What to Supervise in an Agent Trace

The text discusses an experimental approach to training models for task completion by examining the impact of different methodologies on performance, particularly focusing on provenance masking. This technique involves masking tokens based on their authorship, allowing models to learn from their errors without directly calculating loss from them. The study contrasts various training signals, including supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on successful sessions, observational training on agent transcripts, and interventional provenance-masked training. The research highlights the effectiveness of provenance masking in improving task-solving rates while reducing invalid actions, outperforming other methods such as full transcript training and critic-based selection. The text also delves into the challenges of incorporating new capabilities into models, emphasizing the need for separate training to achieve novel skills and the importance of carefully managing token authorship to optimize learning outcomes.

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