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Aug 2026
HERALD: Counterfactual Audits and Minimal Repairs for Proof-of-Retrieval Rewards
HERALD is introduced, an offline audit that applies exact same-question interventions, separates candidate-visible from oracle information, and enumerates detector contracts before policy optimization, and separates robust scoring, sparse learning signal, and policy transfer.
Zhuowen Liu, Bohan Cui, YinShang Guo et al.
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