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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite the paper The Trace Is the State: Exact Credit Assignment for LLM Agent Teams (arXiv:2603.06859)."
title: "C3: Credit assignment by counterfactual continuation"
type: software
license: Apache-2.0
authors:
  - family-names: Chen
    given-names: Yanjun
    email: yan-jun.chen@connect.polyu.hk
  - family-names: Sun
    given-names: Yirong
  - family-names: Wang
    given-names: Hanlin
  - family-names: Wang
    given-names: Jinghan
  - family-names: Zhang
    given-names: Xinming
  - family-names: Shen
    given-names: Xiaoyu
  - family-names: Li
    given-names: Wenjie
  - family-names: Zhang
    given-names: Wei
keywords:
  - credit assignment
  - LLM agent teams
  - multi-agent reinforcement learning
  - counterfactual continuation
  - large language models
version: 0.3.1
date-released: "2026-10-03"
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "The Trace Is the State: Exact Credit Assignment for LLM Agent Teams"
  authors:
    - family-names: Chen
      given-names: Yanjun
    - family-names: Sun
      given-names: Yirong
    - family-names: Wang
      given-names: Hanlin
    - family-names: Wang
      given-names: Jinghan
    - family-names: Zhang
      given-names: Xinming
    - family-names: Shen
      given-names: Xiaoyu
    - family-names: Li
      given-names: Wenjie
    - family-names: Zhang
      given-names: Wei
  year: 2026
  journal: "arXiv"
  doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.06859
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06859"
  notes: "arXiv:2603.06859 [cs.LG, cs.AI]."