Grounded Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Turn Search Agents

arXiv:2610.23148 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-16

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: 27 pages

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Credit assignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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