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TraceR1: Agents That Plan Before They Act.
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Anticipatory trajectory reasoning — agents forecast short-horizon action sequences before execution rather than acting reactively. A two-stage RL framework trains trajectory-level consistency, then applies grounded fine-tuning using execution feedback. Substantial improvements in planning stability across 7 benchmarks covering online/offline computer-use and multimodal tool-use. Accepted to CVPR 2026. arXiv 2603.16777
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