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LAPO: Leave-One-Turn Attribution for Self-Generated Process Rewards in Multi-Turn Search Reasoning

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LAPOlations show complementary benefits from backward attribution and sign-consistency gating, demonstrating that policy-derived retrospective attribution can provide effective process supervision for multi-turn search agents.

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