Coverage, Not Credit: Failure-Credit Routing of Zeroth-Order Perturbation Budgets Does Not Improve On-Pool Sample Efficiency for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.28011 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-28

Updated: 2026-08-28

Comments: 19 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables. Preprint

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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