model agents

  Zhejiang University · Sept 2026

• Chinese Techcs.LG

  Contrastive branch training improves credit assignment for tool-using language models

  Alibaba Group, Harbin Institute of Technology · Aug 2026

• Top Universitycs.LG

  Local milestones improve credit assignment for long-horizon language-model agents

  Beijing Jiaotong University, Peking University · Aug 2026

• Independentcs.AI

  Learned sepsis score tracks hourly severity without hourly outcome labels

  Aug 2026

• Big Techcs.LG

  Dense credit assignment from gold-answer log-probabilities improves long-horizon agent RL

  University of Wisconsin–Madison, Microsoft Research · July 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CL

  Separating planning from synthesis improves long-horizon search agents

  Zhejiang University, Tencent · Sept 2026

• Industrycs.AI

  Joint training helps small language models create and use tools

  Appier AI Research, National Taiwan University · Aug 2026

• Chinese Techcs.CL

  Agents learn to manage long contexts through fine-grained reinforcement learning

  Tsinghua University, Tencent Youtu Lab · Sept 2026

• Top Universitycs.LG

  RL with context compaction trains long-horizon agents

  Tsinghua University · July 2026

• Independentcs.LG

  Mixed-granularity agent graphs improve collaboration across varied tasks

  Sept 2026

• AI Startupcs.CL

  Chain-of-thought reasoning traces are legible but not interpretable

  ETH Zurich, MIT · Sept 2026

• Big Techcs.AI

  A multi-agent framework for coherent video storytelling via global optimization

  Google Inc. · Apr 2026