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When Denser Credit Is Not Enough: Evidence-Calibrated Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Training

Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents require reinforcement learning methods that can assign credit to intermediate decisions under sparse and delayed rewards. Recent group-based methods such as GiGPO improve over GRPO by constructing step-level advantages at repeated anchor states. However, we show that such dense credit can be statistically unreliable: under limited rollouts, rare but lucky actions may receive overly large advantages, producing divergent anchor bias and...