Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 29 of 29 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.13179.

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Observation 02b2cbbf-c0eb-469d-9164-3e8d22303f8e · outbound

This paper cites Are: Scaling up agent environments and evaluations.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17158,.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Are: Scaling up agent environments and evaluations.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.17158,

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Observation 6a615f59-ff61-47ab-990b-9e9c0f0f2b58 · outbound

This paper cites Revisiting On-Policy Distillation: Empirical Failure Modes and Simple Fixes.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Revisiting On-Policy Distillation: Empirical Failure Modes and Simple Fixes

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Observation 20da41db-3010-49b0-b63d-7e7a095a20f4 · outbound

This paper cites GPT-4o System Card.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents GPT-4o System Card

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Observation c5a996b9-8daa-4a85-9d07-d38cd9762048 · outbound

This paper cites Swe-bench: Can language models resolve real-world github issues? InInternational Conference on Learning Representations, volume 2024, pp.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Swe-bench: Can language models resolve real-world github issues? InInternational Conference on Learning Representations, volume 2024, pp

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Observation 519b9f45-a30b-4fee-add1-f051420339df · outbound

This paper cites Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning

Reference 8

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Observation 7539385c-ba54-4a52-b65a-eede7b3ce3db · outbound

This paper cites Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs?.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Why Does Self-Distillation (Sometimes) Degrade the Reasoning Capability of LLMs?

Reference 9

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Observation e115788a-ad17-4f6b-93d7-e7d2bf47debb · outbound

This paper cites LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation

Reference 10

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Observation 4eb695ef-12eb-4f0c-a6c7-772a2adaa3c9 · outbound

This paper cites Api-bank: A comprehensive benchmark for tool-augmented llms.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Api-bank: A comprehensive benchmark for tool-augmented llms

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Observation 1237f7ba-26f3-42e5-9d88-dd6ffda5afd8 · outbound

This paper cites Rethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Recipe.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Rethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Recipe

Reference 13

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Observation d24829ce-eca8-4da6-922b-5790f2625743 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

Reference 14

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Observation 950a9fe2-2ddb-4643-8921-305b5e4d1575 · outbound

This paper cites Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective

Reference 15

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Observation 737005be-e9db-437f-8ad8-8aefd54f4536 · outbound

This paper cites Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Reference 16

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Observation 2f342420-deba-46fa-91f4-b6f4bce98fe7 · outbound

This paper cites Shishir G Patil, Huanzhi Mao, Fanjia Yan, Charlie Cheng-Jie Ji, Vishnu Suresh, Ion Stoica, and Joseph E Gonzalez.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Shishir G Patil, Huanzhi Mao, Fanjia Yan, Charlie Cheng-Jie Ji, Vishnu Suresh, Ion Stoica, and Joseph E Gonzalez

Reference 17

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Observation c0d6e633-0499-4ac2-b14a-8fe661d1ea9b · outbound

This paper cites Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models

Reference 18

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Observation a28fe76a-9274-449e-94b6-58c5b8162465 · outbound

This paper cites Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

Reference 19

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Observation a34fd52e-7264-4a1f-8170-953ddf0de8c0 · outbound

This paper cites Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning

Reference 21

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Observation e1475b65-f187-4343-a66b-46866538396a · outbound

This paper cites RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning

Reference 23

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Observation fbf3de51-abcd-46ba-bfc3-df2facadb335 · outbound

This paper cites BrowseComp: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Browsing Agents.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents BrowseComp: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Browsing Agents

Reference 24

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Observation a226b292-6974-4760-a81a-3e41fa112902 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen3 Technical Report.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Qwen3 Technical Report

Reference 25

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Observation 674d69ae-b3e4-4b39-9d4a-cc41d56582a6 · outbound

This paper cites Self-Distilled RLVR.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Self-Distilled RLVR

Reference 26

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Observation 7ff4c1bc-fd62-4dd1-a8fc-b299bc0ae9d3 · outbound

This paper cites Nemotron-Research-Tool-N1: Exploring Tool-Using Language Models with Reinforced Reasoning.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Nemotron-Research-Tool-N1: Exploring Tool-Using Language Models with Reinforced Reasoning

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Observation 1a3f1f54-452a-4f88-a1b6-5baf7729a362 · outbound

This paper cites Deep- researcher: Scaling deep research via reinforcement learning in real-world environments.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Deep- researcher: Scaling deep research via reinforcement learning in real-world environments

Reference 28

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Observation f9481f4a-55f4-4ea8-a033-134b1fb8b362 · outbound

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Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Unresolved cited work

Reference 29

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Observation 22fcd09d-8590-478e-bd34-f051e9696464 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models

Reference 2017

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Observation ede1e056-57c1-40ff-b0bf-a328c1ba7887 · outbound

This paper cites A Survey of On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Models.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents A Survey of On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Models

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Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents ToRL: Scaling Tool-Integrated RL

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Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents On SFT, RL, and on-policy distillation

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This paper cites ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs

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Observation 99861ed0-effa-4125-b844-2b26c22cdd62 · outbound

This paper cites Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities.

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

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