Self-Retrospection Distillation: Turning Post-hoc Experiences into Prior Foresight research paper by Salesforce, 2026
Salesforce · Reasoning · Oct 6, 2026 · 1 citations · 197 upvotes · unverified
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Self-Retrospection Distillation improves agent performance by using hindsight from completed trajectories to supervise foresight predictions during training.
By Haoxiang Zhang, Qinglin Chen, Hiroaki Hayashi and 9 more · arXiv 2610.08077 · PDF · Code
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